A reversible, reaction-based sensor for biological mobile zinc was designed, prepared, and characterized. The sensing mechanism of this probe is based on the zinc-induced, ring-opening reaction of spirobenzopyran to give a cyanine fluorophore that emits in the deep-red region of the electromagnetic spectrum. This probe is not activated by protons and operates efficiently in aqueous solution at ...

The deprotection of a common precursor moiety in dithiolene chemistry was discovered to be fully reversible, which, besides being relevant for researchers working in very different fields with these non-innocent ligand systems, may even have an impact on CO2 housekeeping, as the deprotected ligand acts as an efficient trap.

The hydrophilic, conducting, biocompatible and porous scaffolds were designed using poly(2-hydroxy ethyl methacrylate)-co-poly(N-isopropylacrylamide)-co-poly(ε-caprolactone) (P(HEMA-b-NIPAAm-b-CL))/polyaniline (PANI) for the osteoblast applications. To this end, the PHEMA and P(HEMA-b-NIPAAm) were synthesized via reversible addition of fragmentation chain transfer (RAFT) polymerization, and in ...

There has been an increasing use of both solid metal and microfabricated iridium electrodes as substrates for various types of electroanalysis. However, investigations to determine heterogeneous electron transfer rate constants on iridium, especially at an electron beam evaporated or dc magnetron sputtered surface, have not previously been performed. This paper compares the results of these mic...

Herein we report the development and biological screening of a bioorthogonal palladium-labile prodrug of the nucleoside analogue floxuridine, a potent antineoplastic drug used in the clinic to treat advanced cancers. N-propargylation of the N3 position of its uracil ring resulted in a vast reduction of its biological activity (~6,250-fold). Cytotoxic properties were bioorthogonally rescued in c...

Azobenzene-functionalized ABA triblock copolymers with controlled molecular weights are prepared first via a sequential ring-opening metathesis polymerization and acyclic diene metathesis polymerization in one-pot, which are readily converted, by a facile esterification, to the modified ABA triblock copolymers. Then, these reactive triblock copolymers can spontaneously self-assemble in a select...

Projection methods are a standard approach for the numerical solution of differential equations on manifolds. It is known that geometric properties (such as symplecticity or reversibility) are usually destroyed by such a discretization, even when the basic method is symplectic or symmetric. In this article, we introduce a new kind of projection methods, which allows us to recover the time-rever...

Partitioning automata (PA) are de ned. They are equivalent to cellular automata (CA). Reversible sub-classes are also equivalent. A simple, reversible and universal partitioning automaton is described. Finally, it is shown that there are reversible PA and CA that are able to simulate any reversible PA or CA on any con guration.

The diagnosis of therapy-related myelodysplastic syndrome (t-MDS) in the absence of increased myeloblasts or cytogenetic abnormalities is challenging. The presence of ring sideroblasts (RS) in this setting is often used to support the diagnosis of t-MDS. In this study, we reviewed 843 patients initially classified as therapy-related myeloid neoplasm in our hospital over 10 years. Nineteen (2.3%...

In this paper, we present a new, optimization-based method to exhibit cyclic behavior in non-reversible stochastic processes. While our method is general, it is strongly motivated by discrete simulations of ordinary differential equations representing non-reversible biological processes, in particular molecular simulations. Here, the discrete time steps of the simulation are often very small co...