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Lithium-CO2 batteries and beyond

Description: Article describes how Li-CO2 batteries with a theoretical energy density of 1,876 Wh kg−1 are attractive as a promising energy storage strategy and as an effective way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by CO2 reduction and the formation of discharge product Li2CO3 and carbon. This article provides critical perspectives on the development of Li-CO2 batteries as well as a description of current issues and challenges associated with cathode catalysts, electrolyte, and anode for Li-CO2 batteries.
Date: March 3, 2023
Creator: Pathak, Anil; Adhikari, Pashupati R. & Choi, Wonbong
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Partner: UNT College of Engineering
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Reduced reflectance and altered color: The potential cost of external particulate matter accumulation on urban Rock Pigeon (Columba livia) feathers

Description: Authors of the article state that airborne particulate matter (PM) can accumulate on feather surfaces and alter feather appearance, so they quantified PM accumulation on Rock Pigeon feathers and analyzed the spectral properties of extracted particulates. Their findings suggest that wild birds could incur an urban pollution penalty as PM accumulation has the potential to alter feather properties.
Date: February 10, 2023
Creator: Ellis, Jennifer L.; Ponette-González, Alexandra G.; Fry, Matthew & Johnson, Jeff A.
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Partner: UNT College of Science
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Evolutionary models of lateralization: Steps toward stigmergy?

Description: Article discusses an interesting approach to accounting for brain and behavioral asymmetry based on competition and cooperation in phenotypically asymmetric individuals. The model in question shows, in an almost fully analytical way, that under proper conditions, there exists an unequal number of equilibrium of left-and right-lateralized individuals.
Date: February 2, 2023
Creator: Tonello, Lucio & Vallortigara, Giorgio
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Partner: UNT College of Science
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Progress in understanding and improving oil content and quality in seeds

Description: Article asserts that the world’s population is projected to increase by two billion by 2050, resulting in food and energy insecurity. This review provides a summary of the current knowledge of oil metabolism and discusses how photochemical activity and unconventional pathways can contribute to high carbon conversion efficiency in seeds.
Date: January 26, 2023
Creator: Sagun, Julius Ver; Yadav, Umesh P. & Alonso, Ana Paula
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Partner: UNT College of Science
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Scientists warning on the ecological effects of radioactive leaks on ecosystems

Description: Article describes the devastating effects of nuclear radiation and its long-lasting consequences on Earth’s ecosystems. The authors call upon all scientists to communicate the importance of the environmental impacts of such an event to all life forms on Earth, including humankind.
Date: January 20, 2023
Creator: Bonacic, Cristián; Medellin, Rodrigo A.; Ripple, William; Sukumar, Raman; Ganswindt, Andre; Padua, Suzana M. et al.
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Measuring flexibility: A text-mining approach

Description: Article describes how, in creativity research, ideational flexibility, the ability to generate ideas by shifting between concepts, has long been the focus of investigation. Here, the authors build from extant research to theoretically posit, and then empirically validate, a text-mining based method for measuring flexibility in verbal divergent thinking (DT) responses.
Date: January 18, 2023
Creator: Grajzel, Katalin; Acar, Selcuk; Dumas, Denis; Organisciak, Peter & Berthiaume, Kelly
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Partner: UNT College of Education
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A metabolomic platform to identify and quantify polyphenols in coffee and related species using liquid chromatography mass spectrometry

Description: Article describes how products of plant secondary metabolism, such as phenolic compounds, flavonoids, alkaloids, and hormones, play an important role in plant growth, development, stress resistance. The authors state that the overall goal of this study was to develop a high-throughput workflow to identify and quantify plant polyphenols.
Date: January 6, 2023
Creator: Castro-Moretti, Fernanda R.; Cocuron, Jean-Christophe; Castillo-Gonzalez, Humberto; Escudero-Leyva, Efrain; Chaverri, Priscila; Guerreiro-Filho, Oliveiro et al.
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Partner: UNT College of Science
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Editorial: Lipid metabolism and membrane structure in plant biotic interactions

Description: Article discusses how Lipid bilayers represent the interface between cells (or organelles) and their environment. Authors claim that this special topic brings together new reports on several of these lipid classes to shed light on the impacts of plant lipid metabolism and membrane organization on plant immunity.
Date: December 6, 2022
Creator: Goggin, Fiona L.; Shah, Jyoti & Gillaspy, Glenda
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Partner: University of North Texas
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Manipulating plasma thyroid hormone levels alters development of endothermy and ventilation in nestling red-winged blackbirds

Description: Authors of the article propose that thyroid hormones play an important role in regulating development of endothermy during the nestling period in altricial birds. Their data suggests plasma thyroid hormone levels play an active role in the systemic development of endothermic capacity and the development of ventilatory control.
Date: November 29, 2022
Creator: Sirsat, Tushar S.; Sirsat, Sarah K. G.; Price, Edwan R.; Pineda, Megan & Dzialowski, Edward M. (Edward Michael)
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Effects of an exogenous ketone ester using multi-omics in skeletal muscle of aging C57BL/6J male mice

Description: Article shows that oral R,S-1,3, butanediol diacetoacetate (BD-AcAc2) consumption results in body weight loss or maintenance with moderate increases in circulating ketones. The purpose of this study was to determine if a diet consisting of 25% BD-AcAc2 (ketone ester, KE) would alter body composition, transcriptional regulation, the proteome, and the lipidome of skeletal muscle in aged mice.
Date: November 15, 2022
Creator: Roberts, Brandon M.; Deemer, Sarah E.; Smith Jr., Daniel L.; Mobley, James A.; Musi, Nicolas & Plaisance, Eric P.
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Partner: UNT College of Education
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A lipidomics platform to analyze the fatty acid compositions of non-polar and polar lipid molecular species from plant tissues: Examples from developing seeds and seedlings of pennycress (Thlaspi arvense)

Description: Article describes a stepwise targeted lipidomics approach to characterize the polar and non-polar lipid classes using complementary LC-MS methods. This lipidomics workflow was applied to developing, mature, and germinated pennycress seeds/seedlings and found unexpected changes among several lipid molecular species.
Date: November 9, 2022
Creator: Romsdahl, Trevor B.; Cocuron, Jean-Christophe; Pearson, Mackenzie J.; Alonso, Ana Paula & Chapman, Kent Dean
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Partner: UNT College of Science
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Editorial: Superlubricity across the scales

Description: Article talks about how while the idea of frictionless surfaces and the associated implications of vanishing energy losses during mechanical motion have been part of science fiction culture, scientists in the real world work toward realizing this ambitious goal that was once thought to be unattainable. The overarching goal of the research topic titled “Superlubricity Across the Scales” is to provide a snapshot of the latest developments in this rapidly accelerating field of research.
Date: October 26, 2022
Creator: Baykara, Mehmet Z.; Berman, Diana & Rosenkranz, Andreas
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Partner: UNT College of Engineering
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Multi-omic characterization of bifunctional peroxidase 4-coumarate 3-hydroxylase knockdown in Brachypodium distachyon provides insights into lignin modification associated pleiotropic effects

Description: Article discusses how a bifunctional peroxidase enzyme, 4-coumarate 3-hydroxylase (C3H/APX), provides a parallel route to the shikimate shunt pathway for the conversion of 4-coumarate to caffeate in the early steps of lignin biosynthesis. Here, a multi-omic approach was used to characterize molecular changes resulting from C3H/APX-KD associated lignin modification and negative growth phenotype in Brachypodium distachyon.
Date: September 28, 2022
Creator: Shrestha, Him K.; Fichman, Yosef; Engle, Nancy L.; Tschaplinski, Timothy J.; Mittler, Ron; Dixon, R. A. et al.
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Partner: UNT College of Science
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Progress in Superlubricity Across Different Media and Material Systems—A Review

Description: Article provides an overview of recent progress in superlubricity research involving solid, liquid, and gaseous media and discuss the prospects for achieving superlubricity in engineering applications leading to greater efficiency, durability, environmental quality, and hence global sustainability.
Date: August 12, 2022
Creator: Ayyagari, Aditya; Alam, Kazi Istiaque; Berman, Diana & Erdemir, Ali
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Partner: UNT College of Engineering
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N-acylethanolamide metabolizing enzymes are upregulated in human neural progenitor-derived neurons exposed to sub-lethal oxidative stress

Description: Article is a study determining whether ReN cells, a superior cell model system for studying neurodevelopment, differentiation, and neuroprotection, express proteins involved in canonical eCB NAE signaling and whether oxidative stress can induce their expression. This study is a first step toward determining how oxidative stress affects CB1, CB2, FAAH, NAAA, and NAPE-PLD expression and their potential defense against oxidative stress.
Date: August 8, 2022
Creator: Duncan, Scott R.; Riordan, Sean M.; Hall, Conner W.; Payne, Andrew J.; Chapman, Kent Dean & Koulen, Peter
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Partner: UNT College of Science
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Case report: Early-onset osteoporosis in a patient carrying a novel heterozygous variant of the WNT1 gene

Description: Article presents a case study of a 35 year-old Caucasian woman who experienced multiple vertebral fractures two months after her second pregnancy. The results suggest a potential role of heterozygous WNT1 variants in the pathogenesis of early-onset osteoporosis. The authors suggest that teriparatide is one of the most appropriate available therapies for such cases.
Date: August 8, 2022
Creator: Campopiano, Maria Cristina; Fogli, Antonella; Michelucci, Angela; Mazoni, Laura; Longo, Antonella; Borsari, Simona et al.
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Partner: UNT College of Science
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Effective Mechanisms for Improving Seed Oil Production in Pennycress (Thlaspi arvense L.) Highlighted by Integration of Comparative Metabolomics and Transcriptomics

Description: Article presents comparative biomass, metabolomic, and transcriptomic analyses between a high oil accession (HO) and low oil accession (LO) of pennycress to assess potential factors required to optimize oil content.
Date: July 14, 2022
Creator: Johnston, Christopher; García Navarrete, Tatiana; Ortiz, Emmanuel; Romsdahl, Trevor B.; Guzha, Athanas; Chapman, Kent Dean et al.
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Comparing Methods of Defining Priority Areas for Greater Sage-Grouse

Description: Article comparing priority areas for wildlife species using different methods and data types. The authors used resource selection function (RSF) models to predict high priority areas and compared this to priority areas developed using two alternative methods: (1) modified conservation buffer, and (2) utilization distribution (UD) models.
Date: July 7, 2022
Creator: Parsons, Lindsey; Jenks, Jonathan; Runia, Travis & Gregory, Andrew
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Partner: UNT College of Science
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Thymus Functionality Needs More Than a Few TECs

Description: Article is a review exploring the contributions of the many stromal cell types participating in the formation, expansion, and contraction of the thymus under normal and pathophysiological processes. Such information will better inform approaches for restoring thymus functionality, including thymus organoid technologies, beneficial when an individuals’ own tissue is congenitally, clinically, or accidentally rendered non-functional.
Date: June 10, 2022
Creator: Bhalla, Pratibha; Su, Dong-Ming & van Oers, Nicolai S. C.
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Partner: UNT Health Science Center
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Physiological Regulation of Growth, Hematology and Blood Gases in Chicken Embryos in Response to Low and High Incubation Humidity

Description: Article examining effects of Low relative humidity (25–35%), and High relative humidity (85–93%) on hatchability, embryonic growth, hematology and blood gases and pH in chicken embryos.
Date: May 24, 2022
Creator: Branum, Sylvia R.; Tazawa, Hiroshi & Burggren, Warren W.
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Partner: UNT College of Science
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Thermal Stress Has Minimal Effects on Bacterial Communities of Thermotolerant Symbiodinium Cultures

Description: Article comparing the microbial communities of three isolates from different species of the genus Symbiodinium (formerly known as Symbiodinium clade A) with different ecophysiology, levels of interaction with the animal host, and thermal adaptations. Results suggest that bacteria associated or co-cultured with thermotolerant Symbiodinium might play an important role in thermotolerance.
Date: May 19, 2022
Creator: Díaz-Almeyda, Erika M.; Ryba, Tyrone; Ohdera, Aki H.; Shafer, Natali; Link, Caroline; Prado-Zapata, Marcela et al.
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Dual Mechanisms of Coniferyl Alcohol in Phenylpropanoid Pathway Regulation

Description: This article reports that a major monomer unit of the lignin polymer can function as a signal molecule to trigger proteolysis of the enzyme L-phenylalanine ammonia-lyase, the entry point into the lignin biosynthetic pathway, and feedback regulate the expression levels of lignin biosynthetic genes.
Date: May 6, 2022
Creator: Guan, Mengling; Li, Changxuan; Shan, Xiaotong; Chen, Fang; Wang, Shufang; Dixon, R. A. et al.
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Partner: University of North Texas
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In vivo Evaluation of Non-viral NICD Plasmid-Loaded PLGA Nanoparticles in Developing Zebrafish to Improve Cardiac Functions

Description: This article presents a study with the purpose to deliver a Notch Intracellular Domain (NICD)-encoded plasmid via poly(lactic-co-glycolic acid) (PLGA) nanoparticles and to investigate the toxic environmental side effects for an in vivo experiment. This research demonstrates that PLGA nanoparticle-mediated target delivery to upregulate Notch related genes can be a potential therapeutic approach with minimum toxic effects.
Date: February 23, 2022
Creator: Messerschmidt, Victoria L.; Chintapula, Uday; Bonetesta, Fabrizio; Laboy-Segarra, Samantha; Naderi, Amir; Nguyen, Kytai T. et al.
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Partner: UNT College of Science
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