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Basecamp Research draws $60M to build a ‘GPT for biology’

While companies like OpenAI and Anthropic continue to popularize the idea of using ordinary language to ask artificial intelligence agents for answers to their questions, write their proposals or draw pictures, a London startup called Basecamp Research has raised $60 million to tackle a new frontier. It’s building an AI agent that not only answers […]

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Symbiotic Security helps developers find bugs as they code

Symbiotic Security, which is announcing a $3 million seed round today, watches over developers as they code and points out potential security issues in real time. Other companies do this, but Symbiotic also emphasizes the next step: teaching developers to avoid these bugs in the first place. Ideally, this means developers will fix security bugs […]

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EP Jayarajan autobiography controversy: പോളിങ് ദിനത്തിൽ പാ‍ർട്ടിയെ വെട്ടിലാക്കി ഇപി ജയരാജന്റെ 'കട്ടൻചായയും പരിപ്പ് വടയും', പ്രചരിക്കുന്ന ആത്മകഥ തന്റേതല്ലെന്ന് ഇ.പി

EP Jayarajan autobiography controversy: പ്രസാധനം നീട്ടിവെച്ചതായി ഡിസി ബുക്ക്സ് അറിയിച്ചു. പുസ്തക നിർമിതിയിലുള്ള സാങ്കേതിക പ്രശ്നം മൂലം നീട്ടിവെച്ചതായി വിശദീകരണം. വോട്ടെടുപ്പ് ദിനമായ ഇന്ന് ആത്മകഥ പ്രസിദ്ധീകരിക്കുമെന്നാണ് ആദ്യം പറഞ്ഞിരുന്നത്. 




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How To Assess If You Are Ageing Well: Understanding Biological vs Chronological Age

Life and death are the two hard truths. But we humans have long desired to live longer. In 1900 the average life expectancy was 32 years, but by 2021 it more than doubled to 71 years. Advancements in healthcare facilities, hygiene




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Study Links Gut Microbiome Changes To Early Onset Of Rheumatoid Arthritis

A new study finds specific changes in gut bacteria may signal early risk for rheumatoid arthritis, offering potential for preventive treatment.




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UGC NET 2024 Introduces Ayurveda Biology: Syllabus and Career Opportunities

The University Grants Commission (UGC) is making an exciting change to its National Eligibility Test (NET) with the addition of Ayurveda Biology as a subject, starting from December 2024. This decision, made during the UGC's 581st meeting on June




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Regulation of transmembrane current through modulation of biomimetic lipid membrane composition

Faraday Discuss., 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4FD00149D, Paper
Zhiwei Shang, Jing Zhao, Mengyu Yang, Yuling Xiao, Wenjing Chu, Yilin Cai, Xiaoqing Yi, Meihua Lin, Fan Xia
A biomimetic lipid membrane was developed by integrating DNA nanowires with a two-dimensional nanofluid membrane. By manipulating the DNA content, the composition of the membrane can be controlled, thereby adjusting ion transport.
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Nafion coated nanopore electrode for improving electrochemical aptamer-based biosensing

Faraday Discuss., 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4FD00144C, Paper
Open Access
Grayson F. Huldin, Junming Huang, Julius Reitemeier, Kaiyu X. Fu
Nafion blocks the aptamer's active sites from planar gold, while the aptamer retains its redox activity from nanoporous gold.
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Donald Trump plans to pick Marco Rubio as US Secretary of State: Report

Following his win over Democratic candidate and US Vice President Kamala Harris, Trump is moving to fill out his foreign policy and national security team ahead of his formal inauguration in January 2025.




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Fungal diversity and key functional gene abundance in Iowa bioretention cells: implications for stormwater remediation potential

Environ. Sci.: Processes Impacts, 2024, 26,1796-1810
DOI: 10.1039/D4EM00275J, Paper
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Erica A. Wiener, Jessica M. Ewald, Gregory H. LeFevre
Fungal communities within bioretention cells were diverse, including taxa capable of biodegrading recalcitrant contaminants, and influenced by plant type. Fungal functional genes demonstrate bioremediation potential in stormwater infrastructure.
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Critical insights into data curation and label noise for accurate prediction of aerobic biodegradability of organic chemicals

Environ. Sci.: Processes Impacts, 2024, 26,1780-1795
DOI: 10.1039/D4EM00431K, Paper
Open Access
Paulina Körner, Juliane Glüge, Stefan Glüge, Martin Scheringer
The newly developed classifier has a balanced accuracy of 94.2%, better than any other classification model for aerobic biodegradability so far. During the model development, some data points needed to be excluded due to a very high variance.
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Quantitative read-across structure–property relationship (q-RASPR): a novel approach to estimate the bioaccumulative potential for diverse classes of industrial chemicals in aquatic organisms

Environ. Sci.: Processes Impacts, 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4EM00374H, Paper
Prodipta Bhattacharyya, Pabitra Samanta, Ankur Kumar, Shubha Das, Probir Kumar Ojha
The Bioconcentration Factor (BCF) is used to evaluate the bioaccumulation potential of chemical substances in reference organisms, and it directly correlates with ecotoxicity.
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Mobility of biochar-derived dissolved organic matter and its effects on sulfamerazine transport through saturated soil porous media

Environ. Sci.: Processes Impacts, 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4EM00143E, Paper
Mengya Liu, Xiaochen Liu, Yalu Hu, Qiang Zhang, Usman Farooq, Zhichong Qi, Laotao Lu
Dissolved organic matter (DOM) released from biochar may impact antibiotic mobility and environmental fate in subsurface environments.
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The Silences of Dispossession : Agrarian Change and Indigenous Politics in Argentina [Electronic book] / Mercedes Biocca.

London : Pluto Press, 2023.




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Rechtsextrem: Biografien nach 1945 [Electronic book] / hrsg. von Gideon Botsch, Christoph Kopke, Karsten Wilke.

München ; Wien : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, [2023]




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Picturing ourselves : photography & autobiography [Electronic book] / Linda Haverty Rugg.

Chicago, Illinois : University of Chicago Press, [1997]




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Medical microbiology and infection at a glance [Electronic book] / Stephen H. Gillespie, Kathleen Bamford.

Hoboken, NJ : Wiley-Blackwell, 2022.




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Leben machen : Die Zoëpolitik der synthetischen Biologie [Electronic book] / Martin Müller.

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2023]




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The Ecology of Biotic Interactions in Echinoids : Modern Insights into Ancient Interactions [Electronic book] / Elizabeth Petsios, Lyndsey Farrar, Shamindri Tennakoon, Fatemah Jamal, Roger W. Portell, Michał Kowalewski, Carrie L. Tyler.

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2023.




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The disability bioethics reader [Electronic book] / edited by Joel Michael Reynolds and Christine Wieseler.

New York, NY : Routledge, 2022.




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Enhancement of essential cofactors for in vivo biocatalysis

Faraday Discuss., 2024, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D4FD00013G, Paper
Pattarawan Intasian, Chalermroj Sutthaphirom, Oliver Bodeit , Duangthip Trisrivirat, Ninlapan Kimprasoot, Juthamas Jaroensuk, Barbara Bakker, Edda Klipp, Pimchai Chaiyen
A scarcity of cofactors, necessary metabolites or substrates for in vivo enzymatic reactions are among the major barriers of product synthesis in metabolically engineered cells. This work compares our recently...
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Unraveling the Correlation between Biological Effects and Halogen Substituents in Cobalt bis(dicarbollide)

Inorg. Chem. Front., 2024, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D4QI02296C, Research Article
Katarzyna Zakret-Drozdowska, Bożena Szermer-Olearnik, Waldemar Goldeman, Michalina Gos, Dawid Drozdowski, Anna Gągor, Tomasz M. Goszczyński
Over the past decade, considerable scientific attention has been given to adapting cobalt bis(dicarbollides) as innovative agents with various biomedical applications. Although the studied compounds show great potential in this...
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A miniprotein receptor electrochemical biosensor chip based on quantum dots

Lab Chip, 2024, 24,1875-1886
DOI: 10.1039/D3LC01100C, Paper
Yunong Zhao, Juan Han, Jing Huang, Qing Huang, Yanbing Tao, Ruiqin Gu, Hua-Yao Li, Yang Zhang, Houjin Zhang, Huan Liu
We developed an on-chip laboratory for biomolecule interactions and kinetics analysis based on the three-electrode and high electron mobility transistor (HEMT) chip platform.
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AMF-SporeChip provides new insights into arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal asymbiotic hyphal growth dynamics at the cellular level

Lab Chip, 2024, 24,1930-1946
DOI: 10.1039/D3LC00859B, Paper
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Felix Richter, Maryline Calonne-Salmon, Marcel G. A. van der Heijden, Stéphane Declerck, Claire E. Stanley
A new microfluidic platform – the AMF-SporeChip – enables immobilisation of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal spores and confrontation of asymbiotic hyphae with physical obstacles, allowing the identification of various exploration strategies.
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Droplet microfluidic system for high throughput and passive selection of bacteria producing biosurfactants

Lab Chip, 2024, 24,1947-1956
DOI: 10.1039/D3LC00656E, Paper
Open Access
Klaudia Staskiewicz, Maria Dabrowska-Zawada, Lukasz Kozon, Zofia Olszewska, Lukasz Drewniak, Tomasz S. Kaminski
Novel microfluidic technique for functional selection of biosurfactant-producing microorganisms. Single bacterial cells are encapsulated into picoliter droplets for clonal cultivation and passively sorted at high throughput by interfacial tension.
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Distance-based paper analytical device for multiplexed quantification of cytokine biomarkers using carbon dots integrated with molecularly imprinted polymer

Lab Chip, 2024, 24,2262-2271
DOI: 10.1039/D4LC00055B, Paper
Kawin Khachornsakkul, Ruben Del-Rio-Ruiz, Lita Chheang, Wenxin Zeng, Sameer Sonkusale
A carbon dots and dopamine-imprinted polymer was immobilized onto a distance-based paper channel for simultaneous detection of three cytokine biomarkers without requiring expensive reagents and instruments.
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Integrated biocompatible 3D printed isoporous membranes with 7 μm pores

Lab Chip, 2024, 24,2202-2207
DOI: 10.1039/D4LC00014E, Paper
Matthew S. Viglione, Aubrianna Saxton, Dawson Downs, Adam T. Woolley, Kenneth A. Christensen, Pam M. Van Ry, Gregory P. Nordin
A new 3D printing method allows for fabrication of porous membranes with 7 μm pores. A device mimicking an organ-on-a-chip design is fabricated and seeded with living cells, demonstrating potential for diverse biological and mechanical applications.
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Correction: Integrated biosensors for monitoring microphysiological systems

Lab Chip, 2024, 24,2358-2359
DOI: 10.1039/D4LC90026J, Correction
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Lei Mou, Kalpana Mandal, Marvin Magan Mecwan, Ana Lopez Hernandez, Surjendu Maity, Saurabh Sharma, Rondinelli Donizetti Herculano, Satoru Kawakita, Vadim Jucaud, Mehmet Remzi Dokmeci, Ali Khademhosseini
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A surface-engineered contact lens for tear fluid biomolecule sensing

Lab Chip, 2024, 24,2327-2334
DOI: 10.1039/D4LC00176A, Paper
Open Access
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Aravind M, Sajan D. George
Adhesive contrast contact lens fabricated by selective lubricant grafting splits tear film on specified zone by secretion and blinking. Integrating the contact lens with the spectroscopic technique offers an efficient platform for biomolecule sensing.
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Designing and prototyping a novel biosensor based on a volumetric bar-chart chip for urea detection

Lab Chip, 2024, 24,2298-2305
DOI: 10.1039/D3LC00730H, Paper
Mahdi Samadi Khezri, Mohammad Reza Housaindokht, Mojtaba Firouzi
A volumetric bar-chart chip (V-chip) is a microfluidic device based on distance-based quantitative measurement that visualizes analyte concentration without the need for apparatus or data processing.
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Brachytherapy on-a-chip: a clinically-relevant approach for radiotherapy testing in 3d biology

Lab Chip, 2024, 24,2335-2346
DOI: 10.1039/D4LC00032C, Paper
Rodin Chermat, Elena Refet-Mollof, Yuji Kamio, Jean-François Carrier, Philip Wong, Thomas Gervais
We introduce the first brachytherapy-on-chip device for in vitro testing of brachytherapy on naturally hypoxic tumor spheroids, for translational research and drug development.
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A microfluidic-based gut-on-a-chip model containing the gut microbiota of patients with depression reveals physiological characteristics similar to depression

Lab Chip, 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D3LC01052J, Paper
Wenxin Wang, Yiyuan Liu, Zhikai Yao, Dengbo Chen, Yue Tang, Jingwei Cui, Jiangjiang Zhang, Hong Liu, Zikai Hao
A depression-on-gut-chip (DoGC) is prepared and enables extended co-culture of aerobic human intestinal epithelial cells and anaerobic gut microbiota, and allows direct study of interactions between human gut microbiota and depression.
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Multiplex nanozymatic biosensing of Salmonella on a finger-actuated microfluidic chip

Lab Chip, 2024, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D4LC00291A, Paper
Nana Jin, Fan Jiang, Fengzhen Yang, Ying Ding, Ming Liao, Yanbin Li, Jianhan Lin
A colorimetric biosensor was elaboratively designed for fast, sensitive and multiplex bacterial detection on a single microfluidic chip using immune magnetic nanobeads for specific bacterial separation, immune gold@platinum palladium nanoparticles...
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Microflow sensing and control using an in-channel birefringent biomembrane

Lab Chip, 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D3LC00985H, Paper
Open Access
Nan Jia, Tianyang Deng, Charles Larouche, Tigran Galstian, André Bégin-Drolet, Jesse Greener
We report a flow sensitive birefringent in-channel chitosan micromembrane. Using a simple cross-polarizer and a calibration curve, the membrane functions as a flow rate meter, which also works as a feedback element for a flow control system.
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Reproducible generation of human liver organoids (HLOs) on a pillar plate platform via microarray 3D bioprinting

Lab Chip, 2024, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D4LC00149D, Paper
Sunil Shrestha, Vinod Kumar Reddy Lekkala, Prabha Acharya, Soo-Yeon Kang, Manav Goud Vanga, Moo-Yeal Lee
Human liver organoids (HLOs) hold significant potential for recapitulating the architecture and function of liver tissues in vivo. However, conventional culture methos of HLOs, forming Matrigel domes in 6-/24-well plates,...
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A paper-based dual functional biosensor for safe and user-friendly point-of-care urine analysis

Lab Chip, 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4LC00163J, Paper
Open Access
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Yujia Li, Yingqi Kong, Yubing Hu, Yixuan Li, Rica Asrosa, Wenyu Zhang, Buddha Deka Boruah, Ali K. Yetisen, Andrew Davenport, Tung-Chun Lee, Bing Li
A safe, accurate, and reliable sensing platform for urinary biomarkers analysis of urinary biomarkers is clinically important for the early detection and monitoring of the progression of chronic kidney disease (CKD), as it has become one of the world's most prevalent non-communicable diseases.
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Nickel foam supported biochar doped Ni–Mo bimetallic oxide for supercapacitor application

React. Chem. Eng., 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4RE00471J, Paper
Zhongxin Jin, Kaijia Hu, Feng Lin, Siqi Liu, Ruining Gu, Wei Zhang, Siyu Liu, Caiying Li, Hongyang Liao, Xinping Cai, Haijun Pang, Chunjing Zhang, Huiyuan Ma
A novel C-MoO3-NiO2/NF electrode derived from polyoxometalate and rice is obtained and provides a new strategy for the development of high-performance supercapacitors.
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A bio-inspired co-simulation crawling robot enabled by a carbon dot-doped dielectric elastomer

Soft Matter, 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4SM00029C, Paper
Yubing Han, Bori Shi, En Xie, Peng Huang, Yaozhong Zhou, Chang Xue, Weijia Wen, Huayan Pu, Mengying Zhang, Jinbo Wu
The introduction of NCDs@SiO2 cluster particles not only improves the mechanical and dielectric properties of an elastomer but also exhibits fluorescence and actuation response under the co-stimulation of UV and electricity, respectively.
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Agent-based modeling of stress anisotropy driven nematic ordering in growing biofilms

Soft Matter, 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D3SM01535A, Paper
Open Access
Changhao Li, Japinder Nijjer, Luyi Feng, Qiuting Zhang, Jing Yan, Sulin Zhang
Our agent-based model reveals complex spatiotemperal evolution of the morphology and internal cell ordering of Vibrio cholerae biofilms.
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DNA liquid crystals with AIE effect toward humidity-indicating biomaterials

Soft Matter, 2024, 20,3243-3247
DOI: 10.1039/D3SM01531A, Communication
Guoqiang Zhang, Jing Zhao, Qikai Liang, Zhongtao Wu, Lei Zhang, Xiliang Luo
A DNA-containing material displaying a trackable humidity-induced change in fluorescence could accurately indicate in real time the environmental relative humidity at room temperature in 4 minutes.
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Synthesis and study of antibiofilm and antivirulence properties of flavonol analogues generated by palladium catalyzed ligand free Suzuki–Miyaura coupling against Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1

RSC Adv., 2024, 14,12278-12293
DOI: 10.1039/D3RA08617H, Paper
Open Access
Anjitha Theres Benny, Masthan Thamim, Prakhar Srivastava, Sindoora Suresh, Krishnan Thirumoorthy, Loganathan Rangasamy, Karthikeyan S., Nalini Easwaran, Ethiraj Kannatt Radhakrishnan
An overview on the mechanism of Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1 biofilm inhibition by Suzuki–Miyaura coupled flavonols.
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Correction: 2-cyanopyridine derivatives enable N-terminal cysteine bioconjugation and peptide bond cleavage of glutathione under aqueous and mild conditions

RSC Adv., 2024, 14,12416-12416
DOI: 10.1039/D4RA90039A, Correction
Open Access
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Tetsuya Yano, Takahiro Yamada, Hiroaki Ishida, Nami Ohashi, Toshimasa Itoh
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Synthesis and characterization of a nanostructure conductive copolymer based on polyaniline and polylactic acid as an effective substrate in proteins impedimetric biosensing

RSC Adv., 2024, 14,12600-12611
DOI: 10.1039/D4RA01061B, Paper
Open Access
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Ehsan Dinpanah, Moslem Mansour Lakouraj, Ebrahim Fooladi, Vahid Hasantabar
Despite of all the developments in DNA microarray technology, there is not sufficient knowledge about protein abundance or their function in processes such as proteolysis, phosphorylation.
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Amplification of photocatalytic degradation of antibiotics (amoxicillin, ciprofloxacin) by sodium doping in nano-crystallite hydroxyapatite

RSC Adv., 2024, 14,12386-12396
DOI: 10.1039/D4RA00126E, Paper
Open Access
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Sakabe Tarannum, Md. Sahadat Hossain, Muhammad Shahriar Bashar, Newaz Mohammed Bahadur, Samina Ahmed
Sodium-doped hydroxyapatite (Na_HAp) was synthesized for the enhanced photocatalytic degradation of amoxicillin and ciprofloxacin.
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Application of cold-adapted microbial agents in soil contaminate remediation: biodegradation mechanisms, case studies, and safety assessments

RSC Adv., 2024, 14,12720-12734
DOI: 10.1039/D4RA01510J, Review Article
Open Access
Jiaxin Li, Yujuan Wen, Zheng Fang, Wenqi Yang, Xiaoming Song
Analyzed the microorganisms cold-adapted mechanism, and summarized the degradation pathway of nitro-aromatic compounds. Evaluated safety of microbial agents according to the existing application restoration cases under freeze-thaw cycles condition.
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Superhydrophobic foam combined with biomass-derived TENG based on upcycled coconut husk for efficient oil–water separation

RSC Adv., 2024, 14,13005-13015
DOI: 10.1039/D4RA01841A, Paper
Open Access
Jiaming Liang, Yajuan Zhou, Qian Wu, Zeying Zhu, Keda Lin, Jinsheng He, Haihe Hong, Yuanzheng Luo
Ocean ecological environments are seriously affected by oil spilling and plastic-debris, significantly reducing marine pollution via using biocomposite production from natural fiber reinforcement is a friendly way to deal with marine oil pollution.
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Bioactive O^N^O^ Schiff base appended homoleptic titanium(IV) complexes: DFT, BSA/CT-DNA interactions, molecular docking and antitumor activity against HeLa and A549 cell lines

RSC Adv., 2024, 14,13062-13082
DOI: 10.1039/D3RA08574K, Paper
Open Access
Sathish Thanigachalam, Madhvesh Pathak
Five new homoleptic derivatives of titanium(IV) have been developed and characterized by physicochemical techniques.
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Mechanics of biomimetic free-standing lipid membranes: insights into the elasticity of complex lipid compositions

RSC Adv., 2024, 14,13044-13052
DOI: 10.1039/D4RA00738G, Paper
Open Access
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Alessandra Griffo, Carola Sparn, Fabio Lolicato, Friederike Nolle, Navid Khangholi, Ralf Seemann, Jean-Baptiste Fleury, Martin Brinkmann, Walter Nickel, Hendrik Hähl
In this study, we prepare pore-spanning membranes that mimic the composition of plasma membranes and perform force spectroscopy indentation measurements to unravel mechanistic insights depending on lipid composition.
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A surface-independent bioglue using photo-crosslinkable benzophenone moiety

RSC Adv., 2024, 14,12966-12976
DOI: 10.1039/D4RA01866D, Paper
Open Access
Yue Shi, Xuelian Tao, Ping Du, Paul Pasic, Lars Esser, Hsien-Yeh Chen, Helmut Thissen, Peng-Yuan Wang
The UV-crosslinkable benzophenone (BP) “bio-glue” efficiently crosslinks with various surfaces and biomolecules. The beauty of this bio-glue lies in its simplicity and broad applicability, requiring no sophisticated equipment or reaction conditions.
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Biobased copoly(acetal-triazole)s with tunable degradable properties

Mol. Syst. Des. Eng., 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4ME00005F, Paper
Joseph C. Daniels, Guery Saenz, Colleen N. Scott
Enhanced degradation of acetal-containing polymers in environmental conditions.
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