Simulated deep space exposure on seeds utilizing the MISSE flight facility by Jeffrey T. Richards, Todd E. Mortenson, Cory J. Spern, Timothy A. Mousseau, Jennifer L. Gooden, Lashelle E. Spencer, Christina L. Khodadad, Jason A. Fischer, Alexander D. Meyers, Chad K. Papenfuhs, Jeffrey G. Buell, Howard G. Levine, Dinah I. Dimapilis, Ye Zhang

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Shock Wave Therapy Enhances Mitochondrial Delivery into Target Cells and Protects against Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome by Kun-Chen Lin, Christopher Glenn Wallace, Tsung-Cheng Yin, Pei-Hsun Sung, Kuan-Hung Chen, Hung-I Lu, Han-Tan Chai, Chih-Hung Chen, Yi-Ling Chen, Yi-Chen Li, Pei-Lin Shao, Mel S. Lee, Jiunn-Jye Sheu, Hon-Kan Yip

“…Flow cytometry demonstrated that albumin levels and numbers of inflammatory cells (Ly6G+/CD14+/CD68+/CD11b/c+) in bronchoalveolar lavage fluid were the highest in untreated ARDS, were progressively reduced across SW, Mito, and SW + Mito (all p<0.0001), and were the lowest in sham controls. The same profile was also seen for fibrosis/collagen deposition, levels of biomarkers of oxidative stress (NOX-1/NOX-2/oxidized protein), inflammation (MMP-9/TNF-α/NF-κB/IL-1β/ICAM-1), apoptosis (cleaved caspase 3/PARP), fibrosis (Smad3/TGF-β), mitochondrial damage (cytosolic cytochrome c) (all p<0.0001), and DNA damage (γ-H2AX+), and numbers of parenchymal inflammatory cells (CD11+/CD14+/CD40L+/F4/80+) (p<0.0001). …”
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Development of a phenomena identification and ranking table (PIRT) for intermediate break loss-of-coolant accident in PWRs by Hae Min Park, Jong Hyuk Lee, Chiwoong Choi, Kwi-Seok Ha, Byung Hyun You, Jaeseok Heo, Kyung Doo Kim, Sung Won Bae, Seung Wook Lee, Dong Hyuk Lee, Sang Ik Lee, Chan Eok Park, Bub Dong Chung, Kwang Won Seul

“…Recent safety issues such as cladding oxidation and fuel fragmentation, relocation and dispersal (FFRD) make the loss-of-coolant accident (LOCA) acceptance criteria more difficult to be satisfied. …”
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Advances in the treatment of glioma-related signaling pathways and mechanisms by metformin by Xingyuan Ma, Xingyuan Ma, Chao Sun, Xiao Ding, Yuhang Zhang, Yuhang Zhang, Tingzhen Deng, Tingzhen Deng, Yatao Wang, Yatao Wang, Haijun Yang, Haijun Yang, Ruiwen Ding, Ruiwen Ding, Haotian Li, Haotian Li, Dawen Wang, Dawen Wang, Maohua Zheng, Maohua Zheng

“…In recent years, due to the few clinically effective treatment options including glioma, some scholars have proposed the possibility of metformin in the treatment of glioma, and studies have shown that metformin has a certain inhibitory effect on this tumor. …”
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Bottom Trawling and Multi‐Marker eDNA Metabarcoding Surveys Reveal Highly Diverse Vertebrate and Crustacean Communities: A Case Study in an Urbanized Subtropical Estuary by Jack Chi‐Ho Ip, Hai‐Xin Loke, Sam King Fung Yiu, Meihong Zhao, Yixuan Li, Yitao Lin, Chun‐Ming How, Jiezhang Mo, Meng Yan, Jinping Cheng, Vincent Chi‐Sing Lai, Leo Lai Chan, Kenneth Mei Yee Leung, Jian‐Wen Qiu

“…We found that the eDNA approach detected more pelagic and demersal fishes (237 vs. 106 in trawling) and elasmobranchs (6 vs. 3) than trawling. The eDNA approach was also more effective than trawling in detecting threatened vertebrates (16 vs. 4), including the Indo‐Pacific Finless Porpoise and the critically endangered Large Yellow Croaker. …”
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Detection of BRAF V600E in Fine-Needle Aspiration Samples of Thyroid Nodules by Droplet Digital PCR by Sang-Yu Lu, Ying-Chao Chen, Jia-Lin Feng, Qin-Yi Zhou, Jing Chen, Chen-Fang Zhu, Miao-Miao Guo, Man-Man Zhang, Qian-Yue Zhang, Meng Lu, Liu Yang, Jing Wu, Shuang-Xia Zhao, Huai-Dong Song, Xiao-Ping Ye

“…Almost all SS+/ddPCR + nodules (95.00%; 38/40) and SS−/ddPCR + nodules (100.00%; 54/54) displayed a BRAF mutation rate of >5% and <15%, respectively, indicating easy misdetection by Sanger sequencing when the mutation rate is between 5 and 15%. Conclusion. ddPCR has higher sensitivity than Sanger sequencing and we propose ddPCR as a supplement to Sanger sequencing in molecular testing of BRAF using FNAB samples.…”
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DeepAptamer: Advancing high-affinity aptamer discovery with a hybrid deep learning model by Xin Yang, Chi Ho Chan, Shanshan Yao, Hang Yin Chu, Minchuan Lyu, Ziqi Chen, Huan Xiao, Yuan Ma, Sifan Yu, Fangfei Li, Jin Liu, Luyao Wang, Zongkang Zhang, Bao-Ting Zhang, Lu Zhang, Aiping Lu, Yaofeng Wang, Ge Zhang, Yuanyuan Yu

“…More importantly, DeepAptamer effectively identified key nucleotides for target binding. DeepAptamer can efficiently identify high-affinity aptamers against various targets, enhancing its potential to discover promising sequences in initial screening stages and obviating the 20–30 iterative selection rounds required for full enrichment of selection pools. …”
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Mina53 catalyzes arginine demethylation of p53 to promote tumor growth by Lixiao Zhou, Liyang Yu, Shushu Song, Yong Wang, Qiang Zhu, Meng Li, Yutong Sha, Liang Xu, Xin Shu, Qingqing Liao, Ting Wu, Bing Yang, Siyuan Chai, Bingyi Lin, Liming Wu, Ruhong Zhou, Xiaotao Duan, Chenggang Zhu, Yuanyuan Ruan, Wen Yi

“…However, the existence of arginine demethylases that remove the modification has not been fully established. Here, we report that Myc-induced nuclear antigen 53 (Mina53), a member of the jumonji C (JmjC) protein family, is an arginine demethylase. …”
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PD-L1/TLR7 dual-targeting nanobody-drug conjugate mediates potent tumor regression via elevating tumor immunogenicity in a host-expressed PD-L1 bias-dependent way by Wei Huang, Ji Zhou, Jia Li, Yakun Wan, Chao Hu, Meng Liu, Pan Xu, Feng Tang, Jianhua Sun, Xiaolu Yu, Yiru Long, Binfan Chen, Yongliang Tong, Mengwen Shan, Xiaomin Jia, Henglei Lu, Runqiu Chen, Jin Ren, Guangyi Jin, Likun Gong

“…Toll-like receptors (TLRs) establish the link between innate and adaptive immunity, which can assist T-cell activation and serve as promising targets for combination to enhance ICB therapy. …”
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Engineering a membrane protein chaperone to ameliorate the proteotoxicity of mutant huntingtin by Jeonghyun Oh, Christy Catherine, Eun Seon Kim, Kwang Wook Min, Hae Chan Jeong, Hyojin Kim, Mijin Kim, Seung Hae Ahn, Nataliia Lukianenko, Min Gu Jo, Hyeon Seok Bak, Sungsu Lim, Yun Kyung Kim, Ho Min Kim, Sung Bae Lee, Hyunju Cho

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Polybrominated Dibenzo-p-dioxins/Furans (PBDD/Fs) and Diphenyl Ethers (PBDEs) in the Indoor and Outdoor of Gymnasiums by Ching-Kai Su, Jian-He Lu, How-Ran Chao, Wei-Hsiang Chang, Ming-Hsien Tsai, Chih-Lung Wang, I-Cheng Lu, Yu-Ting Chang, Hsiao-Chi Chuang, Wan-Nurdiyana-Wan Mansor, Yi-Chyun Hsu, Ying-I Tsai, Shang-Ming Ma

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Achievements and Lessons Learned From Successful Small Satellite Missions for Space Weather‐Oriented Research by Harlan E. Spence, Amir Caspi, Hasan Bahcivan, Jesus Nieves‐Chinchilla, Geoff Crowley, James Cutler, Chad Fish, David Jackson, Therese Moretto Jorgensen, David Klumpar, Xinlin Li, James P. Mason, Nick Paschalidis, John Sample, Sonya Smith, Charles M. Swenson, Thomas N. Woods

“…Several projects now have used CubeSats to obtain first‐of‐their‐kind observations and findings that have formed the basis for high‐profile engineering and science publications, thereby establishing without doubt the scientific value and broad utility of CubeSats. …”
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Trigger inducible tertiary lymphoid structure formation using covalent organic frameworks for cancer immunotherapy by Liang Zhang, Boxin Zhang, Meng-Jie Zhang, Wenlang Li, Hao Li, Yantian Jiao, Qi-Chao Yang, Shuo Wang, Yuan-Tong Liu, An Song, Hai-Tao Feng, Jianwei Sun, Ryan T. K. Kwok, Jacky W. Y. Lam, Ben Zhong Tang, Zhi-Jun Sun

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Clinical validation of a biopsy‐based six‐gene signature prognostic for aggressive prostate cancer by Agnieszka Krzyzanowska, Debra F. Higgins, Stephen Barron, Tony Loughman, Amanda O'Neill, Katherine M. Sheehan, Chan‐Ju Angel Wang, Bozena Fender, Leah McGuire, Joanna Fay, Anthony O'Grady, Des O'Leary, R. William Watson, Anders Bjartell, William M. Gallagher

“…The primary outcome of adverse pathology and secondary outcomes of high primary Gleason (≥G4) and high pathological T‐stage (≥T3) were assessed by likelihood ratio statistics and area under the receiver operating characteristic curves from logistic regression models; time to biochemical recurrence was assessed by likelihood ratio statistics and C‐indexes from Cox proportional hazard regression models. …”
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Developing an On‐Resin Synthesis of α‐Galactosylceramide‐Peptide Conjugate Vaccines by Dr. Michael A. Meijlink, Dr. Susanna T. S. Chan, Kathryn J. Farrand, Sarah L. Draper, Dr. Oliva K. Burn, Jasmine M. Seifert‐Simpson, Ngarangi C. Mason, Dr. Lisa M. Connor, Prof. Ian F. Hermans, Prof. Gavin F. Painter, Dr. Benjamin J. Compton

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Mobile health applications for older people in Asia: protocol for a systematic review of end-user perceptions and recommendations by Yvonne Wong, Lorna Kwai Ping Suen, Yijian Yang, Simon Ching Lam, Kim Wai Raymond Sum, Wilson Leung, Ching Lam Chan, Janice Ngar Lam Chow, Jasmine Cheung, Edward Shum, Agnes Wing Ki Yip, Winsy Wing Yu Wan, Kevin Luk, Kong Nam Ha

“…Introduction Mobile technology has revolutionised the way people interact with others and gain access to healthcare services. …”
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An Approach to the Investigation of Thrombocytosis: Differentiating between Essential Thrombocythemia and Secondary Thrombocytosis by Ala Almanaseer, Benjamin Chin-Yee, Jenny Ho, Alejandro Lazo-Langner, Laila Schenkel, Pratibha Bhai, Bekim Sadikovic, Ian H. Chin-Yee, Cyrus C. Hsia

“…A practical approach to investigating patients with persistent thrombocytosis based on clinical characteristics such as active malignancy, chronic inflammatory disease, splenectomy, and iron deficiency may assist in accurately identifying patients more likely to have secondary causes of thrombocytosis and reduce overinvestigation, particularly costly molecular testing.…”
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Enhancing CO₂ selectivity in MOFs through a dual-ligand strategy: Experimental and theoretical insights by Amir Kazemi, Akram Karbalaee Hosseini, Mahyar Ashourzadeh Pordsari, Mohsen Tamtaji, Saber Keshavarz, Faranak Manteghi, Azadeh Tadjarodi, Ahad Ghaemi, Sohrab Rohani, William A. Goddard

“…Carbon dioxide (CO₂) is a primary greenhouse gas, playing a significant role in global warming and climate change. In response, metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) have emerged as effective materials for CO₂ capture. …”
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Somatization symptomology and its association with stress in patients with irritable bowel syndrome by Saira Akhlaq, Nosheen Kazmi, Syed Murtaza Hassan Kazmi, Muslim Atiq, Sajawal Hussain, Ahmed Bajwa, Abdul Ahad, Muhammad Yaqoob Akhtar, Kalsoom Akhlaq, Mohammad Rizwan

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Thermochemical Recycling of Solid Biomass Materials for Achieving Sustainable Goal: A Complete Characterization Study on Liquid Yield Products by Ashok Kumar Koshariya, J. Madhusudhanan, Harishchander Anandaram, J. Isaac JoshuaRamesh Lalvani, L. Natrayan, Praveen Bhai Patel, P. Jayaraman, Ezhakudiyan Ravindran, Palanisamy Rajkumar

“…The physical properties of the bio-oil showed that it is viscous and has a medium heating value compared with commercial fossil fuel.…”
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