Prevention of pesticide-induced neuronal dysfunction and mortality with nucleophilic poly-Oxime topical gel.

abstract：:Engineered surfaces with reversibly switching interfacial properties, such as wettability and liquid repellency, are highly desirable in diverse application fields but are rare. We have developed a general concept to prepare metallic porous surfaces with exceptionally powerful wettability switch capabilities and liqui...

journal_title：Science advances

authors： Liu Y,Zhao L,Lin J,Yang S

更新日期：2019-11-01 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：:Concern on the impacts of ocean acidification on calcifiers, such as bivalves, sea urchins, and foraminifers, has led to efforts to understand the controls on pH in their habitats, which include kelp forests and seagrass meadows. The metabolism of these habitats can lead to diel fluctuation in pH with increases during...

journal_title：Science advances

authors： Krause-Jensen D,Marbà N,Sanz-Martin M,Hendriks IE,Thyrring J,Carstensen J,Sejr MK,Duarte CM

更新日期：2016-12-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Ammonia synthesis consumes 3 to 5% of the world's natural gas, making it a significant contributor to greenhouse gas emissions. Strategies for synthesizing ammonia that are not dependent on the energy-intensive and methane-based Haber-Bosch process are critically important for reducing global energy consumption and mi...

journal_title：Science advances

authors： Song Y,Johnson D,Peng R,Hensley DK,Bonnesen PV,Liang L,Huang J,Yang F,Zhang F,Qiao R,Baddorf AP,Tschaplinski TJ,Engle NL,Hatzell MC,Wu Z,Cullen DA,Meyer HM 3rd,Sumpter BG,Rondinone AJ

更新日期：2018-04-27 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：: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：:Starvation is probably the most common stressful situation in nature. In vertebrates, elevation of the biogenic amine norepinephrine levels is common during starvation. However, the precise role of norepinephrine in nutrient deprivation remains largely unknown. We report that in the free-living nematode Caenorhabditis...

journal_title：Science advances

authors： Tao J,Ma YC,Yang ZS,Zou CG,Zhang KQ

更新日期：2016-05-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The formation of the biophotonic gyroid material in butterfly wing scales is an exceptional feat of evolutionary engineering of functional nanostructures. It is hypothesized that this nanostructure forms by chitin polymerization inside a convoluted membrane of corresponding shape in the endoplasmic reticulum. However,...

journal_title：Science advances

authors： Wilts BD,Apeleo Zubiri B,Klatt MA,Butz B,Fischer MG,Kelly ST,Spiecker E,Steiner U,Schröder-Turk GE

更新日期：2017-04-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Transcriptional status determines the HIV replicative state in infected patients. However, the transcriptional mechanisms for proviral replication control remain unclear. In this study, we show that, apart from its function in HIV integration, LEDGF/p75 differentially regulates HIV transcription in latency and provira...

journal_title：Science advances

authors： Gao R,Bao J,Yan H,Xie L,Qin W,Ning H,Huang S,Cheng J,Zhi R,Li Z,Tucker B,Chen Y,Zhang K,Wu X,Liu Z,Gao X,Hu D

更新日期：2020-05-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Micrometer-scale acoustic waves are highly useful for refined optomechanical and acoustofluidic manipulation, where these fields are spatially localized along the transducer aperture but not along the acoustic propagation direction. In the case of acoustic tweezers, such a conventional acoustic standing wave results i...

journal_title：Science advances

authors： Collins DJ,Devendran C,Ma Z,Ng JW,Neild A,Ai Y

更新日期：2016-07-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Many insects use nectar as their principal diet and have mouthparts specialized in nectarivory, whereas most nectar-feeding vertebrates are opportunistic users of floral resources and only a few species show distinct morphological specializations. Specialized nectar-feeding bats extract nectar from flowers using elong...

journal_title：Science advances

authors： Tschapka M,Gonzalez-Terrazas TP,Knörnschild M

更新日期：2015-09-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Functional materials with specific surface wettability play an important role in a wide variety of areas. Inspired by nature's Nepenthes pitcher plant, we present a novel slippery film with tunable wettability based on a shape-memory graphene sponge. The porous graphene sponge coated with shape-memory polymer was used...

journal_title：Science advances

authors： Wang J,Sun L,Zou M,Gao W,Liu C,Shang L,Gu Z,Zhao Y

更新日期：2017-06-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Dewetting is a ubiquitous phenomenon in nature; many different thin films of organic and inorganic substances (such as liquids, polymers, metals, and semiconductors) share this shape instability driven by surface tension and mass transport. Via templated solid-state dewetting, we frame complex nanoarchitectures of mon...

journal_title：Science advances

authors： Naffouti M,Backofen R,Salvalaglio M,Bottein T,Lodari M,Voigt A,David T,Benkouider A,Fraj I,Favre L,Ronda A,Berbezier I,Grosso D,Abbarchi M,Bollani M

更新日期：2017-11-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The structural hierarchy exhibited by materials on more than one length scale can play a major part in determining bulk material properties. Understanding the hierarchical structure can lead to new materials with physical properties tailored for specific applications. We have used a combined experimental and phase-fie...

journal_title：Science advances

authors： Meher S,Aagesen LK,Carroll MC,Pollock TM,Carroll LJ

更新日期：2018-11-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Many animals understand numbers at a basic level for use in essential tasks such as foraging, shoaling, and resource management. However, complex arithmetic operations, such as addition and subtraction, using symbols and/or labeling have only been demonstrated in a limited number of nonhuman vertebrates. We show that ...

journal_title：Science advances

authors： Howard SR,Avarguès-Weber A,Garcia JE,Greentree AD,Dyer AG

更新日期：2019-02-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The tet methylcytosine dioxygenase 2 (TET2) enzyme catalyzes the conversion of the modified DNA base 5-methylcytosine to 5-hydroxymethylcytosine. TET2 is frequently mutated or dysregulated in multiple human cancers, and loss of TET2 is associated with changes in DNA methylation patterns. Here, using newly developed TE...

journal_title：Science advances

authors： Wang L,Ozark PA,Smith ER,Zhao Z,Marshall SA,Rendleman EJ,Piunti A,Ryan C,Whelan AL,Helmin KA,Morgan MA,Zou L,Singer BD,Shilatifard A

更新日期：2018-11-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Changes in extreme weather, such as tropical cyclones, are one of the most serious ways society experiences the impact of climate change. Advance forecasted conditional attribution statements, using a numerical model, were made about the anthropogenic climate change influence on an individual tropical cyclone, Hurrica...

journal_title：Science advances

authors： Reed KA,Stansfield AM,Wehner MF,Zarzycki CM

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Traumatic spinal cord injury (SCI) brings numerous inflammatory cells, including macrophages, from the circulating blood to lesions, but pathophysiological impact resulting from spatiotemporal dynamics of macrophages is unknown. Here, we show that macrophages centripetally migrate toward the lesion epicenter after inf...

journal_title：Science advances

authors： Kobayakawa K,Ohkawa Y,Yoshizaki S,Tamaru T,Saito T,Kijima K,Yokota K,Hara M,Kubota K,Matsumoto Y,Harimaya K,Ozato K,Masuda T,Tsuda M,Tamura T,Inoue K,Edgerton VR,Iwamoto Y,Nakashima Y,Okada S

更新日期：2019-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The homotrimeric molecular chaperone Skp of Gram-negative bacteria facilitates the transport of outer membrane proteins across the periplasm. It has been unclear how its activity is modulated during its functional cycle. Here, we report an atomic-resolution characterization of the Escherichia coli Skp monomer-trimer t...

journal_title：Science advances

authors： Mas G,Burmann BM,Sharpe T,Claudi B,Bumann D,Hiller S

更新日期：2020-10-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Self-assembly of colloidal nanocrystals into complex superstructures offers notable opportunities to create functional devices and artificial materials with unusual properties. Anisotropic nanoparticles with nonspherical shapes, such as rods, plates, polyhedra, and multipods, enable the formation of a diverse range of...

journal_title：Science advances

authors： Wang Q,Wang Z,Li Z,Xiao J,Shan H,Fang Z,Qi L

更新日期：2017-10-27 00:00:00

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：: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：:Ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) are diverse and ubiquitous, and their ability to sting is familiar to many of us. However, their venoms remain largely unstudied. We provide the first comprehensive characterization of a polypeptidic ant venom, that of the giant red bull ant, Myrmecia gulosa. We reveal a suite of novel p...

journal_title：Science advances

authors： Robinson SD,Mueller A,Clayton D,Starobova H,Hamilton BR,Payne RJ,Vetter I,King GF,Undheim EAB

更新日期：2018-09-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Organic matter burial in mangrove forests results in the removal and long-term storage of atmospheric CO2, so-called "blue carbon." However, some of this organic matter is metabolized and returned to the atmosphere as CH4. Because CH4 has a higher global warming potential than the CO2 fixed in the organic matter, it c...

journal_title：Science advances

authors： Rosentreter JA,Maher DT,Erler DV,Murray RH,Eyre BD

更新日期：2018-06-13 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：:Since its first discovery in 2004, graphene has been found to host a plethora of unusual electronic transport phenomena, making it a fascinating system for fundamental studies in condensed matter physics as well as offering tremendous opportunities for future electronic and sensing devices. Typically, electronic trans...

journal_title：Science advances

authors： Tetienne JP,Dontschuk N,Broadway DA,Stacey A,Simpson DA,Hollenberg LCL

更新日期：2017-04-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) is an unexplained incapacitating illness that may affect up to 4 million people in the United States alone. There are no validated laboratory tests for diagnosis or management despite global efforts to find biomarkers of disease. We considered the possibility...

journal_title：Science advances

authors： Hornig M,Montoya JG,Klimas NG,Levine S,Felsenstein D,Bateman L,Peterson DL,Gottschalk CG,Schultz AF,Che X,Eddy ML,Komaroff AL,Lipkin WI

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reef-building corals form their calcium carbonate skeletons within an extracellular calcifying medium (ECM). Despite the critical role of the ECM in coral calcification, ECM carbonate chemistry is poorly constrained in vivo, and full ECM carbonate chemistry has never been characterized based solely on direct in vivo m...

journal_title：Science advances

authors： Sevilgen DS,Venn AA,Hu MY,Tambutté E,de Beer D,Planas-Bielsa V,Tambutté S

更新日期：2019-01-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Transcription in eukaryotes correlates with major chromatin changes, including the replacement of old nucleosomal histones by new histones at the promoters of genes. The role of these histone exchange events in transcription remains unclear. In particular, the causal relationship between histone exchange and activator...

journal_title：Science advances

authors： Kassem S,Ferrari P,Hughes AL,Soudet J,Rando OJ,Strubin M

更新日期：2020-09-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Amorphous solids, such as glasses, have complex responses to deformations, with substantial consequences in material design and applications. In this respect, two intertwined aspects are important: stability and reversibility. It is crucial to understand, on the one hand, how a glass may become unstable due to increas...

journal_title：Science advances

authors： Jin Y,Urbani P,Zamponi F,Yoshino H

更新日期：2018-12-07 00:00:00