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Shear‐Responsive Red Blood Cell Carriers for Targeted Drug Delivery to Constricted Arteries

Small, EarlyView.
Red blood cells are harnessed as mechanoresponsive carriers that exploit the elevated shear stress of stenotic arteries to transiently open membrane pores and release encapsulated therapeutics selectively at sites of arterial narrowing. By coupling vascular hemodynamics with RBC membrane mechanics, a hemodynamically activated platform for localized ...
Danielle Nemcovsky Amar, Rukiye Tuna, Tirosh Mekler, Merav Belenkovich, Dmitry Korneyev, Yevgeniy Kreinin, Anat Glozman, Josué Sznitman, Donald E. Ingber, Zixiang Leonardo Liu, Netanel Korin   +10 more
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HWTS 50 Tool Steel Tailored for Laser Powder Bed Fusion: Sliding Wear of Bare Surfaces and Nitriding Response in Comparison with 18Ni300 and AISI H13

steel research international, EarlyView.
This work investigates the wear resistance and nitriding behavior of PBF‐LB/M‐processed Osprey HWTS 50, a lean hot work tool steel. Three heat treatment conditions are compared to conventional wrought H13, H11, and PBF‐LB/M 18Ni300. The study highlights HWTS 50's enhanced nitrogen diffusion, deeper nitriding hardness depth, and comparable or improved ...
Jonathan Hann, Giorgia Lupi, Sylvain Dossin, Riccardo Casati, Mandanà Moshiri, Arne Röttger, Faraz Deirmina   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Microlensing Constraints on the Stellar and Planetary Mass Functions

The Astronomical Journal
The mass function (MF) of isolated objects measured by microlensing consists of both a stellar and a planetary component. We compare the microlensing MFs of A. Gould et al. and T. Sumi et al. to other measurements of the MF. The abundance of brown dwarfs
Jennifer C. Yee, Scott J. Kenyon
doaj   +1 more source

The Influence of the Pretreatment of Tool Steel on the Running‐In Phase of Diamond‐Like Carbon Coatings

steel research international, EarlyView.
The influence of tool steel pretreatment on the running‐in behavior of TiNb‐diamond‐like carbon (DLC) coatings is investigated. Ion etching promotes carbide protrusion and increases coating roughness, while post‐deposition polishing reduces surface asperities.
Matěj Buřil, Ladislav Cvrček, Jan Walter, Miha Čekada, Marie Kudrnová, František Lukáč   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Nonthermal plasma approaches for combating implant‐associated infections: A compendious review

VIEW, EarlyView.
Implant‐associated infections pose serious clinical challenges. Non‐thermal plasma (NTP) modifications overcome this bottleneck in distinct ways relative to traditional sterilization methods. Gas‐phase plasmas generate highly energetic species, UV radiation and reactive oxygen/nitrogen species (RONS), which alter the implant surface properties.
A. M. Trimukhe, Satish Rojekar, Amol Gholap, K. Navaneetha Pandiyaraj, Mukesh Patekar, Claudia Riccardi, R. R. Deshmukh, Tomáš Kovářík, Kalim Deshmukh   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Great Cosmic Silence: What Does the Fermi Paradox Tell About the Future of Humanity?

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines how institutional time horizons shape the long‐term survival prospects of human technological civilisation. While research on global catastrophic and existential risks has expanded, the temporal structures of political‐economic institutions remain underexamined.
Heikki Patomäki
wiley   +1 more source

Bridging the Late Antique Gap in Northwest Arabia: New Archaeological Evidence on the Occupation of Wādī al‐Qurā (al‐ʿUlā [AlUla], Saudi Arabia) Between the Third and Seventh Centuries CE

Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In 2019, the Dadan Archaeological Project (CNRS/RCU/AFALULA) identified a Late Antique village 1 km south of ancient Dadan in the al‐ʿUlā valley (northwest Saudi Arabia). Three excavation seasons at this site (2021–2023) have uncovered a massive building constructed in the late third or early fourth cent.
Jérôme Rohmer, Abdulrahman Alsuhaibani, Charlène Bouchaud, Elora Chambraud, Vladimir Dabrowski, Hatem Djerbi, Fabien Lesguer, Hervé Monchot, Paul Picavet, Louise Purdue, Bertrand Riba, Shadi Shabo   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

Three-dimensional Simulations of the Magnetorotational Instability in Eccentric Disks

The Astrophysical Journal
Previously we demonstrated that the magnetorotational instability (MRI) grows vigorously in eccentric disks, much as it does in circular disks, and we investigated the nonlinear development of the eccentric MRI without vertical gravity.
Chi-Ho Chan, Tsvi Piran, Julian H. Krolik   +2 more
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Seminal Plasma Exosomal miRNA Profiling Reveals hsa‐miR‐7‐5p as a Key Regulator of Sperm Motility in Asthenozoospermia

Andrology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Asthenozoospermia is a significant contributing factor to male infertility. Accumulating evidence indicates that impaired sperm motility is closely linked to dysregulated microRNA expression during spermatogenesis. Seminal plasma exosomes are enriched with diverse microRNAs, which play pivotal roles in modulating sperm motility, the
Zhi‐Jian Zhu, Meng‐Li Cui, Wen‐Jing Yuan, Jia‐Ning Zhang, Shuo Zhang, Xi‐Qiao Yao, Ruo‐Qing Li, Jin‐Feng Li, En‐Zhong Li   +8 more
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Linear Thermal Instability of a Condensing Gas–Particle Mixture, with Possible Application to Chondrites and Planetesimals

The Astrophysical Journal
We study the stability of a hot saturated gas coexisting with condensed particles in an optically thin medium. Such a situation may be obtained downstream of a shock, at condensation fronts, or in vaporizing impacts. We show that the gas–particle mixture
Kecheng Stephon Qian, Eugene Chiang
doaj   +1 more source