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From:Expert Review of Medical Devices (Vol. 3, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedCurrent needle technology is subject to a multitude of inadequacies, from the unpleasant prick of a needle to the spread of a number of diseases such as hepatitis and HIV; particularly in third-world countries in which...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 7, Issue 11) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Sean P. Colin 1 , 2 , * , John H. Costello 2 , 3 , John O. Dabiri 4 , Alex Villanueva 5 , John B. Blottman 6 , Brad J. Gemmell 2 , Shashank Priya 5 Introduction Medusae are thought to be the first...
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From:Indian Journal of Life Sciences (Vol. 5, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedSunlight exposed sterilised aqueous mixture of some inorganic and organic substances showed photochemical formation of protocell-like microstructures, "Jeewanu" (Bahadur & Ranganayaki, 1970). The Cytochemical...
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From:Advanced Materials & Processes (Vol. 177, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedToday is the first day of spring as I write this column--March 20--and let me tell you, it has arrived not a moment too soon. We have survived yet another winter and for those of us in challenging geographies, we can...
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From:Technology and Engineering Teacher (Vol. 70, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedAs we look at inventions and discoveries throughout the ages, we can see that many of them have had incredible impacts on science, engineering, and technology and the way that we live and work. Inventions such as the...
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From:Advances in Materials Science and EngineeringPeer-ReviewedDamage caused by erosion has been reported in several industries for a wide range of situations. In the present work, a new method is presented to improve the erosion resistance of machine components by biomimetic...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 8, Issue 8) Peer-ReviewedThe aim of this study was to evaluate the therapeutic efficacy of biomimetic zinc-containing tricalcium phosphate (ZnTCP) produced by hydrothermally converting calcium carbonate exoskeletons from foraminifera, in the...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 6, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedBackground SoPIP2;1 constitutes one of the major integral proteins in spinach leaf plasma membranes and belongs to the aquaporin family. SoPIP2;1 is a highly permeable and selective water channel that has been...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 6, Issue 4) Peer-Reviewed
A Tethered Bilayer Assembled on Top of Immobilized Calmodulin to Mimic Cellular Compartmentalization
Background Biomimetic membrane models tethered on solid supports are important tools for membrane protein biochemistry and biotechnology. The supported membrane systems described up to now are composed of a lipid... -
From:Nature (Vol. 566, Issue 7742) Peer-ReviewedArtificial device imitates plants that rely on osmosis to power their tendrils. Artificial device imitates plants that rely on osmosis to power their tendrils. Author Affiliations: A slim robotic arm (silver)...
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From:Science and Children (Vol. 58, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedThis early childhood lesson integrated science, technology, art, social studies, math, and language. Our students compared robots, programmed and created stories with robots, and became robot-inventors. They also...
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From:Advanced Coatings & Surface Technology (Vol. 24, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedCommon mussels are the organisms next in line to have inspired researchers to create a useful coating material that enables excellent adhesion on any kind of material. The foot of these mussels produces sticky glue for...
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From:Nature (Vol. 529, Issue 7586) Peer-ReviewedIn the late 1940s, Swiss engineer George de Mestral was inspired to invent Velcro after picking burrs from the fur of his dog. Five decades later, Japanese engineer Eiji Nakatsu, who had a passion for bird watching,...
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From:Construction and Building Materials (Vol. 115) Peer-ReviewedABSTRACT In recent years, continuum and atomistic modeling of cementitious materials has provided significant advances towards studying the durability of civil infrastructure. An important frontier to understanding...
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From:Nature (Vol. 478, Issue 7369) Peer-ReviewedLiquid crystals are widely used in electrooptics, photonics, sensors, artificial muscles and even in laboratory modelling of the early Universe (1-3). But even these applications are nowhere near as complex and...
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From:Journal of NanomaterialsPeer-ReviewedNanoparticles (NPs) have gained increasing interest in recent years due to their potential use as drug carrier, imaging, and diagnostic agents in pharmaceutical and biomedical applications. While many cells in vivo...
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From:Journal of NanomaterialsPeer-ReviewedAntifungal polyenes such as nystatin (or amphotericin B) molecules play an important role in regulating ions permeability through membrane cell. The creation of self-assembled nanopores into the fungal lipid membranes...
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From:Mathematical Problems in EngineeringPeer-ReviewedThe present work focuses on the optimal design of nonlinear mechanical systems by using heuristic optimization methods. In this context, the nonlinear optimization problem is devoted to a two-degree-of-freedom nonlinear...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 12, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe vascular basement membrane-a thin, elastic layer of extracellular matrix separating and encasing vascular cells-provides biological and mechanical cues to endothelial cells, pericytes, and migrating leukocytes. In...
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From:Journal of Conservative Dentistry (Vol. 18, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedByline: Chetna. Dudeja, Sonali. Taneja, Manju. Kumari, Nahar. Singh Aim: The aim of this study was to compare the effect on fracture strength, pH and calcium ion diffusion from mineral trioxide aggregate (MTA)...