All multicellular organisms experience various kinds of injuries during their growth. Repair and regrowth of lost body parts is a general phenomenon across the kingdoms. In animals, the repair mechanisms are lineage-specific, ...

The realm of spin 1 quantum systems remains relatively uncharted compared to their spin ½ counterparts. They exist at the delicate borderland between quantum and classical physics, displaying moderate quantum fluctuations ...

Several cellular physiological functions rely on naturally occurring ion channels, membrane- embedded proteins that permit ions to flow across cell membranes. This controlled flow of ions across the membranes balances the ...

Abstract: Totipotency is a hallmark of plants, where entire shoots/roots can be formed de novo from undifferentiated callus in response to external inductive cues. Interestingly, during de novo shoot organogenesis, only a ...

Nuclei, like electrons, are quantum mechanical objects. However, their heavy mass usually results in a short de Broglie wavelength. Hence, the nuclei are usually highly localized and behave as classical particles. Nevertheless, ...

Polarity reversal in the soil bacterium Myxococcus xanthus is regulated by a cascade of proteins depending on extracellular signals. MglA, a prokaryotic small Ras-like GTPase, is the master regulator of this motility. MglA ...

The main motivation of all the works included in this thesis is to design and synthesize of functional porous materials for different sustainable applications. In the domain of porous materials, metal-organic frameworks ...

Sustainable chemical synthesis have gained much attention in 20th century. Catalytic reactions to construct the complex organic molecules and drugs with the high selectivity, eliminate the byproduct, avoid the multistep ...

MreB, the bacterial ancestor of eukaryotic actin, determines the shape of most of the rod-shaped bacteria. Until now, functional studies for MreBs have been carried out for cell-walled rod-shaped bacteria. MreB filaments ...

Layered two-dimensional materials (2D) have aroused huge research interest since the breakthrough of graphene. Prominent among them are the transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs), with distinct optical, electrical, and ...