Biomedical and Health Sciences
Dysregulated astrocytic Ca2+ signaling is a key driver of high-burden CNS disorders, including Alzheimer’s and stroke, yet existing neuromodulation strategies remain invasive and neuron-cent…
Biochemistry
Obesity has increased to 1 in 8 people globally, causing dangerous comorbidities, including type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and cancer. Many obese adults, particularly in low socio-…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Breast cancer (BC) is the most expensive cancer to treat in the United States and a leading cause of cancer-related mortality worldwide. Nuclear enlargement is a well-established histopathol…
Animal Sciences
Numerous factors can affect avian biodiversity including air temperature, precipitation, wind, and air quality. This study aimed to determine how these meteorological and wildfire-related fa…
Physics and Astronomy
We are currently on the verge of sending the first crewed mission to Mars to expedite the search for signs of Martian life. Pre-planning and site evaluation are crucial in ensuring mission s…
Environmental Engineering
Membrane fouling is a major limitation in crossflow filtration systems, hindering productivity, cost-effectiveness, and outcome-centered performance. This study tested whether a crossflow fi…
Biochemistry
The fidelity of DNA is essential for healthy cellular development and proliferation. Mismatched base pairs can arise because of polymerase errors or exposure to genotoxic chemicals. Mismatch…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Over 200,000 children in the United States live with Juvenile Arthritis (JA), an autoimmune condition that causes chronic inflammation as well as muscle and tissue atrophy. The human GSTT1 (…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
This study aimed to investigate the impact of Phoenix dactylifera (dates) on the progression of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) in Drosophila melanogaster. AD is a prevalent neurodegenerative disor…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
The occurrence of extreme hot and cold events is expected to rise with climate change. While the existing literature has demonstrated that extreme temperatures can adversely affect health ou…
Plant Sciences
Advancements in plant science have striven to breed more resilient crops to address the pressing contemporary issues of food insecurity, which require a concrete understanding of the nutriti…
Microbiology
Menstrual products are composed of harmful microplastics. Tampons specifically contain microplastics such as polyethylene (PE) which have been seen to interfere with biological functions. Ba…
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
Turbofan engines suffer efficiency losses from an optimal speed disparity between fan and core components; geared turbofans (GTFs) address this via mechanical gearboxes but introduce frictio…
Translational Medical Science
Purpose. Osteosarcoma (OS) is an especially aggressive bone cancer disproportionately affecting children. Current treatments like surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation suffer from high recurr…
Translational Medical Science
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is projected to affect 150 million people by 2050 and is characterized by the accumulation of neurotoxic beta-amyloid (Aß) plaques in the brain, leading to severe me…
Biochemistry
Traditionally used Asian and European medicinal plants are often analysed to create western medicines. North American Aquilegia roots show medicinal potential in its historical use as a pain…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Over 47 million non-native English speakers navigate American institutions, facing an invisible barrier beyond legislation: unconscious, neurologically-driven accent bias. Listener judgments…
Chemistry
The diaza-18-crown-6 macrocyclic ligand (D18CJ) used in our studies has never been studied from a coordination chemistry perspective. Characterized as a pincer ligand, D18CJ has biological v…
Mathematics
Cryptographic systems securing global communications depend on computationally hard mathematical problems. Yet, the divisibility structure of combinatorial objects like Pascal’s Triangle rem…
Chemistry
Silicon (Si) anodes could revolutionize lithium-ion batteries by expanding capacity eleven-fold. However, Si expansion during charging compromises battery integrity, preventing practical app…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
As computer vision systems become increasingly integrated into everyday life, it is imperative to consider the deficiencies and biases present in our computer algorithms. One such bias is sp…
Environmental Engineering
The material use of shade balls has become an area of concern in recent years. The water used in the production of shade balls and other water covers often offsets the water that is retained…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Understanding disease models and precision medicine require untangling the complexities of spatial-temporal gene and cell interactions. However, inferring causal relationships from spatial t…
Systems Software
This study investigates the application of OpenAI's Whisper Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) model, fine-tuned to improve speech recognition accuracy for individuals with moderate to mild…
Chemistry
Organic pollutants, such as synthetic dyes and petroleum-based contaminants, pose ecological risks due to their chemical stability and resistance to biodegradation. Nanotechnology offers sol…
Chemistry
Carbon has several known allotropes, graphite, diamond, amorphous; there are also cylindrical nanotubes and spherical fullerenes. Scientists are trying to make another hypothetical allotrope…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Indicator species are a significant part of environmental science, as they are used to predict environmental metrics that may otherwise be unattainable. The growth of the field is unpreceden…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Drug discovery is intricate and costly. Current methods in de novo drug design rely on undiversified and scarce datasets due to the impossibility of recording all intermolecular interactions…
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Metastatic prostate cancer (mPC) stands second in cancer-related mortality among men. As current treatment options are largely palliative, there is a dire need for novel therapeutic targets…
Microbiology
Tuberculosis (TB), caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis, is once again the world's deadliest infectious disease, after being replaced by COVID-19 for three years. The only approved vaccine f…