Submissions from 2024
A Review Of Dielectric Barrier Discharge Cold Atmospheric Plasma For Surface Sterilization And Decontamination, Kolawole Adesina, Ta Chun Lin, Yue-Wern Huang, Marek Locmelis, and Daoru Frank Han
The ACE Inhibitor Captopril Inhibits ACN-1 To Control Dauer Formation And Aging, Brian M. Egan, Franziska Pohl, Xavier Anderson, Shoshana C. Williams, Imienreluefe Gregory Adodo, Patrick Hunt, Zuoxu Wang, Chen Hao Chiu, Andrea Scharf, Matthew Mosley, Sandeep Kumar, Daniel L. Schneider, Hideji Fujiwara, and Fong Fu Hsu
Comparison Of Energy Budget Of Cockroach Nymph (Hemimetabolous) And Hornworm (Holometabolous) Under Food Restriction, Charles J. Green and Chen Hou
Bioaerosol Size As A Potential Determinant Of Airborne E. Coli Viability Under Ultraviolet Germicidal Irradiation And Ozone Disinfection, Weixing Hao, Yue-Wern Huang, and Yang Wang
Environmental Health Of Wildland Firefighters: A Scoping Review, M. Bryan Held, Miranda Rose Ragland, Sage Wood, Amelia Pearson, Seth Wayne Pearson, Olivia Chenevert, Rachel Marie Granberg, and Robin M. Verble
Wearable MXene-Graphene Sensing Of Influenza And SARS-CoV-2 Virus In Air And Breath: From Lab To Clinic, Yanxiao Li, Zhekun Peng, Jiaoli Li, Congjie Wei, Shangbin Liu, Weixing Hao, Huanyu Cheng, Casey Burton, Yang Wang, Yue-Wern Huang, Chang Soo Kim, Fang Yao Stephen Hou, DongHyun (Bill) Kim, and Chenglin Wu
Entomologists Require Ethical Guidance For Compassionate Management Of Delusional Parasitosis Cases, Kathleen Murphy-Hollies, Michael Skvarla, and Robin M. Verble
Submissions from 2023
The Angiogenic Potential Of PH-neutral Borophosphate Bioactive Glasses, Bradley A. Bromet, Nathaniel P. Blackwell, Nada Abokefa, Parker Freudenberger, Rebekah L. Blatt, Richard K. Brow, and Julie A. Semon
Variability of Hybridization in Topminnows, David D. Duvernell
Variable Rates Of Hybridization Among Contact Zones Between A Pair Of Topminnow Species, Fundulus Notatus And F. Olivaceus, David D. Duvernell, Naznin S. Remex, Jeffrey T. Miller, and Jacob F. Schaefer
3D-printed Hydrogels Dressings With Bioactive Borate Glass For Continuous Hydration And Treatment Of Second-degree Burns, Fateme Fayyazbakhsh, Michael J. Khayat, Candy Sadler, Delbert Day, Yue-Wern Huang, and Ming-Chuan Leu
Scale-Dependent Spatial Ecology of Paleotropical Leaf Litter Ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), Lillian Germeroth, Theodore Sumnicht, and Robin M. Verble
Link between Energy Investment in Biosynthesis and Proteostasis: Testing the Cost–Quality Hypothesis in Insects, Taiwo Iromini, Xiaolong Tang, Kyara N. Holloway, and Chen Hou
Fatty Acids, Esters, and Biogenic Oil Disinfectants: Novel Agents Against Bacteria, Aruna Lamba, Jonathan Kopel, David J. Westenberg, and Shubhender Kapila
Mesenchymal Stem Cells in the Treatment of Osteogenesis Imperfecta, Erica Lang and Julie A. Semon
Putting eDNA to the Test: A Field Comparison of eDNA Metabarcoding to Established Protocols for Assessing Biodiversity in Missouri’s Ozark Highland Streams, Veronica M. Lee, Leah K. Berkman, Aaron D. Geheber, Brett Landwer, Eric J. Ludwig, and David D. Duvernell
Cell-Penetrating Peptides for Use in Development of Transgenic Plants, Betty Revon Liu, Chi Wei Chen, Yue-Wern Huang, and Han Jung Lee
Gender, Sexual Orientation, Ethnicity and Socioeconomic Factors Influence How Wildland Firefighters Communicate their Work Experiences, Miranda Ragland, Jennifer Harrell, Molly Ripper, Seth Pearson, Rachel Granberg, and Robin M. Verble
Deepening Undergraduate Students’ Thinking About Central Dogma through Problem-Based Learning, Katherine Alberta Sharp, Rebecca Mc Nall Krall, and Jeffrey Chalfant
White Matter Hyperintensity Longitudinal Morphometric Analysis In Association With Alzheimer Disease, Jeremy Fuller Strain, Chia Ling Phuah, Babatunde Adeyemo, Kathleen Cheng, Kyle B. Womack, John McCarthy, Manu Goyal, Yasheng Chen, Aristeidis Sotiras, Hongyu An, Chengjie Xiong, Andrea Scharf, Catherine Newsom-Stewart, and John Carl Morris
Superlinear Growth and the Fossil Fuel Energy Sustainability Dilemma: Evidence from Six Continents, Yong Tao, Li Lin, Hanjie Wang, and Chen Hou
Beyond A Vision For The Future: Tangible Steps To Engage Diverse Participants In Inclusive Field Experiences, Robin M. Verble, Corinne L. Richards-Zawacki, and Vanessa K.H. Young
Study Of Legionella Pneumophila Treatment With Copper In Drinking Water By Single Cell-ICP-MS, Lei Xu, Austin Sigler, Anna Chernatynskaya, Lindsey Rasmussen, Jingrang Lu, Endalkachew Sahle-Demessie, David J. Westenberg, Hu Yang, and Honglan Shi
Best Practices To Promote Field Science Safety, Kristen Yarincik, Anne Kelly, Terry McGlynn, and Robin M. Verble
Submissions from 2022
Control of Aging by the Renin–angiotensin System: A Review of C. Elegans, Drosophila, and Mammals, Brian M. Egan, Andrea Scharf, Franziska Pohl, and Kerry Kornfeld
Climate Issues: An Interdisciplinary Panel Discussion, Shane Ray Epting, Robin Verble, Wan Yang, and Shannon Lee Fogg
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Seed Removal Decrease by Invasive Argentine Ants in a High Nature Value Farmland, Clara Frasconi Wendt, Alice Nunes, Sara Lobo Dias, Robin M. Verble, Cristina Branquinho, and Mário Boieiro
Seed Removal Decrease by Invasive Argentine Ants in a High Nature Value Farmland, Clara Frasconi Wendt, Alice Nunes, Sara Lobo Dias, Robin M. Verble, Cristina Branquinho, and Mário Boieiro
Tau Kinetics in Alzheimer's Disease, Daniel B. Hier, Sima Azizi, Matthew S. Thimgan, and Donald C. Wunsch
Examining Metal Contents in Primary and Secondhand Aerosols Released by Electronic Cigarettes, Kashala Fabrice Kapiamba, Weixing Hao, Stephen Adom, Wenyan Liu, Yue-Wern Huang, and Yang Wang
Examining Metal Contents in Primary and Secondhand Aerosols Released by Electronic Cigarettes, Kashala Fabrice Kapiamba, Weixing Hao, Stephen Adom, Wenyan Liu, Yue-Wern Huang, and Yang Wang
Bio-Membrane Internalization Mechanisms of Arginine-Rich Cell-Penetrating Peptides in Various Species, Betty Revon Liu, Shiow Her Chiou, Yue-Wern Huang, and Han Jung Lee
Understanding the Role of Nano-TiO2 on the Toxicity of Pb on C. Dubia through Modeling—Is It Additive or Synergistic?, Xuesong Liu, Jianmin Wang, and Yue-Wern Huang
Understanding the Role of Nano-TiO₂ on the Toxicity of Pb on C. dubia through Modeling -- Is It Additive or Synergistic?, Xuesong Liu, Jianmin Wang, and Yue-Wern Huang
Quantification of Silver Nanoparticle Interactions with Yeast Saccharomyces Cerevisiae Studied using Single-cell ICP-MS, Lindsey Rasmussen, Honglan Shi, Wenyan Liu, and Katie Shannon
Quantification of Silver Nanoparticle Interactions with Yeast Saccharomyces Cerevisiae Studied using Single-Cell ICP-MS, Lindsey Rasmussen, Honglan Shi, Wenyan Liu, and Katie Shannon
Pollutants Corrupt Resilience Pathways of Aging in the Nematode C. Elegans, Andrea Scharf, Annette Limke, Karl Heinz Guehrs, and Anna von Mikecz
A Laboratory And Simulation Platform To Integrate Individual Life History Traits And Population Dynamics, Andrea Scharf, Josh Mitteldorf, Brinda Armstead, Daniel Schneider, He Jin, Zuzana Kocsisova, Chieh Hsiang Tan, Francesca Sanchez, Brian Brady, Natasha Ram, Gabriel B. DiAntonio, Andrea M. Wilson, and Kerry Kornfeld
Staining of the Actin Cytoskeleton during Cell Division in Budding Yeast and Mammalian Cells, Katie Shannon
Conversion of Borate Glass Microspheres to Hollow Biphasic Calcium Phosphate Ceramic Microspheres for Bone Defects, Youqu Shen, Julie A. Semon, and Richard K. Brow
Pollution — Bring The Field Into The Lab, Anna von Mikecz and Andrea Scharf
Submissions from 2021
A Kinetic Model for Blood Biomarker Levels after Mild Traumatic Brain Injury, Sima Azizi, Daniel B. Hier, Blaine Allen, Tayo Obafemi-Ajayi, Gayla R. Olbricht, Matthew S. Thimgan, and Donald C. Wunsch
Local Environmental Variables Are Key Drivers of Ant Taxonomic and Functional Beta-Diversity in a Mediterranean Dryland, Clara Frasconi Wendt, Ana Ceia-Hasse, Alice Nunes, Robin Verble, Giacomo Santini, Mário Boieiro, and Cristina Branquinho
Ant Functional Structure and Diversity Changes along a Post-Grazing Succession in Mediterranean Oak Woodlands, Clara Frasconi Wendt, Alice Nunes, Melanie Köbel, Robin M. Verble, Paula Matos, Mário Boieiro, and Cristina Branquinho
Conservation Risks and Benefits of Establishing Monarch Butterfly (Danaus Plexippus) Breeding Habitats Close to Maize and Soybean Fields in the North Central United States: A Landscape-Scale Analysis of the Impact of Foliar Insecticide on Nonmigratory Monarch Butterfly Populations, Tyler J. Grant, Niranjana Krishnan, and Steven P. Bradbury
Estimating Screening-Level Risks of Insecticide Exposure to Lepidopteran Species of Conservation Concern in Agroecosystems, Maura J. Hall, Niranjana Krishnan, Joel R. Coats, and Steven P. Bradbury
The Psychological and Biological Impact of COVID-19: An Interdisciplinary Panel Discussion, Amber M. Henslee, David J. Westenberg, and Yang Wang
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Blood Biomarkers for Mild Traumatic Brain Injury: A Selective Review of Unresolved Issues, Daniel B. Hier, Tayo Obafemi-Ajayi, Matthew S. Thimgan, Gayla R. Olbricht, Sima Azizi, Blaine Allen, Bassam A. Hadi, and Donald C. Wunsch
Lactoferricin-Derived L5a Cell-Penetrating Peptide for Delivery of DNA into Cells, Natalie J. Holl, Moumita Dey, Yue-Wern Huang, Shiow Her Chiou, and Han Jung Lee
Evolutionary Timeline of Genetic Delivery and Gene Therapy, Natalie J. Holl, Han Jung Lee, and Yue-Wern Huang
Is Mitochondrial Reactive Oxygen Species Production Proportional to Oxygen Consumption? A Theoretical Consideration, Chen Hou, Neil B. Metcalfe, and Karine Salin
Aridity-Driven Shift In Biodiversity-Soil Multifunctionality Relationships, Weigang Hu; Jinzhi Ran; Longwei Dong; Qiajun Du; Mingfei Ji; Shuran Yao; Chen Hou; and For full list of authors, download the pdf.
Tuning Polymorphs and Morphology of Microbially Induced Calcium Carbonate: Controlling Factors and Underlying Mechanisms, Maryam Khanjani, David J. Westenberg, Aditya Kumar, and Hongyan Ma
Cell-Penetrating Peptides as a Potential Drug Delivery System for Effective Treatment of Diabetes, Mallikarjuna Korivi, Yue-Wern Huang, and Betty R. Liu
Evaluating Toxicity of Varroa Mite (Varroa Destructor)-Active dsRNA to Monarch Butterfly (Danaus Plexippus) Larvae, Niranjana Krishnan, Maura J. Hall, Richard L. Hellmich, Joel R. Coats, and Steven P. Bradbury
Neonicotinoids Can Cause Arrested Pupal Ecdysis in Lepidoptera, Niranjana Krishnan, Russell A. Jurenka, and Steven P. Bradbury
Monarch Butterfly (Danaus Plexippus) Life-Stage Risks from Foliar and Seed-Treatment Insecticides, Niranjana Krishnan, Yang Zhang, Melanie E. Aust, Richard L. Hellmich, Joel R. Coats, and Steven P. Bradbury
Quantifying the Effect of Nano-TiO₂ on the Toxicity of Lead on C. dubia using a Two-Compartment Modeling Approach, Xuesong Liu, Jianmin Wang, and Yue-Wern Huang
MXene-Graphene Field-Effect Transistor Sensing of Influenza Virus and SARS-CoV-2, Yanxiao Li, Zhekun Peng, Natalie J. Holl, Md Rifat Hassan, John M. Pappas, Congjie Wei, Omid Hoseini Izadi, Yang Wang, Xiangyang Dong, Cheng Wang, Yue-Wern Huang, Donghyun Kim, and Chenglin Wu
Materials for Biomedical Engineering: Fundamentals and Applications, M. N. Rahaman and Roger F. Brown
Universal Rules of Life: Metabolic Rates, Biological Times and the Equal Fitness Paradigm, Joseph Robert Burger, Chen Hou, Charles A. S. Hall, and James H. Brown
A population dynamics tipping point for aging as a cause of adult death, Andrea Scharf
Reproductive Aging In Caenorhabditis Elegans: From Molecules To Ecology, Andrea Scharf, Franziska Pohl, Brian M. Egan, Zuzana Kocsisova, and Kerry Kornfeld
A Food Microbiology Classroom Activity to Draw Connections between Microbes and Students’ Lives, David J. Westenberg and Jonathan Kopel
Submissions from 2020
Student Preclass Preparation by Both Reading the Textbook and Watching Videos Online Improves Exam Performance in a Partially Flipped Course, Kaleb Bassett, Gayla R. Olbricht, and Katie Shannon
Cytotoxicity of NiO and Ni(OH)₂ Nanoparticles is Mediated by Oxidative Stress-Induced Cell Death and Suppression of Cell Proliferation, Melissa H. Cambre; Natalie J. Holl; Yue-Wern Huang; and For full list of authors, see publisher's website.
The Extremely Low Energy Cost of Biosynthesis in Holometabolous Insect Larvae, N. Ferral, N. Gomez, K. Holloway, H. Neeter, M. Fairfield, K. Pollman, Yue-Wern Huang, and Chen Hou
Using a Space-For-Time Approach to Select the Best Biodiversity-Based Indicators to Assess the Effects of Aridity on Mediterranean Drylands, Clara Frasconi Wendt, Alice Nunes, Robin M. Verble, Giacomo Santini, Mario Boieiro, and Cristina Branquinho
Quantitative Real-Time PCR Assay with Immunohistochemical Evaluation of HER2/Neu Oncogene in Breast Cancer Patients and its Correlation with Clinicopathological Findings, Nadia Gheni and David J. Westenberg
Water Content Quantitatively Affects Metabolic Rates over the Course of Plant Ontogeny, Heng Huang, Jinzhi Ran, Mingfei Ji, Zhiqiang Wang, Longwei Dong, Weigang Hu, Yan Deng, Chen Hou, Karl J. Niklas, and Jianming Deng
Relaxin Enhances Bone Regeneration with BMP-2-Loaded Hydroxyapatite Microspheres, Sahitya Injamuri, M. N. Rahaman, Youqu Shen, and Yue-Wern Huang
PolyRad -- Protection Against Free Radical Damage, Hannah Kim, Yin Tse, Andrew Webb, Ethan Mudd, Muhammad Raisul Abedin, Melanie R. Mormile, Subhadeep Dutta, Kaushal Rege, and Sutapa Barua
3D-Printed Biomimetic Bioactive Glass Scaffolds for Bone Regeneration in Rat Calvarial Defects, Krishna C. R. Kolan, Yue-Wern Huang, Julie A. Semon, and Ming-Chuan Leu
Bioprinting with Bioactive Glass Loaded Polylactic Acid Composite and Human Adipose Stem Cells, Krishna C. R. Kolan, Julie A. Semon, August T. Bindbeutel, D. E. Day, and Ming-Chuan Leu
Assessing Field-Scale Risks of Foliar Insecticide Applications to Monarch Butterfly (Danaus Plexippus) Larvae, Niranjana Krishnan, Yang Zhang, Keith G. Bidne, Richard L. Hellmich, Joel R. Coats, and Steven P. Bradbury
Immunohistochemistry and RNA in Situ Hybridization in Mouse Brain Development, Jinling Liu and Aimin Liu
Explicit Representation of Protein Activity States Significantly Improves Causal Discovery of Protein Phosphorylation Networks, Jinling Liu, Xiaojun Ma, Gregory F. Cooper, and Xinghua Lu
Response of Stream Fungi on Decomposing Leaves to Experimental Drying, Dev Niyogi, Chia-Yi Hu, and Brett P. Vessell
“Good” and “Bad” Urban Wildlife, Gad Perry, Clint Boal, Robin M. Verble, and Mark Wallace
Characterization of the IS200/IS605 Insertion Sequence Family in Halanaerobium Hydrogeniformans, Michael Sadler, Melanie R. Mormile, and Ronald L. Frank
Status of the Blackstripe (Fundulus notatus) and Blackspotted (F. olivaceus) Topminnows in the Ozark uplands of Central Missouri, Nathaniel Steffensmeier, Naznin Sultana Remex, Robert Hrabik, and David D. Duvernell
Bioactive Borate Glass Triggers Phenotypic Changes in Adipose Stem Cells, Nathan J. Thyparambil, Lisa C. Gutgesell, Bradley A. Bromet, Lauren E. Flowers, Samantha Greaney, D. E. Day, and Julie A. Semon
Adult Stem Cell Response to Doped Bioactive Borate Glass, Nathan J. Thyparambil, Lisa C. Gutgesell, Cassandra C. Hurley, Lauren E. Flowers, D. E. Day, and Julie A. Semon
Differential Cytotoxicity Induced by Transition Metal Oxide Nanoparticles is a Function of Cell Killing and Suppression of Cell Proliferation, Larry M. Tolliver, Natalie J. Holl, Fang Yao Stephen Hou, Han-Jung Lee, Melissa H. Cambre, and Yue-Wern Huang
Modeling the Load of SARS-CoV-2 Virus in Human Expelled Particles during Coughing and Speaking, Yang Wang, Guang Xu, and Yue-Wern Huang
Submissions from 2019
Whole-Genome Identification and Characterization of Bacterial Insertion Sequences using Bioinformatic Tools, Kody A. Bassett, Melanie R. Mormile, and Ronald L. Frank
Toward a Metabolic Theory of Life History, Joseph Robert Burger, Chen Hou, and James H. Brown
Late Pleistocene Range Expansion of North American Topminnows Accompanied by Admixture and Introgression, David D. Duvernell, Eric Westhafer, and Jacob F. Schaefer
Relaxin as an Enhancer of BMP-2 Loaded Hydroxyapatite Microspheres in Bone Regeneration, S. Injamuri, M. N. Rahaman, Y. Shen, and Yue-Wern Huang
Deep Contextualized Biomedical Abbreviation Expansion, Qiao Jin, Jinling Liu, and Xinghua Lu
Near-Field Electrospinning of a Polymer/Bioactive Glass Composite to Fabricate 3D Biomimetic Structures, Krishna C. R. Kolan, Jie Li, Sonya Roberts, Julie A. Semon, Jonghyun Park, D. E. Day, and Ming-Chuan Leu
Bioprinting with Human Stem Cell-Laden Alginate-Gelatin Bioink and Bioactive Glass for Tissue Engineering, Krishna C. R. Kolan, Julie A. Semon, Bradley Bromet, D. E. Day, and Ming-Chuan Leu
Intracellular Delivery of Nanoparticles Mediated by Lactoferricin Cell-Penetrating Peptides in an Endocytic Pathway, Han-Jung Lee, Yue-Wern Huang, and Robert Aronstam
Polyhistidine Facilitates Direct Membrane Translocation of Cell-Penetrating Peptides into Cells, Han-Jung Lee, Yue-Wern Huang, Shiow-Her Chiou, and Robert Aronstam
Algae (Raphidocelis) Reduce Combined Toxicity of Nano-TiO₂ and Lead on C. Dubia, Xuesong Liu, Jianmin Wang, Yue-Wern Huang, and Tao Kong
Invasion Genetics of the Mummichog (Fundulus Heteroclitus): Recent Anthropogenic Introduction in Iberia, Teofilo Morim, Grant R. Bigg, Pedro M. Madeira, Jorge Palma, David D. Duvernell, Enric Gisbert, Regina L. Cunha, and Rita Castilho
Whole-Genome Analysis of Halomonas Sp. Soap Lake #7 Reveals It Possesses Putative Mrp Antiporter Operon Groups 1 and 2, Melanie R. Mormile, Tiffany Edwards, Ronald L. Frank, Zachery Geurin, Julie Haendiges, Maria Hoffmann, and Jesse Miller
The Cell Nucleus As Sensor Of Environmental Pollution: Amyloid, Neurodegeneration And Aging, Aneta Piechulek, Lutz Berwanger, Andrea Scharf, and Anna von Mikecz
Life Span-resolved Nanotoxicology Identifies Nuclear Amyloid, Altered Metabolism And Neurodegenerative Processes In The Nematode Caenorhabditis Elegans, Annette Piechulek, Andrea Scharf, Lutz Berwanger, and Anna von Mikecz
Geometric Effects of Open Hollow Hydroxyapatite Microspheres Influence Bone Repair and Regeneration in Sprague Dawley Rats, Youqu Shen, M. N. Rahaman, Yongxian Liu, and Yue-Wern Huang
