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Chem Sci
January 2025
Departament de Farmàcia i Tecnologia Farmacèutica, i Fisicoquímica, Facultat de Farmàcia i Ciències de l'Alimentació, Universitat de Barcelona (UB) Barcelona Spain
Förster resonance energy transfer (FRET) is a powerful technique used to investigate the conformational preferences of biosystems, and molecular simulations have emerged as an ideal complement to FRET due to their ability to provide structural models that can be compared with experiments. This synergy is however hampered by the approximations underlying Förster theory regarding the electronic coupling between the participating dyes: a dipole-dipole term attenuated by a simple dielectric screening factor 1/ that depends on the refractive index of the medium. Whereas the limits of the dipole approximation are well-known, detailed insights on how environment effects deviate from the 1/ assumption and modify the distance dependence that characterizes FRET as a spectroscopic ruler are still not well understood, especially in biosystems characterized by significant structural disorder.
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January 2025
Department of Psychology, The University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom.
Background: Information about the self and others is organized in cognitive-affective structures that influence and guide interpersonal behavior. These structures are referred to as relational schemas and are thought to be influenced by early interpersonal experiences with significant others leading to secure or insecure attachment patterns as adults. When insecure, these patterns appear to contribute to paranoid interpretations about the intentions of others by indirect pathways such as negative self-esteem and a bias toward untrustworthiness.
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January 2025
Royal Hospital for Women and UNSW, School of Clinical Medicine, Level 0, Royal Hospital for Women, Barker Street (Locked Bag 2000), Sydney, NSW, 2031, Australia.
Background: Congenital heart disease (CHD) is the most common fetal malformation, and it can result first in cardiac remodeling and dysfunction and later in cardiac failure and hydrops. A limited number of studies have evaluated cardiac function in fetuses affected by CHD. Functional parameters could potentially identify fetuses at risk of cardiac failure before its development.
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January 2025
CAS Key Laboratory of Urban Pollutant Conversion, Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, University of Science and Technology of China, 230026, Hefei, China.
The CRISPR-based detection methods have been widely applied, yet they remain limited by the non-universal nature of one-pot diagnostic approaches. Here, we report a universal one-pot fluorescent method for the detection of epidemic pathogens, delivering results within 15-20 min. This method uses heparin sodium to precisely tunes the cis-cleavage capability of Cas12 via interference with the Cas12a-crRNA binding process, thereby generating significant fluorescence due to the accumulation of isothermal amplification products.
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January 2025
Department of Environmental Health and Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, 3400 N Charles St, Baltimore, MD 21218, United States. Electronic address:
Extracellular electron transfer (EET) plays an important role in maintaining redox balance in both natural and engineered anaerobic microbial systems, driving key biochemical processes such as energy generation, bioremediation, and waste degradation. While EET has been characterized in a limited number of microbes and applied in anaerobic digestion and bioelectrochemical systems, further research is needed to explore its mechanism across a broader range of microbial species and anaerobic processes. This review highlights advanced modeling frameworks that provide deeper insights into EET mechanisms and dynamics, aiming to optimize research efforts and minimize time and resource expenditure.
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