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Open AccessActivating the Microscale Edge Effect in a Hierarchical Surface for Frosting Suppression and Defrosting Promotion
Despite extensive progress, current icephobic materials are limited by the breakdown of their icephobicity in the condensation frosting environment. In particular, the frost formation over the entire surface i...
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Open AccessHigh throughput secondary electron imaging of organic residues on a graphene surface
Surface organic residues inhibit the extraordinary electronic properties of graphene, hindering the development of graphene electronics. However, fundamental understanding of the residue morphology is still ab...
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Open AccessIdentification of cellular microRNA-136 as a dual regulator of RIG-I-mediated innate immunity that antagonizes H5N1 IAV replication in A549 cells
H5N1 influenza A virus (IAV) causes severe respiratory diseases and high mortality rates in animals and humans. MicroRNAs are being increasingly studied to evaluate their potential as therapeutic entities to c...
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Open AccessBoosting thermoelectric efficiency using time-dependent control
Thermoelectric efficiency is defined as the ratio of power delivered to the load of a device to the rate of heat flow from the source. Till date, it has been studied in presence of thermodynamic constraints se...
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Open AccessQuantitative secondary electron imaging for work function extraction at atomic level and layer identification of graphene
Two-dimensional (2D) materials usually have a layer-dependent work function, which require fast and accurate detection for the evaluation of their device performance. A detection technique with high throughput...
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Open AccessStatistical and Ontological Analysis of Adverse Events Associated with Monovalent and Combination Vaccines against Hepatitis A and B Diseases
Vaccinations often induce various adverse events (AEs) and sometimes serious AEs (SAEs). While many vaccines are used in combination, the effects of vaccine-vaccine interactions (VVIs) on vaccine AEs are rarel...
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Open AccessProteome Response of Chicken Embryo Fibroblast Cells to Recombinant H5N1 Avian Influenza Viruses with Different Neuraminidase Stalk Lengths
The variation on neuraminidase (NA) stalk region of highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1 virus results in virulence change in animals. In our previous studies, the special NA stalk-motif of H5N1 viruses has ...
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Open AccessContinual Antigenic Diversification in China Leads to Global Antigenic Complexity of Avian Influenza H5N1 Viruses
The highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) H5N1 virus poses a significant potential threat to human society due to its wide spread and rapid evolution. In this study, we present a comprehensive antigenic map...
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Open AccessEMT cells increase breast cancer metastasis via paracrine GLI activation in neighbouring tumour cells
Recent fate-map** studies concluded that EMT is not required for metastasis of carcinomas. Here we challenge this conclusion by showing that these studies failed to account for possible crosstalk between EMT...
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Open AccessMemristive property’s effects on the I–V characteristics of perovskite solar cells
The unfavorable I–V characteristics of perovskite solar cells (PSCs), such as the I–V hysteresis phenomena, have been one major obstacle for their future practical application. However, corresponding analysis bas...
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Open AccessAltered Adipose-Derived Stem Cell Characteristics in Macrodactyly
Macrodactyly is a congenital disease characterized by aggressive overgrowth of adipose tissue in digits or limbs frequently accompanied with hyperostosis and nerve enlargement; its pathological mechanism is po...
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Open AccessEya3 partners with PP2A to induce c-Myc stabilization and tumor progression
Eya genes encode a unique family of multifunctional proteins that serve as transcriptional co-activators and as haloacid dehalogenase-family Tyr phosphatases. Intriguingly, the N-terminal domain of Eyas, which...
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Open AccessCorrection: Corrigendum: Continual Antigenic Diversification in China Leads to Global Antigenic Complexity of Avian Influenza H5N1 Viruses
Scientific Reports 7: Article number: 43566; published online: 06 March 2017; updated: 31 May 2018 This Article contains an error in Figure 2, where the antigenic cluster label ‘AH05’ is missing. In addition, ...
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Open AccessAuthor Correction: Eya3 partners with PP2A to induce c-Myc stabilization and tumor progression
In the original version of this Article, the title of the legend to Fig. 7 incorrectly read ‘Knockdown of B55α increases breast cancer metastasis’ instead of ‘Knockdown of B55α decreases breast cancer metastas...
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Open AccessPublisher Correction: EMT cells increase breast cancer metastasis via paracrine GLI activation in neighbouring tumour cells
This Article contains an error in Figure 2. In panel a, the second lane of the western blot should have been labelled ‘siNT’. A correct version of Figure 2a appears in the Author Correction associated with thi...
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Open AccessMutation analysis, treatment and prenatal diagnosis of Chinese cases of methylmalonic acidemia
Methylmalonic acidemia (MMA)-affected patients may have developmental, hematological, neurological, metabolic, ophthalmological, and dermatological clinically abnormal findings. This study aimed to identify mu...
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Open AccessBenzene- and pyridine-incorporated octaphyrins with different coordination modes toward two PdII centers
Expanded porphyrins have received considerable attention due to their unique optical, electrochemical and coordination properties. Here, we report benzene- and pyridine-incorporated octaphyrins(1.1.0.0.1.1.0.0...
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Open AccessTwelve-month specific IgG response to SARS-CoV-2 receptor-binding domain among COVID-19 convalescent plasma donors in Wuhan
To investigate the duration of humoral immune response in convalescent coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) patients, we conduct a 12-month longitudinal study through collecting a total of 1,782 plasma samples ...
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Open AccessAuthor Correction: Twelve-month specific IgG response to SARS-CoV-2 receptor-binding domain among COVID-19 convalescent plasma donors in Wuhan
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Open AccessG3BP1 inhibits Cul3SPOP to amplify AR signaling and promote prostate cancer
SPOP, an E3 ubiquitin ligase, acts as a prostate-specific tumor suppressor with several key substrates mediating oncogenic function. However, the mechanisms underlying SPOP regulation are largely unknown. Here...
