An integrated semiconductor device enabling non-optical genome sequencing

The seminal importance of DNA sequencing to the life sciences, biotechnology and medicine has driven the search for more scalable and lower-cost solutions. Here we describe a DNA sequencing technology in which scalable, low-cost semiconductor manufacturing techniques are used to make an integrated circuit able to directly perform non-optical DNA sequencing of genomes. Sequence data are obtained by directly sensing the ions produced by template-directed DNA polymerase synthesis using all-natural nucleotides on this massively parallel semiconductor-sensing device or ion chip. The ion chip contains ion-sensitive, field-effect transistor-based sensors in perfect register with 1.2 million wells, which provide confinement and allow parallel, simultaneous detection of independent sequencing reactions. Use of the most widely used technology for constructing integrated circuits, the complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) process, allows for low-cost, large-scale production and scaling of the device to higher densities and larger array sizes. We show the performance of the system by sequencing three bacterial genomes, its robustness and scalability by producing ion chips with up to 10 times as many sensors and sequencing a human genome.     

发动机振动主动控制用电磁作动器的设计和动态特性研究

对一种适用于汽车发动机振动主动控制用的新型串接式高能电磁作动器进行了结构设计,计算了作动器的磁场,对作动器的片状弹簧的应力分布进行了有限元分析。同时,建立了作动器的力学模型,对其动态特性进行了仿真分析和试验研究,结果表明作动器是理想的激振源和主动控制用作动器。     

内质网应激对小鼠脂肪组织的影响

为了探究内质网应激对小鼠白色脂肪组织的影响,通过腹腔注射衣霉素(tunicamycin, TM)诱导小鼠体内内质网应激,构建内质网应激小鼠模型,然后获取小鼠附睾处白色脂肪组织,并采用RT-PCR和Western blot检测白色脂肪组织中内质网应激相关因子的mRNA水平及蛋白表达情况,通过荧光显微镜观察白色脂肪组织细胞的变化,测定甘油三酯、游离脂肪酸含量及脂肪细胞因子和炎症因子分泌情况.结果表明：1.0 mg/kg TM处理72 h诱导小鼠内质网应激效果最佳;内质网应激可以导致白色脂肪组织比例减少,脂肪细胞直径减小,脂解反应增多,脂肪细胞因子分泌减少及炎症反应增多等.该研究结果说明内质网应激可以诱导小鼠脂肪组织中发生脂解,进而介导脂代谢紊乱.     

统一碳税和差异化碳税下的再制造绩效评价

分别在无碳税、统一碳税和差异化碳税三种政策下,构建了垄断制造商的利润最大化决策模型,研究实施不同碳税政策对制造商的再制造生产决策、碳排放和社会福利的影响.研究表明:相比于无碳税政策,政府征收碳税减少了制造商的利润和碳排放,在一定条件下有利于提高社会福利;实施碳税政策有利于鼓励更多类型的制造商参与再制造,并且差异化碳税比...     

贵州早寒武世黑色页岩地球化学特征及其意义

贵州早寒武世早期普遍存在一套黑色页岩。通过对麻江羊跳、铜仁、遵义中南、遵义松林小竹、天柱大公塘剖面实地考察与地球化学分析,认为贵州早寒武世黑色页岩是在缺氧环境下,热水沉积为主导,同时受陆源强烈影响,是海水、生物和地球深部物质共同作用下形成的.     

程序性法律错误的救济问题研究

程序性法律错误是判决中存在的一种主要错误类型。程序性法律错误的救济有着与事实认定错误完全不同的救济理念和救济要求。表现在刑事上诉程序中,也体现出不同的救济方式。加强对程序法律错误救济问题的研究,有助于我们正确理解并构建科学合理的刑事上诉程序。     

凯时联合甲钴铵治疗32例糖尿病患者勃起功能障碍

目的:观察脂化前列腺素1(凯时)与甲钴胺联合应用治疗糖尿病患者勃起功能障碍(ED)的疗效。方法:将32例勃起功能障碍的糖尿病患者给予凯时与甲钴胺联合治疗,治疗前后根据国际勃起功能指数表(IIEF-5)患者进行自我评分。结果:32例患者接受凯时与甲钴铵治疗后,患者IIEF-5总评分和各问题的评分均显著高于治疗前(P<0.05或0.01)。结论:凯时联合甲钴铵治疗糖尿病合并ED具有良好的效果。     

CsI高压超导电性的第一性原理

利用基于密度泛函理论的赝势平面波方法计算了高压下CsI的电子能带结构、 电子态密度、 声子谱、 声子态密度以及电子和声子的相互作用, 探讨了CsI在高压下产生超导电性的物理机制. 研究表明, CsI层内的光学振动模式与电子之间的强耦合作用是CsI产生超导电性的主要原因.     

Nuclear Norm Subspace System Identification and Its Application on a Stochastic Model of Plague

The discrete-time model of plague is deduced by zero-order holder based on the continuoustime model. Due to the existence of stochastic disturbances, the stochastic model is given corresponding to the discrete-time model. The state estimation and noise reduction of the stochastic model are achieved by designing Kalman filter. Nuclear norm minimization is to structure the low-rank matrix approximation instead of the singular value decomposition in the process of subspace system identification. According to the plague data from the World Health Organization, the system matrices and noise intensity of the model are identified. Simulations are carried out to show the higher approximation capability of the proposed method.     

Lysosomal chymotrypsin B potentiates apoptosis via cleavage of Bid

We have reported that chymotrypsin B (CtrB) is not just a digestive enzyme but is also stored in lysosomes. Herein, we demonstrated a broad distribution of CtrB and explored the involvement of CtrB in apoptosis. Exposure of RH-35 cells to H₂O₂ or palmitate induced the redistribution of lysosomal CtrB into the cytoplasm as a result of lysosomal membrane permeabilization (LMP). Suppression of CtrB significantly blocked apoptosis, while overexpression of CtrB sensitized apoptosis markedly. CtrB could cleave Bid under neutral conditions. In RH-35 cells with Bid silenced, apoptosis induced by CtrB protein was attenuated, suggesting that CtrB mediates apoptosis of RH-35 cells mainly through processing Bid. Our data also suggest that LMP occurs earlier than mitochondrial outer membrane permeabilization; Bid activation initiated by caspase-8 might be reinforced by CtrB in consequence of LMP, which causes a positive feedback loop leading to the accumulation of tBid, and results in lysosome- and mitochondrion-dependent apoptosis.