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Enhancing Legged Robot Locomotion Through Smooth Transitions Using Spiking Central Pattern Generators
(Biomimetics 2025, 10 (6), 2025-06)In this work, we propose the integration of a mechanism to enable smooth transitions between different locomotion patterns in a hexapod robot. Specifically, we utilize a spiking neural network (SNN) ... -
Assessing neurological and cardiovascular effects caused by pharmaceuticals in river water: Insights from Daphnia magna and Danio rerio embryos
(Chemosphere 2025, 385, 2025-09)Pharmaceutical residues in surface waters are an emerging environmental and public health issue, yet their biological impacts on aquatic life remain poorly understood. This study presents a cost-effective ... -
Exploring the Role of Artificial Intelligence in Precision Photonics: A Case Study on Deep Neural Network-Based fs Laser Pulsed Parameter Estimation for MoOx Formation
(Advanced Photonics Research 2025, 6 (6), 2025-06)Ultrafast pulsed laser technology presents unique challenges and opportunities in material processing and characterization for precision photonics. Herein, an experiment is conducted involving the use ... -
Automated tool for cylindrical glass container blow and blow mold design
(International Journal of Applied Glass Science 2025, 16 (3), 2025-07)The manufacture of perfumery bottles using the blow-and-blow technique necessitates iterative design and production of intermediate or preparation molds to achieve an appropriate thickness distribution. ... -
Single particle ICP-MS: a tool for the characterization of gold nanoparticles in nanotheranostics applications
(Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry 2024, 39 (10), 2508-2513, 2024-10-01)Nanotheranostics aims to perform a premature and non-invasive diagnosis combined with therapy focused on the specific place where the disease is by using nanomaterials. To evaluate the ability to penetrate ... -
An Orthogonally Clickable and Stimuli-Responsive Poly(β-amino ester) for the Co-delivery of Doxorubicin and BCL-2 siRNA
(ACS Applied Polymer Materials 2025, 7 (11), 7013–7024, 2025-06-13)A potent drug delivery system (DDS) based on poly(β-amino ester)s (pBAEs) to tackle multidrug resistance (MDR) in lung cancer by codelivering siRNA targeting antiapoptotic BCL-2 and doxorubicin (DOX) ... -
N-Acetylcysteine-Amide Protects Against Acute Acrylamide Neurotoxicity in Adult Zebrafish
(Toxics 2025, 13 (5), 362, 2025-05)Acrylamide (ACR) is a potent neurotoxicant that disrupts cellular redox homeostasis by depleting reduced glutathione (GSH) and inducing oxidative stress. Despite its well-characterized mechanism, no ... -
Protein flexibility drives sugar rotation and high substrate promiscuity in a GDP-sugar 4-epimerase
(Research Network of Computational and Structural Biotechnology 2025, 27, 2375-2385, 2025)UDP-galactose 4-epimerases (Gal4Es) catalyze the inversion of the 4-hydroxyl configuration of a sugar moiety from an NDP-sugar through a three-step process: oxidation, rotation and reduction. Despite ... -
Polymer-based coating of adeno-associated viral particles as a new strategy to evade immune response for DMD treatment
(Journal of Controlled Release 2025, 384, 2025-08-10)Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is a severe genetic disorder caused by mutations in the dystrophin gene, leading to progressive muscle degeneration. Gene therapy using adeno-associated virus (AAV) ... -
What Makes Help Helpful? Some Thoughts on Ethics of Solidarity Through George Orwell’s Writings
(Ramon Llull Journal of Applied Ethics. 2018(9):137-53, 2017-10-16)Organisations that offer personal services, whether this be a law firm or a hospital, may be extremely good at offering technical solutions to people, but when it comes to offering recognition, this ... -
Subir a por aire (1939), o la infrapolítica según George Orwell
(Política y Sociedad. 2018;55(2):383-398, 2017-07-04)George Orwell expuso los mecanismos de opresión del individuo bajo los regímenes totalitarios. Su influencia, tanto en la teoría política como en la vida cotidiana, ha sido indiscutible. Sin embargo, ... -
Ammonium trifluoroborate-modified poly(β-aminoesters): A case study for PET-guided in vivo pharmacokinetic studies of a non-viral gene delivery system
(Journal of Controlled Release. 2023;358:739-751, 2023-05-27)Nucleic acid-based therapies have become a game-changing player in our way of conceiving pharmacology. Nevertheless, the inherent lability of the phosphodiester bond of the genetic material with respect ... -
9-Aryl-phenalenones: Bioinspired thermally reversible photochromic compounds for photoswitching applications in the pico-to milliseconds range
(Dyes and Pigments 2021, 186, 2021-02)Ultrafast photochromic molecules are being actively investigated to meet the demand for fast optical switching systems. Inspired on the irreversible cyclization of 9-phenylphenalenone plant metabolites ... -
In Vivo Retargeting of Poly(beta aminoester) (OM-PBAE) Nanoparticles is Influenced by Protein Corona
(Advanced healthcare materials, 2021;8(19):e1900849, 2019-09-02)One of the main bottlenecks in the translation of nanomedicines from research to clinics is the difficulty in designing nanoparticles actively vectorized to the target tissue, a key parameter to ensure ... -
Delivery of Anti-microRNA-712 to Inflamed Endothelial Cells Using Poly(β-amino ester) Nanoparticles Conjugated with VCAM-1 Targeting Peptide
(Advanced healthcare materials, 2021;10(15):e2001894, 2021-01-14)Endothelial cells (ECs) are an important target for therapy in a wide range of diseases, most notably atherosclerosis. Developing efficient nanoparticle (NP) systems that deliver RNA interference (RNAi) ... -
Towards Novel Photodynamic Anticancer Agents Generating Superoxide Anion Radicals: A Cyclometalated IrIII Complex Conjugated to a Far-Red Emitting Coumarin
(Angewandte Chemie International Edition 2019, 58 (19), 2019-05-06)Although cyclometalated IrIII complexes have emerged as promising photosensitizers for photodynamic therapy, some key drawbacks still hamper clinical translation, such as operability in the phototherapeutic ... -
Hybrid Silver Nanocubes for Improved Plasmon-Enhanced Singlet Oxygen Production and Inactivation of Bacteria
(Journal of the American Chemical Society 2019, 141 (1), 684–692, 2018-01-09)Plasmonic nanoparticles can strongly interact with adjacent photosensitizer molecules, resulting in a significant alteration of their singlet oxygen (1O2) production. In this work, we report the next ... -
Absolute environmental sustainability assessment of emerging working fluids in organic rankine cycles
(ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering 2025, 13(18), 6685–6695, 2025-05-12)New working fluids (WFs) have been recently proposed to enhance the environmental performance of Organic Rankine Cycles (ORCs) in waste heat recovery systems. However, a critical gap remains in the ... -
Surface plasmon resonance effect on laser trapping and swarming of gold nanoparticles at an interface
(Optical Express 2020, 28 (19), 27727, 2020-09-14)Laser trapping at an interface is a unique platform for aligning and assembling nanomaterials outside the focal spot. In our previous studies, Au nanoparticles form a dynamically evolved assembly outside ... -
NanoSOSG: A Nanostructured Fluorescent Probe for the Detection of Intracellular Singlet Oxygen
(Angewandte Chemie International Edition 2017, 56 (11), 2017-03-06)A biocompatible fluorescent nanoprobe for singlet oxygen (1O2) detection in biological systems was designed, synthesized, and characterized, that circumvents many of the limitations of the molecular ...