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Optimized Manufacture of Lyophilized Dermal Fibroblasts for Next-Generation Off-the-Shelf Progenitor Biological Bandages in Topical Post-Burn Regenerative Medicine

Alexis Laurent, Corinne Scaletta, Philippe Abdel-Sayed, Murielle Michetti et al. • Biomedicines (2021)

Cultured fibroblast progenitor cells (FPC) have been studied in Swiss translational regenerative medicine for over two decades, wherein clinical experience was gathered for safely managing burns and refractory cutaneous ulcers. Inherent FPC...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3390/biomedicines9081072

The Biomechanical Characteristics of Swallowing in Tracheostomized Patients with Aspiration following Acquired Brain Injury: A Cross-Sectional Study

Xiao-Xiao Han, Jia Qiao, Zhan-Ao Meng, Dong-Mei Pan et al. • Brain Sciences (2023)

Objectives: Investigate the biomechanical characteristics in tracheostomized patients with aspiration following acquired brain injury (ABI) and further explore the relationship between the biomechanical characteristics and aspiration. Metho...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3390/brainsci13010091

Hybrid Dynamic Traffic Model for Freeway Flow Analysis Using a Switched Reduced-Order Unknown-Input State Observer

Yuqi Guo, Bin Li, Matthew Daniel Christie, Zongzhi Li et al. • Sensors (2020)

This paper introduces a new methodology for reconstructing vehicle densities of freeway segments by utilizing the limited data collected by traffic-counting sensors and developing a macroscopic traffic stream model formulated as a switched ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3390/s20061609

All-dielectric metaoptics for the compact generation of double-ring perfect vector beams

Vogliardi Andrea, Ruffato Gianluca, Bonaldo Daniele, Dal Zilio Simone et al. • Nanophotonics (2023)

Perfect vortices, whose ring profile is independent of the topological charge, play a key role in telecommunications and particle micro-manipulation. In this work, we report the compact generation of a new kind of double-ring perfect vortic...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1515/nanoph-2023-0555

Compression and Tensile Testing of L-PBF Ti-6Al-4V Lattice Structures with Biomimetic Porosities and Strut Geometries for Orthopedic Implants

Dimitri P. Papazoglou, Amy T. Neidhard-Doll, Margaret F. Pinnell, Dathan S. Erdahl et al. • Metals (2024)

In an effort to contribute to the ongoing development of ASTM standards for additively manufactured metal lattice specimens, particularly within the field of medicine, the compressive and tensile mechanical properties of biomimetic lattice ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3390/met14020232

Sensitivity Analysis and Uncertainty Quantification of Nanoparticle Deposition from Tongue Morphological Variations

Tiancheng Yang, Xiuhua Si, Jinxiang Xi • Life (2024)

The human tongue has highly variable morphology. Its role in regulating respiratory flows and deposition of inhaled aerosols remains unclear. The objective of this study was to quantify the uncertainty of nanoparticle deposition from the va...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3390/life14030406

Numerical Simulation of an Intramedullary Elastic Nail: Expansion Phase and Load-Bearing Behavior

Giulia Pascoletti, Filippo Cianetti, Giovanni Putame, Mara Terzini et al. • Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology (2018)

The Marchetti-Vicenzi's nail is an intramedullary device where six curved nails are kept straight by a closing ring in order to allow their insertion into the medullary canal of a long bone; in a following step, these nails stabilize the fr...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3389/fbioe.2018.00174

Evaluation of joint and muscle function of paediatric upper and lower extremities

Mohamed Afifi, Mohamed Afifi, Muhammad Uba Abdulazeez, Muhammad Uba Abdulazeez et al. • Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology (2025)

Road traffic crashes are the leading cause of injuries, disabilities, and fatalities for children and young adults. Extremity joint injuries have been identified as one of the contributing factors to chronic disabilities among children in r...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3389/fbioe.2025.1667865

Ethical and social implications of approaching death prediction in humans - when the biology of ageing meets existential issues

Marie Gaille, Marco Araneda, Clément Dubost, Clémence Guillermain et al. • BMC Medical Ethics (2020)

Abstract Background The discovery of biomarkers of ageing has led to the development of predictors of impending natural death and has paved the way for personalised estimation of the risk of death in the general population. This study inten...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1186/s12910-020-00502-5

Comprehensive analyses of m6A regulators and interactive coding and non-coding RNAs across 32 cancer types

Sipeng Shen, Ruyang Zhang, Yue Jiang, Yi Li et al. • Molecular Cancer (2021)

Abstract N6-Methyladenosine (m6A) is an RNA modification that interacts with numerous coding and non-coding RNAs and plays important roles in the development of cancers. Nonetheless, the clinical impacts of m6A interactive genes on these ca...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1186/s12943-021-01362-2

Assessment of polygenic architecture and risk prediction based on common variants across fourteen cancers

Yan Dora Zhang, Amber N. Hurson, Haoyu Zhang, Parichoy Pal Choudhury et al. • Nature Communications (2020)

In cancer many gene variants may contribute to disease etiology, but the impact of a given gene variant may have varied effect size. Here, the authors analyse summary statistics of genome-wide association studies from fourteen cancers, and ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-16483-3

Modeling antiretroviral therapy adherence among people living with HIV: a cross-sectional study at Pantang Hospital, Ghana

Eric Nyarko, Irene A. Kretchy, Grace Lovia Allotey-Babington, Adwoa Oforiwaa Kwakye et al. • BMC Infectious Diseases (2026)

Abstract Background Poor adherence to antiretroviral therapy (ART) continues to undermine HIV treatment outcomes in sub-Saharan Africa, including Ghana. Objective This study aimed to quantify ART treatment adherence among people living with...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1186/s12879-026-13836-z

Metabolomic sweet spot clock predicts mortality and age-related diseases in the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging

Olga Vishnyakova, Joosung Min, Stephen Leach, Xiaowei Song et al. • Communications Medicine (2026)

Abstract Background Chronological age does not capture individual health or resilience. Advances in metabolomics have enabled development of molecular aging biomarkers that capture deviations between biological and chronological age, highli...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1038/s43856-026-01375-2

Entropy Measures for Plithogenic Sets and Applications in Multi-Attribute Decision Making

Shio Gai Quek, Ganeshsree Selvachandran, Florentin Smarandache, J. Vimala et al. • Mathematics (2020)

Plithogenic set is an extension of the crisp set, fuzzy set, intuitionistic fuzzy set, and neutrosophic sets, whose elements are characterized by one or more attributes, and each attribute can assume many values. Each attribute has a corres...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3390/math8060965

Extremes of Product of Gaussian Random Variables

Džiugas Chvoinikov, Svyatoslav Novikov, Jonas Šiaulys • Axioms (2026)

We investigate the asymptotic behavior of the product of Gaussian random variables, with a focus on tail probabilities. Although sums of normal variables are well understood through classical limit theorems, their products exhibit significa...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3390/axioms15060425

Impossibility of universal work extraction from coherence: reconciling axiomatic and resource-theory approaches

Samuel Plesnik, Maria Violaris • New Journal of Physics (2024)

We compare how the impossibility of a universal work extractor from coherence arises from different approaches to quantum thermodynamics: an explicit protocol accounting for all relevant quantum resources, and axiomatic, information-theoret...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/ad7f7c

Two additions to the Iberian myrmecofauna: Crematogaster inermis Mayr, 1862, a newly established, tree-nesting species, and Trichomyrmex mayri (Forel, 1902), an emerging exotic species temporarily nesting in Spain (Hymenoptera, Formicidae)

Alice Casiraghi, Xavier Espadaler, Nicolás Pérez Hidalgo, Kiko Gómez • Journal of Hymenoptera Research (2020)

Exotic ants are a growing component of urban and disturbed habitats worldwide. Sampling in two Iberian Mediterranean localities revealed several exotic species. The tree-nesting, black acrobat ant Crematogaster inermis Mayr, 1862, has been ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3897/jhr.78.51858

Effet de l'illumination proche infra-rouge intracérébrale chez des primates MPTP

Fannie Darlot, Cécile Moro, Napoléon Torres‑Martinez, Claude Chabrol et al. • Revue de Primatologie (2015)

La maladie de Parkinson (MP) est une maladie neurodégénérative chronique affectant le système dopaminergique et se traduisant par une perte des neurones dopaminergiques (DA) de la substance noire compacta (SNc) et des faisceaux nigro-striés...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.4000/primatologie.2073

The effect of chili pepper-Chinese chives intercropping on rhizosphere microorganisms and root-stem endophytes

Nan Sun, Nan Sun, Yuxin Wang, Yuxin Wang et al. • Frontiers in Microbiology (2025)

IntroductionThis study adopted the intercropping pattern opepper (Capsicum annuum L.) and Chinese chives (Allium tuberosum), combined with high-throughput sequencing and microbial network analysis, to systematically reveal the mechanisms of...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2025.1716326

Identifying Key Factors Associated with the Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Fish Assemblages in Subtropical River-Type Reservoir Ecosystems: Implications for Fishery Management and Conservation

Chengjie Yin, Rongzhen Zhang, Zewen Feng, Xiaoning Shi et al. • Animals (2026)

Characterizing the spatiotemporal patterns of fish communities in subtropical river-type reservoirs provides useful baseline information for fisheries stewardship and aquatic ecosystem monitoring. This work investigated fish assemblages acr...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3390/ani16182892