Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Dongming Fan, Yi Ren, Qiang Feng, Yiliu Liu, Zili Wang, Jing Lin
Summary: Smart grids, as intelligent infrastructure in smart cities, provide reliable, energy-efficient, and high-quality power to improve living standards and maintain a sustainable environment. Restoration, as an effective and intelligent way for self-healing, has gained considerable attention from researchers and engineers, presenting challenges and opportunities for the advancement of smart grid restoration.
RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS
(2021)
Review
Immunology
Bolin Wang, Jinli Pei, Shengnan Xu, Jie Liu, Jinming Yu
Summary: mRNA cancer vaccines offer high specificity, better efficacy, and fewer side effects compared to traditional treatments, making them a promising approach to cancer immunotherapy. However, the development of these vaccines faces challenges such as tumor heterogeneity, an immunosuppressive tumor microenvironment, and practical obstacles. Recent advances from preclinical studies and clinical trials provide insights into identifying and overcoming these obstacles.
FRONTIERS IN IMMUNOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Biodiversity Conservation
Aaron M. Eger, Hannah S. Earp, Kim Friedman, Yasmine Gatt, Valerie Hagger, Boze Hancock, Ratchanee Kaewsrikhaw, Elizabeth Mcleod, Abigail Mary Moore, Holly J. Niner, Frida Razafinaivo, Ana Sousa, Milica Stankovic, Thomas A. Worthington, Elisa Bayraktarov, Megan Saunders, Adriana Verges, Simon Reeves
Summary: Marine ecosystems have been utilized and managed by human populations for centuries, leading to ecosystem degradation. The lack of a unified data recording framework for marine restoration projects hinders tracking progress and assessing global effectiveness. Establishing such a framework would advance restoration methodologies and global understanding.
BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION
(2022)
Review
Fisheries
Gabriel Machado Matos, Rafael Diego Rosa
Summary: Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are diverse effector molecules widely distributed in crustaceans, with unique molecular structures and biological properties, playing important roles in immune responses and host-microbe interactions.
REVIEWS IN AQUACULTURE
(2022)
Article
Ecology
Kripal Singh, Rana Pratap Singh, Shri Krishna Tewari
Summary: India is facing significant ecological and socio-economic challenges, which require various policies and strategies to address. However, these policies have independent goals and loose connections between different institutions.
RESTORATION ECOLOGY
(2021)
Review
Environmental Sciences
Swati Yadav, Vimal Chandra Pandey, Lal Singh
Summary: Fly-ash (FA) is a by-product of coal combustion in thermal power plants, causing global environmental issues without a safe disposal method. Vegetation cover can help mitigate environmental problems, but the alkaline pH, toxic metals, lack of soil microbes, and pozzolanic properties of FA limit plant growth. Ecological restoration through phytoremediation is a holistic approach to address the challenges of FA dumps.
LAND DEGRADATION & DEVELOPMENT
(2021)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Poonam Bhanse, Manish Kumar, Lal Singh, Mukesh Kumar Awasthi, Asifa Qureshi
Summary: Soil is a vital natural resource that supports plant growth and provides habitat for microorganisms. Urbanization, industrialization, and the use of synthetic fertilizers have led to changes in soil properties, productivity, and contamination/stress. Microbial-assisted phytoremediation, utilizing soil microbes to enhance plant tolerance to stress and improve phytoremediation capacity, is an economical and greener approach. This review critically explores the mechanisms of microbial-assisted phytoremediation and highlights the role of plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) in enhancing plant growth and phytoremediation capacity. Advanced tools and techniques for characterizing soil microbial communities and their significance in boosting phytoremediation of stressed soils are also discussed.
Editorial Material
Medicine, General & Internal
Guadalupe Garcia-Tsao
Summary: NASH has become the main cause of cirrhosis and liver transplantation, unlike hepatitis C which is a liver-specific disorder. It is a complex metabolic disorder that requires finding alternative therapies and defining response to treatment, with diagnosis established through liver biopsy samples.
NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE
(2021)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Evangeline Grosrenaud, Clement Akais Okia, Andrew Adam-Bradford, Liz Trenchard
Summary: The translated text highlights the importance of environmental protection in refugee settlements and the potential of agroforestry for resilience and sustainability. However, challenges such as limited land, water availability, and lack of local knowledge hinder the wider adoption of agroforestry in refugee camps.
Article
Ecology
Karine Gagnon, Hartvig Christie, Karin Didderen, Camilla W. Fagerli, Laura L. Govers, Max L. E. Grafnings, Jannes H. T. Heusinkveld, Kaire Kaljurand, Wouter Lengkeek, Georg Martin, Lukas Meysick, Liina Pajusalu, Eli Rinde, Tjisse van Der Heide, Christoffer Bostrom
Summary: Marine ecosystem engineers, such as seagrasses and bivalves, play a critical role in creating important coastal habitats with high biodiversity. Small-scale restoration efforts using facilitative interactions, such as co-restoration with blue mussels and the use of biodegradable establishment structures (BESEs), have the potential to increase the success of restoring these habitats. While co-restoration with mussels did not show significant benefits at small scales, the use of BESEs proved to enhance early eelgrass survival and success in small-scale restoration projects.
RESTORATION ECOLOGY
(2021)
Review
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Bo Deng, Shaomin Liu, Ying Wang, Barkat Ali, Na Kong, Tian Xie, Seyoung Koo, Jiang Ouyang, Wei Tao
Summary: This article discusses the advantages and limitations of oral administration compared to injection, as well as the application of nanotechnology in improving the bioavailability of oral medicines. In addition, the article also presents the challenges and opportunities in the future development of oral nanomedicine.
ADVANCED MATERIALS
(2023)
Review
Clinical Neurology
Yuanmei Pan, Guowen Shi
Summary: Recent efforts have focused on expanding the therapeutic window for tPA therapy in AIS patients, aiming to provide more patients with the benefits of this treatment without compromising safety. Strategies include speeding up patient recruitment, reducing door-to-needle time, and utilizing advanced technologies.
FRONTIERS IN NEUROLOGY
(2021)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Venkatasubramanian Viswanathan, Alan H. Epstein, Yet-Ming Chiang, Esther Takeuchi, Marty Bradley, John Langford, Michael Winter
Summary: This Perspective explores the requirements and potential chemistries for battery-powered aircraft. The differences between flight and terrestrial needs are highlighted, with the major constraint for aviation being safe and usable specific energy.
Article
Chemistry, Physical
Sebastian Martinez, Lukas Veth, Bruno Lainer, Pawel Dydio
Summary: Multicatalysis is an emerging field in synthetic chemistry that aims to efficiently convert simple starting materials into complex products, enhancing resource utilization. By utilizing multiple catalysts in single or sequential reactions, multicatalysis enables efficient transformations that reduce time, waste, and cost.
Review
Ecology
Ella M. M. Samuel, Rachel M. M. Mitchell, Daniel E. E. Winkler
Summary: Understanding the relationship between science, management, and policy is crucial for successful ecosystem restoration efforts. However, restoration ecology as a scientific discipline, ecological restoration as a practice, and restoration policies often lack unity. Challenges associated with this disunion include social barriers and limitations of existing policy. Potential solutions, such as transdisciplinary collaboration and evidence-based decision-making, are proposed to address these challenges and support restoration.
RESTORATION ECOLOGY
(2022)
