Online Chemistry Crossword Puzzles prior to and during COVID-19: Light-Hearted Revision Aids That Work (2020)
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Pearson. (2020). Online Chemistry Crossword Puzzles prior to and during COVID-19: Light-Hearted Revision Aids That Work. Journal of Chemical Education, 1394-3200. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jchemed.0c00645

This work explores the performance of online postlecture chemistry crossword puzzles as revision aids for 132 first-year and 120 second-year undergraduate pharmacy students. The use of these puzzles as a form of remote active learning was fortuitousl... Read More about Online Chemistry Crossword Puzzles prior to and during COVID-19: Light-Hearted Revision Aids That Work.

Ethylene functions as a suppressor of volatile production in rice (2020)
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(2020). Ethylene functions as a suppressor of volatile production in rice. Journal of Experimental Botany, https://doi.org/10.1093/jxb/eraa341

We examined the role of ethylene in the production of rice (Oryza sativa) volatile organic compounds (VOCs), which act as indirect defense signals against herbivores in tritrophic interactions. Rice plants were exposed to exogenous ethylene (1 ppm) a... Read More about Ethylene functions as a suppressor of volatile production in rice.

The lncRNA Growth Arrest Specific 5 Regulates Cell Survival via Distinct Structural Modules with Independent Functions (2020)
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Frank, F., Kavousi, N., Bountali, A., B. Dammer, E., Mourtada-Maarabouni, M., & A. Ortlund, E. (2020). The lncRNA Growth Arrest Specific 5 Regulates Cell Survival via Distinct Structural Modules with Independent Functions. Cell Reports, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.celrep.2020.107933

There is increasing evidence that the architecture of long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) just like that of proteins-is hierarchically organized into independently folding sub-modules with distinct functions. Studies characterizing the cellular activities... Read More about The lncRNA Growth Arrest Specific 5 Regulates Cell Survival via Distinct Structural Modules with Independent Functions.

Self-assembled poly-catenanes from supramolecular toroidal building blocks (2020)
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Datta, S., Kato, Y., Higashiharaguchi, S., Aratsu, K., Isobe, A., Saito, T., …Yagai, S. (2020). Self-assembled poly-catenanes from supramolecular toroidal building blocks. Nature, 583, 400 - 405. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2445-z

Mechanical interlocking of molecules (catenation) is a nontrivial challenge in modern synthetic chemistry and materials science1,2. One strategy to achieve catenation is the design of pre-annular molecules that are capable of both efficient cyclizati... Read More about Self-assembled poly-catenanes from supramolecular toroidal building blocks.

Chemical synthesis of a sulfated d-glucosamine library and evaluation of cell proliferation capabilities. (2020)
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Ní Cheallaigh, A., Guimond, S., Oscarson, S., & Miller, G. (2020). Chemical synthesis of a sulfated d-glucosamine library and evaluation of cell proliferation capabilities. Carbohydrate Research, 495, Article 108085. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.carres.2020.108085

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Chemoenzymatic synthesis of sugar-nucleotide analogues: tools to probe a strategic dehydrogenase from Pseudomonas aeruginosa (2020)
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Beswick, L. E. M. (2020). Chemoenzymatic synthesis of sugar-nucleotide analogues: tools to probe a strategic dehydrogenase from Pseudomonas aeruginosa. (Thesis). Keele University

Pseudomonas aeruginosa (P. aeruginosa) is an opportunistic bacterium, responsible for causing life threatening infections amongst fibrosis (CF) patients. Mucoid phenotypes of P. aeruginosa are characterised by overproduction of alginate, an extra-cel... Read More about Chemoenzymatic synthesis of sugar-nucleotide analogues: tools to probe a strategic dehydrogenase from Pseudomonas aeruginosa.

Chemical synthesis of modified D-mannuronate building blocks: prospects for modified alginates (2020)
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Dimitriou, E. (2020). Chemical synthesis of modified D-mannuronate building blocks: prospects for modified alginates. (Thesis). Keele University

Alginate is an anionic polysaccharide comprised of β˗1,4˗linked D˗mannuronic acid (M) and L˗guluronic acid (G). The polymer is naturally harvested from seaweed and is widely exploited in various biotechnological and biomedical applications, due to th... Read More about Chemical synthesis of modified D-mannuronate building blocks: prospects for modified alginates.

Synthetic biology open language (SBOL) version 3.0.0. (2020)
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Bartley, B., Beal, J., McLaughlin, J., Vaidyanathan, P., Baig, H., Fontanarrosa, P., …Myers, C. (2020). Synthetic biology open language (SBOL) version 3.0.0. Journal of Integrative Bioinformatics, https://doi.org/10.1515/jib-2020-0017

Synthetic biology builds upon genetics, molecular biology, and metabolic engineering by applying engineering principles to the design of biological systems. When designing a synthetic system, synthetic biologists need to exchange information about mu... Read More about Synthetic biology open language (SBOL) version 3.0.0..

A planet within the debris disk around the pre-main-sequence star AU Microscopii. (2020)
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Hellier. (2020). A planet within the debris disk around the pre-main-sequence star AU Microscopii. Nature, 497 - 500. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2400-z

AU Microscopii (AU Mic) is the second closest pre-main-sequence star, at a distance of 9.79 parsecs and with an age of 22 million years1. AU Mic possesses a relatively rare2 and spatially resolved3 edge-on debris disk extending from about 35 to 210 a... Read More about A planet within the debris disk around the pre-main-sequence star AU Microscopii..

Bacterial phylogeny predicts volatile organic compound composition and olfactory response of an aphid parasitoid (2020)
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(2020). Bacterial phylogeny predicts volatile organic compound composition and olfactory response of an aphid parasitoid. Oikos, https://doi.org/10.1111/oik.07301

There is increasing evidence that microorganisms emit a wide range of volatile compounds (mVOCs, microbial volatile organic compounds) that act as insect semiochemicals, and therefore play an important role in insect behaviour. Although it is general... Read More about Bacterial phylogeny predicts volatile organic compound composition and olfactory response of an aphid parasitoid.

Human platelets use a cytosolic Ca2+ nanodomain to activate Ca2+-dependent shape change independently of platelet aggregation (2020)
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Harper. (2020). Human platelets use a cytosolic Ca2+ nanodomain to activate Ca2+-dependent shape change independently of platelet aggregation. Cell Calcium, 90, Article 102248. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ceca.2020.102248

Human platelets use a rise in cytosolic Ca2+ concentration to activate all stages of thrombus formation, however, how they are able to decode cytosolic Ca2+ signals to trigger each of these independently is unknown. Other cells create local Ca2+ sign... Read More about Human platelets use a cytosolic Ca2+ nanodomain to activate Ca2+-dependent shape change independently of platelet aggregation.

The Gaia-ESO Survey: Membership probabilities for stars in 32 open clusters from 3D kinematics (2020)
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Jeffries, & Wright. (2020). The Gaia-ESO Survey: Membership probabilities for stars in 32 open clusters from 3D kinematics. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 4701-4716. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staa1749

The Gaia-ESO Survey (GES) observed many open clusters as part of its programme to spectroscopically characterise the various Milky Way populations. GES spectroscopy and Gaia astrometry from its second data release are used here to assign membership p... Read More about The Gaia-ESO Survey: Membership probabilities for stars in 32 open clusters from 3D kinematics.

Anti- and pro-oxidative mechanisms comparing the macular carotenoids zeaxanthin and lutein with other dietary carotenoids - a singlet oxygen, free-radical in vitro and ex vivo study. (2020)
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(2020). Anti- and pro-oxidative mechanisms comparing the macular carotenoids zeaxanthin and lutein with other dietary carotenoids - a singlet oxygen, free-radical in vitro and ex vivo study. Photochemical & Photobiological Sciences Photochemical and Photobiological Sciences, 1001-1008. https://doi.org/10.1039/d0pp00120a

The interactions of dietary carotenoids, and particularly the xanthophylls in the macula, with singlet oxygen and three different oxy-radicals, (hydroxyl radical, nitrogen dioxide and the superoxide radical anion) are compared using pulsed laser and... Read More about Anti- and pro-oxidative mechanisms comparing the macular carotenoids zeaxanthin and lutein with other dietary carotenoids - a singlet oxygen, free-radical in vitro and ex vivo study..

Reconstruction and physical fit analysis of fragmented skeletal remains using 3D imaging and printing (2020)
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Collings, A. (2020). Reconstruction and physical fit analysis of fragmented skeletal remains using 3D imaging and printing. Forensic Science International: Reports, 100114 - 100114. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fsir.2020.100114

Physical fit analysis (PFA) entails physically fitting fragmented evidence together to determine shared origin. PFA can be challenging to conduct with bone fragments particularly when fragile, sharp, or embedded in other materials. Three-dimensional... Read More about Reconstruction and physical fit analysis of fragmented skeletal remains using 3D imaging and printing.

Barium isotopic composition of the mantle: Constraints from carbonatites (2020)
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Li, W., Yu, H., Xu, J., Halama, R., Bell, K., Nan, X., & Huang, F. (2020). Barium isotopic composition of the mantle: Constraints from carbonatites. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 235-243. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2019.06.041

To investigate the behaviour of Ba isotopes during carbonatite petrogenesis and to explore the possibility of using carbonatites to constrain the Ba isotopic composition of the mantle, we report high-precision Ba isotopic analyses of: (1) carbonatite... Read More about Barium isotopic composition of the mantle: Constraints from carbonatites.

FTIR study of zeolites: the nature, concentration and accessibility of the acid sites (2020)
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Antunes da Silva Freitas, C. M. (2020). FTIR study of zeolites: the nature, concentration and accessibility of the acid sites. (Thesis). Keele University

Zeolites represent one of the most important groups of industrial heterogeneous catalysts with large-scale applications in refining, petrochemistry and increasing potential in environmental catalysis and synthesis of fine chemicals. This broad range... Read More about FTIR study of zeolites: the nature, concentration and accessibility of the acid sites.

Balancing connectivity with function in silver(i) networks of pyridyltriazole (tzpa) ligands results in the formation of a metallogel (2020)
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Hegarty, I. N., Dalton, H. L., Lynes, A. D., Haffner, B., Möbius, M. E., Hawes, C. S., & Gunnlaugsson, T. (2020). Balancing connectivity with function in silver(i) networks of pyridyltriazole (tzpa) ligands results in the formation of a metallogel. Dalton Transactions, 7364-7372. https://doi.org/10.1039/D0DT01421D

A new flexible and divergent 1,2,3-triazol-4-yl-picolinamide (tzpa) ligand 2 and the half-equivalent model ligand 1, both functionalised with pendant 3-pyridyl groups, are reported and their coordination behaviour with silver(i) ions is explored, bot... Read More about Balancing connectivity with function in silver(i) networks of pyridyltriazole (tzpa) ligands results in the formation of a metallogel.

Stoichiometric methane conversion to ethane using photochemical looping at ambient temperature (2020)
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Yu, X., Hu, D., Wu, D., Ordomsky, V., Khodakov, A., Zholobenko, V., & Moldovan, S. (2020). Stoichiometric methane conversion to ethane using photochemical looping at ambient temperature. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41560-020-0616-7

Methane activation and utilization are among the major challenges of modern science. Methane is potentially an important feedstock for manufacturing value-added fuels and chemicals. However, most known processes require excessive operating temperatur... Read More about Stoichiometric methane conversion to ethane using photochemical looping at ambient temperature.

A Series of Manganese(III) Salen Complexes as a Result of Team-Based Inquiry in a Transnational Education Programme. (2020)
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Yuan, D., Cai, N., Xu, J., Miao, D., Zhang, S., Woodfine, S. E., …Watkinson, M. (2020). A Series of Manganese(III) Salen Complexes as a Result of Team-Based Inquiry in a Transnational Education Programme. ChemPlusChem, 85(6), 1210 - 1219. https://doi.org/10.1002/cplu.202000337

The development of a team-based approach to research-led transnational practical chemistry teaching is described in which a team of five Chinese students on an articulated transnational degree programme, supported by a team of academic and technical... Read More about A Series of Manganese(III) Salen Complexes as a Result of Team-Based Inquiry in a Transnational Education Programme..

Insights into the magma plumbing system of La Fossa di Vulcano (Aeolian Islands, Italy) using oxygen isotopes and clinopyroxene crystal structure (2020)
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Wiltshire, R., Halama, R., Boyce, A., Petrone, C., Nazzareni, S., Gertisser, R., …Lucchi, F. (2020). Insights into the magma plumbing system of La Fossa di Vulcano (Aeolian Islands, Italy) using oxygen isotopes and clinopyroxene crystal structure. https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu2020-13433

<jats:p> &amp;lt;p&amp;gt;The presently active La Fossa cone, Vulcano, widely considered the most hazardous volcano in the Aeolian Islands, is characterised by alternating periods of Vulcanian to subplinian explosive events and lava flow effusion. It... Read More about Insights into the magma plumbing system of La Fossa di Vulcano (Aeolian Islands, Italy) using oxygen isotopes and clinopyroxene crystal structure.