Internal friction controls active ciliary oscillations near the instability threshold.

abstract：:Driven by advances in materials and computer science, researchers are attempting to design systems where the computer and material are one and the same entity. Using theoretical and computational modeling, we design a hybrid material system that can autonomously transduce chemical, mechanical, and electrical energy to...

journal_title：Science advances

authors： Fang Y,Yashin VV,Levitan SP,Balazs AC

更新日期：2016-09-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The locally accumulated damage by tropical cyclones (TCs) can intensify substantially when these cyclones move more slowly. While some observational evidence suggests that TC motion might have slowed significantly since the mid-20th century (1), the robustness of the observed trend and its relation to anthropogenic wa...

journal_title：Science advances

authors： Zhang G,Murakami H,Knutson TR,Mizuta R,Yoshida K

更新日期：2020-04-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Lymphatic filariasis and onchocerciasis are two important neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) that cause severe disability. Control efforts are hindered by the lack of a safe macrofilaricidal drug. Targeting the Wolbachia bacterial endosymbionts in these parasites with doxycycline leads to a macrofilaricidal outcome, b...

journal_title：Science advances

authors： Johnston KL,Cook DAN,Berry NG,David Hong W,Clare RH,Goddard M,Ford L,Nixon GL,O'Neill PM,Ward SA,Taylor MJ

更新日期：2017-09-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Rising temperatures in the Arctic Ocean region are responsible for changes such as reduced ice cover, permafrost thawing, and increased river discharge, which, together, alter nutrient and carbon cycles over the vast Arctic continental shelf. We show that the concentration of radium-228, sourced to seawater through se...

journal_title：Science advances

authors： Kipp LE,Charette MA,Moore WS,Henderson PB,Rigor IG

更新日期：2018-01-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Over the past decade, a growing number of studies have revealed that progressive changes to epigenetic information accompany aging in both dividing and nondividing cells. Functional studies in model organisms and humans indicate that epigenetic changes have a huge influence on the aging process. These epigenetic chang...

journal_title：Science advances

authors： Pal S,Tyler JK

更新日期：2016-07-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Adoptive cell transfers have emerged as a disruptive approach to treat disease in a manner that is more specific than using small-molecule drugs; however, unlike traditional drugs, cells are living entities that can alter their function in response to environmental cues. In the present study, we report an engineered p...

journal_title：Science advances

authors： Shields CW 4th,Evans MA,Wang LL,Baugh N,Iyer S,Wu D,Zhao Z,Pusuluri A,Ukidve A,Pan DC,Mitragotri S

更新日期：2020-04-29 00:00:00

abstract：:NSF (N-ethylmaleimide-sensitive factor) and α-SNAP (α-soluble NSF attachment protein) bind to the SNARE (soluble NSF attachment protein receptor) complex, the minimum machinery to mediate membrane fusion, to form a 20S complex, which disassembles the SNARE complex for reuse. We report the cryo-EM structures of the α-S...

journal_title：Science advances

authors： Huang X,Sun S,Wang X,Fan F,Zhou Q,Lu S,Cao Y,Wang QW,Dong MQ,Yao J,Sui SF

更新日期：2019-04-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The glymphatic system is responsible for brain-wide delivery of nutrients and clearance of waste via influx of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) alongside perivascular spaces and through the brain. Glymphatic system activity increases during sleep or ketamine/xylazine (K/X) anesthesia, yet the mechanism(s) facilitating CSF in...

journal_title：Science advances

authors： Hablitz LM,Vinitsky HS,Sun Q,Stæger FF,Sigurdsson B,Mortensen KN,Lilius TO,Nedergaard M

更新日期：2019-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Toxins efficiently deliver cargo to cells by binding to cell surface ligands, initiating endocytosis, and escaping the endolysosomal pathway into the cytoplasm. We took advantage of this delivery pathway by conjugating an attenuated diphtheria toxin to siRNA, thereby achieving gene downregulation in patient-derived gl...

journal_title：Science advances

authors： Arnold AE,Smith LJ,Beilhartz GL,Bahlmann LC,Jameson E,Melnyk RA,Shoichet MS

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Computer vision (CV) has the potential to change medicine fundamentally. Expert knowledge provided by CV can enhance diagnosis. Unfortunately, existing algorithms often remain below expectations, as databases used for training are usually too small, incomplete, and heterogeneous in quality. Moreover, data protection i...

journal_title：Science advances

authors： Han T,Nebelung S,Haarburger C,Horst N,Reinartz S,Merhof D,Kiessling F,Schulz V,Truhn D

更新日期：2020-12-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Two-dimensional (2D) semiconductors have shown great potential for electronic and optoelectronic applications. However, their development is limited by a large Schottky barrier (SB) at the metal-semiconductor junction (MSJ), which is difficult to tune by using conventional metals because of the effect of strong Fermi ...

journal_title：Science advances

authors： Liu Y,Stradins P,Wei SH

更新日期：2016-04-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Infants' remarkable learning abilities allow them to rapidly acquire many complex skills. It has been suggested that infants achieve this learning by optimally allocating their attention to relevant stimuli in the environment, but the underlying mechanisms remain poorly understood. Here, we modeled infants' looking be...

journal_title：Science advances

authors： Poli F,Serino G,Mars RB,Hunnius S

更新日期：2020-09-23 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：:Direct residential and transportation energy consumption (RTC) contributes significantly to ambient fine particulate matter with a diameter smaller than 2.5 μm (PM2.5) in China. During massive rural-urban migration, population and pollutant emissions from RTC have evolved in terms of magnitude and geographic distribut...

journal_title：Science advances

authors： Shen H,Tao S,Chen Y,Ciais P,Güneralp B,Ru M,Zhong Q,Yun X,Zhu X,Huang T,Tao W,Chen Y,Li B,Wang X,Liu W,Liu J,Zhao S

更新日期：2017-07-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Terrestrial predators can modulate the energy used for prey capture to maximize efficiency, but diving animals face the conflicting metabolic demands of energy intake and the minimization of oxygen depletion during a breath hold. It is thought that diving predators optimize their foraging success when oxygen use and e...

journal_title：Science advances

authors： Hazen EL,Friedlaender AS,Goldbogen JA

更新日期：2015-10-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Engineering the thermal conductivity of amorphous materials is highly essential for the thermal management of future electronic devices. Here, we demonstrate the impact of ultrafine nanostructuring on the thermal conductivity reduction of amorphous silicon nitride (a-Si3N4) thin films, in which the thermal transport i...

journal_title：Science advances

authors： Tambo N,Liao Y,Zhou C,Ashley EM,Takahashi K,Nealey PF,Naito Y,Shiomi J

更新日期：2020-09-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Surface plasmon resonance microscopy (SPRM) with single-direction illumination is a powerful platform for biomedical imaging because of its wide-field, label-free, and high-surface-sensitivity imaging capabilities. However, two disadvantages prevent wider use of SPRM. The first is its poor spatial resolution that can ...

journal_title：Science advances

authors： Kuai Y,Chen J,Tang X,Xiang Y,Lu F,Kuang C,Xu L,Shen W,Cheng J,Gui H,Zou G,Wang P,Ming H,Liu J,Liu X,Lakowicz JR,Zhang D

更新日期：2019-03-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Annexin-A1 (ANXA1) has recently been proposed to play a role in microglial activation after brain ischemia, but the underlying mechanism remains poorly understood. Here, we demonstrated that ANXA1 is modified by SUMOylation, and SUMOylated ANXA1 could promote the beneficial phenotype polarization of microglia. Mechani...

journal_title：Science advances

authors： Li X,Xia Q,Mao M,Zhou H,Zheng L,Wang Y,Zeng Z,Yan L,Zhao Y,Shi J

更新日期：2021-01-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Slow slip events have been suggested to trigger subduction earthquakes. However, examples to date have been poorly recorded, occurring offshore, where data are sparse. Better understanding of slow slip events and their influence on subsequent earthquakes is critical for hazard forecasts. We analyze a well-recorded eve...

journal_title：Science advances

authors： Voss N,Dixon TH,Liu Z,Malservisi R,Protti M,Schwartz S

更新日期：2018-10-31 00:00:00

abstract：:The advent of two-dimensional (2D) materials has led to extensive studies of heterostructures for novel applications. 2D lateral multiheterojunctions and superlattices have been recently demonstrated, but the available growth methods can only produce features with widths in the micrometer or, at best, 100-nm scale and...

journal_title：Science advances

authors： Zhou W,Zhang YY,Chen J,Li D,Zhou J,Liu Z,Chisholm MF,Pantelides ST,Loh KP

更新日期：2018-03-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Adenosine and its receptors play a key role in bone homeostasis and regeneration. Extracellular adenosine is generated from CD39 and CD73 activity in the cell membrane, through conversion of adenosine triphosphate to adenosine monophosphate (AMP) and AMP to adenosine, respectively. Despite the relevance of CD39/CD73 t...

journal_title：Science advances

authors： Shih YV,Liu M,Kwon SK,Iida M,Gong Y,Sangaj N,Varghese S

更新日期：2019-08-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Silicic volcanic activity has long been framed as either violently explosive or gently effusive. However, recent observations demonstrate that explosive and effusive behavior can occur simultaneously. Here, we propose that rhyolitic magma feeding subaerial eruptions generally fragments during ascent through the upper ...

journal_title：Science advances

authors： Wadsworth FB,Llewellin EW,Vasseur J,Gardner JE,Tuffen H

更新日期：2020-09-23 00:00:00

abstract：:It is fascinating but challenging for nanoscientists to organize nanoparticles (NPs) into ordered architectures just as it is for chemists to manipulate atoms and molecules to form functional molecules and supramolecules. We explore a strategy to assemble anisotropic NPs into open frame-like superstructures via orient...

journal_title：Science advances

authors： Nai J,Guan BY,Yu L,Lou XWD

更新日期：2017-08-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Quantum phenomena have the potential to speed up the solution of hard optimization problems. For example, quantum annealing, based on the quantum tunneling effect, has recently been shown to scale exponentially better with system size than classical simulated annealing. However, current realizations of quantum anneale...

journal_title：Science advances

authors： Nigg SE,Lörch N,Tiwari RP

更新日期：2017-04-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Porous materials, which are characterized by the large surface area and percolated nature crucial for transport, play an important role in many technological applications including battery, ion exchange, catalysis, microelectronics, medical diagnosis, and oil recovery. Phase separation of a mixture in such a porous st...

journal_title：Science advances

authors： Shimizu R,Tanaka H

更新日期：2017-12-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Association of peripheral proteins with lipid bilayers regulates membrane signaling and dynamics. Pleckstrin homology (PH) domains bind to phosphatidylinositol phosphate (PIP) molecules in membranes. The effects of local PIP enrichment on the interaction of PH domains with membranes is unclear. Molecular dynamics simu...

journal_title：Science advances

authors： Yamamoto E,Domański J,Naughton FB,Best RB,Kalli AC,Stansfeld PJ,Sansom MSP

更新日期：2020-02-19 00:00:00

abstract：:In the healthy kidney, specialized cells called podocytes form a sophisticated blood filtration apparatus that allows excretion of wastes and excess fluid from the blood while preventing loss of proteins such as albumin. To operate effectively, this filter is under substantial hydrostatic mechanical pressure. Given th...

journal_title：Science advances

authors： Haley KE,Kronenberg NM,Liehm P,Elshani M,Bell C,Harrison DJ,Gather MC,Reynolds PA

更新日期：2018-06-27 00:00:00

abstract：:An understanding of the normal state in the high-temperature superconducting cuprates is crucial to the ultimate understanding of the long-standing problem of the origin of the superconductivity itself. This so-called "strange metal" state is thought to be associated with a quantum critical point (QCP) hidden beneath ...

journal_title：Science advances

authors： Sarkar T,Mandal PR,Poniatowski NR,Chan MK,Greene RL

更新日期：2019-05-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Topological superconductors are an interesting and frontier topic in condensed matter physics. In the superconducting state, an order parameter will be established with the basic or subsidiary symmetry of the crystalline lattice. In doped Bi2Se3 or Bi2Te3 with a basic threefold symmetry, it was predicted, however, tha...

journal_title：Science advances

authors： Chen M,Chen X,Yang H,Du Z,Wen HH

更新日期：2018-06-08 00:00:00

abstract：:G protein-coupled receptor 54 (GPR54), the key receptor for the neuropeptide hormone kisspeptin, plays essential roles in regulating puberty development and cancer metastasis. However, its role in the antiviral innate immune response is unknown. We report that virus-induced type I interferon (IFN-I) production was sig...

journal_title：Science advances

authors： Huang H,Xiong Q,Wang N,Chen R,Ren H,Siwko S,Han H,Liu M,Qian M,Du B

更新日期：2018-08-08 00:00:00