-
Article
Multiple and spectrally robust photonic magic angles in reconfigurable α-MoO3 trilayers
The emergence of a topological transition of the polaritonic dispersion in twisted bilayers of anisotropic van der Waals materials at a given twist angle—the photonic magic angle—results in the diffractionless...
-
Article
Open AccessTwist-tunable polaritonic nanoresonators in a van der Waals crystal
Optical nanoresonators are key building blocks in various nanotechnological applications (e.g., spectroscopy) due to their ability to effectively confine light at the nanoscale. Recently, nanoresonators based ...
-
Article
Open AccessPlanar refraction and lensing of highly confined polaritons in anisotropic media
Refraction between isotropic media is characterized by light bending towards the normal to the boundary when passing from a low- to a high-refractive-index medium. However, refraction between anisotropic media...
-
Article
Cardiometabolic index: a new tool for screening the metabolically obese normal weight phenotype
People with the metabolically obese normal weight (MONW) phenotype are considered as an extremely high-risk group for unfavorable health consequences, but they are frequently undetected due to deceptive body m...
-
Article
Open AccessGiant optical anisotropy in transition metal dichalcogenides for next-generation photonics
Large optical anisotropy observed in a broad spectral range is of paramount importance for efficient light manipulation in countless devices. Although a giant anisotropy has been recently observed in the mid-i...
-
Article
Complexity of plastic instability in amorphous solids: Insights from spatiotemporal evolution of vibrational modes
It has been accepted that low-frequency vibrational modes are causally correlated to fundamental plastic rearrangement events in amorphous solids, irrespective of the structural details. But the mode-event rel...
-
Article
Open AccessAnalysis of mRNA abundance for histone variants, histone- and DNA-modifiers in bovine in vivo and in vitro oocytes and embryos
Transcript abundance of histone variants, modifiers of histone and DNA in bovine in vivo oocytes and embryos were measured as mean transcripts per million (TPM). Six of 14 annotated histone variants, 8 of 52 hist...
-
Article
Flow past a rotating circular cylinder with superhydrophobic surfaces
Superhydrophobic surfaces (SHSs) are widely reported and applied to modify flow features. In this work, the two-dimensional flows past a rotating circular cylinder with SHSs are studied to explore its effect. ...
-
Article
Open AccessCharacterization and transplantation of enteric neural crest cells from human induced pluripotent stem cells
The enteric nervous system (ENS) is recognized as a second brain because of its complexity and its largely autonomic control of bowel function. Recent progress in studying the interactions between the ENS and ...
-
Article
Open AccessTranscriptome sequencing study implicates immune-related genes differentially expressed in schizophrenia: new data and a meta-analysis
We undertook an RNA sequencing (RNAseq)-based transcriptomic profiling study on lymphoblastoid cell lines of a European ancestry sample of 529 schizophrenia cases and 660 controls, and found 1058 genes to be d...
-
Article
mTOR promotes pituitary tumor development through activation of PTTG1
As one of the most common intracranial tumors, pituitary tumor is associated with high morbidity. Effective therapy is currently not available for some pituitary tumors due to the largely undefined pathologica...
-
Article
Effect of exogenous abscisic acid on cold acclimation in two Magnolia species
In northern China, freezing injury is observed frequently in the rare species Magnolia wufengensis but not in the more common species Magnolia denudata. To investigate the role of the phytohormone abscisic acid (...
-
Article
Open AccessSOX4 contributes to the progression of cervical cancer and the resistance to the chemotherapeutic drug through ABCG2
SOX4, a member of the SOX (sex-determining region Y-related HMG box) transcription factor family, has been reported to be abnormally expressed in a wide variety of cancers, and to exert a pleiotropic function....
-
Article
Selection of a novel DNA thioaptamer against HER2 structure
Human epithelial growth factor receptor 2 (HER2) is over-expressed in several malignancies and represents an important therapeutic target. Aptamers are oligonucleotides that may potentially serve as tumor-hom...
-
Article
Nutritional status of an elderly population in Southwest China: A cross-sectional study based on comprehensive geriatric assessment
Few data is available on the nutritional status of old Chinese. The present study aimed to describe the nutritional status and clinical correlates for malnutrition risk in the older people.
-
Article
Open AccessSurvivin-2B promotes autophagy by accumulating IKK alpha in the nucleus of selenite-treated NB4 cells
Survivin-2B, a known splice variant of survivin, has been reported to promote cell death in some cancer cells, although it keeps prosurvival function in others, and the mechanisms are unclear. In this report, ...
-
Article
Open AccessEvidence that duplications of 22q11.2 protect against schizophrenia
A number of large, rare copy number variants (CNVs) are deleterious for neurodevelopmental disorders, but large, rare, protective CNVs have not been reported for such phenotypes. Here we show in a CNV analysis...
-
Article
Process Modeling of Low-Pressure Die Casting of Aluminum Alloy Automotive Wheels
Although on initial inspection, the aluminum alloy automotive wheel seems to be a relatively simple component to cast based on its shape, further insight reveals that this is not the case. Automotive wheels ar...
-
Article
mTORC1 enhancement of STIM1-mediated store-operated Ca2+ entry constrains tuberous sclerosis complex-related tumor development
The protein complex of tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC)1 and TSC2 tumor suppressors is a key negative regulator of mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR). Hyperactive mTOR signaling due to the loss-of-function o...
-
Article
In vitro flowering red miniature rose
Using aseptic plantlets obtained from stem node explants of hybrid red miniature rose (Rosa hybrida cv. Fairy Dance), the effects of shoot physiological status, medium ingredients, and culture thermoperiod on in ...
