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    The retroelement Lx9 puts a brake on the immune response to virus infection

    The notion that mobile units of nucleic acid known as transposable elements can operate as genomic controlling elements was put forward over six decades ago1,2. However, it was not until the advancement of genomi...

    Nenad Bartonicek, Romain Rouet, Joanna Warren, Claudia Loetsch in Nature (2022)

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    Boron rich nanotube drug carrier system is suited for boron neutron capture therapy

    Boron neutron capture therapy (BNCT) is a two-step therapeutic process that utilizes Boron-10 in combination with low energy neutrons to effectively eliminate targeted cells. This therapy is primarily used for...

    Fabian Heide, Matthew McDougall, Candice Harder-Viddal, Roy Roshko in Scientific Reports (2021)

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    Pseudo-bilayer architecture enables high-performance organic solar cells with enhanced exciton diffusion length

    Solution-processed organic solar cells (OSCs) are a promising candidate for next-generation photovoltaic technologies. However, the short exciton diffusion length of the bulk heterojunction active layer in OSC...

    Kui Jiang, Jie Zhang, Zhengxing Peng, Francis Lin, Shengfan Wu in Nature Communications (2021)

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    3D imaging of sex-sorted bovine spermatozoon locomotion, head spin and flagellum beating

    With the advent of sperm sex sorting methods and computer-aided sperm analysis platforms, comparative 2D motility studies showed that there is no significant difference in the swimming speeds of X-sorted and Y...

    Mustafa Ugur Daloglu, Francis Lin, Bryan Chong, Daniel Chien in Scientific Reports (2018)

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    Fibroblast growth factor 23 weakens chemotaxis of human blood neutrophils in microfluidic devices

    Neutrophil trafficking in tissues critically regulates the body’s immune response. Neutrophil migration can either play a protective role in host defense or cause health problems. Fibroblast growth factor 23 (...

    Ke Yang, Hagit Peretz-Soroka, Jiandong Wu, Ling Zhu, Xueling Cui in Scientific Reports (2017)