Fritillariae Cirrhosae Bulbus is a valuable and authentic medicinal material widely used in traditional Chinese medicine to treat respiratory diseases. Modern medical research shows that alkaloids, ...

RAS is mutated in nearly 20% of human cancers and has few direct, efficacious inhibitors. Here, we developed a synthetic protein, JAM20, to discover potential regions on RAS that may be used for ...

Point mutations referring to a single base pair change, have a profound effect on the phenotype and play important roles in the variety of diseases (Nasis et al., 2004; Silva et al., 2017; Breveglieri ...

Ras dimerization is critical for Raf activation. Here we show that the Ras binding domain of Raf (Raf-RBD) induces robust Ras dimerization at low surface densities on supported lipid bilayers and, to ...

Rheological and morphological properties of heavy crude oil-in-water (O/W) emulsions have been studied. Two series of emulsions were considered: first, the surfactant type remained constant, while the ...

Autophagy is a highly conserved catabolic process and a major cellular pathway for the degradation of long-lived proteins and cytoplasmic organelles. An increasing body of evidence has unveiled ...

Bangladesh is prone to severe flooding as being located at the confluence of three mighty rivers named the Ganges, Brahmaputra, and Meghna. As a consequence, river flooding and erosion are common ...

How do reservoir sedimentation and appropriate management techniques affect operations of dams and hydroelectric facilities? The authors cover the topic and provide illustrative case studies, ...

1Department of Civil, Environmental and Natural Resources Engineering, Lulea University of Technology, Lulea, Sweden 2College of Engineering, Baghdad University, Baghdad, Iraq. College of Science, ...