Macroclimate and canopy characteristics regulate forest understory microclimatic temperature offsets across China
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status: published
Generating human skeletal myoblast spheroids for vascular myogenic tissue engineering
Engineered myogenic microtissues derived from human skeletal myoblasts offer unique opportunities for varying skeletal muscle tissue engineering applications, such asin vitrodrug-testing and disease modelling. However, more complex models require the incorporation of vascular structures, which remains to be challenging. In this study, myogenic sphe...
Advanced hollow cathode discharge plasma treatment of unique bilayered fibrous nerve guidance conduits for enhanced/orie...
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Despite all recent progresses in nerve tissue engineering, critical-sized nerve defects are still extremely challenging to repair. Therefore, this study targets the bridging of critical nerve defects and promoting an oriented neuronal outgrowth by engineering innovative nerve guidance conduits (NGCs) synergistically possessing exclusive topographic...
TL1A and IL-18 synergy promotes GM-CSF-dependent thymic granulopoiesis in mice
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Acute systemic inflammation critically alters the function of the immune system, often promoting myelopoiesis at the expense of lymphopoiesis. In the thymus, systemic inflammation results in acute thymic atrophy and, consequently, impaired T-lymphopoiesis. The mechanism by which systemic inflammation impacts the thymus beyond suppressing T-cell dev...
Mitigating tensions between ethics and aesthetics through community-led adaptive heritage reuse : the case of post-indus...
PurposeHeritage reuse, in which the aesthetics of heritage play a leading role, often leads to extreme commodification of heritage, place branding, gentrification and the exclusion of many narratives and voices. In order to understand how such processes of erosion and estrangement between heritage and local communities can be countered, while still...
Equine allogeneic tenogenic primed mesenchymal stem cells : a clinical field study in horses suffering from naturally oc...
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Background: Mesenchymal stem cells are an innovative therapeutic for various equine orthopaedic diseases, including soft tissue injuries.Objectives: To evaluate the safety and efficacy of tenogenic primed equine allogeneic peripheral blood-derived mesenchymal stem cells (tpMSCs) in horses with naturally occurring superficial digital flexor tendon (...
Thermocatalytic oxidation of a binary mixture of formaldehyde and toluene at ambient levels by a titanium dioxide suppor...
The thermocatalytic oxidative potential of various supported noble metal catalysts (SNMCs) is well-known for hazardous volatile organic compounds (VOCs), e.g., formaldehyde (FA) and toluene. However, little is known about SNMC performance against ambient VOC pollution with low concentration (subppm levels) relative to industrial effuluents with hig...
Social and biological innovations are essential to deliver transformative forest biotechnologies
Forests make immense contributions to societies in the form of ecological services and sustainable industrial products. However, they face major challenges to their viability and economic use due to climate change and growing biotic and economic threats, for which recombinant DNA (rDNA) technology can sometimes provide solutions. But the applicatio...
Lean NOx trap catalyst formulation for selective ammonia synthesis from captured NOx
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Lung viral infection modelling in a bioengineered whole-organ
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Lung infections are one of the leading causes of death worldwide, and this situation has been exacerbated by the emergence of COVID-19. Pre-clinical modelling of viral infections has relied on cell cultures that lack 3D structure and the context of lung extracellular matrices. Here, we propose a bioreactor-based, whole-organ lung model of viral inf...
