{"title":"Chirality-engineered nanozymes orchestrate gut microbiota-host metabolism to shield against cardiotoxicity during cancer chemotherapy via the gut-heart axis","authors":"Xiaowan Fan, Shuyu Wang, Yuchen Wang, Shuai Han, Xiaoxi Chen, Yingting Huang, Shanzi Qin, Chengcheng Luo, Ying Wang, Xiyun Yan, Kelong Fan, Shipeng Ning","doi":"10.1016/j.scib.2026.08.083","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.scib.2026.08.083","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Doxorubicin-induced cardiotoxicity remains a critical challenge in cancer chemotherapy, as current strategies rarely balance antitumor efficacy with prevention of systemic side effects. Herein, we develop a chiral amino acid-engineered ruthenium-based nanozyme platform for gut-heart axis-mediated cardioprotection. Systematic screening of 20 amino acids identifies L-Met as the optimal ligand, yielding L-AEN with superior superoxide dismutase- and catalase-like cascade activities and efficient scavenging of ROS and RNS. Chirality engineering further endows L-AEN with markedly enhanced antioxidant performance compared with its D- and DL-counterparts, while maintaining excellent biocompatibility. After enteric encapsulation to form L-AENC, oral administration enables intestinal-targeted release and improves <em>in vivo</em> bioavailability. In a doxorubicin-induced chronic cardiac injury model, L-AENC significantly improves cardiac function, reduces myocardial damage, and suppresses systemic oxidative stress without affecting the antitumor efficacy of doxorubicin. Mechanistically, L-AENC restores gut microbiota homeostasis by enriching beneficial taxa, particularly <em>Muribaculaceae</em>, and reshapes host metabolic profiles, notably involving tryptophan, glutathione, and butyrate metabolism, thereby strengthening gut microbiota-metabolite interactions. Collectively, this work demonstrates that a chirality-engineered nanozyme platform coordinates gut microbiota and host metabolism to protect against chemotherapy-induced cardiotoxicity via the gut-heart axis, highlighting stereochemical engineering as an effective strategy for nanozyme-based therapeutic design.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":421,"journal":{"name":"Science Bulletin","volume":"71 20","pages":"Pages 5264-5280"},"PeriodicalIF":20.7,"publicationDate":"2026-10-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148954627","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"综合性期刊","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Science BulletinPub Date : 2026-10-30Epub Date: 2026-08-26DOI: 10.1016/j.scib.2026.08.073
Liyan Zhao, Shao-Hua Xie
{"title":"Revisiting the role of genetic variants in the prevention of esophageal squamous cell carcinoma","authors":"Liyan Zhao, Shao-Hua Xie","doi":"10.1016/j.scib.2026.08.073","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.scib.2026.08.073","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":421,"journal":{"name":"Science Bulletin","volume":"71 20","pages":"Pages 5112-5114"},"PeriodicalIF":20.7,"publicationDate":"2026-10-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148885604","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"综合性期刊","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Science BulletinPub Date : 2026-10-30Epub Date: 2026-09-08DOI: 10.1016/j.scib.2026.09.019
Cuiyun Liu, Ziyi Xie, Qingbin Li, Huanli Dong
{"title":"Research progress of chiral organic semiconductors for circularly polarized light detectors","authors":"Cuiyun Liu, Ziyi Xie, Qingbin Li, Huanli Dong","doi":"10.1016/j.scib.2026.09.019","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.scib.2026.09.019","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Circularly polarized light (CPL) detectors hold great promise for applications in magnetic recording, spin optical communication, biological sensing, and quantum computation. Conventional CPL detectors, which rely heavily on bulky and complex external optical components, struggle to meet the demands of device integration, miniaturization, flexibility, and high efficiency. Notably, chiral organic semiconductors, possessing an intrinsic capability for direct CPL discrimination, along with advantages such as easily tunable properties, solution processability, and intrinsic flexibility, have emerged as promising candidates for CPL detectors. However, the development of chiral organic semiconductors is facing great challenges due to the intrinsic trade-off between charge carrier mobility and absorption dissymmetry factor within these materials. Encouragingly, tremendous efforts have been devoted to resolving this contradiction, contributing to the development of a series of high-performance chiral organic semiconductors. Representative progress is timely summarized from the perspectives of material innovation, device engineering, and advanced applications. Current challenges and emerging opportunities in the field are also discussed. This review aims to establish clear guidelines for the development of chiral organic semiconductors and foster the advancement of high-performance CPL detectors and their application exploration. We hope this review will inspire broad interdisciplinary interest and accelerate progress in the field of chiral optoelectronics.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":421,"journal":{"name":"Science Bulletin","volume":"71 20","pages":"Pages 5312-5325"},"PeriodicalIF":20.7,"publicationDate":"2026-10-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149056677","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"综合性期刊","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Science BulletinPub Date : 2026-10-30Epub Date: 2026-09-09DOI: 10.1016/j.scib.2026.09.018
Ran Xing, Yatai Men, Yaojie Li, Ke Jiang, Hefa Cheng, Huizhong Shen, Guofeng Shen, Shu Tao
{"title":"Household air pollution associated with different heating approaches in rural Northern China","authors":"Ran Xing, Yatai Men, Yaojie Li, Ke Jiang, Hefa Cheng, Huizhong Shen, Guofeng Shen, Shu Tao","doi":"10.1016/j.scib.2026.09.018","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.scib.2026.09.018","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Household air pollution from solid fuel use remains a major health threat in low- and middle-income regions, yet real-world evidence on affordable transitional energy solutions is limited. While full electrification could eliminate this problem, its high costs remain impractical for the billions who still rely on solid fuels. Here, leveraging China’s Clean Heating Initiative across 948 rural households in the North China Plain, we evaluated pelletized biofuels as a cleaner heating alternative through year-round PM<sub>2.5</sub> monitoring, exposure modeling, and cost-benefit analysis. The annual indoor PM<sub>2.5</sub> concentration was 109 ± 207 μg/m<sup>3</sup>, exceeding WHO guidelines for >90% of the year. Compared with traditional solid fuels, pelletized biofuel use was associated with 20%–30% lower indoor PM<sub>2.5</sub> concentrations, ∼20% lower population exposure, and an estimated 8% lower attributable premature mortality in the study population. The benefit-to-cost ratio ranged from 4.39 to 8.64 for pelletized biofuels, compared with 0.76 to 2.20 for full electrification, with the advantage driven by substantially lower costs. At the regional level, transitioning to pelletized biofuels was estimated to reduce indoor PM<sub>2.5</sub> concentrations and exposure by approximately 10% at a substantially lower cost than electric heating. This study provides large-scale field-based evidence that pelletized biofuels can serve as a cost-effective transitional heating solution for improving indoor air quality, offering actionable insights for other low- and middle-income countries.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":421,"journal":{"name":"Science Bulletin","volume":"71 20","pages":"Pages 5302-5311"},"PeriodicalIF":20.7,"publicationDate":"2026-10-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149056739","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"综合性期刊","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Science BulletinPub Date : 2026-10-30Epub Date: 2026-08-26DOI: 10.1016/j.scib.2026.08.071
Xifeng Lu, Pei Su, Jingxuan Zhao, Xuedong Du, Ge Song, Boxuan Cui, Kexin Chen, Qingrui Zhang, Minghua Zhou
{"title":"Spatial decoupling of electron donation and oxygen capture for efficient endogenous oxygen-driven electrosynthesis of 1O2 in water remediation","authors":"Xifeng Lu, Pei Su, Jingxuan Zhao, Xuedong Du, Ge Song, Boxuan Cui, Kexin Chen, Qingrui Zhang, Minghua Zhou","doi":"10.1016/j.scib.2026.08.071","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.scib.2026.08.071","url":null,"abstract":"<div>Spatially decoupled O<sub>V</sub> and Co sites on the N‑doped carbon interface enable cascade electrosynthesis of <sup>1</sup>O<sub>2</sub> from endogenous oxygen for efficient water remediation. O<sub>V</sub> sites capture and enrich O<sub>2</sub>, while adjacent confined Co clusters provide sustained electron replenishment. This cooperative microenvironment breaks the activity-selectivity trade-off, achieving near 100% <sup>1</sup>O<sub>2</sub> selectivity and 57% oxygen utilization efficiency (OUE) without external aeration.</div><div><span><figure><span><img><ol><li><span><span>Download: <span>Download high-res image (176KB)</span></span></span></li><li><span><span>Download: <span>Download full-size image</span></span></span></li></ol></span></figure></span></div>","PeriodicalId":421,"journal":{"name":"Science Bulletin","volume":"71 20","pages":"Pages 5164-5168"},"PeriodicalIF":20.7,"publicationDate":"2026-10-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148885643","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"综合性期刊","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}