Nbeal2 Knockout Mice Are Not Protected Against Hypoxia-Induced Pulmonary Vascular Remodeling and Pulmonary Hypertension.

Inflammation drives the initiation and progression of pulmonary hypertension (PH). Platelets, increasingly recognized as immune cells, are activated and increased in the lungs of patients with PH. Platelet activation leads to the release of α-granule chemokines, many of which are implicated in PH.

Off-the-shelf allogeneic natural killer cells for the treatment of COVID-19.

Low levels and function of natural killer (NK) cells are associated with increased coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) severity. NK cell immunotherapy may improve immune function to reduce infection severity. We conducted a first-in-human, open-label, phase 1, dose-escalating (100 × 10, 300 × 10, or 900 × 10 cells) study of a single dose of DVX201, a cord-blood-derived allogeneic NK cell therapy, in hospitalized patients with COVID-19.

Correlated excitonic signatures of individual van der Waals NiPS antiferromagnet nanoflakes.

Composite quasi-particles with emergent functionalities in spintronic and quantum information science can be realized in correlated materials due to entangled charge, spin, orbital, and lattice degrees of freedom. Here we show that by reducing the lateral dimension of correlated antiferromagnet NiPS flakes to tens of nanometers and thickness to less than ten nanometers, we can switch-off the bulk spin-orbit entangled exciton in the near-infrared (1.47 eV) and activate visible-range (1.