General principles and recent developments in the synthesis of gold nanoparticles (AuNPs)
are reviewed. The “in situ” Turkevich-Frens and Brust-Schiffrin methods are still major …

As public health teams respond to the pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19),
containment and understanding of the modes of severe acute respiratory syndrome …

The gut microbiota, the largest symbiotic ecosystem with the host, has been shown to play
important roles in maintaining intestinal homeostasis. Dysbiosis of the gut microbiome is …

Abstract The Pacific oyster Crassostrea gigas belongs to one of the most species-rich but
genomically poorly explored phyla, the Mollusca. Here we report the sequencing and …

Gene expression is a multistep process that involves the transcription, translation and
turnover of messenger RNAs and proteins. Although it is one of the most fundamental …

Scaling up to a large number of qubits with high-precision control is essential in the
demonstrations of quantum computational advantage to exponentially outpace the classical …

Abstract microRNAs (miRNAs) are a large class of small non-coding RNAs which post-
transcriptionally regulate the expression of a large fraction of all animal genes and are …

RNAi is a gene-silencing phenomenon triggered by double-stranded (ds) RNA and involves
the generation of 21 to 26 nt RNA segments that guide mRNA destruction. In Caenorhabditis …

Background The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic warrants accelerated efforts to test vaccine
candidates. We aimed to assess the safety and immunogenicity of an inactivated severe …

Background Bempedoic acid, an ATP citrate lyase inhibitor, reduces low-density lipoprotein
(LDL) cholesterol levels and is associated with a low incidence of muscle-related adverse …