Development of miniaturized walking biological machines.

abstract：:Water is the most important plasticizer of biological and organic hydrophilic materials, which generally exhibit enhanced mechanical softness and molecular mobility upon hydration. The enhancement of the molecular dynamics upon mixing with water, which in glass-forming systems implies a lower glass transition temperat...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Ruiz GN,Romanini M,Hauptmann A,Loerting T,Shalaev E,Tamarit JL,Pardo LC,Macovez R

更新日期：2017-08-07 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, the toxic effects of phenoxyethanol (Phy-Et), which is widely used in cosmetic industry, has been investigated with Allium test by means of physiological, cytogenetic, anatomical and biochemical parameters. To determine the changes in physiological reactions weight gain, relative injury rate, germinatio...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Akgündüz MÇ,Çavuşoğlu K,Yalçın E

更新日期：2020-01-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The plasmonic waveguide made of uniform corrugated metallic strip can support and guide spoof surface plasmon polaritons (SSPPs) with high confinements. Here, we propose periodically-modulated plasmonic waveguide composed of non-uniform corrugated metallic strip to convert SSPPs to radiating waves, in which the main b...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Kong GS,Ma HF,Cai BG,Cui TJ

更新日期：2016-07-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Optimized mesoporous photocatalyst endowed with high specific surface area and large pore size was synthesized by sol-gel method. These large pore mesoporous materials (33.39 nm) were conducive to the movement of larger molecules or groups in pore path and for effective use of active sites. The high specific surface a...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Xue H,Jiang Y,Yuan K,Yang T,Hou J,Cao C,Feng K,Wang X

更新日期：2016-07-19 00:00:00

abstract：:One mechanism of action for the anticaries effect of topical fluoridation is through precipitation of CaF2. In this in vitro study energy-dispersive x-ray spectroscopy (EDX) is used as a semiquantitative method to detect enamel fluoride-precipitation under the influence of acidic and neutral pH-value and absence or pr...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Scholz KJ,Federlin M,Hiller KA,Ebensberger H,Ferstl G,Buchalla W

更新日期：2019-09-17 00:00:00

abstract：:As an important online information retaining and processing function, working memory plays critical roles in many other cognitive functions. Several long-term factors, such as age, addiction and diseases, have been affirmed to impair working memory, but whether or how the short-term factors, like painful stimuli or em...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Chen M,Wang YZ,Ma CC,Li QZ,Zhou H,Fu J,Yang QQ,Zhang YM,Liu Y,Cao JL

更新日期：2017-07-03 00:00:00

abstract：:We have proposed and successfully demonstrated a novel approach to direct conversion of mechanical energy into electrical energy using microfluidics. The method combines previously demonstrated reverse electrowetting on dielectric (REWOD) phenomenon with the fast self-oscillating process of bubble growth and collapse....

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Hsu TH,Manakasettharn S,Taylor JA,Krupenkin T

更新日期：2015-11-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The transfer of the flexor hallucis longus tendon or flexor digitorum longus tendon is frequently used for the treatment of posterior tibial tendon insufficiency or chronic Achilles tendinopathy. According to several anatomical studies, harvesting the flexor hallucis longus (FHL) tendon may cause nerve injury. Sixty-e...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Mao H,Dong W,Shi Z,Yin W,Xu D,Wapner KL

更新日期：2017-10-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Energy metabolism, involving the ATP-dependent AMPK-PgC-Ppar pathway impacts metabolic health immensely, in that its impairment can lead to obesity, giving rise to disease. Based on observations that individuals with Gilbert's syndrome (GS; UGT1A1(*)28 promoter mutation) are generally lighter, leaner and healthier tha...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Mölzer C,Wallner M,Kern C,Tosevska A,Schwarz U,Zadnikar R,Doberer D,Marculescu R,Wagner KH

更新日期：2016-07-21 00:00:00

abstract：:We propose a new strategy to design broadband and wide angle diffusion metasurfaces. An anisotropic structure which has opposite phases under x- and y-polarized incidence is employed as the "0" and "1" elements base on the concept of coding metamaterial. To obtain a uniform backward scattering under normal incidence, ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Zhao Y,Cao X,Gao J,Sun Y,Yang H,Liu X,Zhou Y,Han T,Chen W

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:State of the art X-ray Free Electron Laser facilities currently provide the brightest X-ray pulses available, typically with mJ energy and several hundred femtosecond duration. Here we present one- and two-dimensional Particle-in-Cell simulations, utilising the process of stimulated Raman amplification, showing that t...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Sadler JD,Nathvani R,Oleśkiewicz P,Ceurvorst LA,Ratan N,Kasim MF,Trines RM,Bingham R,Norreys PA

更新日期：2015-11-16 00:00:00

abstract：:An accurate prediction of the outcome of a given drug treatment requires quantitative values for all parameters and concentrations involved as well as a detailed characterization of the network of interactions where the target molecule is embedded. Here, we present a high-throughput in silico screening of all potentia...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Doldán-Martelli V,Míguez DG

更新日期：2018-08-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Awarding CO2 offset credits may incentivize seagrass restoration projects and help reverse greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from global seagrass loss. However, no study has quantified net GHG removal from the atmosphere from a seagrass restoration project, which would require coupled Corg stock and GHG flux enhancement ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Oreska MPJ,McGlathery KJ,Aoki LR,Berger AC,Berg P,Mullins L

更新日期：2020-04-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Curvature components derived from satellite gravity gradients provide new global views of Earth's structure. The satellite gravity gradients are based on the GOCE satellite mission and we illustrate by curvature images how the Earth is seen differently compared to seismic imaging. Tectonic domains with similar seismic...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Ebbing J,Haas P,Ferraccioli F,Pappa F,Szwillus W,Bouman J

更新日期：2018-11-05 00:00:00

abstract：:During inflammatory response, blood leukocytes adhere to the endothelium. This process involves numerous adhesion molecules, including a transmembrane chemokine, CX3CL1, which behaves as a molecular cluster. How this cluster assembles and whether this association has a functional role remain unknown. The analysis of C...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Ostuni MA,Hermand P,Saindoy E,Guillou N,Guellec J,Coens A,Hattab C,Desuzinges-Mandon E,Jawhari A,Iatmanen-Harbi S,Lequin O,Fuchs P,Lacapere JJ,Combadière C,Pincet F,Deterre P

更新日期：2020-06-03 00:00:00

abstract：:In this work we revisit the important and controversial concept of quantum weak values, aiming to provide a simplified understanding to its associated physics and the origin of anomaly. Taking the Stern-Gerlach setup as a working system, we base our analysis on an exact treatment in terms of quantum Bayesian approach....

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Qin L,Feng W,Li XQ

更新日期：2016-02-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of soil organic carbon in global carbon cycles is receiving increasing attention both as a potentially large and uncertain source of CO2 emissions in response to predicted global temperature rises, and as a natural sink for carbon able to reduce atmospheric CO2. There is general agreement that the technical p...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Zomer RJ,Bossio DA,Sommer R,Verchot LV

更新日期：2017-11-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Because Africa's climate hampers DNA preservation, knowledge of its genetic variability is mainly restricted to modern samples, even though population genetics dynamics and back-migrations from Eurasia may have modified haplotype frequencies, masking ancient genetic scenarios. Thanks to improved methodologies, ancient...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Vai S,Sarno S,Lari M,Luiselli D,Manzi G,Gallinaro M,Mataich S,Hübner A,Modi A,Pilli E,Tafuri MA,Caramelli D,di Lernia S

更新日期：2019-03-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Type 2 innate lymphoid cells (ILC2) potentiate immune responses, however, their role in mediating adaptive immunity in cancer has not been assessed. Here, we report that mice genetically lacking ILC2s have significantly increased tumour growth rates and conspicuously higher frequency of circulating tumour cells (CTCs)...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Saranchova I,Han J,Zaman R,Arora H,Huang H,Fenninger F,Choi KB,Munro L,Pfeifer CG,Welch I,Takei F,Jefferies WA

更新日期：2018-02-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Birds have a remarkable ability to obtain navigational information from the Earth's magnetic field. The primary detection mechanism of this compass sense is uncertain but appears to involve the quantum spin dynamics of radical pairs formed transiently in cryptochrome proteins. We propose here a new version of the curr...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Kattnig DR,Hore PJ

更新日期：2017-09-14 00:00:00

abstract：:If the components of a battery, including electrodes, separator, electrolyte and the current collectors can be designed as paints and applied sequentially to build a complete battery, on any arbitrary surface, it would have significant impact on the design, implementation and integration of energy storage devices. Her...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Singh N,Galande C,Miranda A,Mathkar A,Gao W,Reddy AL,Vlad A,Ajayan PM

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sleep has been hypothesised to maintain a close relationship with metabolism. Here we focus on the brain structure that triggers slow-wave sleep, the ventrolateral preoptic nucleus (VLPO), to explore the cellular and molecular signalling pathways recruited by an increase in glucose concentration. We used infrared vide...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Scharbarg E,Daenens M,Lemaître F,Geoffroy H,Guille-Collignon M,Gallopin T,Rancillac A

更新日期：2016-01-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Agr family includes three groups of genes, Ag1, Agr2 and Agr3, which encode the thioredoxin domain-containing secreted proteins and have been shown recently to participate in regeneration of the amputated body appendages in amphibians. By contrast, higher vertebrates have only Agr2 and Agr3, but lack Ag1, and have low...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Ivanova AS,Shandarin IN,Ermakova GV,Minin AA,Tereshina MB,Zaraisky AG

更新日期：2015-01-29 00:00:00

abstract：:WO3 is widely used as industrial catalyst. Intrinsic and/or extrinsic defects can tune the electronic properties and extend applications to gas sensors and optoelectonics. However, H doping is a challenge to WO3, the relevant mechanisms being hardly understood. In this context, we investigate intrinsic defects and H d...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Zhu J,Vasilopoulou M,Davazoglou D,Kennou S,Chroneos A,Schwingenschlögl U

更新日期：2017-01-18 00:00:00

abstract：:In this work, we report lateral heterojunction formation in as-exfoliated MoS2 flakes by thickness modulation. Kelvin probe force microscopy is used to map the surface potential at the monolayer-multilayer heterojunction, and consequently the conduction band offset is extracted. Scanning photocurrent microscopy is per...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Tosun M,Fu D,Desai SB,Ko C,Kang JS,Lien DH,Najmzadeh M,Tongay S,Wu J,Javey A

更新日期：2015-06-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Sorafenib is a RAF inhibitor approved for several cancers, including hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Inhibition of RAF kinases can induce a dose-dependent "paradoxical" upregulation of the downstream mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) pathway in cancer cells. It is unknown whether "paradoxical" ERK activation occ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Chen Y,Liu YC,Sung YC,Ramjiawan RR,Lin TT,Chang CC,Jeng KS,Chang CF,Liu CH,Gao DY,Hsu FF,Duyverman AM,Kitahara S,Huang P,Dima S,Popescu I,Flaherty KT,Zhu AX,Bardeesy N,Jain RK,Benes CH,Duda DG

更新日期：2017-03-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Fibrosis with excessive amounts of type I collagen is a hallmark of many solid tumours, and fibrosis is a promising target in cancer therapy, but tools for its non-invasive quantification are missing. Here we used magnetic resonance imaging with a gadolinium-based probe targeted to type I collagen (EP-3533) to image a...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Polasek M,Yang Y,Schühle DT,Yaseen MA,Kim YR,Sung YS,Guimaraes AR,Caravan P

更新日期：2017-08-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The natural bacterial diversity is regarded as a treasure trove for natural products. However, accessing complex cell mixtures derived from environmental samples in standardized high-throughput screenings is challenging. Here, we present a droplet-based microfluidic platform for ultrahigh-throughput screenings able to...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Mahler L,Wink K,Beulig RJ,Scherlach K,Tovar M,Zang E,Martin K,Hertweck C,Belder D,Roth M

更新日期：2018-08-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The ratio of ω-6 to ω-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) appears to be critical in the regulation of various pathophysiological processes and to maintain cellular homeostasis. While a high proportion of dietary intake of ω-6 PUFAs is associated with various inflammatory disorders, higher intake of ω-3 PUFAs is know...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Kumar N,Gupta G,Anilkumar K,Fatima N,Karnati R,Reddy GV,Giri PV,Reddanna P

更新日期：2016-08-18 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a daily-updated sequenced/species Tree Of Life (sTOL) as a reference for the increasing number of cellular organisms with their genomes sequenced. The sTOL builds on a likelihood-based weight calibration algorithm to consolidate NCBI taxonomy information in concert with unbiased sampling of molecular charact...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Fang H,Oates ME,Pethica RB,Greenwood JM,Sardar AJ,Rackham OJ,Donoghue PC,Stamatakis A,de Lima Morais DA,Gough J

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00