Semisynthetic Guanidino Lipoglycopeptides with Potent In Vitro and In Vivo Antibacterial Activity

Development of Semi-synthetic Guanidino-lipoglycopeptide Antibiotics and Study of Their In Vitro and In Vivo Antibacterial Activities Background With the slowdown in antimicrobial drug development and the rapid increase of resistant strains, antibiotic resistance has become a major threat to human health. Particularly, Gram-positive pathogens such ...

Piplartine Attenuates Aminoglycoside-Induced TRPV1 Activity and Protects from Hearing Loss in Mice

Piplartine Attenuates Aminoglycoside-Induced TRPV1 Activity and Protects from Hearing Loss in Mice Academic Background Hearing loss is a serious global health problem affecting over 400 million people worldwide, according to the World Health Organization. Aminoglycoside antibiotics, while widely used in medicine due to their broad-spectrum antibact...

Sequence-Based Functional Metagenomics Reveals Novel Natural Diversity of Cu Resistance Gene copa in Environmental Microbiomes

Sequence-based Functional Metagenomics Reveals New Natural Diversity of Functional COPA Genes in Environmental Microbiomes The natural diversity of functional genes/proteins in environmental microbiomes is an essential component of evolutionary and bioengineering research. To gain a deeper understanding of the diversity of the copper (Cu) resistanc...

Novel Coumarins Derivatives for A. baumannii Lung Infection Developed by High-throughput Screening and Reinforcement Learning

Review of Research on Treatment of Lung Infections with Novel Coumarin Derivatives Background With the increasing antibiotic resistance, especially the problem of Acinetobacter baumannii’s resistance to antibiotics, researchers worldwide have begun to search for new antimicrobial agents. This Gram-negative bacterium, with its high survivability and...

Doxycycline-loaded calcium phosphate nanoparticles with a pectin coat can ameliorate lipopolysaccharide-induced neuroinflammation via enhancing AMPK

Protective Effect of Doxycycline-Loaded Calcium Phosphate Nanoparticles on LPS-Induced Neuroinflammation in Mice In the field of neuroscience research, neuroinflammation is an important pathological feature of many neurological diseases. Neuroinflammation is a complex response of the central nervous system (CNS) to various damaging triggers (such a...

Nanoligomers Targeting NF-κB and NLRP3 Reduce Neuroinflammation and Improve Cognitive Function with Aging and Tauopathy

Nanopolymer Targeting NF-κB and NLRP3 Reduces Neuroinflammation and Enhances Cognitive Function in Aging and Tauopathy Research Background Aging is a major risk factor for cognitive decline and most neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer’s disease (AD). These cognitive declines are closely related to the pathological aggregation of Tau prote...

iSCAT Microscopy and Particle Tracking with Tailored Spatial Coherence

iSCAT Microscopy and Particle Tracking with Tailored Spatial Coherence

Research on Interferometric Scattering Microscopy and Spatial Coherence Control for Multiparticle Tracking Background Introduction Interferometric Scattering (iSCAT) microscopy has demonstrated unparalleled performance in the field of label-free optical imaging, especially in the detection and imaging of isolated nanoparticles and molecules. Howeve...

Regorafenib in Patients with Solid Tumors: Results from the TAPUR Study

The Use of Regorafenib in Patients with BRAF-Mutant Solid Tumors: A Summary of Results from the TAPUR Study Background Introduction The BRAF gene belongs to the cytoplasmic serine/threonine kinase family and regulates cell proliferation and survival by activating the mitogen-activated protein kinase signaling pathway (MAPK). BRAF mutations can lead...

Outdoor Air Pollution and Risk of Incident Adult Haematologic Cancer Subtypes in a Large US Prospective Cohort

A Large Prospective Cohort Study in the United States Reveals Potential Links Between Outdoor Air Pollution and Subtypes of Adult Hematologic Cancers Background and Purpose In recent years, the impact of outdoor air pollution on human health has garnered extensive attention. Since 2013, the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) has cla...

A Numerical Analysis of Rectangular Open Channel Embedded TiO2-Au-MXene Employed PCF Biosensor for Brain Tumor Diagnosis

Numerical Analysis of Rectangular Open-Channel PCF Biosensor Embedded with TiO2-Au-MXene for Brain Tumor Diagnosis Academic Background and Problem Statement In recent years, the development of cost-effective and highly reliable biosensors has become a research hotspot. These sensors aim to detect minute concentrations of analytes and cover a wide a...