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Zombie firms and resource allocation: research trends and developments during the spread of COVID-19

Journal of Applied Economics
We identify so-called “zombie firms,” which survive with banks’ and governments’ support despite performing poorly without the prospect of recovery, using firms’ financial data.
Kotone Yamada, Yukio Minoura, Jouchi Nakajima, Tomoyuki Yagi   +3 more
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Tumor‐Derived LAMB3 Drives Immunosuppressive LRRC15+ Fibroblast Formation During Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma Development

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
A single‐cell atlas of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma development reveals progressive ductal‐fibroblast‐immune crosstalk. Tumor‐derived LAMB3 drives the formation of immunosuppressive LRRC15+ fibroblasts through the ITGB1/FAK/MAPK/FOSL2 signaling. Glycolytic reprogramming upregulates LAMB3 and correlates with LRRC15+ fibroblast enrichment.
Xuqing Shi, Hangqi Liu, Jianru Sun, Xiaoding Liu, Xinping Jv, Longyun Chen, Yuhan Zhang, Hui Zhang, Xudong Xing, Ruiyu Li, Xinyi Ke, Jun Wang, Xianglin Yin, Bohan Liu, Qixian Liu, Yuan Wang, Junliang Lu, Shiyi Liu, Junyi Pang, Yumeng Cai, Menghua Dai, Fan Bai, Huanwen Wu, Zhiyong Liang   +23 more
wiley   +1 more source

Dual‐Physical‐Field Nanocatalysis: Injectable Hydrogel Enables Piezo‐Photothermal Synergy for Breast Cancer Therapy

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Piezocatalytic therapy (PCT) harnesses mechanical energy to generate tumor‐lethal reactive oxygen species (ROS), but its efficacy is limited by rapid electron‐hole recombination and poor intratumoral retention. To overcome these limitations, we engineered heterostructured BiOCl@CuO nanosheets embedded in an injectable, conductive ...
Can Tian, Shihan Xiao, Xuan Chen, Danni Zhang, Zizhen Liu, Jing Wang, Ning Xie, Wei Li   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Did the COVID-19 pandemic zombify the economy? A look at zombie firms

Economic and Social Reports
Zombie firms are businesses that persistently perform poorly over time without exiting, and their prevalence has been rising over time across many advanced economies. They negatively impact economic growth as they tend to be unproductive and compete with
Alexander Amundsen, Amélie Lafrance-Cooke, Danny Leung   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Materials‐Guided Gene‐Ionizable Lipid Nanoparticles to Reverse Iron‐Associated Immune Resistance in Renal Cancer

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Iron overload is a common metabolic disturbance in cancer and contributes to poor outcomes in renal cell carcinoma (RCC), yet its effects on the tumour immune microenvironment remain unclear. Here we identify a previously unrecognized immunosuppressive axis in which iron overload downregulates the palmitoyltransferase ZDHHC12 in CD8+ T cells ...
Xin Jin, Yulong Hong, Chengliang Yin, Wanyang Guo, Yaxuan Wang, Ruijiang Zeng, Ruilin Liu, Zexian Ding, Xinlin Liu, Shangqing Ren, Qiyang Liang, Yaohui Wang, Xu Zhang, João Conde, Yuan Li, Xin Ma, Liangyou Gu   +16 more
wiley   +1 more source

Tumor‐Specific Delivery of CD28 siRNA via Lyso‐PC C‐16 Modified Lipid Nanoparticles Overcomes Anti‐PD‐1 Resistance by Remodeling Tumor Microenvironment

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
This study develops 16:0 LPC‐modified lipid nanoparticles (LPC‐LNPs) with cancer cell specificity by exploiting altered tumor lipid metabolism. LPC‐LNPs encapsulating Cd28 small interfering RNA (LPC‐LNP‐Cd28) knock down cancer cell CD28 without affecting T cells, inflame the tumor microenvironment, and overcome anti‐PD‐1 resistance.
Yangyang Chai, Keyu Wang, Jiali Fang, Shaorui Jia, Yansong Shi, Wanfeng Gao, Xinpeng Liu, Jiaqiang Li, Zenghui Cui, Yazhi Qian, Xiaosu Chen, Dan Ding, Xuetao Cao   +12 more
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Single‐Cell Reveal GALNT7‐Dependent Ferroptosis Suppression as a Mechanism of Immunotherapy Resistance in Non‐Small Cell Lung Cancer

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Integrated clinical and mechanistic analyses identify GALNT7 as a ferroptosis‐suppressive regulator associated with immunotherapy resistance in non‐small cell lung cancer. GALNT7 depletion promotes lipid peroxidation, mitochondrial dysfunction, and ferroptosis, enhances CD8+ T‐cell activation and IFN‐γ production, and sensitizes tumors to PD‐1 blockade,
Jiadi Gan, Qian Zheng, Deng Liu, Ruichao Nie, Menglin Yao, Xiaolong Tang, Renjie Xu, Jinghong Xian, Wenjun Meng, Wenxin Luo, Dan Liu, Guiyi Ji   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

Bank financial technology and the governance of zombie firms

China Journal of Accounting Research
This study empirically examines how bank financial technology (FinTech) affects the governance of zombie firms, using data from China’s A-share listed companies from 2007 to 2023.
Weimin Xie, Junhe Zhang, Hengxin Zhang, Jialu Guo, Kun Jiang   +4 more
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On the Prospects for African Philosophy in Australia

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper grapples with the situation of people of African descent in Australia by working through the constitution of the body of academic philosophy in the country. It contends with the parochialism of the Australian philosophical community and the prospects for the cultivation of greater pluralism. Taking African philosophy as one possible
Bryan Mukandi
wiley   +1 more source

Nonviral Gold Nanoparticle‐Mediated Delivery of CRISPR‐Cas9 Ribonucleoprotein and Long DNA Transgenes Into Primary Blood Cells

Advanced NanoBiomed Research, EarlyView.
CRISPR/Cas9 has revolutionized the field of gene therapy, but delivery remains an outstanding issue. We propose a nonviral gold‐nanoparticle platform for co‐delivery of CRISPR/Cas9 ribonucleoprotein and long 2.1 kilobase dsDNA transgene constructs. This CRISPR‐AuNP is inexpensive to produce and mediate gene editing and DNA delivery in T cells and CD34+
Rachel A. Cunningham, Karthikeya S. V. Gottimukkala, Daniel D. Lane, Katrina Poljakov, Patricia Lipson, Mark R. Enstrom, Alessandro Rizzi, Aude G. Chapuis, Jennifer E. Adair   +8 more
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