Frost stress severely affects agriculture and agroforestry worldwide. Although many studies
about frost hardening and resistance have been published, most of them focused on the …

Extremotolerant organisms and industry exploit sugars as desiccation protectants, with
trehalose being widely used by both. How sugars, in general, and the hydrolytically stable …

The rapid development of flexible, self-powered wearable electronic devices has put forward
more stringent requirements on the material design of sensors. However, the material …

Lactulose, as a prebiotic, can be utilized by human gut microbiota and stimulate their growth.
Although microbiota modulation has become an emerging approach to manage many …

Trimethylamine-N-oxide (TMAO) and urea are metabolites that are used by some marine
animals to maintain their cell volume in a saline environment. Urea is a well-known …

Ice formation and recrystallization exert severe impairments to cellular cryopreservation. In
light of cell-damaging washing procedures in the current glycerol approach, many …

In the last decades, Mars has been widely studied with on-site missions and observations,
showing a planet that could have hosted life in the past. For this reason, the recent and …

The long-term cryopreservation of cells, tissues and organs is limited by both osmotic stress
and ice injury during freezing or thawing. Introduction of biocompatible cryoprotective agents …

Protein aggregation into amyloid fibrils is a phenomenon that attracts attention from a wide
and composite part of the scientific community. Indeed, the presence of mature fibrils is …

Chronic overexposure to manganese (Mn) has been verified to induce mitochondrial
dysfunction, which is related to oxidative damage. The autophagic‐lysosomal degradation …