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30 July 2013      • Visit Scientific Reports • Submit your manuscript to Scientific Reports     Welcome to your Table of Contents e-alert for Scientific Reports           Jump to the content that matters to you ▼ Biological Sciences   ▼ Chemical Sciences   ▼ Physical Sciences   ▼ Earth & Environmental Sciences   ▼ Health Sciences           Nature Immunology FOCUS ON MICROBIOTA    This series of specially commissioned articles discuss the reciprocal regulation between the host immune system and commensal microbiota, the dynamic interactions between commensals and pathogens, and emerging information on how resident viruses might influence immune homeostasis.          Biological Sciences ▲ top               Thymic Stromal Lymphopoietin Induces Migration in Human Airway Smooth Muscle Cells ▶     Naresh Singh Redhu, Lianyu Shan, Hesam Movassagh et al.     Airway remodeling due to increased airway smooth muscle (ASM) mass, likely due to enhanced migration and proliferation, has been shown to be highly associated with decline in lung …             Stochastic effects as a force to increase the complexity of signaling networks ▶     Hiroyuki Kuwahara, Xin Gao     Cellular signaling networks are complex and appear to include many nonfunctional elements. Recently, it was suggested that nonfunctional interactions of proteins cause signaling …             Removing PCR for the elimination of undesired DNA fragments cycle by cycle ▶     Jiaojiao Huan, Kangkang Wan, Yunjun Liu et al.     A novel removing polymerase chain reaction (R-PCR) technique was developed, which can eliminate undesired genes, cycle by cycle, with efficiencies of 60.9% (cDNAs), 73.6% (genomic …             Binding of disordered proteins to a protein hub ▶     Elio A. Cino, Ryan C. Killoran, Mikko Karttunen et al.     A small number of proteins, called hubs, have high connectivity and are essential for interactome functionality and integrity. Keap1 is a crucial hub in the oxidative stress …             Biological soliton in multicellular movement ▶     Hidekazu Kuwayama, Shuji Ishida     Solitons have been observed in various physical phenomena. Here, we show that the distinct characteristics of solitons are present in the mass cell movement of non-chemotactic …             Mining large-scale response networks reveals ‘topmost activities’ in Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection ▶     Awanti Sambarey, Karyala Prashanthi, Nagasuma Chandra     Mycobacterium tuberculosis owes its high pathogenic potential to its ability to evade host immune responses and thrive inside the macrophage. The outcome of infection is largely …             Prefrontal cortical microcircuits bind perception to executive control ▶     Ioan Opris, Lucas Santos, Greg A. Gerhardt et al.     During the perception-to-action cycle, our cerebral cortex mediates the interactions between the environment and the perceptual-executive systems of the brain. At the top of the …             Size-controlled conformal nanofabrication of biotemplated three-dimensional TiO2 and ZnO nanonetworks ▶     Hakan Ceylan, Cagla Ozgit-Akgun, Turan S. Erkal et al.     A solvent-free fabrication of TiO2 and ZnO nanonetworks is demonstrated by using supramolecular nanotemplates with high coating conformity, uniformity, and atomic scale size …             Rapid on-site/in-situ detection of heavy metal ions in environmental water using a structure-switching DNA optical biosensor ▶     Feng Long, Anna Zhu, Hanchang Shi et al.     A structure-switching DNA optical biosensor for rapid on-site/in situ detection of heavy metal ions is reported. Mercury ions (Hg2), highly toxic and ubiquitous pollutants, were …             Development associated profiling of chitinase and microRNA of Helicoverpa armigera identified chitinase repressive microRNA ▶     Neema Agrawal, Bindiya Sachdev, Janneth Rodrigues et al.     Expression of chitinase is developmentally regulated in insects in consonance with their molting process. During the larval-larval metamorphosis in Helicoverpa armigera, chitinase …             Mass fabrication and delivery of 3D multilayer μTags into living cells ▶     Lisa Y. Chen, Kokab B. Parizi, Hisanori Kosuge et al.     Continuous monitoring of in vivo biological processes and their evolution at the cellular level would enable major advances in our understanding of biology and disease. As a …             Whole-cell phase contrast imaging at the nanoscale using Fresnel Coherent Diffractive Imaging Tomography ▶     Michael W. M. Jones, Grant A. van Riessen, Brian Abbey et al.     X-ray tomography can provide structural information of whole cells in close to their native state. Radiation-induced damage, however, imposes a practical limit to image …             Predator-induced changes in the growth of eyes and false eyespots ▶     Oona M. Lönnstedt, Mark I. McCormick, Douglas P. Chivers     The animal world is full of brilliant colours and striking patterns that serve to hide individuals or attract the attention of others. False eyespots are pervasive across a …             Signaling efficiency of Gαq through its effectors p63RhoGEF and GEFT depends on their subcellular location ▶     Joachim Goedhart, Jakobus van Unen, Merel J. W. Adjobo-Hermans et al.     The p63RhoGEF and GEFT proteins are encoded by the same gene and both members of the Dbl family of guanine nucleotide exchange factors. These proteins can be activated by the …             Novel Insights into Breast Cancer Genetic Variance through RNA Sequencing ▶     Anelia Horvath, Suresh Babu Pakala, Prakriti Mudvari et al.     Using RNA sequencing of triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC), non-TBNC and HER2-positive breast cancer sub-types, here we report novel expressed variants, allelic prevalence and …             Ferroelectric Polarization in Nanocrystalline Hydroxyapatite Thin Films on Silicon ▶     S. B. Lang, S. A. M. Tofail, A. L. Kholkin et al.     Hydroxyapatite nanocrystals in natural form are a major component of bone- a known piezoelectric material. Synthetic hydroxyapatite is widely used in bone grafts and prosthetic …             Single blastomere expression profiling of Xenopus laevis embryos of 8 to 32-cells reveals developmental asymmetry ▶     Monika Flachsova, Radek Sindelka, Mikael Kubista     We have measured the expression of 41 maternal mRNAs in individual blastomeres collected from the 8 to 32-cell Xenopus laevis embryos to determine when and how asymmetry in the …             Sprouty genes regulate proliferation and survival of human embryonic stem cells ▶     Hady Felfly, Ophir D. Klein     Sprouty (Spry) genes encode negative regulators of receptor tyrosine kinase (RTK) signaling, which plays important roles in human embryonic stem cells (hESCs). SPRY2 and SPRY4 are …             Improved identification of wheat gluten proteins through alkylation of cysteine residues and peptide-based mass spectrometry ▶     Ine Rombouts, Bert Lagrain, Markus Brunnbauer et al.     The concentration and composition of wheat gluten proteins and the presence, concentration and location of cysteine residues therein are important for wheat flour quality. …             Spatio-temporal analysis of type 2 diabetes mellitus based on differential expression networks ▶     Shao-Yan Sun, Zhi-Ping Liu, Tao Zeng et al.     T2DM is complex in its dynamical dependence on multiple tissues, disease states, and factors' interactions. However, most existing work devoted to characterizing its …             Polyreactive Antibodies Plus Complement Enhance the Phagocytosis of Cells Made Apoptotic by UV-Light or HIV ▶     Zhao-hua Zhou, Teresa Wild, Ying Xiong et al.     Polyreactive antibodies are a major component of the natural antibody repertoire and are capable of binding a variety of structurally unrelated antigens. Many of the properties …             A patterned recombinant human IgM guides neurite outgrowth of CNS neurons ▶     Xiaohua Xu, Nathan J. Wittenberg, Luke R. Jordan et al.     Matrix molecules convey biochemical and physical guiding signals to neurons in the central nervous system (CNS) and shape the trajectory of neuronal fibers that constitute neural …             Fast and accurate automated cell boundary determination for fluorescence microscopy ▶     Stephen Hugo Arce, Pei-Hsun Wu, Yiider Tseng     Detailed measurement of cell phenotype information from digital fluorescence images has the potential to greatly advance biomedicine in various disciplines such as patient …             Competitive Binding of Natural Amphiphiles with Graphene Derivatives ▶     Slaven Radic, Nicholas K. Geitner, Ramakrishna Podila et al.     Understanding the transformation of graphene derivatives by natural amphiphiles is essential for elucidating the biological and environmental implications of this emerging class …             Regulation of homocysteine metabolism by Mycobacterium tuberculosis S-adenosylhomocysteine hydrolase ▶     Anshika Singhal, Gunjan Arora, Andaleeb Sajid et al.     Mycobacterium tuberculosis modulates expression of various metabolism-related genes to adapt in the adverse host environment. The gene coding for M. tuberculosis …             GSTM1 and GSTT1 null polymorphisms and male infertility risk: an updated meta-analysis encompassing 6934 subjects ▶     Wei Wu, Jing Lu, Qiuqin Tang et al.     Published data on the association between the GST genes polymorphisms and male infertility risk are inconclusive. We investigated GST genes polymorphisms in a large sample size …                 CNIO, Nature, Nature Cell Biology and Nature Reviews Cancer present: CNIO Cancer Symposium: Frontiers in Tumor Heterogeneity and Plasticity October 27-30, 2013 Madrid, Spain Click here for more information or to register for this conference today!         Chemical Sciences ▲ top               Capturing intercellular sugar-mediated ligand-receptor recognitions via a simple yet highly biospecific interfacial system ▶     Zhen Li, Si-Si Deng, Yi Zang et al.     Intercellular ligand-receptor recognitions are crucial natural interactions that initiate a number of biological and pathological events. We present here the simple construction …             Surface Structure Dependent Electrocatalytic Activity of Co3O4 Anchored on Graphene Sheets toward Oxygen Reduction Reaction ▶     Junwu Xiao, Qin Kuang, Shihe Yang et al.     Catalytic activity is primarily a surface phenomenon, however, little is known about Co3O4 nanocrystals in terms of the relationship between the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) …             Size-controlled conformal nanofabrication of biotemplated three-dimensional TiO2 and ZnO nanonetworks ▶     Hakan Ceylan, Cagla Ozgit-Akgun, Turan S. Erkal et al.     A solvent-free fabrication of TiO2 and ZnO nanonetworks is demonstrated by using supramolecular nanotemplates with high coating conformity, uniformity, and atomic scale size …             Emerging superconductivity hidden beneath charge-transfer insulators ▶     Yoshiharu Krockenberger, Hiroshi Irie, Osamu Matsumoto et al.     In many of today's most interesting materials, strong interactions prevail upon the magnetic moments, the electrons, and the crystal lattice, forming strong links between these …             Optimising a vortex fluidic device for controlling chemical reactivity and selectivity ▶     Lyzu Yasmin, Xianjue Chen, Keith A. Stubbs et al.     A vortex fluidic device (VFD) involving a rapidly rotating tube open at one end forms dynamic thin films at high rotational speed for finite sub-millilitre volumes of liquid, with …             Competitive Binding of Natural Amphiphiles with Graphene Derivatives ▶     Slaven Radic, Nicholas K. Geitner, Ramakrishna Podila et al.     Understanding the transformation of graphene derivatives by natural amphiphiles is essential for elucidating the biological and environmental implications of this emerging class …             Make Caffeine Visible: a Fluorescent Caffeine “Traffic Light” Detector ▶     Wang Xu, Tae-Hyeong Kim, Duanting Zhai et al.     Caffeine has attracted abundant attention due to its extensive existence in beverages and medicines. However, to detect it sensitively and conveniently remains a challenge, …             Direct nitrogen fixation at the edges of graphene nanoplatelets as efficient electrocatalysts for energy conversion ▶     In-Yup Jeon, Hyun-Jung Choi, Myung Jong Ju et al.     Nitrogen fixation is essential for the synthesis of many important chemicals (e.g., fertilizers, explosives) and basic building blocks for all forms of life (e.g., nucleotides for …             Functionalized Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube-Based Fuel Cell Benchmarked Against US DOE 2017 Technical Targets ▶     Neetu Jha, Palanisamy Ramesh, Elena Bekyarova et al.     Chemically modified single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) with varying degrees of functionalization were utilized for the fabrication of SWNT thin film catalyst support layers …             Sulfide Solid Electrolyte with Favorable Mechanical Property for All-Solid-State Lithium Battery ▶     Atsushi Sakuda, Akitoshi Hayashi, Masahiro Tatsumisago     All-solid-state secondary batteries that employ inorganic solid electrolytes are desirable because they are potentially safer than conventional batteries. The ionic conductivities …             In-Situ Formation of Cobalt-Phosphate Oxygen-Evolving Complex-Anchored Reduced Graphene Oxide Nanosheets for Oxygen Reduction Reaction ▶     Zhi-Gang Zhao, Jing Zhang, Yinyin Yuan et al.     Oxygen conversion process between O2 and H2O by means of electrochemistry or photochemistry has lately received a great deal of attention. Cobalt-phosphate (Co-Pi) catalyst is a …                     Physical Sciences ▲ top               Capturing intercellular sugar-mediated ligand-receptor recognitions via a simple yet highly biospecific interfacial system ▶     Zhen Li, Si-Si Deng, Yi Zang et al.     Intercellular ligand-receptor recognitions are crucial natural interactions that initiate a number of biological and pathological events. We present here the simple construction …             Surface Structure Dependent Electrocatalytic Activity of Co3O4 Anchored on Graphene Sheets toward Oxygen Reduction Reaction ▶     Junwu Xiao, Qin Kuang, Shihe Yang et al.     Catalytic activity is primarily a surface phenomenon, however, little is known about Co3O4 nanocrystals in terms of the relationship between the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) …             Voltage-current properties of superconducting amorphous tungsten nanostrips ▶     Yi Sun, Jian Wang, Weiwei Zhao et al.     The voltage-current (V-I) characteristics of tungsten (W) strips patterned by focused-ion-beam assisted deposition were studied at different temperatures and various magnetic …             Size-controlled conformal nanofabrication of biotemplated three-dimensional TiO2 and ZnO nanonetworks ▶     Hakan Ceylan, Cagla Ozgit-Akgun, Turan S. Erkal et al.     A solvent-free fabrication of TiO2 and ZnO nanonetworks is demonstrated by using supramolecular nanotemplates with high coating conformity, uniformity, and atomic scale size …             Biological soliton in multicellular movement ▶     Hidekazu Kuwayama, Shuji Ishida     Solitons have been observed in various physical phenomena. Here, we show that the distinct characteristics of solitons are present in the mass cell movement of non-chemotactic …             Rapid on-site/in-situ detection of heavy metal ions in environmental water using a structure-switching DNA optical biosensor ▶     Feng Long, Anna Zhu, Hanchang Shi et al.     A structure-switching DNA optical biosensor for rapid on-site/in situ detection of heavy metal ions is reported. Mercury ions (Hg2), highly toxic and ubiquitous pollutants, were …             Prefrontal cortical microcircuits bind perception to executive control ▶     Ioan Opris, Lucas Santos, Greg A. Gerhardt et al.     During the perception-to-action cycle, our cerebral cortex mediates the interactions between the environment and the perceptual-executive systems of the brain. At the top of the …             On chip shapeable optical tweezers ▶     C. Renaut, B. Cluzel, J. Dellinger et al.     Particles manipulation with optical forces is known as optical tweezing. While tweezing in free space with laser beams was established in the 1980s, integrating the optical …             Emerging superconductivity hidden beneath charge-transfer insulators ▶     Yoshiharu Krockenberger, Hiroshi Irie, Osamu Matsumoto et al.     In many of today's most interesting materials, strong interactions prevail upon the magnetic moments, the electrons, and the crystal lattice, forming strong links between these …             Integrating giant microwave absorption with magnetic refrigeration in one multifunctional intermetallic compound of LaFe11.6Si1.4C0.2H1.7 ▶     Ning-Ning Song, Ya-Jiao Ke, Hai-Tao Yang et al.     Both microwave absorption and magnetocaloric effect (MCE) are two essential performances of magnetic materials. We observe that LaFe11.6Si1.4C0.2H1.7 intermetallic compound …             Multiple exciton generation in nano-crystals revisited: Consistent calculation of the yield based on pump-probe spectroscopy ▶     Khadga J. Karki, Fei Ma, Kaibo Zheng et al.     Multiple exciton generation (MEG) is a process in which more than one exciton is generated upon the absorption of a high energy photon, typically higher than two times the band …             Bandgap Opening by Patterning Graphene ▶     Marc Dvorak, William Oswald, Zhigang Wu     Owing to its remarkable electronic and transport properties, graphene has great potential of replacing silicon for next-generation electronics and optoelectronics; but its zero …             Whole-cell phase contrast imaging at the nanoscale using Fresnel Coherent Diffractive Imaging Tomography ▶     Michael W. M. Jones, Grant A. van Riessen, Brian Abbey et al.     X-ray tomography can provide structural information of whole cells in close to their native state. Radiation-induced damage, however, imposes a practical limit to image …             Direct Prototyping of Patterned Nanoporous Carbon: A Route from Materials to On-chip Devices ▶     Caiwei Shen, Xiaohong Wang, Wenfeng Zhang et al.     Prototyping of nanoporous carbon membranes with three-dimensional microscale patterns is significant for integration of such multifunctional materials into various miniaturized …             Mass fabrication and delivery of 3D multilayer μTags into living cells ▶     Lisa Y. Chen, Kokab B. Parizi, Hisanori Kosuge et al.     Continuous monitoring of in vivo biological processes and their evolution at the cellular level would enable major advances in our understanding of biology and disease. As a …             Activity concentrations of environmental samples collected in Fukushima Prefecture immediately after the Fukushima nuclear accident ▶     Masahiro Hosoda, Shinji Tokonami, Hirofumi Tazoe et al.     Radionuclide concentrations in environmental samples such as surface soils, plants and water were evaluated by high purity germanium detector measurements. The contribution rate …             Optimising a vortex fluidic device for controlling chemical reactivity and selectivity ▶     Lyzu Yasmin, Xianjue Chen, Keith A. Stubbs et al.     A vortex fluidic device (VFD) involving a rapidly rotating tube open at one end forms dynamic thin films at high rotational speed for finite sub-millilitre volumes of liquid, with …             Solid-State High Performance Flexible Supercapacitors Based on Polypyrrole-MnO2-Carbon Fiber Hybrid Structure ▶     Jiayou Tao, Nishuang Liu, Wenzhen Ma et al.     A solid-state flexible supercapacitor (SC) based on organic-inorganic composite structure was fabricated through an “in situ growth for conductive wrapping” and an electrode …             Femtosecond Laser Processing by Using Patterned Vector Optical Fields ▶     Kai Lou, Sheng-Xia Qian, Zhi-Cheng Ren et al.     We present and demonstrate an approach for femtosecond laser processing by using patterned vector optical fields (PVOFs) composed of multiple individual vector optical fields. The …             Ferroelectric Polarization in Nanocrystalline Hydroxyapatite Thin Films on Silicon ▶     S. B. Lang, S. A. M. Tofail, A. L. Kholkin et al.     Hydroxyapatite nanocrystals in natural form are a major component of bone- a known piezoelectric material. Synthetic hydroxyapatite is widely used in bone grafts and prosthetic …             Perfect crystals grown from imperfect interfaces ▶     Claudiu V. Falub, Mojmír Meduňa, Daniel Chrastina et al.     The fabrication of advanced devices increasingly requires materials with different properties to be combined in the form of monolithic heterostructures. In practice this means …             A direct thin-film path towards low-cost large-area III-V photovoltaics ▶     Rehan Kapadia, Zhibin Yu, Hsin-Hua H. Wang et al.     III-V photovoltaics (PVs) have demonstrated the highest power conversion efficiencies for both single- and multi-junction cells. However, expensive epitaxial growth substrates, …             Controllable Disorder in a Hybrid Nanoelectronic System: Realization of a Superconducting Diode ▶     Shun-Tsung Lo, Kuang Yao Chen, Sheng-Di Lin et al.     We have studied a hybrid nanoelectronic system which consists of an AlGaAs/GaAs two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) in close proximity (~70 nm) to an Al superconducting nanofilm. …             Competitive Binding of Natural Amphiphiles with Graphene Derivatives ▶     Slaven Radic, Nicholas K. Geitner, Ramakrishna Podila et al.     Understanding the transformation of graphene derivatives by natural amphiphiles is essential for elucidating the biological and environmental implications of this emerging class …             Development and Evaluation of New Coupling System for Lower Limb Prostheses with Acoustic Alarm System ▶     Arezoo Eshraghi, Noor Azuan Abu Osman, Hossein Gholizadeh et al.     Individuals with lower limb amputation need a secure suspension system for their prosthetic devices. A new coupling system was developed that is capable of suspending the …             Fast and accurate automated cell boundary determination for fluorescence microscopy ▶     Stephen Hugo Arce, Pei-Hsun Wu, Yiider Tseng     Detailed measurement of cell phenotype information from digital fluorescence images has the potential to greatly advance biomedicine in various disciplines such as patient …             A patterned recombinant human IgM guides neurite outgrowth of CNS neurons ▶     Xiaohua Xu, Nathan J. Wittenberg, Luke R. Jordan et al.     Matrix molecules convey biochemical and physical guiding signals to neurons in the central nervous system (CNS) and shape the trajectory of neuronal fibers that constitute neural …             Make Caffeine Visible: a Fluorescent Caffeine “Traffic Light” Detector ▶     Wang Xu, Tae-Hyeong Kim, Duanting Zhai et al.     Caffeine has attracted abundant attention due to its extensive existence in beverages and medicines. However, to detect it sensitively and conveniently remains a challenge, …             Direct nitrogen fixation at the edges of graphene nanoplatelets as efficient electrocatalysts for energy conversion ▶     In-Yup Jeon, Hyun-Jung Choi, Myung Jong Ju et al.     Nitrogen fixation is essential for the synthesis of many important chemicals (e.g., fertilizers, explosives) and basic building blocks for all forms of life (e.g., nucleotides for …             Sulfide Solid Electrolyte with Favorable Mechanical Property for All-Solid-State Lithium Battery ▶     Atsushi Sakuda, Akitoshi Hayashi, Masahiro Tatsumisago     All-solid-state secondary batteries that employ inorganic solid electrolytes are desirable because they are potentially safer than conventional batteries. The ionic conductivities …             Wave modes of collective vortex gyration in dipolar-coupled-dot-array magnonic crystals ▶     Dong-Soo Han, Andreas Vogel, Hyunsung Jung et al.     Lattice vibration modes are collective excitations in periodic arrays of atoms or molecules. These modes determine novel transport properties in solid crystals. Analogously, in …             Functionalized Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube-Based Fuel Cell Benchmarked Against US DOE 2017 Technical Targets ▶     Neetu Jha, Palanisamy Ramesh, Elena Bekyarova et al.     Chemically modified single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) with varying degrees of functionalization were utilized for the fabrication of SWNT thin film catalyst support layers …             In-Situ Formation of Cobalt-Phosphate Oxygen-Evolving Complex-Anchored Reduced Graphene Oxide Nanosheets for Oxygen Reduction Reaction ▶     Zhi-Gang Zhao, Jing Zhang, Yinyin Yuan et al.     Oxygen conversion process between O2 and H2O by means of electrochemistry or photochemistry has lately received a great deal of attention. Cobalt-phosphate (Co-Pi) catalyst is a …               Earth & Environmental Sciences ▲ top               Rapid on-site/in-situ detection of heavy metal ions in environmental water using a structure-switching DNA optical biosensor ▶     Feng Long, Anna Zhu, Hanchang Shi et al.     A structure-switching DNA optical biosensor for rapid on-site/in situ detection of heavy metal ions is reported. Mercury ions (Hg2), highly toxic and ubiquitous pollutants, were …             Activity concentrations of environmental samples collected in Fukushima Prefecture immediately after the Fukushima nuclear accident ▶     Masahiro Hosoda, Shinji Tokonami, Hirofumi Tazoe et al.     Radionuclide concentrations in environmental samples such as surface soils, plants and water were evaluated by high purity germanium detector measurements. The contribution rate …             Accelerated thermokarst formation in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica ▶     Joseph S. Levy, Andrew G. Fountain, James L. Dickson et al.     Thermokarst is a land surface lowered and disrupted by melting ground ice. Thermokarst is a major driver of landscape change in the Arctic, but has been considered to be a minor …             Secondary organic aerosols over oceans via oxidation of isoprene and monoterpenes from Arctic to Antarctic ▶     Qi-Hou Hu, Zhou-Qing Xie, Xin-Ming Wang et al.     Isoprene and monoterpenes are important precursors of secondary organic aerosols (SOA) in continents. However, their contributions to aerosols over oceans are still inconclusive. …               Health Sciences ▲ top               Human mesenchymal stem cells creating an immunosuppressive environment and promote breast cancer in mice ▶     Biljana Ljujic, Marija Milovanovic, Vladislav Volarevic et al.     Human mesenchymal stem cells (hMSC) can home to tumor sites and promote tumor growth. The effects of hMSC on tumor growth are controversial and involvement of hMSC in tumor …             Prefrontal cortical microcircuits bind perception to executive control ▶     Ioan Opris, Lucas Santos, Greg A. Gerhardt et al.     During the perception-to-action cycle, our cerebral cortex mediates the interactions between the environment and the perceptual-executive systems of the brain. At the top of the …             Novel Insights into Breast Cancer Genetic Variance through RNA Sequencing ▶     Anelia Horvath, Suresh Babu Pakala, Prakriti Mudvari et al.     Using RNA sequencing of triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC), non-TBNC and HER2-positive breast cancer sub-types, here we report novel expressed variants, allelic prevalence and …             Development and Evaluation of New Coupling System for Lower Limb Prostheses with Acoustic Alarm System ▶     Arezoo Eshraghi, Noor Azuan Abu Osman, Hossein Gholizadeh et al.     Individuals with lower limb amputation need a secure suspension system for their prosthetic devices. A new coupling system was developed that is capable of suspending the …             Spatio-temporal analysis of type 2 diabetes mellitus based on differential expression networks ▶     Shao-Yan Sun, Zhi-Ping Liu, Tao Zeng et al.     T2DM is complex in its dynamical dependence on multiple tissues, disease states, and factors' interactions. However, most existing work devoted to characterizing its …             Polyreactive Antibodies Plus Complement Enhance the Phagocytosis of Cells Made Apoptotic by UV-Light or HIV ▶     Zhao-hua Zhou, Teresa Wild, Ying Xiong et al.     Polyreactive antibodies are a major component of the natural antibody repertoire and are capable of binding a variety of structurally unrelated antigens. Many of the properties …             GSTM1 and GSTT1 null polymorphisms and male infertility risk: an updated meta-analysis encompassing 6934 subjects ▶     Wei Wu, Jing Lu, Qiuqin Tang et al.     Published data on the association between the GST genes polymorphisms and male infertility risk are inconclusive. 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