Lei Zhang, Xiao Qing Chen, Shuo Liu, Qian Zhang et al.
The recently proposed digital coding metasurfaces make it possible to control electromagnetic (EM) waves in real time, and allow the implementation of many different functionalities in a programmable way. However, current configurations are only space-encoded, and do not exploit the temporal dimensi...
Wei Bai, Pan Chen, Hong Cai, Qinge Zhang et al.
BACKGROUND: Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) is the preclinical and transitional stage between healthy ageing and dementia that may be a potential 'target' for interventions designed to delay progression to dementia. In this systematic review and meta-analysis, we assessed the prevalence of MCI world...
Gareth J. Norton, Guilan Duan, Tapash Dasgupta, Md. Rafiqul Islam et al.
The concentration of arsenic (As) in rice grains has been identified as a risk to human health. The high proportion of inorganic species of As (As(i)) is of particular concern as it is a nonthreshold, class 1 human carcinogen. To be able to breed rice with low grain As, an understanding of genetic v...
Bo Dong, Cheng Zhang, Jing Bo Feng, Yu Zhao et al.
OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to test the hypothesis that ACE2 overexpression may enhance atherosclerotic plaque stability by antagonizing ACE activity and converting angiotensin II to angiotensin 1-7. METHODS AND RESULTS: Atherosclerotic plaques were induced in the abdominal aorta of 114...
Ashraful Alam, Qingshi Meng, Ge Shi, Sherif Arabi et al.
Yanan Zhang, Renwang Sheng, Jialin Chen, Hongmei Wang et al.
Silk fibroin (SF) and sericin (SS), the two major proteins of silk, are attractive biomaterials with great potential in tissue engineering and regenerative medicine. However, their biochemical interactions with stem cells remain unclear. In this study, multiomics are employed to obtain a global view...
Yasong Zhao, Jiawei Wan, Chongyi Ling, Yanlei Wang et al.
Developing highly active and durable electrocatalysts for cost-effective proton-exchange membrane fuel cells is challenging 1-3 . Fe/N-C catalysts are among the most promising alternatives to the platinum group metal catalysts, but their activity and durability still cannot meet the performance crit...
Mahdi Bodaghi, Linlin Wang, Fenghua Zhang, Yanju Liu et al.
Abstract Four-dimensional (4D) printing is an advanced manufacturing technology that has rapidly emerged as a transformative tool with the capacity to reshape various research domains and industries. Distinguished by its integration of time as a dimension, 4D printing allows objects to dynamically r...
Ming Li, Congjiao Sun, Naiyi Xu, Peipei Bian et al.
Abstract The gene numbers and evolutionary rates of birds were assumed to be much lower than those of mammals, which is in sharp contrast to the huge species number and morphological diversity of birds. It is, therefore, necessary to construct a complete avian genome and analyze its evolution. We co...
Sanjib Ghosh, Rui Su, Jiaxin Zhao, Antonio Fieramosca et al.
The quest for realizing novel fundamental physical effects and practical applications in ambient conditions has led to tremendous interest in microcavity exciton polaritons working in the strong coupling regime at room temperature. In the past few decades, a wide range of novel semiconductor systems...
Minsheng You, Fushi Ke, Shijun You, Zhangyan Wu et al.
The diamondback moth, Plutella xylostella is a cosmopolitan pest that has evolved resistance to all classes of insecticide, and costs the world economy an estimated US $4-5 billion annually. We analyse patterns of variation among 532 P. xylostella genomes, representing a worldwide sample of 114 popu...
Hong Fan, Dongsheng Liu, Xuemei Qiu, Fengchang Qiao et al.
BACKGROUND: DNA-methyltransferase (DNMT)-3A plays an important role in the development of embryogenesis and the generation of aberrant methylation in carcinogenesis. The aim of this study was to investigate the role of a DNMT3A promoter genetic variant on its transcriptional activity and to evaluate...
Dong Liang, Pengju Zhao, Jingfang Si, Lingzhao Fang et al.
Visible pigmentation phenotypes can be used to explore the regulation of gene expression and the evolution of coat color patterns in animals. Here, we performed whole-genome and RNA sequencing and applied genome-wide association study, comparative population genomics and biological experiments to sh...
Jiewen Huang, Chao Lv, Min Li, Md. Tanvir Rahman et al.
Abstract Carbapenem-resistant Escherichia coli (CREC) poses a severe global public health risk. This study reveals the worldwide geographic spreading patterns and spatiotemporal distribution characteristics of resistance genes in 7918 CREC isolates belonging to 497 sequence types (ST) and originatin...
Guangyan Feng, Yunfu Ou, Md Zillur Rahman, Linlin Zhou et al.