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Culinary Chemistry as a Platform for Interfacial Materials Design

Advanced Materials Interfaces, EarlyView.
Culinary processes control interfaces through heating, shear, gelation, and molecular transport. This Review connects selected gastronomic examples with food‐derived nanomaterials, plasmonic sensing, anthocyanin photovoltaics, and intelligent packaging. Original agar‐based plasmonic films illustrate the proposed translation.
Josep Moreno, I. Brian Becerril‐Castro, Irene Calderon‐Gonzalez, Jaslyn Ru Ting Chen, Zhiming Wang, Alexander O. Govorov, José Manuel Romo‐Herrera, Neus Feliu, Wolfgang J. Parak, Miguel A. Correa‐Duarte, In Yee Phang, Xing Yi Ling, Ramón A. Alvarez‐Puebla   +12 more
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Functional Fibers in Soft Robotics: Advances in Material, Structural, and Systemic Tactics

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
Fiber‐form robotic systems offer a scalable pathway toward embodied intelligence in soft robotics. This review surveys functional fibers as material, structural, and systemic elements, highlighting advances in responsive materials, architectural programing, and fabrication strategies.
Joonhee Won, Jaehyun Jang, Hyeonseo Kim, Inyoung Choi, Steve Park, Seongjun Park   +5 more
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Differential Antifungal Activity of Human and Cryptococcal Melanins with Structural Discrepancies

Frontiers in Microbiology, 2017
Melanin is a pigment found in all biological kingdoms, and plays a key role in protection against ultraviolet radiation, oxidizing agents, and ionizing radiation damage. Melanin exerts an antimicrobial activity against bacteria, fungi, and parasites.
Néstor Correa, Néstor Correa, Néstor Correa, Cristian Covarrubias, Paula I. Rodas, Germán Hermosilla, Verónica R. Olate, Verónica R. Olate, Cristián Valdés, Wieland Meyer, Fabien Magne, Cecilia V. Tapia, Cecilia V. Tapia   +12 more
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Molecular Editing Reveals a Bilobalide Chemotype that Attenuates Prolyl Endopeptidase (PREP)‐Linked Neuroinflammation

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Molecular editing of bilobalide uncovers BB56, a PREP‐engaging chemotype with enhanced anti‐inflammatory activity in microglia. Integrated CETSA‐MS, SAR, and pathway analyses link BB56 to attenuation of p38 MAPK/NF‐κB and NLRP3‐associated inflammatory signaling, highlighting bilobalide editing as a strategy for developing neuroinflammation‐modulating ...
Chanin Sillapachaiyaporn, Wenjing Wang, Yao Qin, Lili Yan, Stephan Scheeff, Xu He, Qiong Wu, Yue Lin, Jinsai Shang, Xin Ye, Jing Liu, Kailei Sun, Chun Wai Yeung, Junzhe Huang, Zhenghui Chen, Xiaodong Liu, Yiqun Geng, Shannon Wing Ngor Au, Bonaventure Y. Ip, Ho Ko, Billy Wai‐Lung Ng   +20 more
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Characterization of melanin from Exophiala mesophila with the prospect of potential biotechnological applications

Frontiers in Fungal Biology
IntroducionFungal melanin is an underexplored natural biomaterial of great biotechnological interest in different areas. This study investigated the physical, chemical, electrochemical, and metal-binding properties of melanin extracted from the ...
Cristy Medina-Armijo, Cristy Medina-Armijo, Ibraheem Yousef, Antonio Berná, Anna Puerta, Abraham Esteve-Núñez, Marc Viñas, Francesc X. Prenafeta-Boldú   +7 more
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Antioxidant activities from melanin pigment produced by marine actinobacterium of Streptomyces species

Journal of Advanced Pharmaceutical Technology & Research, 2022
Melanin is macromolecules which have been developed while oxidative polymerization of phenolic compounds. It has been found that the majority of marine organisms produce melanin pigment.
M I Sheefaa, Pitchiah Sivaperumal
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Compact 9dBEs Enable Efficient and Precise Genome Editing in Mammalian Cells and In Vivo

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
As a compact type II‐D system, the Cas9d‐based platform holds great potential for in vivo applications. Through rational engineering, its derived base editors (9dBEs) enable efficient disease modeling while facilitating single‐vector AAV delivery for in vivo genome editing. These miniature tools offer a robust strategy for basic research and biomedical
Qingquan Xiao, Zhijin Tian, Luqi Weng, Kun Xu, Dingyi Han, Zhaowei Wu, Junnan Li, Shangpu Li, Qijing Zhang, Xiaohui Zhao, Guoling Li, Yinghui Wei, Zhen Gu   +12 more
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Suppression of mycotoxins production and efficient chelation of heavy metals using natural melanin originated from Aspergillus flavus and Aspergillus carbonarius

BMC Biotechnology
Background This study employed melanin synthesized by Aspergillus flavus and Aspergillus carbonarius to inhibit the production of mycotoxins and bioremediation of heavy metals (HMs).
Nashwa El-Gazzar, Esraa Abdo, Gamal Rabie, Manal Tawfeek El-Sayed   +3 more
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Genetic validation and spectroscopic detailing of DHN-melanin extracted from an environmental fungus

Biochemistry and Biophysics Reports, 2017
Accurate characterization of melanin using analytical methodologies has proved to be difficult due to its heterogeneity, insolubility in wide pH and broad range of solvents.
Nitya Meenakshi Raman, Suganthi Ramasamy
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Melanin-Inspired Composite Materials: From Nanoarchitectonics to Applications

Synthetic melanin is a mimic of natural melanin analogue with intriguing properties such as metal–ion chelation, redox activity, adhesion, and broadband absorption.
Ran Ding (396326), Jiaxin Yuan (9768134), Xicheng Zhang (11013939), Yijun Xie (1793497), Xiaoyong Deng (8862206), Shang Liu (544514), Zhao Wang (145195)   +6 more
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