Antisymmetric Seebeck Effect in a Tilted Weyl Semimetal.

Tilting the Weyl cone breaks the Lorentz invariance and enriches the Weyl physics. Here, we report the observation of a magnetic-field-antisymmetric Seebeck effect in a tilted Weyl semimetal, Co_{3}Sn_{2}S_{2}. Moreover, it is found that the Seebeck effect and the Nernst effect are antisymmetric in both the in-plane magnetic field and the magnetization.

A new locus for autosomal dominant congenital coronary cataract in a Chinese family maps to chromosome 3q.

Purpose: To identify the genetic defect in an autosomal dominant congenital coronary cataract family (ADCCC).

Methods: A Chinese family with ADCC was identified and characterized. All the members were genotyped with microsatellite markers at genes and loci that were considered to be associated with hereditary cataracts.

Complement 5b-9 complex-induced alterations in human RPE cell physiology.

Background: Recent evidence shows that complements are closely related to the occurrence of choroidal neovascularization (CNV). We studied the effect of complement 5b-9 complex (C5b-9) on membrane permeability and molecular biological behavior in cultured human retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) cells and considered the role of C5b-9 in CNV.

Material/methods: Human RPE cells were exposed to different concentrations of C5b-9 for 24 hours, then observed through light and electron microscopy.