Global aquaculture's GHG emissions are mainly driven by feed production, energy consumption, and biogeochemical processes. Low-carbon transformation is feasible through optimized farming practices, renewable energy, and industry collaboration.
Researchers found that oligochitosan enhances defense mechanisms in plants, increasing enzyme activities and hydrogen peroxide content to resist PVY. COS treatment specifically upregulates the OXI1 gene, promoting the expression of other genes and activating the MAPK signaling cascade.
Researchers explore microbead-assisted antibacterial hydrogels for effective wound healing, addressing infection, scarring, and delayed recovery. The integration of microbeads improves drug delivery, antibacterial effects, and tissue regeneration capabilities.
Research on Rhizobacterial metabolites reveals that proline is a crucial osmoprotectant helping plants regulate osmotic pressure under drought conditions. PGPR strains improve lettuce plant survival rates and fresh weight recovery after drought stress, providing a scientific basis for developing high-efficiency microbial inoculants.
Researchers developed a time-varying multibody dynamic model for variable-load UAVs to address the challenges of continuous mass changes during pesticide spraying. The model enables precise trajectory tracking and stable flight, outperforming traditional control methods.
A study identifies subtype-specific programs in pediatric ependymoma, linking metabolic patterns to clinical aggressiveness. The research reveals distinct metabolic profiles for each molecular subtype, providing a resource for understanding the biology of pediatric ependymoma and potential therapeutic vulnerabilities.
A large cohort study found that ABC risk factors carry greater cardiovascular significance at younger ages but become less relevant with age. The study supports an age-adapted approach to diabetes risk-factor management and highlights the importance of individualized treatment decisions in older adults.
Researchers tune Pt d electrons to boost LOHC dehydrogenation, achieving volcano-shaped correlation between Pt d electron density and turnover frequency. The optimized catalyst, Pt/MgO, maintains stable performance with lower coke deposition.
A new perspective paper calls on construction organizations to adopt an error management approach that treats unintentional action errors as valuable for organizational learning and innovation. Action errors can be categorized into individual, team, and organizational levels, with distinct causes and implications. Embracing action erro...
A large study found a U-shaped association between cholesterol levels and mortality among Chinese adults, suggesting that very low cholesterol may be linked to higher cancer risk. The study defined optimal cholesterol thresholds for Chinese adults at specific values, which differ from those for UK adults.
A study identifies fucosylated immunoglobulin G (IgG) as a key mediator contributing to adipose tissue dysfunction during aging. Fucosylation levels of IgG were significantly increased in aged mice, exacerbating inflammation and fibrosis while inhibiting adipogenesis.
A new AI-powered framework integrates phenotype-target coupled screening for efficient discovery of Chinese herbal medicine-derived drugs. The approach leverages advanced technologies, including AI-driven analysis and high-throughput screening, to identify promising candidates and uncover mechanism clues.
Researchers have developed glycocalyx engineering strategies to enhance immune cell functions against B lymphoma. By customizing the NK-92MI glycocalyx, they created selectin ligands that improved in vivo elimination of mouse xenografts, offering a cost-effective candidate for cancers with reduced CD19 antigen levels.
A new study introduces a neural-network-based switching output regulation controller for high-speed nano-positioning stages, reducing hysteresis nonlinearity and improving tracking performance. The research presents a mechatronic platform and control framework that supports reliable micro- and nano-scale manipulation.
Field experiments in China demonstrate that applying halotolerant plant growth-promoting bacteria via drip irrigation can alleviate soil salinity stress, enhance jujube productivity and fruit quality. Drip-applied PGPB treatments also modified bacterial metabolic functions and reshaped the rhizosphere bacterial community.
Researchers developed a controllable interfacial redox strategy using graphene to tailor surface chemistry of nickel-based metals, enhancing electrocatalytic oxygen evolution. The modified electrode exhibited improved OER metrics, including lower overpotential and smaller Tafel slope.
GFAKaleidos offers a unified framework for analyzing directed, bidirected, and biedged graphs, enabling in-depth examination of vertices, edges, and subgraphs. The tool provides intuitive visualizations and flexible deployment options, making it accessible to both beginners and experts in the genomics research community.
A survey on NeRF and 3DGS-based 3D editing provides a systematic review of latest techniques, outlining key advancements, challenges, and future research directions. These radiance field-based methods offer high-fidelity solutions for 3D scene representation and editing.
A new method called ProbsCut improves adversarial robustness by balancing accuracy and robustness through a variance-bias decomposition of generalization error. The proposed approach combines local loss with global loss, aligning the probability vectors of legitimate examples and their adversarial counterparts.
A new research method leverages auxiliary tasks and pose disentanglement to improve body height and weight estimation from a single non-frontal face image. The proposed method utilizes gender and age estimation as auxiliary tasks to enhance primary task performance, demonstrating superior results on small- and large-pose datasets.
Researchers developed DSPE to conceal ciphertext relationships, enabling dynamic deletion and maintaining semantic security. The framework offers a robust solution for next-generation privacy-preserving cloud services with high efficiency and practical computational overhead.
SST deformity, characterized by droopy glans penis, leads to cosmetic and painful issues, with conservative approaches offering benefits in mild cases. Durable correction through glanulopexy techniques achieves success rates of 85-95% with low morbidity, according to current management strategies.
Researchers have discovered that optimizing sandbox execution time can significantly enhance the completeness and quality of cyber threat intelligence data. By analyzing over 110,000 malware samples, they found that 90% of useful intelligence is extracted within the first three minutes of execution.
A research team has proposed powerful related-key boomerang attacks on two larger variants of HALFLOOP, highlighting urgent concerns about the design of cryptographic standards. The attacks significantly improve time complexity and achieve breakthroughs in key recovery, underscoring the need for stronger key schedule algorithms.
Researchers found that cinnamic acid effectively inhibits plasmid-mediated conjugation, reducing the global spread of antibiotic resistance genes. The study suggests CA as a broad-spectrum conjugation inhibitor targeting bacterial energy metabolism to limit ARG spread.
A research team presents a general approach to batch verification of arbitrary signatures on blockchain, leveraging IVC to enhance scalability and reduce memory consumption. The proposed scheme supports an arbitrary number of signature verifications and offers significant speedups for both provers and verifiers.
A research team developed an implantable sensor to monitor dynamic H₂O₂ levels in plants, enabling real-time tracking of plant stress responses. The system achieved high time resolution and maintained stable performance under various conditions.
Researchers found that obakulactone reduced joint swelling, restored cartilage structure, and improved immune organ function in RA rats. It also suppressed proinflammatory cytokines and shifted macrophage polarization to anti-inflammatory M2.
A study uncovers the connection mechanism between ketone bodies and the mTORC1 pathway, identifying RagC as a key player. The findings suggest RagC-K349bhb as a potential therapeutic target for BHB-based CRC treatment strategies.
The study provides atomic-level templates of GHRHR's active and inactive states, enabling the design of highly selective agonists and potent antagonists. This breakthrough transforms our understanding of GPCR signaling from static snapshots to a dynamic framework for drug development.
Two-dimensional nanomaterials enhance M/NEMS sensors' mechanical strength, electrical conductivity, thermal stability, and biocompatibility. Their applications in biosensing and medical diagnostics show rapid response and high-sensitivity detection.
The study reveals that DUX family proteins undergo liquid-liquid phase separation to drive the transition to a totipotent-like state. This process is mediated by dynamic nuclear condensates, which act as specialized transcriptional hubs to activate totipotency-specific genes and retrotransposons.
Human tumor organoids advance cancer modeling by preserving patient-specific characteristics and functional drug responses. The review highlights the need for quality control, cross-laboratory standardization, and ethical governance to enable broader real-world implementation.
Conventional models fail to capture human-relevant immune responses, hindering therapeutic translation. Immune-inclusive microphysiological platforms recapitulate inflammation, fibrosis, and immune-stromal crosstalk.
The TEAM platform successfully replaced Y chromosomes in mice, but human Y chromosomes showed poor stability due to centromere incompatibility. Centromere dysfunction drives chromosome instability and inflammatory disease phenotypes.
Researchers elucidated S1P receptor ligand binding mechanisms to facilitate rational drug design. Allosteric and bitopic ligands reveal distinct binding sites with specific residues determining subtype selectivity.
Researchers found that BRCA1 regulates innate immune signaling through IRF3, which is downregulated in BRCA1 deficient cells, leading to reduced drug sensitivity and PARPi resistance. Combining poly(I:C) with PARPi improves antitumor efficacy in vivo.
Researchers investigated the α7 nAChR-PARP1 axis as a therapeutic target for Parkinson's disease. The study found that activating α7 nAChRs suppresses PARP1 activity, reducing neurotoxicity and improving motor function in mouse models. This discovery provides a scientific foundation for developing novel therapies targeting this axis.
A new research paper proposes Wireless Environmental Information Theory (WEIT) as a novel theoretical foundation for 6G environment intelligence communication. WEIT validates the EIC architecture aided by wireless environmental information and discusses key challenges for its practical application.
Researchers reveal distinct fates for individual cells under the same pyroptosis-inducing conditions, highlighting heterogeneity in cell death decisions. Extracellular protease-mediated proteolytic cleavages drive nuclear envelope disruption and genomic DNA degradation, promoting efficient phagocytic clearance of necrotic cell remnants.
A novel electrode material exhibits excellent water stability, conductivity, and catalytic activity for air sterilization applications. The 0.3Co-MOF/Cu@Cu structure generates reactive oxygen species to induce bacterial death.
A new study introduces the diameter-transformed fluidized bed (DTFB) reactor, which addresses national demands for upgraded automotive gasoline quality and advanced heterogeneous catalytic reactions. The DTFB platform achieves precise selectivity control for complex catalytic reactions in a single fluidized bed.
Researchers from China Mobile Research Institute and ZGC Institute outline a comprehensive analysis of cooperative integrated sensing and communication (ISAC), a key paradigm for sixth-generation mobile information networks. The study presents real-world field trial results, demonstrating the technology's feasibility in various setups.
A study in Engineering explores a novel strategy for multi-user edge computing systems to maximize robot swarm lifetime. By exploiting correlation among distributed data sources, the approach reduces communication overhead and energy drain, extending swarm operation by up to 650%.
A study integrating recent omics technologies reveals key molecular alterations, regulatory networks, and potential therapeutic targets for ESCC. Key findings include identified diagnostic biomarkers, prognostic indicators, and therapeutic targets.
A new Perspective revisits the controversy over calorie restriction's impact on mouse lifespan, arguing that genetic background may not be a key driver of life-shortening effects. The authors suggest that experimental design and sample size are more likely to cause heterogeneity in results.
The LRE-UDAF framework tackles challenges in MS signal identification by integrating a lightweight feature extractor and a novel unsupervised domain adaptation module. It achieves high accuracy and robustness, outperforming mainstream models in resource-constrained environments.
Researchers developed a pilot-ignition reactivity-stratification combustion strategy for ammonia-fueled compression ignition engines, achieving high ammonia energy fraction while maintaining efficient combustion and reduced emissions. The study found that optimizing diesel injection timing and pre-injection diesel mass can significantl...
The study proposes a task-driven design approach for 6G AI-native architecture, embedding AI as a foundational element. It addresses core challenges in integrating AI into 6G mobile networks and outlines a comprehensive architecture for converged connectivity-computing management.
A new study proposes a task-oriented framework for 6G space-air-ground integrated networks (SAGINs) tailored for unmanned operations. The SC³ loop, an integrated structure analogous to the biological reflex arc, connects sensors, edge platforms and actuators to enable autonomous execution of complex tasks.