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Enhancing marine protection

According to the United Nations Environment Programme, marine pollution from land-based sources is a major environmental challenge responsible for about 80% of total marine pollution. This form of pollution arises from substances entering the marine environment through land run-off, rivers, pipelines, and atmospheric contamination, leading to adverse ...
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Macroeconomic Effects of Intellectual Property Rights: A Survey [PDF]

This paper provides a survey on studies that analyze the macroeconomic effects of intellectual property rights (IPR). The first part of this paper introduces different patent-policy instruments and reviews their effects on R&D and economic growth.
Chu, Angus C.
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Peroxidasin enables melanoma immune escape by inhibiting natural killer cell cytotoxicity

Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.
Peroxidasin (PXDN) is secreted by melanoma cells and binds the NK cell receptor NKG2D, thereby suppressing NK cell activation and cytotoxicity. PXDN depletion restores NKG2D signaling and enables effective NK cell–mediated melanoma killing. These findings identify PXDN as a previously unrecognized immune evasion factor and a potential target to improve
Hsu‐Min Sung, David Bickel, Lena C. M. Krause, Daria Ezeriņa, Christian Ickes, Julian Wojtachnia, Christine S. Gibhardt, Magdalena Shumanska, Khadija Wahni, Andrea Paluschkiwitz, Julia Malo Pueyo, Ekaterina Baranova, Wim Vranken, Hedwig Stanisz, Ioana Stejerean‐Todoran, Michael P. Schön, Joris Messens, Ivan Bogeski   +17 more
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Molecular engineering of melanin for enhanced biological γ-ray protection

Nature Communications
The escalating utilization of ionizing radiation across medicine and industry underscored the paramount urgency of effective radioprotective materials.
Ruotong Deng, Wei Chen, Hanjie Zhu, Yuxi Li, Yining Ou, Jian Wang, Qing Ruan, Xuanying Zhang, Junbo Zhang, Yongxian Zhang, Yantao Niu, Zhubin Hu, Chunlei Zhang, Huaping Xu, Wei Cao   +14 more
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Intelligent Smart Coatings for Enhanced Corrosion Protection in Carbon Steel

Materials Proceedings
This study explores a new approach for corrosion protection of carbon steel, focusing on the application of polymeric coatings. Anticorrosive pigments were synthesized by loading 2-Mercaptobenzothiazole into zirconium oxide particles, and then an epoxy ...
Marwa A. Al-Ani, Ala H. Al-Ardah, Amal Mahgoub, Noora Aboumattar, Hadir Ibrahim, Muddasir Nawaz, R. A. Shakoor, Ahmed Radwan, Noora Al-Qahtani   +8 more
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STING-Activating Adjuvants Elicit a Th17 Immune Response and Protect against Mycobacterium tuberculosis Infection

Cell Reports, 2018
Summary: There are a limited number of adjuvants that elicit effective cell-based immunity required for protection against intracellular bacterial pathogens.
Erik Van Dis, Kimberly M. Sogi, Chris S. Rae, Kelsey E. Sivick, Natalie H. Surh, Meredith L. Leong, David B. Kanne, Ken Metchette, Justin J. Leong, Jacob R. Bruml, Vivian Chen, Kartoosh Heydari, Nathalie Cadieux, Tom Evans, Sarah M. McWhirter, Thomas W. Dubensky, Jr., Daniel A. Portnoy, Sarah A. Stanley   +17 more
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Patent Protection, Takeovers, and Startup Innovation: A Dynamic Approach [PDF]

The impact of IP protection on the innovation incentives of startup firms is examined in a dynamic model where an incumbent faces a sequence of potential startups and the incumbent's chance of winning an infringement lawsuit increases with the size of ...
Andreas Panagopoulos, In-Uck Park
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Treatability of U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Contaminant Candidate List Viruses: Removal of Coxsackievirus and Echovirus using Enhanced Coagulation [PDF]

, 2008
Enhanced coagulation was evaluated for removal efficacy of coxsackievirus and echovirus (Contaminant Candidate List [CCL] enteroviruses), poliovirus, four potential surrogate bacteriophages, and dissolved organic carbon (DOC).
Abbaszadegan, Morteza, Mayer, Brooke, Ryu, Hodon   +2 more
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Tumour–host interactions in Drosophila: mechanisms in the tumour micro‐ and macroenvironment

Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.
This review examines how tumour–host crosstalk takes place at multiple levels of biological organisation, from local cell competition and immune crosstalk to organism‐wide metabolic and physiological collapse. Here, we integrate findings from Drosophila melanogaster studies that reveal conserved mechanisms through which tumours hijack host systems to ...
José Teles‐Reis, Tor Erik Rusten
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Lignin nanoparticle-enhanced PVA foils for UVB/UVC protection

Scientific Reports
The growing demand for sustainable packaging, stricter regulations on non-biodegradable plastic waste, and increasing consumer awareness of environmental pollution are driving the development of water-soluble packaging materials.
Marta Goliszek-Chabros, Nataliia Smyk, Taroan Xu, Arkadiusz Matwijczuk, Beata Podkościelna, Olena Sevastyanova   +5 more
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