Jellies are typically considered difficult organisms to raise in the lab by many scientists.This is due to their requirements for constant water current and the absence of corners.In the wild, jellies such as moon jellies (Aurelia aurita) rarely encounter habitats outside of the open ocean where they are part of the plankton, so they are not adapte
Abstract Background Air-liquid interface (Ali) systems allow the establishment of a culture environment more representative of that in vivo than other culture systems.They are useful for performing mechanistic studies of respiratory epithelial cells as drug permeation barriers and can be used to study the interactions between hosts and respiratory
Recently, vibration-based monitoring technologies have become extremely popular, providing effective tools to assess the health condition and evaluate the structural integrity of civil structures and infrastructures in real-time.In this context, battery-operated wireless sensors allow us to stop using wired sensor networks, providing easy installat
Here we report a detailed study of the interactions of nanoparticles, formed by the self-assembly of cholesterol-containing porphyrins, with lipid membranes.We show that the interaction is a two-step process: first, the docking and fusion, then, the redistribution of the building blocks of the self-assembled nanoparticles (SANs henceforth).Analysis
Microfossils of the genus Punctatus include developmental stages such as blastula, gastrula, and hatchlings, and represent the most complete developmental sequence of animals available from the earliest Cambrian.Despite the extremely well-preserved specimens, the evolutionary position of Punctatus has relied only on their conical remains and they h