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23 September 2014      • Visit Scientific Reports • Submit your manuscript to Scientific Reports     Welcome to your Table of Contents e-alert for Scientific Reports             Jump to the content that matters to you ▼ Biological Sciences   ▼ Chemical Sciences   ▼ Physical Sciences   ▼ Earth & Environmental Sciences   ▼ Health Sciences               Biological Sciences ▲ top               A sensitive method for the quantification of virion-sense and complementary-sense DNA strands of circular single-stranded DNA viruses ▶     Edgar A. Rodríguez-Negrete, Sonia Sánchez-Campos, M. Carmen Cañizares et al.     Circular single-stranded DNA (ssDNA) viruses are the smallest viruses known to infect eukaryotes. High recombination and mutation rates have conferred these viruses with an …             The role of institutional incentives and the exemplar in promoting cooperation ▶     Jia-Jia Wu, Cong Li, Bo-Yu Zhang et al.     People on average do not play their individually rational Nash equilibrium (NE) strategy in game experiments based on the public goods game (PGG) that model social dilemmas. …             Human germ cell formation in xenotransplants of induced pluripotent stem cells carrying X chromosome aneuploidies ▶     Antonia A. Dominguez, H. Rosaria Chiang, Meena Sukhwani et al.     Turner syndrome is caused by complete or partial loss of the second sex chromosome and is characterized by spontaneous fetal loss in >90% of conceptions. Survivors possess an …             Di-(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate inhibits DNA replication leading to hyperPARylation, SIRT1 attenuation, and mitochondrial dysfunction in the testis ▶     Xiaolin Li, Evandro Fei Fang, Morten Scheibye-Knudsen et al.     Di-(2-ethylhexyl)-phthalate (DEHP) is a ubiquitously used endocrine disruptor.There is widespread exposure to DEHP in the general population which has raised substantial public …             Serum Stable Natural Peptides Designed by mRNA Display ▶     Shannon M. Howell, Stephen V. Fiacco, Terry T. Takahashi et al.     Peptides constructed with the 20 natural amino acids are generally considered to have little therapeutic potential because they are unstable in the presence of proteases and …             CORRIGENDUM: CCL2 enhances pluripotency of human induced pluripotent stem cells by activating hypoxia related genes ▶     Yuki Hasegawa, Dave Tang, Naoko Takahashi et al.                 An Efficient Genotyping Method for Genome-modified Animals and Human Cells Generated with CRISPR/Cas9 System ▶     Xiaoxiao Zhu, Yajie Xu, Shanshan Yu et al.     The rapid generation of various species and strains of laboratory animals using CRISPR/Cas9 technology has dramatically accelerated the interrogation of gene function in vivo. So …             Towards an in vitro model mimicking the foreign body response: tailoring the surface properties of biomaterials to modulate extracellular matrix ▶     Febriyani F. R. Damanik, Tonia C. Rothuizen, Clemens van Blitterswijk et al.     Despite various studies to minimize host reaction following a biomaterial implantation, an appealing strategy in regenerative medicine is to actively use such an immune response …             Mechanosensitive Kinases Regulate Stiffness-Induced Cardiomyocyte Maturation ▶     Jennifer L. Young, Kyle Kretchmer, Matthew G. Ondeck et al.     Cells secrete and assemble extracellular matrix throughout development, giving rise to time-dependent, tissue-specific stiffness. Mimicking myocardial matrix stiffening, i.e. …             Multiple interacting brain areas underlie successful spatiotemporal memory retrieval in humans ▶     Amber M. Schedlbauer, Milagros S. Copara, Andrew J. Watrous et al.     Emerging evidence suggests that our memories for recent events depend on a dynamic interplay between multiple cortical brain regions, although previous research has also …             Cell-surface receptor control that depends on the size of a synthetic equilateral-triangular RNA-protein complex ▶     Yoshihiko Fujita, Rie Furushima, Hirohisa Ohno et al.     A human cell surface displays many complex-structured receptors for receiving extracellular signals to regulate cellular functions. The use of precisely regulated signal-controls …             siRNAs targeted to Smad4 prevent renal fibrosis in vivo ▶     Yoshiyuki Morishita, Hiromichi Yoshizawa, Minami Watanabe et al.     Renal fibrosis is the final common pathway leading to decreased renal function. No therapy has been established to prevent it. In order to establish a therapeutic approach and …             Prediction of post-earthquake depressive and anxiety symptoms: a longitudinal resting-state fMRI study ▶     Jinyi Long, Xiaoqi Huang, Yi Liao et al.     Neurobiological markers of stress symptom progression for healthy survivors from a disaster (e.g., an earthquake) would greatly help with early intervention to prevent the …             Impact of Recombinant Globular Adiponectin on Early Warm Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury in Rat Bile Duct after Liver Transplantation ▶     Yang Xia, Jian-Ping Gong     Adiponectin (APN) is an adipocyte protein with anti-diabetic properties, which has been recently revealed to have anti-inflammatory activity in organ ischemia- reperfusion injury …             Pathogenic Eukaryotes in Gut Microbiota of Western Lowland Gorillas as Revealed by Molecular Survey ▶     Ibrahim Hamad, Mamadou B. Keita, Martine Peeters et al.     Although gorillas regarded as the largest extant species of primates and have a close phylogenetic relationship with humans, eukaryotic communities have not been previously …             Novel lentiviral vectors with mutated reverse transcriptase for mRNA delivery of TALE nucleases ▶     Ulrike Mock, Kristoffer Riecken, Belinda Berdien et al.     TAL-effector nucleases (TALENs) are attractive tools for sequence-specific genome modifications, but their delivery still remains problematic. It is well known that the presence …             A miR-199a/miR-214 Self-Regulatory Network via PSMD10, TP53 and DNMT1 in Testicular Germ Cell Tumor ▶     Bi-Feng Chen, Yick-Keung Suen, Shen Gu et al.     It was previously demonstrated that microRNA-199a (miR-199a) was down-regulated in testicular germ cell tumor (TGCT) partially caused by hypermethylation of its promoter. …             Describing Myxococcus xanthus Aggregation Using Ostwald Ripening Equations for Thin Liquid Films ▶     Fatmagül Bahar, Philip C. Pratt-Szeliga, Stuart Angus et al.     When starved, a swarm of millions of Myxococcus xanthus cells coordinate their movement from outward swarming to inward coalescence. The cells then execute a synchronous program …             A broad spectrum of genomic changes in latinamerican patients with EXT1/EXT2-CDG ▶     M. A. Delgado, G. Martinez-Domenech, P. Sarrión et al.     Multiple osteochondromatosis (MO), or EXT1/EXT2-CDG, is an autosomal dominant O-linked glycosylation disorder characterized by the formation of multiple cartilage-capped tumors …             Aggregation of polyglutamine-expanded ataxin-3 sequesters its specific interacting partners into inclusions: Implication in a loss-of-function pathology ▶     Hui Yang, Jing-Jing Li, Shuai Liu et al.     Expansion of polyglutamine (polyQ) tract may cause protein misfolding and aggregation that lead to cytotoxicity and neurodegeneration, but the underlying mechanism remains to be …             A gene expression signature-based approach reveals the mechanisms of action of the Chinese herbal medicine berberine ▶     Kuen-Haur Lee, Hsiang-Ling Lo, Wan-Chun Tang et al.     Berberine (BBR), a traditional Chinese herbal medicine, was shown to display anticancer activity. In this study, we attempted to provide a global view of the molecular pathways …             On-chip immobilization of planarians for in vivo imaging ▶     Joseph P. Dexter, Mary B. Tamme, Christine H. Lind et al.     Planarians are an important model organism for regeneration and stem cell research. A complete understanding of stem cell and regeneration dynamics in these animals requires …             Histone deacetylases inhibition by SAHA/Vorinostat normalizes the glioma microenvironment via xCT equilibration ▶     Ines M. L. Wolf, Zheng Fan, Manfred Rauh et al.     Malignant gliomas are characterized by neurodegenerative actions leading to the destruction of surrounding brain parenchyma. The disturbance in glutamate homeostasis caused by …             Micromonospora from nitrogen fixing nodules of alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.). A new promising Plant Probiotic Bacteria. ▶     Pilar Martínez-Hidalgo, Purificación Galindo-Villardón, José M. Igual et al.     Biotic interactions can improve agricultural productivity without costly and environmentally challenging inputs. Micromonospora strains have recently been reported as natural …             Rapid comparison and correlation analysis among massive number of microbial community samples based on MDV data model ▶     Xiaoquan Su, Jianqiang Hu, Shi Huang et al.     The research in microbial communities would potentially impact a vast number of applications in “bio”-related disciplines. Large-scale analyses became a clear trend in microbial …             Nickel oxide nanoparticles film produced by dead biomass of filamentous fungus ▶     Marcia Regina Salvadori, Cláudio Augusto Oller Nascimento, Benedito Corrêa     The synthesis of nickel oxide nanoparticles in film form using dead biomass of the filamentous fungus Aspergillus aculeatus as reducing agent represents an environmentally …             Real Time Ligand-Induced Motion Mappings of AChBP and nAChR Using X-ray Single Molecule Tracking ▶     Hiroshi Sekiguchi, Yasuhito Suzuki, Yuri Nishino et al.     We observed the dynamic three-dimensional (3D) single molecule behaviour of acetylcholine-binding protein (AChBP) and nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (nAChR) using a single …             Stem cell senescence. Effects of REAC technology on telomerase-independent and telomerase-dependent pathways ▶     S. Rinaldi, M. Maioli, G. Pigliaru et al.     Decline in the gene expression of senescence repressor Bmi1, and telomerase, together with telomere shortening, underlay senescence of stem cells cultured for multiple passages. …             Demographic response of cutlassfish (Trichiurus japonicus and T. nanhaiensis) to fluctuating palaeo-climate and regional oceanographic conditions in the China seas ▶     Lijun He, Aibing Zhang, David Weese et al.     Glacial cycles of the Quaternary have heavily influenced the demographic history of various species. To test the evolutionary impact of palaeo-geologic and climatic events on the …                 The Guangzhou Institutes of Biomedicine and Health, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nature Genetics, and Nature Reviews Cancer present: NUCLEAR REPROGRAMMING AND THE CANCER GENOME 2014 October 31- November 2, 2014 Ramada Plaza, Guangzhou, China   Click here for more information or to register for this conference today!          Chemical Sciences ▲ top               How to be smart and energy efficient: A general discussion on thermochromic windows ▶     Linshuang Long, Hong Ye     A window is a unique element in a building because of its simultaneous properties of being “opaque” to inclement weather yet transparent to the observer. However, these unique …             A Macroscopic Reaction: Direct Covalent Bond Formation between Materials Using a Suzuki-Miyaura Cross-Coupling Reaction ▶     Tomoko Sekine, Takahiro Kakuta, Takashi Nakamura et al.     Cross-coupling reactions are important to form C–C covalent bonds using metal catalysts. Although many different cross-coupling reactions have been developed and applied to …             Touching polymer chains by organic field-effect transistors ▶     Wei Shao, Huanli Dong, Zhigang Wang et al.     Organic field-effect transistors (OFETs) are used to directly “touch” the movement and dynamics of polymer chains, and then determine Tg. As a molecular-level probe, the …                 Nature Insight Exoplanets Almost 20 years after the discovery of the first exoplanet this Insight brings together a selection of reviews discussing our current theoretical understanding of exoplanets and their atmospheres, the missions that led to exoplanet discovery and the instruments, both present and future, that characterize planetary atmospheres. Access the Insight online.         Physical Sciences ▲ top               Plasma nitriding induced growth of Pt-nanowire arrays as high performance electrocatalysts for fuel cells ▶     Shangfeng Du, Kaijie Lin, Sairam K. Malladi et al.     In this work, we demonstrate an innovative approach, combing a novel active screen plasma (ASP) technique with green chemical synthesis, for a direct fabrication of uniform Pt …             Surface plasmon coupling dynamics in InGaN/GaN quantum-well structures and radiative efficiency improvement ▶     Ahmed Fadil, Daisuke Iida, Yuntian Chen et al.     Surface plasmonics from metal nanoparticles have been demonstrated as an effective way of improving the performance of low-efficiency light emitters. However, reducing the …             Impurities as a quantum thermometer for a Bose-Einstein condensate ▶     Carlos Sabín, Angela White, Lucia Hackermuller et al.     We introduce a primary thermometer which measures the temperature of a Bose-Einstein Condensate in the sub-nK regime. We show, using quantum Fisher information, that the …             Filling schemes at submicron scale: Development of submicron sized plasmonic colour filters ▶     Ranjith Rajasekharan, Eugeniu Balaur, Alexander Minovich et al.     The pixel size imposes a fundamental limit on the amount of information that can be displayed or recorded on a sensor. Thus, there is strong motivation to reduce the pixel size …             Novel structural phases and superconductivity of iridium telluride under high pressures ▶     Bin Li, Guiqin Huang, Jian Sun et al.     Transition metal selenide and telluride have recently receive considerable attention due to their possible structural relation to ferropnictide. Pressure is often used as an …             Low on-resistance diamond field effect transistor with high-k ZrO2 as dielectric ▶     Jiangwei Liu, Meiyong Liao, Masataka Imura et al.     Although several high-k insulators have been deposited on the diamond for metal-insulator-semiconductor field effect transistors (MISFETs) fabrication, the k values and current …             Direct generation of 2-ps blue pulses from gain-switched InGaN VCSEL assessed by up-conversion technique ▶     Akifumi Asahara, Shaoqiang Chen, Takashi Ito et al.     Ultra-short pulses in blue region generated from compact and low-cost semiconductor lasers have attracted much attention for a wide variety of applications. Nitride-based …             Double Charge Ordering States and Spin Ordering State Observed in a RFe2O4 System ▶     Fei Sun, Rui Wang, C. Aku-Leh et al.     Charge, spin, and lattice degrees of orderings are of great interest in the layered quantum material RFe2O4 (R=Y, Er, Yb, Tm, and Lu) system. Recently many unique properties …             Dynamically fluctuating electric dipole moments in fullerene-based magnets ▶     Takashi Kambe, Kokichi Oshima     We report here the direct evidence of the existence of a permanent electric dipole moment in both crystal phases of a fullerene-based magnet—the ferromagnetic α-phase and the …             How to be smart and energy efficient: A general discussion on thermochromic windows ▶     Linshuang Long, Hong Ye     A window is a unique element in a building because of its simultaneous properties of being “opaque” to inclement weather yet transparent to the observer. However, these unique …             Spontaneous emission noise in long-range surface plasmon polariton waveguide based optical gyroscope ▶     Yang-Yang Wang, Tong Zhang     Spontaneous emission noise is an important limit to the performance of active plasmonic devices. Here, we investigate the spontaneous emission noise in the long-range surface …             Additional modes in a waveguide system of zero-index-metamaterials with defects ▶     Yangyang Fu, Yadong Xu, Huanyang Chen     Zero-index-metamaterials (ZIM) have drawn much attention due to their intriguing properties and novel applications. Particularly, in a parallel plated ZIM waveguide system with …             High performance organic transistor active-matrix driver developed on paper substrate ▶     Boyu Peng, Xiaochen Ren, Zongrong Wang et al.     The fabrication of electronic circuits on unconventional substrates largely broadens their application areas. For example, green electronics achieved through utilization of …             Towards an in vitro model mimicking the foreign body response: tailoring the surface properties of biomaterials to modulate extracellular matrix ▶     Febriyani F. R. Damanik, Tonia C. Rothuizen, Clemens van Blitterswijk et al.     Despite various studies to minimize host reaction following a biomaterial implantation, an appealing strategy in regenerative medicine is to actively use such an immune response …             A Macroscopic Reaction: Direct Covalent Bond Formation between Materials Using a Suzuki-Miyaura Cross-Coupling Reaction ▶     Tomoko Sekine, Takahiro Kakuta, Takashi Nakamura et al.     Cross-coupling reactions are important to form C–C covalent bonds using metal catalysts. Although many different cross-coupling reactions have been developed and applied to …             Competitive growth mechanisms of AlN on Si (111) by MOVPE ▶     Yuxia Feng, Hongyuan Wei, Shaoyan Yang et al.     To improve the growth rate and crystal quality of AlN, the competitive growth mechanisms of AlN under different parameters were studied. The mass transport limited mechanism was …             Extreme tunability in aluminum doped Zinc Oxide plasmonic materials for near-infrared applications ▶     A. K. Pradhan, R. M. Mundle, Kevin Santiago et al.     Plasmonic materials (PMs), featuring large static or dynamic tunability, have significant impact on the optical properties due to their potential for applications in …             Symmetry restoration and quantumness reestablishment ▶     Guo-Mo Zeng, Lian-Ao Wu, Hai-Jun Xing     A realistic quantum many-body system, characterized by a generic microscopic Hamiltonian, is accessible only through approximation methods. The mean field theories, as the …             Independent control of differently-polarized waves using anisotropic gradient-index metamaterials ▶     Hui Feng Ma, Gui Zhen Wang, Wei Xiang Jiang et al.     We propose a kind of anisotropic gradient-index (GRIN) metamaterials, which can be used to control differently-polarized waves independently. We show that two three- dimensional …             Alloy Cu3Pt nanoframes through the structure evolution in Cu-Pt nanoparticles with a core-shell construction ▶     Lin Han, Hui Liu, Penglei Cui et al.     Noble metal nanoparticles with hollow interiors and customizable shell compositions have immense potential for catalysis. Herein, we present an unique structure transformation …             Interfacing whispering-gallery microresonators and free space light with cavity enhanced Rayleigh scattering ▶     Jiangang Zhu, Şahin K. Özdemir, Huzeyfe Yilmaz et al.     Whispering gallery mode resonators (WGMRs) take advantage of strong light confinement and long photon lifetime for applications in sensing, optomechanics, microlasers and quantum …             Computational Study of In-Plane Phonon Transport in Si Thin Films ▶     Xinjiang Wang, Baoling Huang     We have systematically investigated the in-plane thermal transport in Si thin films using an approach based on the first-principles calculations and lattice dynamics. The effects …             Negative Optical Torque ▶     Jun Chen, Jack Ng, Kun Ding et al.     Light carries angular momentum, and as such it can exert torques on material objects. Applications of these opto-mechanical effects were limited initially due to their smallness …             Flat Focusing Mirror ▶     Y. C. Cheng, S. Kicas, J. Trull et al.     The control of spatial propagation properties of narrow light beams such as divergence, focusing or imaging are main objectives in optics and photonics. In this letter, we …             Cerium; Crystal Structure and Position in The Periodic Table ▶     Börje Johansson, Wei Luo, Sa Li et al.     The properties of the cerium metal have intrigued physicists and chemists for many decades. In particular a lot of attention has been directed towards its high pressure behavior, …             Touching polymer chains by organic field-effect transistors ▶     Wei Shao, Huanli Dong, Zhigang Wang et al.     Organic field-effect transistors (OFETs) are used to directly “touch” the movement and dynamics of polymer chains, and then determine Tg. As a molecular-level probe, the …             Nickel oxide nanoparticles film produced by dead biomass of filamentous fungus ▶     Marcia Regina Salvadori, Cláudio Augusto Oller Nascimento, Benedito Corrêa     The synthesis of nickel oxide nanoparticles in film form using dead biomass of the filamentous fungus Aspergillus aculeatus as reducing agent represents an environmentally …             Optofluidic lens with tunable focal length and asphericity ▶     Kartikeya Mishra, Chandrashekhar Murade, Bruno Carreel et al.     Adaptive micro-lenses enable the design of very compact optical systems with tunable imaging properties. Conventional adaptive micro-lenses suffer from substantial spherical …             Strain-controlled thermal conductivity in ferroic twinned films ▶     Suzhi Li, Xiangdong Ding, Jie Ren et al.     Large reversible changes of thermal conductivity are induced by mechanical stress, and the corresponding device is a key element for phononics applications. We show that the …             Imperfect chimera states for coupled pendula ▶     Tomasz Kapitaniak, Patrycja Kuzma, Jerzy Wojewoda et al.     The phenomenon of chimera states in the systems of coupled, identical oscillators has attracted a great deal of recent theoretical and experimental interest. In such a state, …               Earth & Environmental Sciences ▲ top               Origin of cold bias over the Arabian Sea in Climate Models ▶     S. Sandeep, R. S. Ajayamohan     Almost all climate models in Coupled Model Inter-comparison Project phase five (CMIP5) were found to have a cold bias in Sea Surface Temperature (SST) over the northern Arabian …             Nickel oxide nanoparticles film produced by dead biomass of filamentous fungus ▶     Marcia Regina Salvadori, Cláudio Augusto Oller Nascimento, Benedito Corrêa     The synthesis of nickel oxide nanoparticles in film form using dead biomass of the filamentous fungus Aspergillus aculeatus as reducing agent represents an environmentally …             Demographic response of cutlassfish (Trichiurus japonicus and T. nanhaiensis) to fluctuating palaeo-climate and regional oceanographic conditions in the China seas ▶     Lijun He, Aibing Zhang, David Weese et al.     Glacial cycles of the Quaternary have heavily influenced the demographic history of various species. To test the evolutionary impact of palaeo-geologic and climatic events on the …             Cyclic precipitation variation on the western Loess Plateau of China during the past four centuries ▶     Liangcheng Tan, Zhisheng An, Chih-An Huh et al.     Precipitation variation on the Loess Plateau (LP) of China is not only important for rain-fed agriculture in this environmentally sensitive region, but also critical for the …               Health Sciences ▲ top               Serological evidence of H7, H5 and H9 avian influenza virus co-infection among herons in a city park in Jiangxi, China ▶     Guirong Wang, Tao Zhang, Xiaowen Li et al.     Extensive surveillance of influenza A viruses in different avian species is critical for understanding its transmission. Here, a breeding colony of Little Egrets and …             A sensitive method for the quantification of virion-sense and complementary-sense DNA strands of circular single-stranded DNA viruses ▶     Edgar A. Rodríguez-Negrete, Sonia Sánchez-Campos, M. Carmen Cañizares et al.     Circular single-stranded DNA (ssDNA) viruses are the smallest viruses known to infect eukaryotes. High recombination and mutation rates have conferred these viruses with an …             Impact of Recombinant Globular Adiponectin on Early Warm Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury in Rat Bile Duct after Liver Transplantation ▶     Yang Xia, Jian-Ping Gong     Adiponectin (APN) is an adipocyte protein with anti-diabetic properties, which has been recently revealed to have anti-inflammatory activity in organ ischemia- reperfusion injury …             Pubertal Onset in Girls is Strongly Influenced by Genetic Variation Affecting FSH Action ▶     Casper P. Hagen, Kaspar Sørensen, Lise Aksglaede et al.     Age at pubertal onset varies substantially in healthy girls. Although genetic factors are responsible for more than half of the phenotypic variation, only a small part has been …             Immunomodulation with eicosapentaenoic acid supports the treatment of autoimmune small-vessel vasculitis ▶     Junichi Hirahashi, Kimito Kawahata, Makoto Arita et al.     Small-vessel vasculitis is a life-threatening autoimmune disease that is frequently associated with anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies (ANCAs). Conventional immunotherapy …             Electrophysiological, behavioral and histological characterization of paclitaxel, cisplatin, vincristine and bortezomib-induced neuropathy in C57Bl/6 mice ▶     Wolfgang Boehmerle, Petra Huehnchen, Sarah Peruzzaro et al.     Polyneuropathy is a frequent and potentially severe side effect of clinical tumor chemotherapy. The goal of this study was to characterize paclitaxel-, cisplatin-, vincristine- …             Absence of fibromodulin affects matrix composition, collagen deposition and cell turnover in healthy and fibrotic lung parenchyma ▶     Kristina Rydell-Törmänen, Kristofer Andréasson, Roger Hesselstrand et al.     The ECM exerts great effects on cells, and changed composition may therefore have profound impact. Small leucine-rich proteoglycans, e.g. fibromodulin, are essential in collagen …             Aggregation of polyglutamine-expanded ataxin-3 sequesters its specific interacting partners into inclusions: Implication in a loss-of-function pathology ▶     Hui Yang, Jing-Jing Li, Shuai Liu et al.     Expansion of polyglutamine (polyQ) tract may cause protein misfolding and aggregation that lead to cytotoxicity and neurodegeneration, but the underlying mechanism remains to be …             The Effort-reward Imbalance work-stress model and daytime salivary cortisol and dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) among Japanese women ▶     Atsuhiko Ota, Junji Mase, Nopporn Howteerakul et al.     We examined the influence of work-related effort–reward imbalance and overcommitment to work (OC), as derived from Siegrist's Effort–Reward Imbalance (ERI) model, on the …             Looking beyond endotoxin: a comparative study of pyrogen retention by ultrafilters used for the preparation of sterile dialyis fluid ▶     Griet Glorieux, Michael Hulko, Rose Speidel et al.     Sterile single-use ultrafilters are used in dialysis for the preparation of the substitution fluid given to patients undergoing dialysis treatments with high convective fluid …                 • Careers & Jobs           naturejobs.com Science jobs of the week       Postdoctoral Research Associate     University of Edinburgh            PhD Student     University of Kansas Medical Center (KUMC)            Research worker     King's College London            Research Associate     University of Cambridge            Group Leader Position     Gregor Mendel Institute of Molecular Plant Biology            Postdoctoral Fellow     European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL)            Postdoctoral Fellow     University of Michigan            PhD Studentships     Cardiff University            Research Fellowship     Newcastle University            Post-Doctoral Fellowship     FAPESP - São Paulo Research Foundation          No matter what your career stage, student, postdoc or senior scientist, you will find articles on naturejobs.com to help guide you in your science career. 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