Touch-induced seedling morphological changes are determined by ethylene-regulated pectin degradation.

abstract：:Selective nerve transfers surgically rewire motor neurons and are used in extremity reconstruction to restore muscle function or to facilitate intuitive prosthetic control. We investigated the neurophysiological effects of rewiring motor axons originating from spinal motor neuron pools into target muscles with lower i...

journal_title：Science advances

authors： Bergmeister KD,Aman M,Muceli S,Vujaklija I,Manzano-Szalai K,Unger E,Byrne RA,Scheinecker C,Riedl O,Salminger S,Frommlet F,Borschel GH,Farina D,Aszmann OC

更新日期：2019-01-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Ice accretion has a negative impact on critical infrastructure, as well as a range of commercial and residential activities. Icephobic surfaces are defined by an ice adhesion strength τice < 100 kPa. However, the passive removal of ice requires much lower values of τice, such as on airplane wings or power lines (τice ...

journal_title：Science advances

authors： Golovin K,Kobaku SP,Lee DH,DiLoreto ET,Mabry JM,Tuteja A

更新日期：2016-03-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Fluid catalytic cracking (FCC) particles account for 40 to 45% of worldwide gasoline production. The hierarchical complex particle pore structure allows access of long-chain feedstock molecules into active catalyst domains where they are cracked into smaller, more valuable hydrocarbon products (for example, gasoline)....

journal_title：Science advances

authors： Meirer F,Kalirai S,Morris D,Soparawalla S,Liu Y,Mesu G,Andrews JC,Weckhuysen BM

更新日期：2015-04-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Successful rehabilitation of oropharyngeal swallowing disorders (i.e., dysphagia) requires frequent performance of head/neck exercises that primarily rely on expensive biofeedback devices, often only available in large medical centers. This directly affects treatment compliance and outcomes, and highlights the need to...

journal_title：Science advances

authors： Kim MK,Kantarcigil C,Kim B,Baruah RK,Maity S,Park Y,Kim K,Lee S,Malandraki JB,Avlani S,Smith A,Sen S,Alam MA,Malandraki G,Lee CH

更新日期：2019-12-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The notorious ~60° bend separating the Hawaiian and Emperor chains marked a prominent change in the motion of the Pacific plate at ~47 Ma (million years ago), but the origin of that change remains an outstanding controversy that bears on the nature of major plate reorganizations. Lesser known but equally significant i...

journal_title：Science advances

authors： Domeier M,Shephard GE,Jakob J,Gaina C,Doubrovine PV,Torsvik TH

更新日期：2017-11-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Many applications in modern technology, such as self-cleaning surfaces and digital microfluidics, require control over individual fluid droplets on flat surfaces. Existing techniques may suffer from side effects resulting from high electric fields and high temperatures. Here, we introduce a markedly different method, ...

journal_title：Science advances

authors： De Jong E,Wang Y,Den Toonder JMJ,Onck PR

更新日期：2019-06-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Detecting associations between genomic changes and phenotypic differences is fundamental to understanding how phenotypes evolved. By systematically screening for parallel amino acid substitutions, we detected known as well as novel cases (Strc, Tecta, and Cabp2) of parallelism between echolocating bats and toothed wha...

journal_title：Science advances

authors： Lee JH,Lewis KM,Moural TW,Kirilenko B,Borgonovo B,Prange G,Koessl M,Huggenberger S,Kang C,Hiller M

更新日期：2018-09-26 00:00:00

abstract：:A sulfide-oxidizing microorganism, Desulfurivibrio alkaliphilus (DA), generates a consistent enrichment of sulfur-34 (34S) in the produced sulfate of +12.5 per mil or greater. This observation challenges the general consensus that the microbial oxidation of sulfide does not result in large 34S enrichments and suggests...

journal_title：Science advances

authors： Pellerin A,Antler G,Holm SA,Findlay AJ,Crockford PW,Turchyn AV,Jørgensen BB,Finster K

更新日期：2019-07-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Avian wing shape is highly variable across species but only coarsely associated with flight behavior, performance, and body mass. An underexplored but potentially explanatory feature is the ability of birds to actively change wing shape to meet aerodynamic and behavioral demands. Across 61 species, we found strong ass...

journal_title：Science advances

authors： Baliga VB,Szabo I,Altshuler DL

更新日期：2019-10-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Transistors with exfoliated two-dimensional (2D) materials on a SiO2/Si substrate have been applied and have been proven effective in a wide range of applications, such as circuits, memory, photodetectors, gas sensors, optical modulators, valleytronics, and spintronics. However, these devices usually suffer from limit...

journal_title：Science advances

authors： Xu J,Chen L,Dai YW,Cao Q,Sun QQ,Ding SJ,Zhu H,Zhang DW

更新日期：2017-05-19 00:00:00

abstract：:We reveal an intriguing manifestation of topology, which appears in the depletion rate of topological states of matter in response to an external drive. This phenomenon is presented by analyzing the response of a generic two-dimensional (2D) Chern insulator subjected to a circular time-periodic perturbation. Because o...

journal_title：Science advances

authors： Tran DT,Dauphin A,Grushin AG,Zoller P,Goldman N

更新日期：2017-08-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Several forms of hair loss in humans are characterized by the inability of hair follicles to enter the growth phase (anagen) of the hair cycle after being arrested in the resting phase (telogen). Current pharmacologic therapies have been largely unsuccessful in targeting pathways that can be selectively modulated to i...

journal_title：Science advances

authors： Harel S,Higgins CA,Cerise JE,Dai Z,Chen JC,Clynes R,Christiano AM

更新日期：2015-10-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The production of renewable chemicals and biofuels must be cost- and performance- competitive with petroleum-derived equivalents to be widely accepted by markets and society. We propose a biomass conversion strategy that maximizes the conversion of lignocellulosic biomass (up to 80% of the biomass to useful products) ...

journal_title：Science advances

authors： Alonso DM,Hakim SH,Zhou S,Won W,Hosseinaei O,Tao J,Garcia-Negron V,Motagamwala AH,Mellmer MA,Huang K,Houtman CJ,Labbé N,Harper DP,Maravelias C,Runge T,Dumesic JA

更新日期：2017-05-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Membrane proteins must balance the sequence constraints associated with folding and function against the hydrophobicity required for solvation within the bilayer. We recently found the expression and maturation of rhodopsin are limited by the hydrophobicity of its seventh transmembrane domain (TM7), which contains pol...

journal_title：Science advances

authors： Penn WD,McKee AG,Kuntz CP,Woods H,Nash V,Gruenhagen TC,Roushar FJ,Chandak M,Hemmerich C,Rusch DB,Meiler J,Schlebach JP

更新日期：2020-03-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Sedimentary hydrocarbon remnants of eukaryotic C26-C30 sterols can be used to reconstruct early algal evolution. Enhanced C29 sterol abundances provide algal cell membranes a density advantage in large temperature fluctuations. Here, we combined a literature review with new analyses to generate a comprehensive invento...

journal_title：Science advances

authors： Hoshino Y,Poshibaeva A,Meredith W,Snape C,Poshibaev V,Versteegh GJM,Kuznetsov N,Leider A,van Maldegem L,Neumann M,Naeher S,Moczydłowska M,Brocks JJ,Jarrett AJM,Tang Q,Xiao S,McKirdy D,Das SK,Alvaro JJ,Sansjofre P,

更新日期：2017-09-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Predator-prey interactions revealed by vertebrate trace fossils are extremely rare. We present footprint evidence from White Sands National Monument in New Mexico for the association of sloth and human trackways. Geologically, the sloth and human trackways were made contemporaneously, and the sloth trackways show evid...

journal_title：Science advances

authors： Bustos D,Jakeway J,Urban TM,Holliday VT,Fenerty B,Raichlen DA,Budka M,Reynolds SC,Allen BD,Love DW,Santucci VL,Odess D,Willey P,McDonald HG,Bennett MR

更新日期：2018-04-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Calcium silicate hydrate (C-S-H) is the binder in concrete, the most used synthetic material in the world. The main weakness of concrete is the lack of elasticity and poor flexural strength considerably limiting its potential, making reinforcing steel constructions necessary. Although the properties of C-S-H could be ...

journal_title：Science advances

authors： Picker A,Nicoleau L,Burghard Z,Bill J,Zlotnikov I,Labbez C,Nonat A,Cölfen H

更新日期：2017-11-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Wächtershäuser's proposal of the autotrophic origin of life theory and subsequent laboratory demonstrations of relevant organic reactions have opened a new gate for the exploration of the origin of life. However, this scenario remains controversial because, at present, it requires a high pressure of CO as a source of ...

journal_title：Science advances

authors： Kitadai N,Nakamura R,Yamamoto M,Takai K,Li Y,Yamaguchi A,Gilbert A,Ueno Y,Yoshida N,Oono Y

更新日期：2018-04-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Protected areas (PAs) are essential to biodiversity conservation, but their static boundaries may undermine their potential for protecting species under climate change. We assessed how the climatic conditions within global terrestrial PAs may change over time. By 2070, protection is expected to decline in cold and war...

journal_title：Science advances

authors： Elsen PR,Monahan WB,Dougherty ER,Merenlender AM

更新日期：2020-06-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Using theory and experiments, we study the interface between two immiscible domains in a colloidal membrane composed of rigid rods of different lengths. Geometric considerations of rigid rod packing imply that a domain of sufficiently short rods in a background membrane of long rods is more susceptible to twist than t...

journal_title：Science advances

authors： Miller JM,Hall D,Robaszewski J,Sharma P,Hagan MF,Grason GM,Dogic Z

更新日期：2020-07-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The rapid growth of deformable and stretchable electronics calls for a deformable and stretchable power source. We report a scalable approach for energy harvesters and self-powered sensors that can be highly deformable and stretchable. With conductive liquid contained in a polymer cover, a shape-adaptive triboelectric...

journal_title：Science advances

authors： Yi F,Wang X,Niu S,Li S,Yin Y,Dai K,Zhang G,Lin L,Wen Z,Guo H,Wang J,Yeh MH,Zi Y,Liao Q,You Z,Zhang Y,Wang ZL

更新日期：2016-06-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Tumor angiogenesis provides critical nutrients for cancer progression and may also facilitate pathways for dissemination during the process of metastasis. It is well established that cells that metastasize display characteristics of stem cells; however, the prevailing paradigm points to these stem-like cells residing ...

journal_title：Science advances

authors： Lee J,Abdeen AA,Hedhli J,Wycislo KL,Dobrucka IT,Fan TM,Dobrucki LW,Kilian KA

更新日期：2017-10-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Oocyte numbers, a critical determinant of female reproductive fitness, are highly regulated, yet the mechanisms underlying this regulation remain largely undefined. In the Caenorhabditis elegans gonad, RAS/extracellular signal-regulated kinase (ERK) signaling regulates oocyte numbers; mechanisms are unknown. We show t...

journal_title：Science advances

authors： Das D,Chen SY,Arur S

更新日期：2020-10-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Wearable sweat analysis devices for monitoring of multiple health-related biomarkers with high sensitivity are highly desired for noninvasive and real-time monitoring of human health. Here, we report a flexible sweat analysis patch based on a silk fabric-derived carbon textile for simultaneous detection of six health-...

journal_title：Science advances

authors： He W,Wang C,Wang H,Jian M,Lu W,Liang X,Zhang X,Yang F,Zhang Y

更新日期：2019-11-08 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied a bilayer system hosting two-dimensional electron systems (2DESs) in close proximity but isolated from one another by a thin barrier. One 2DES has low electron density and forms a Wigner solid (WS) at high magnetic fields. The other has much higher density and, in the same field, exhibits fractional quantum...

journal_title：Science advances

authors： Hatke AT,Deng H,Liu Y,Engel LW,Pfeiffer LN,West KW,Baldwin KW,Shayegan M

更新日期：2019-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The lipid bilayer membrane, which is the foundation of life on Earth, is not viable outside of biology based on liquid water. This fact has caused astronomers who seek conditions suitable for life to search for exoplanets within the "habitable zone," the narrow band in which liquid water can exist. However, can cell m...

journal_title：Science advances

authors： Stevenson J,Lunine J,Clancy P

更新日期：2015-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Laser technology has developed and accelerated photo-induced nonequilibrium physics, from both the scientific and engineering viewpoints. Floquet engineering, i.e., controlling material properties and functionalities by time-periodic drives, is at the forefront of quantum physics of light-matter interaction. However, ...

journal_title：Science advances

authors： Ikeda TN,Sato M

更新日期：2020-07-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Metabolic engineering uses enzymes to produce small molecules with industrial, pharmaceutical, and energy applications. However, efforts to optimize enzymatic pathways for commercial production are limited by the throughput of assays for quantifying metabolic intermediates and end products. We developed a multiplexed ...

journal_title：Science advances

authors： O'Kane PT,Dudley QM,McMillan AK,Jewett MC,Mrksich M

更新日期：2019-06-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Cost-benefit trade-offs for individuals participating in social behaviors are the basis for current theories on the evolution of social behaviors and societies. However, research on social strategies has largely ignored solitary animals, in which we assume that rare interactions are explained by courtship or territori...

journal_title：Science advances

authors： Elbroch LM,Levy M,Lubell M,Quigley H,Caragiulo A

更新日期：2017-10-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) is life-threatening because of limited therapies and lack of effective therapeutic targets. Here, we found that moesin (MSN) was significantly overexpressed in TNBC compared with other subtypes of breast cancer and was positively correlated with poor overall survival. However, litt...

journal_title：Science advances

authors： Qin Y,Chen W,Jiang G,Zhou L,Yang X,Li H,He X,Wang HL,Zhou YB,Huang S,Liu S

更新日期：2020-02-19 00:00:00