Enhancing plant resilience: Nanotech solutions for sustainable agriculture.

The global population growth is driving up the demand for agricultural products, while traditional farming methods like those from the Green Revolution are becoming unsustainable due to climate change. To address these challenges and ensure agricultural sustainability, innovative techniques, such as nanotechnology, are essential to meet rising food demands and enhance agricultural sustainability. Nanotechnology, which promotes a more sustainable and resilient agricultural system while enhancing food security, is a key catalyst for the Agri-tech revolution.

Prevalence and Pattern of Traumatic Dental Injuries in Children and Adolescents With Severe to Profound Hearing Impairment: A Hospital-Based Cross-Sectional Study.

Background/aim: Traumatic Dental Injuries (TDIs) are an emerging public health problem and a realm of research for oral health enthusiasts. Certain populations can be more vulnerable to injuries such as those with a sensory deficit. Nevertheless, literature is scarce, especially for those with hearing impairment.

Proteasome Activators and Ageing: Restoring Proteostasis Using Small Molecules.

Ageing is an inevitable phenomenon that remains under control of a plethora of signalling pathways and regulatory mechanisms. Slowing of cellular homeostasis and repair pathways, declining genomic and proteomic integrity, and deficient stress regulatory machinery may cause accumulating damage triggering initiation of pathways leading to ageing-associated changes. Multiple genetic studies in small laboratory organisms focused on the manipulation of proteasomal activities have shown promising results in delaying the age-related decline and improving the lifespan.

Optical Biosensor for Bacteremia detection from human blood samples at a label-free Liquid Crystal-Aqueous Interface: A Rapid and Point-of-Care approach.

Detection of bacteremia requires recognizing bloodstream bacteria. Early identification of bacteremia is imperative for treatment and prevents the escalation to systemic infections like septicaemia. This paper introduces a novel, label-free biosensor based on liquid crystals (LCs), designed to offer rapid and reliable optical detection of blood pathogens without using traditional PCR methods.

Diverse priming outcomes under conditions of very rare precursor B cells.

Rare B cells can have special pathogen-recognition features giving them the potential to make outsized contributions to protective immunity. However, rare naive B cells infrequently participate in immune responses. We investigated how germline-targeting vaccine antigen delivery and adjuvant selection affect priming of exceptionally rare BG18-like HIV broadly neutralizing antibody-precursor B cells (~1 in 50 million) in non-human primates.