Due to the advantages in efficacy and safety compared with traditional chemotherapy drugs,
targeted therapeutic drugs have become mainstream cancer treatments. Since the first …

… Xiong and JK Zhu, unpublished data). Also indicated is the breakdown of ABA to phaseic
acid. AAO, ABA-aldehyde oxidase; MCSU, molybdenum cofactor sulfurase; NCED, 9-cis-…

Abiotic stresses and soil nutrient limitations are major environmental conditions that reduce
plant growth, productivity and quality. Plants have evolved mechanisms to perceive these …

At the microscopic scale, the strength of a crystal derives from the motion, multiplication and
interaction of distinctive line defects called dislocations. First proposed theoretically in 1934 (…

The plastic deformation of nanoporous Au under compressive stress was studied by depth-sensing
nanoindentation combined with scanning electron microscope characterization. The …

Structures of nanoparticles in Fe-16 Cr-4.5 Al-0.3 Ti-2 W-0.37 Y 2 O 3 (K3) and Fe-20 Cr-4.5
Al-0.34 Ti-0.5 Y 2 O 3 (MA956) oxide dispersion strengthened (ODS) ferritic steels produced …

… principal equations for GBS (governed by grain-boundary diffusion) and for slip can be
written as , , respectively4, 5:(1) ε ̇ gbs =A gbs b d 3 D gb b 2 σ E 2 , (2) ε ̇ slip =A s λ b 3 D L b …

Effects of high strain-rate and high plastic-strain deformation on the development of deformation
substructures in tantalum and tantalum–tungsten alloys (Ta–2.5 wt.% W and Ta–10 wt.…

Background SOX9 as a member of the SOX (SRY [sex determining region Y] box) gene
superfamily has been previously demonstrated to be a proto-oncogene in a variety of …

The development of efficient biomolecular separation and purification techniques is of critical
importance in modern genomics, proteomics, and biosensing areas, primarily due to the …