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Detection of atherosclerotic plaques with HDL-like porphyrin nanoparticles using an intravascular dual-modality optical coherence tomography and fluorescence system

Atherosclerosis is the build-up of fatty plaques within blood vessel walls, which can occlude the vessels and cause strokes or heart attacks. It gives rise to both structural and biomolecular changes in the ve...

Rouyan Chen, Lauren Sandeman, Victoria Nankivell, Joanne T. M. Tan… in Scientific Reports (2024)

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Detection of fucosylated extracellular vesicles miR-4732-5p related to diagnosis of early lung adenocarcinoma by the electrochemical biosensor

Our preliminary investigation has identified the potential of serum fucosylated extracellular vesicles (EVs) miR-4732-5p in the early diagnosis of lung adenocarcinoma (LUAD) by a fucose-captured strategy utili...

Shengting Zhu, Jianlin Chen, Lili Yu, Jiawen Li, Shumin You… in Scientific Reports (2024)

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FOXO1 enhances CAR T cell stemness, metabolic fitness and efficacy

Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapy has transformed the treatment of haematological malignancies such as acute lymphoblastic leukaemia, B cell lymphoma and multiple myeloma^1–4, but the efficacy of CAR ...

Jack D. Chan, Christina M. Scheffler, Isabelle Munoz, Kevin Sek, Joel N. Lee… in Nature (2024)

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Durable Janus membrane with on-demand mode switching fabricated by femtosecond laser

Despite their notable unidirectional water transport capabilities, Janus membranes are commonly challenged by the fragility of their chemical coatings and the clogging of open microchannels. Here, an on-demand...

Zehang Cui, Yachao Zhang, Zhicheng Zhang, Bingrui Liu, Yiyu Chen… in Nature Communications (2024)

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Quantum plasmonics pushes chiral sensing limit to single molecules: a paradigm for chiral biodetections

Chiral sensing of single molecules is vital for the understanding of chirality and their applications in biomedicine. However, current technologies face severe limitations in achieving single-molecule sensitiv...

Chi Zhang, Huatian Hu, Chunmiao Ma, Yawen Li, Xujie Wang… in Nature Communications (2024)

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Magnetic Janus origami robot for cross-scale droplet omni-manipulation

The versatile manipulation of cross-scale droplets is essential in many fields. Magnetic excitation is widely used for droplet manipulation due to its distinguishing merits. However, facile magnetic actuation ...

Shaojun Jiang, Bo Li, Jun Zhao, Dong Wu, Yiyuan Zhang… in Nature Communications (2023)

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Light-triggered multi-joint microactuator fabricated by two-in-one femtosecond laser writing

Inspired by the flexible joints of humans, actuators containing soft joints have been developed for various applications, including soft grippers, artificial muscles, and wearable devices. However, integrating...

Chen **n, Zhongguo Ren, Leran Zhang, Liang Yang, Dawei Wang… in Nature Communications (2023)

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Systems biology approaches to identify potential targets and inhibitors of the intestinal microbiota to treat depression

Depression is a common mental disease, with some patients exhibiting ideas and behaviors such as self-harm and suicide. The drugs currently used to treat depression have not achieved good results. It has been ...

Fei Teng, Zhongwen Lu, Fei Gao, **g Liang, Jiawen Li, Xuanhe Tian… in Scientific Reports (2023)

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Author Correction: High-performance Marangoni hydrogel rotors with asymmetric porosity and drag reduction profile

Hao Wu, Yiyu Chen, Wenlong Xu, Chen **n, Tao Wu, Wei Feng, Hao Yu… in Nature Communications (2023)

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High-performance Marangoni hydrogel rotors with asymmetric porosity and drag reduction profile

Miniaturized rotors based on Marangoni effect have attracted great attentions due to their promising applications in propulsion and power generation. Despite intensive studies, the development of Marangoni rot...

Hao Wu, Yiyu Chen, Wenlong Xu, Chen **n, Tao Wu, Wei Feng, Hao Yu… in Nature Communications (2023)

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Structure of the Arabidopsis guard cell anion channel SLAC1 suggests activation mechanism by phosphorylation

Stomata play a critical role in the regulation of gas exchange and photosynthesis in plants. Stomatal closure participates in multiple stress responses, and is regulated by a complex network including abscisic...

Yawen Li, Yinan Ding, Lili Qu, **nru Li, Qinxuan Lai, **xia Zhao… in Nature Communications (2022)

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Efficient room temperature catalytic synthesis of alternating conjugated copolymers via C-S bond activation

Structural defects in conjugated copolymers are severely detrimental to the optoelectronic properties and the performance of the resulting electronic devices fabricated from them. Therefore, the much-desired p...

Zijie Li, Qinqin Shi, **aoying Ma, Yawen Li, Kaikai Wen… in Nature Communications (2022)

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Assessment of vegetation growth and drought conditions using satellite-based vegetation health indices in **g-**-Ji region of China

Terrestrial vegetation growth activity plays pivotal roles on regional development, which has attracted wide attention especially in water resources shortage areas. The paper investigated the spatiotemporal ch...

Rengui Jiang, Jichao Liang, Yong Zhao, Hao Wang, Jiancang **e… in Scientific Reports (2021)

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Association between physical exercise and stroke recurrence among first-ever ischemic stroke survivors

The relationship between exercise and stroke recurrence is controversial. This study was designed to test whether an association exists between exercise and ischemic stroke recurrence in first-ever ischemic st...

Lisha Hou, Mier Li, Ju Wang, Yawen Li, Qianwen Zheng, Lu Zhang… in Scientific Reports (2021)

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Conjugated Polymer Controlled Morphology and Charge Transport of Small-Molecule Organic Semiconductors

In this study, we report an effective approach to tune the crystallization, microstructure and charge transport of solution-processed organic semiconductors by blending with a conjugated polymer additive poly(...

Zhengran He, Ziyang Zhang, Sheng Bi, Jihua Chen, Dawen Li in Scientific Reports (2020)

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Development of an autonomous solvent extraction system to isolate astatine-211 from dissolved cyclotron bombarded bismuth targets

Cyclotron-produced astatine-211 (²¹¹At) shows tremendous promise in targeted alpha therapy (TAT) applications due to its attractive half-life and its 100% α-emission from nearly simultaneous branched alpha decay....

Matthew J. O’Hara, Anthony J. Krzysko, Donald K. Hamlin, Yawen Li… in Scientific Reports (2019)

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Investigation of a tellurium-packed column for isolation of astatine-211 from irradiated bismuth targets and demonstration of a semi-automated system

Astatine-211 is an attractive radionuclide for use in targeted alpha therapy of blood-borne diseases and micrometastatic diseases. Efficient isolation methods that can be adapted to robust automated ²¹¹At isolati...

Yawen Li, Donald K. Hamlin, Ming-Kuan Chyan, Taylor M. Morscheck… in Scientific Reports (2019)

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Efficient nonlinear beam sha** in three-dimensional lithium niobate nonlinear photonic crystals

Nonlinear beam sha** refers to spatial reconfiguration of a light beam at a new frequency, which can be achieved by using nonlinear photonic crystals (NPCs). Direct nonlinear beam sha** has been achieved t...

Dunzhao Wei, Chaowei Wang, **aoyi Xu, Huijun Wang, Yanlei Hu… in Nature Communications (2019)

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Loading ceftriaxone, vancomycin, and Bifidobacteria bifidum TMC3115 to neonatal mice could differently and consequently affect intestinal microbiota and immunity in adulthood

Recent studies have demonstrated that antibiotics/or probiotics administration in early life play key roles on modulating intestinal microbiota and the alterations might cause long-lasting consequences both ph...

RuYue Cheng, JiaWen Guo, FangFang Pu, ChaoMin Wan, Lei Shi, HuaWen Li… in Scientific Reports (2019)

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Ultrasensitive detection of miRNA with an antimonene-based surface plasmon resonance sensor

MicroRNA exhibits differential expression levels in cancer and can affect cellular transformation, carcinogenesis and metastasis. Although fluorescence techniques using dye molecule labels have been studied, l...

Tianyu Xue, Weiyuan Liang, Yawen Li, Yuanhui Sun, Yuanjiang **ang… in Nature Communications (2019)