Current Chinese Science - Volume 1, Issue 3, 2021

Background: Typhoid fever is a major health burden in Sub-Saharan Africa. Conventional anti-typhoid drugs are becoming more and more unavailable to most patients in Africa due to the increased costs and emerging drug resistance. Therefore, there is a need for the discovery of new antimicrobial agents to combat typhoid fever. Objective: This work aimed to investigate the bioactive components in Cyperus sphacelatu Read More

Background: All-optical processing has a huge superiority in speed and efficiency than traditional optical-electrical-optical signal processing. Four-wave-mixing is an important nonlinear parametric process to achieve all-optical processing. Objective: We proposed the photonic crystal waveguide to enhance the conversion efficiency of four-wave-mixing significantly in practical application. Methods: We demonstrated a waveguide Read More

Background: although solution-processed small molecular organic semiconductors have attracted great attention for organic electronic applications, the intrinsic crystal misorientation of the organic semiconductors still remains a challenging issue. Objective: two benzoic acid-based additives, i.e. 4-propylbenzoic acid (RBA) and 4-octylbenzoic acid (OBA), were employed to regulate the crystal growth and charge trans Read More

Background: Unmanned systems have been widely used in multiple fields. Many algorithms have been proposed to solve path planning problems. Each algorithm has its advantages and defects and cannot adapt to all kinds of requirements. An appropriate path planning method is needed for various applications. Objective: To select an appropriate algorithm swiftly in the given application. This could be helpful for improving the Read More

Background and Aim: This study aims at the advancement of extra-ordinary biomedical data (genomics, proteomics, metabolomics, drug libraries, and patient care data), evolution of supercomputers, and continuous development of new algorithms that lead to a generous revolution in artificial intelligence (AI). Currently, many biotech and pharmaceutical companies made reasonable investments in and have co-operation with A Read More

Background: The genus Tripos, formerly known as marine species of Ceratium, is the dinoflagellate with the greatest number of species and infraspecific taxa (~800) due to the high morphological intraspecific variability of numerous species. In the past, the species of Tripos were proposed into distinct genera. Objective: To propose an infrageneric classification and to review the taxonomy and nomenclature of eac Read More

Background: Ancestral recapitulation of the Zika virus from Uganda, Africa, an epidemic in American territories since 2015, was reported by CDC, 2016. To date, there is no specific vaccine or drug for the Zika virus. Objective: The study aims to identify the potential inhibitors that have the capability to be effective against Zika virus. Natural and FDA-approved anti-viral drug molecules are utilized through the drug repurposin Read More

Natural products have always been used in medicine for the discovery of new biological molecules against different types of human disorders. Crude drugs have been used in different systems of medicine, including Traditional Chinese Medicine and the Ayurvedic System of Medicine. From ancient time to this modern age, special emphasis has been given to the traditional knowledge of plants based products for the develop Read More