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Amyloidogenic Peptide Fragments Designed From Bacterial Collagen‐like Proteins Form Hydrogel

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
This study identified amyloidogenic sequence motifs in bacterial collagen‐like proteins and exploited these to design peptides that self‐assemble into β‐sheet fibers and form hydrogels. One hydrogel supported healthy fibroblast growth, showing promise for biocompatible materials. Our work demonstrates that bacterial sequences can be harnessed to create
Vamika Sagar, Xuen J Ng, Lukas Lechel, Ashish Chand Rajwar, Hendrik Bargel, Abhishek A. Jalan   +5 more
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Water striders, the genus Cylindrostethus Mayr (Insecta: Heteroptera: Gerridae) from India with a new record

Journal of Threatened Taxa, 2018
The genus Cylindrostethus Mayr, 1865 from India is studied.  Prior to this study C. productus (Spinola, 1837) and C. scrutator (Kirkaldy, 1899) of Cylindrostethus were known from India.  The record of C. scrutator (Kirkaldy, 1899) from India is doubtful. 
E. Eyarin Jehamalar, Kailash Chandra, G. Srinivasan   +2 more
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Efficacy and Safety Assessment of 5‐Fluorouracil, Irinotecan and Oxaliplatin‐Loaded Implants in Mouse and Pig Models for Pancreatic Cancer Therapy

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
A novel FIRINOX‐loaded implant demonstrates controlled drug release, and potent therapeutic efficacy in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma mouse models with safety confirmed in a large‐animal pre‐clinical model. This innovative drug delivery platform offers a promising new treatment approach for non‐resectable, treatment‐resistant pancreatic cancer ...
Samantha J. Wade, Ashna A. Kumar, Samuel O. Nitschke, Paul Joyce, Elahe Minaei, Stephanie E. Reuter Lange, Chelsea Penney, Holly Warren, Ruby Shepherd, Jeremy N. Dinoro, Gordon G. Wallace, Anthony Dosseto, Sameera Ansar, Naila Islam, Alistair Lochhead, George Sharbeen, Phoebe A. Phillips, Morteza Aghmesheh, Wayne J. Hawthorne, Kara L. Vine‐Perrow   +19 more
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Identity of Sphaerotheca pluvialis (Jerdon, 1853) and other available names among the burrowing frogs (Anura: Dicroglossidae) of South Asia

Journal of Threatened Taxa, 2017
Species diversity of South Asian burrowing frogs within the genus Sphaerotheca is still obscure because of lack of taxonomic review.  There are taxonomic issues within the genus Sphaerotheca with several names being synonymized to S. breviceps and names,
Neelesh Dahanukar, Shauri Sulakhe, Anand Padhye   +2 more
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NIR‐Activated Ag2S Quantum Dots for Efficient Broad‐Spectrum Antibacterial and Biofilm Disruption

Advanced Materials Interfaces, EarlyView.
This study presents a novel non‐antibiotic strategy leveraging NIR‐activated Ag2S QDs for synergistic PTT/PDT. The platform degrades the protective extracellular matrix via localized hyperthermia, facilitating deep penetration and ROS‐induced oxidative damage.
Rui Yao, Peiqing Sun, Yaxin Chen, Zhijie Lei, Li Wang, Jianglin Yu, Ying Liu, Wusimanjiang Hailipitimu, Wei Wei, Jing Zhao, Xusheng Qiu   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Updating Prokaryotic Taxonomy [PDF]

Journal of Bacteriology, 2005
Supported by grants BOS-2003-05198-C02-01 and -02 from the Spanish Ministry of Science and Education and by the European Network of Excellence Marine Genomics Europe (GOCE-CT-505403) through the sixth framework program Peer ...
openaire   +3 more sources

Optical Diversity and Nanostructural Organization in the Colored Scales of Sternotomis

Advanced Optical Materials, EarlyView.
Vivid colors in Sternotomis beetles originate from nanoscale photonic architectures embedded within individual scales. Here, we provide a comparative optical and structural analysis of 57 scale types that reveal how ordered, quasi‐ordered, and disordered 3D networks tune color, saturation, and angular response.
Viola Bauernfeind, Viola V. Vogler‐Neuling, Ilja Gunkel, Primož Pirih, Ullrich Steiner, Bodo D. Wilts   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Leptus Latreille (Trombidiformes: Erythraeidae) of the world: revised classification and keys

Persian Journal of Acarology, 2020
The genus Leptus (larvae) is revised based on type specimens and other specimens from species and locations worldwide. A total of 220 species were identified and divided into 8 morpho-groups, and 40 subgroups of species; the following synonymies were ...
Alireza Saboori, Masoud Hakimitabar, Narjes Khademi, Hamidreza Masoumi, Ahmad-Reza Katouzian   +4 more
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Taxonomic identification using geometric morphometric approach and limited data: an example using the upper molars of two sympatric species of Calomys (Cricetidae: Rodentia)

Zoologia (Curitiba), 2017
The taxonomic identification of micromammals might be complicated when the study material is fragmented, as it is the case with pellets and fossil material.
Natália Lima Boroni, Leonardo Souza Lobo, Pedro Seyferth R. Romano, Gisele Lessa   +3 more
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Scalable Task Planning via Large Language Models and Structured World Representations

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
This work efficiently combines graph‐based world representations with the commonsense knowledge in Large Language Models to enhance planning techniques for the large‐scale environments that modern robots will need to face. Planning methods often struggle with computational intractability when solving task‐level problems in large‐scale environments ...
Rodrigo Pérez‐Dattari, Zhaoting Li, Robert Babuška, Jens Kober, Cosimo Della Santina   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source