FADD is a common adaptor shared by several death receptors for signalling apoptosis
through recruitment and activation of caspase 8 (refs 1 ). Death receptors are essential for …

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 …

High-repetition rate femtosecond lasers are shown to drive heat accumulation processes
that are attractive for rapid writing of low-loss optical waveguides in transparent glasses. A …

Although Western diet and dysbiosis are the most prominent environmental factors associated
with inflammatory bowel diseases (IBDs), the corresponding host factors and cellular …

Predicting users' actions based on anonymous sessions is a challenging problem in web-based
behavioral modeling research, mainly due to the uncertainty of user behavior and the …

Synthesis of colloidal semiconductor nanocrystals with defined facet structures is challenging,
though such nanocrystals are essential for fully realizing their size-dependent optical and …

Silicone rubber is universally regarded as the best-in-class elastomer for extreme environments.
In addition, silicone rubber is one of the most permeable elastomers. This property is a …

A first study of neutron tagging is conducted in Super-Kamiokande, a 50,000 ton water
Cherenkov detector. The tagging efficiencies of thermal neutrons are evaluated in a 0.2% GdCl 3 -…

To ensure a long-term quantum computational advantage, the quantum hardware should
be upgraded to withstand the competition of continuously improved classical algorithms and …

Aliphatic carboxylates are the most common class of surface ligands to stabilize colloidal
nanocrystals. The widely used approach to identify the coordination modes between surface …