Science BulletinPub Date : 2025-06-16DOI: 10.1016/j.scib.2025.06.011
Ashish Dahal, Ravindra Uppaluri, Jonathan D Schoenfeld
{"title":"Proliferative T-regulatory cells as a biomarker for immune checkpoint inhibitor efficacy in nasopharyngeal carcinoma: a new frontier.","authors":"Ashish Dahal, Ravindra Uppaluri, Jonathan D Schoenfeld","doi":"10.1016/j.scib.2025.06.011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scib.2025.06.011","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":421,"journal":{"name":"Science Bulletin","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":18.8,"publicationDate":"2025-06-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144525848","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 : 2025-06-16DOI: 10.1016/j.scib.2025.06.014
Quanming Lu, Yukang Shu, Cong Chang, San Lu, Rongsheng Wang
{"title":"The rate of magnetic reconnection in non-steady state.","authors":"Quanming Lu, Yukang Shu, Cong Chang, San Lu, Rongsheng Wang","doi":"10.1016/j.scib.2025.06.014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scib.2025.06.014","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":421,"journal":{"name":"Science Bulletin","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":18.8,"publicationDate":"2025-06-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144551590","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}
{"title":"Injectable self-healing hydrogels loaded with islet-integrated microfiber scaffolds for islet transplantation in diabetes mellitus.","authors":"Zhikun Huan, Jingbo Li, Xinyue Cao, Minhui Lu, Yunru Yu, Ling Li","doi":"10.1016/j.scib.2025.06.016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scib.2025.06.016","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Current research on islet transplantation is aimed at prolonging the survival time and enhancing the functionality of the transplantation system. Owing to the good biocompatibility of hydrogels and their ability to provide mechanical support and immunological isolation of islet cells, hydrogel encapsulation of islets offers an innovative solution for islet transplantation. In this work, inspired by the extracellular matrix structure of the pancreatic islets, an injectable self-healing hydrogel loaded with islet-integrated microfiber scaffolds was constructed for islet transplantation. The short microfiber was fabricated by introducing a gaseous phase into microfluidic spinning, causing the continuous microfibers to break into short segments due to bubble rupture. These short microfibers provide mechanical support for pancreatic islets and can be integrated into a self-healing matrix to form a vascularized hydrogel through Schiff base bonding of oxidized sodium alginate aldehyde groups with carboxymethyl chitosan amino groups. With the loading of human umbilical vein endothelial cells and vascular endothelial growth factor, this composite is both injectable and provides mechanical support for the grafts, extends islet survival time, and improves islet function. In vivo experiments further confirm that this bioinspired composite system minimizes implantation-associated trauma while promoting neovascularization at the graft site in diabetic rodents, thereby achieving prolonged glycemic control compared to non-vascularized systems. These findings demonstrate that this hierarchically structured multifunctional graft platform has substantial research value and extensive therapeutic potential in the fields of cell therapy and tissue engineering for the treatment of diabetes and related diseases.</p>","PeriodicalId":421,"journal":{"name":"Science Bulletin","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":18.8,"publicationDate":"2025-06-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144558721","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}
{"title":"Parvalbumin interneurons are essential for tonotopy strength in the auditory cortex.","authors":"Xiaojing Tang, Zhikai Zhao, Longhui Li, Jie Tao, Yiheng Chen, Mahiber Polat, Zhiqi Yang, Zhihao Wei, Shanshan Liang, Kuan Zhang, Xiang Liao, Hongbo Jia, Sunny C Li, Xiaowei Chen","doi":"10.1016/j.scib.2025.06.020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scib.2025.06.020","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Tonotopy, the spatial organization of neurons based on their sound frequency responses, is a fundamental feature of the auditory pathway, extending from the cochlea to the auditory cortex. While excitatory neurons have been considered necessary for tonotopy in the cortex, the role of inhibitory interneurons remains unclear. Using a novel two-channel widefield Ca<sup>2+</sup> imaging system, the 2-Channel Alternating exposure wide-Field Explorer (2-CAFE), we simultaneously measured the sound responsiveness of distinct neuron types in awake mice. Combined with two-photon imaging, we observed that GABAergic interneurons followed a similar tonotopic organization to the conventional auditory maps at both mesoscale and single-cell resolutions. Among the major interneuron subtypes-parvalbumin (PV), somatostatin (SST), and vasoactive intestinal peptide (VIP)-PV interneurons demonstrated a critical role in maintaining tonotopy. Inactivation of PV neurons, but not VIP or SST neurons, significantly weakened the tonotopic strength in the auditory cortex. These findings establish PV interneurons as essential components of auditory cortical tonotopy.</p>","PeriodicalId":421,"journal":{"name":"Science Bulletin","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":18.8,"publicationDate":"2025-06-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144566917","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 : 2025-06-16DOI: 10.1016/j.scib.2025.05.046
Juan Li, Shanshan Yang, Pete Smith, Jiayi Li, Xiling Gu, Huangyu Huo, Yuxi Wei, Liqing Zhao, Minghan Yu, Jinzhi Ding
{"title":"Peak accumulation of soil organic carbon in the early Holocene.","authors":"Juan Li, Shanshan Yang, Pete Smith, Jiayi Li, Xiling Gu, Huangyu Huo, Yuxi Wei, Liqing Zhao, Minghan Yu, Jinzhi Ding","doi":"10.1016/j.scib.2025.05.046","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scib.2025.05.046","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Soil holds significant potential to mitigate atmospheric CO<sub>2</sub> concentrations through the sequestration of organic carbon, yet its contribution to fluctuations in atmospheric CO<sub>2</sub> over the Holocene has been a matter of much speculation. Here we explored analyses of 5190 radiocarbon data and 442,737 content observations of soil organic carbon (SOC) to visualize the global abundance-persistence spectrum of SOC and its depth distribution. We found that the present-day soil carbon pool began to accumulate since the Late Pleistocene and reached its peak accumulation in the early Holocene, approximately 8-10 thousand years ago. High-latitude regions contain significant amounts of ancient carbon, even in shallow soil layers, with maximum sequestration driven by post-glacial vegetation recovery and peatland development, which contributed to reducing CO<sub>2</sub> and temperature fluctuations during the early Holocene. However, higher temperatures correspond to suppressed carbon accumulation in the Holocene, implying that ongoing global warming may further deplete soil carbon pools and threaten the sustainability of soil carbon sequestration.</p>","PeriodicalId":421,"journal":{"name":"Science Bulletin","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":18.8,"publicationDate":"2025-06-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144537628","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}