Coordinated Architectural and Chemical Reinforcement in the Crushing Mandible of a Soldier Termite
The crushing mandible of a soldier termite withstands substantial biting loads despite lacking mineral. Its cuticle is partitioned: convex teeth pair hardness and zinc enrichment with aligned chitin fibers for contact durability, while stiffer concave regions between teeth carry bending loads.
Andrew Tran Nguyen +16 more
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Making the Case for Organ‐on‐Chip Platforms in Long‐Acting Therapeutics Development
LATs release drug from a tissue‐resident depot over weeks to months, improving adherence, but their development is hampered by preclinical models that cannot reproduce the coupled tissue processes, sustained release, local microenvironment change, interstitial transport, immune and foreign‐body responses, and clearance that govern depot performance in ...
Charlie Gowans +7 more
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The Road to Hell Winds On: The High Administrative Burden of Maintaining Linked National Health Data. [PDF]
Taylor JA, Pagel C, Pujol FE, Crowe S.
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Advances in cell sources, bioengineering, and manufacturing are reshaping the design of skin substitutes. This review highlights emerging strategies driving skin tissue engineering and discusses their potential to enable safer, reproducible, and clinically accessible skin substitutes for regenerative medicine.
Gilles Lemaître +7 more
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Lewis Acid Catalyzed Dual Strain-Release Platform for Transforming Azabicyclo[1.1.0]butanes into Functionalized Azetidines with Donor-Acceptor(D-A) Cyclopropanes and Bicyclo[1.1.0]butanes. [PDF]
Hazra S +6 more
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Silicone breast implants are presented as a model system for understanding polymer permeation in vivo. Rather than representing material failure, “gel bleed” emerges from solution–diffusion transport‐mediated. By integrating polymer architecture, physicochemical transport, and biointerfacial processes, this review provides a unified framework that ...
D. Bouyer +12 more
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Blood-based biomarkers for Alzheimer's disease in primary care: A French qualitative study exploring perspectives of general practitioners. [PDF]
Perrin A +5 more
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In this study, we fabricate photovoltaic retinal implants with pyrolytic carbon electrodes and test their ability to stimulate mouse and pig retinas when illuminated with near‐infrared light. We find increased spiking activity in both animal models compared to spontaneous activity and TTX controls and analyze the spike amplitude, latency and frequency.
Akihiro Matsumoto +10 more
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Quantifying the Number of Dark, Gray, and Bright States as a Function of the Spectral Overlap in Polaritonic Systems. [PDF]
Bhuyan R +4 more
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Theoretical assessment design at a South African school of nursing: A multimethod qualitative exploration. [PDF]
Donough G, Mthimunye K, Daniels F.
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