Editorial Material
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Ahmad Rafsanjani
Summary: Researchers demonstrate a 3D-printed millirobot made of multifunctional metamaterials.
Editorial Material
Chemistry, Physical
Li Tao, Shuangyin Wang
Summary: The researchers discovered a process for selectively extracting precious metals from waste products and ore using simple photo-catalytic oxidation without the use of strong acids or toxic cyanide.
Review
Oncology
Margot Lavalee, Nicolas Curdy, Camille Laurent, Jean-Jacques Fournie, Don-Marc Franchini
Summary: Stress granules and P-bodies are membraneless cytoplasmic condensates composed of ribonucleoproteins, regulating RNA fate and playing crucial roles in cancer. Cancer cells utilize these granules to adapt to harsh environments, highlighting the importance of understanding their biology for clinical applications.
Review
Medicine, Research & Experimental
Yuan-Tong Liu, Zhi-Jun Sun
Summary: Immunotherapy, particularly through immune checkpoint inhibitors, has significantly improved the treatment of malignant tumors by enhancing T cell infiltration into tumors. Understanding the mechanisms underlying cold tumors, which lack T cell infiltration, is crucial to improving immunotherapy efficacy. Strategies to transform cold tumors into hot tumors and increase T cell infiltration are discussed, along with the potential of nanomedicines in enhancing tumor immunotherapy.
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Physics, Multidisciplinary
Michael R. Stehnach, Nicolas Waisbord, Derek M. Walkama, Jeffrey S. Guasto
Summary: This passage discusses how the competition between viscophobic turning and viscous slowdown dictates the fate of population-scale microbial transport in viscosity gradients. This is primarily due to lack of quantitative observations in understanding the physical mechanisms regulating cell transport in viscosity gradients. Through microfluidic experiments, they directly observed the transport of model biflagellated microalgae in controlled viscosity gradients, showing that cell accumulation in the viscous region is stifled by a viscophobic turning motility.
Editorial Material
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Leneisja Jungsberg
Summary: Greenland has abundant mineral resources and is actively exploring the economic potential of expanding mineral extraction. However, there is a public demand for assessing the environmental and social impacts of mineral extraction.
NATURE SUSTAINABILITY
(2022)
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Chemistry, Physical
Leanna Schulte, William White, Lawrence A. Renna, Shane Ardo
Summary: The key advancement in the digital revolution was the invention of the solid-state diode, which outperformed water-based diodes in rectifying electronic current. By fabricating bipolar membranes into membrane-electrode assemblies, high-quality protonic diodes were created and demonstrated reverse photovoltaic action when sensitized to visible light using photoacids. These innovations are expected to drive advancements in iontronics, neuromorphic computing, and brain-machine interfaces.
Review
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Mohammad Peydayesh, Massimo Bagnani, Wei Long Soon, Raffaele Mezzenga
Summary: Food protein waste contributes to climate change and other environmental issues, but can be efficiently utilized to develop sustainable technologies such as biodegradable plastics, water purification, and renewable energy, thereby alleviating global challenges.
Review
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Mohammad Peydayesh, Massimo Bagnani, Wei Long Soon, Raffaele Mezzenga
Summary: Food protein waste not only contributes to climate change and other environmental boundaries, but can also be efficiently utilized to develop sustainable technologies that alleviate these urgent global challenges.
Editorial Material
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Alexander Gail
Summary: A new study in PLOS Biology presents evidence against the idea that selection and control of action are serial processes carried out by separate neural modules, arguing for an integrated process involving multiple brain regions contributing in distinct ways.
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Business
Tien Wang, Trung Dam-Huy Thai, Pham Thi Minh Ly, Tran Phuong Chi
Summary: The study explores the conversion of social endorsements on social media into emotional attachment towards a brand through like-clicking behavior. Results indicate that friend-bonding and crowd-bridging social endorsements have an impact on self-verification and self-enhancement, which in turn influences the development of brand passion.
JOURNAL OF BUSINESS RESEARCH
(2021)
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Optics
Matthew Sheldon
Summary: Researchers have successfully overcome the challenge of detecting vibrations of individual molecules due to thermal noise by upconverting mid-infrared photons into visible light using nanophotonic cavities, enabling high-efficiency optical readout for single-molecule vibrational spectroscopy.
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Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Jin Ho Lee, Dharmesh Hansora, Jae Sung Lee
Summary: Recycling CO2 into valuable chemicals through photoelectrochemical reduction is a promising approach for achieving carbon neutrality. In a study published in Chem Catalysis, Yap et al. demonstrate that an integrated photoelectrode is essential for efficiently and selectively reducing CO2 to desired products using sunlight as the sole energy source.
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Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence
Andreas Alpers, Maximilian Fiedler, Peter Gritzmann, Fabian Klemm
Summary: The paper explores mathematical models for representing, imaging, and analyzing poly-crystalline materials. Various techniques for converting grain maps into diagram or tessellation representations relying on constrained clustering are introduced. The study demonstrates the significant acceleration of computing generalized balanced power diagrams and their extension for optimizing all relevant parameters. The accuracy of the proposed approaches is compared using a three-dimensional real-world data set of 339x339x599 voxels.
SIAM JOURNAL ON IMAGING SCIENCES
(2023)
Editorial Material
Medicine, General & Internal
Peter J. Neumann, Sean R. Tunis
Summary: Recent developments have pushed Medicare to play a bigger role in health technology assessment. Measures such as bolstering the CMS workforce and working with the FDA could enhance the chances of success.
NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE
(2023)
