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  • Indian Women Scientists in Material Sciences, NanoSciences and Nanobiotechnology

    The Indian Women in Science have shown their matte in past, and continuously have an impactful contribution in the advanced research fields with a notable progress in recent time. In the impression of carved out fields of science, the Women Scientists are achieving worthwhile leading achievements with excellent work in the field of Materials Sciences, NanoSciences and Nanobiotechnology. The editors of Journal of Materials NanoScience have created a special issue to cover the diligent research being conducted by women researchers in India/Indian-abroad in materials science, nanoscience, nanobiotechnology, and related smart materials fields.

    The Women Scientists from India/Indian-abroad are invited to publish their research in this special issue towards a perfect collection of reflection of research advances by women researchers in the following fields

    • Materials Sciences * NanoScience * Nanotechnology * Nanobiotechnology * Polymer Science * Solar Energy Materials * Smart Chip Materials * Sensors * Energy Storage Materials * Materials Chemistry * Chemistry Nanomaterials * Nanocatalysis * Biomaterials and Nanobiomaterials * Biomedical Engineering Advances * and All allied fundamental to applied field advances.

    The first author and/or corresponding author must be women.

    Benefits

    • Open Access : all articles published in this issue will be available freely for download, reading and distribution.
    • No publication charges, No article processing charges, no any other charges of any kind for authors (Diamond open access)
    • The expert fast processing and publishing by the editors.
    • The photograph of first/corresponding author on front cover page on the printed journal issue.
    • Free print copy of the journal to all the corresponding authors.

    (An opportunity for recognized research publication, collective information, and possible collaborations in research field)

    Issue Editor

    Dr. Pratima Solanki

    Dr. Pratima Solanki
    Special Center for NanoScience
    Jawahal Lal Nehru University
    Delhi, India

    Abstract Submission

    Interested researchers need to submit their preliminary abstract through form given below:

    Participating Authors

    This is new recent announcement for special collection, the list of participating authors/abstracts will be updated here on finalization of the list. Interested women scholars can submit their abstract through form given above.

    Article submission

    Prepare your manuscript as per the author guidelines provided for the journal and submit the manuscript online on journal site https://pubs.thesciencein.org/journal/index.php/jmns/ (in the cover letter mention for consideration of article for special issue)

    https://pubs.thesciencein.org/journal/index.php/jmns
  • Bio-inspired nanomaterial-based methods for drug and gene delivery

    Even with the recent rapid developments in drug discovery and gene-editing platforms, the delivery remained the bottleneck in their application. Biocompatible, non-toxic, tunable, and sustainable delivery methods will define the trajectory and success rate of many therapeutic outcomes. In this special issue, we will focus on recent progress in the area of bio-inspired nanomaterial-based methods for drug and gene delivery.

    Topic Editor

    This image has an empty alt attribute; its file name is Basudeb%20Maji%2C%20PhD.webpBasudeb Maji, Ph.D.
    Trivedi School of Biosciences &
    Department of Chemistry
    DBT Ramalingaswami Fellow
    Ashoka University, AC03/506/06
    Rajiv Gandhi Education City
    Haryana, IN

    Schedule – The dates

    Article Submission: February 28, 2022
    Issue completion: May 31, 2022

     
    Field – Research area
    Drug Delivery
    NanoMedicine & Biomaterials
    NanoChemistry and Chemistry Materials
    NanoScience Nanotechnology

    Participating Journal

    Applied NanoMedicine – the journal for nanomedicine research publication for Journal of Materials NanoScience

    Article submission

    Authors need to submit their article on the journal site https://pubs.thesciencein.org/journal/index.php/nanomed , register as author and submit. Author guidelines are provided on journal site.

    Lead 20 Program

    This special issue is under the Lead 20 program where leading Young scientists/academicians in the above field with well established lab, good publication record (an online link to citations in form below is required) will be eligible to participate in this compilation. The editor will choose the best leading scholars from all the submitted entries (selection will be at abstract submission level as well as at full article level through peer review.

    Authors / Abstracts

    This is new recent Topic announced, the list of authors/abstracts will be updated here. This is an open invitations for interested researchers to submit the abstract for this topic.

    The abstract details should be forwarded directly to topic editor or editorial office at pubs @ thesciencein (dot) org

  • Mendeley

    Mendeley is the popular citation management program from Elsevier, made available for free.

    In 2021, Mendeley has updated its program and group feature in it has been discontinued. Scholars may download the recent version of Mendeley software from its site and use for inserting the citations in manuscript.

    There are many tutorial videos available on the Youtube that users can watch to learn about ‘how to use Mendeley and insert references in manuscripts’. Just visit youtube and search for term ‘mendeley’ to find the latest new videos.

    The ScienceIn emphasize on the use of Citation Management program for insertion of references in your manuscript for the accuracy of respective references.

    Authors may use Zotaro, Paper2 – open access softwares or
    Mendeley – free software from Elsevier
    or EndNote – paid software from Clarivate.

    Few videos that authors may refer for using Mendeley are

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LJIy0Zua5M

    If you are using Mendeley, then you can directly install the ScienceIn journals style file for formatting the references:

    Mendeley: Open Mendeley desktop > View (top menu) > Citation Styles > More styles.. > go to tab ‘Get more styles’ (in new opened window) > search for the term ‘Integrated Science’ in search box and then click on ‘install’ adjacent to ‘Integrated Science Publishing Journals’ list > style file will be installed > then click on ‘Use this style’ from the installed styles tab and use (this style is common for all ScienceIn Journals).

  • Immunoendocrine regulation of energy homeostasis and male reproduction

    Male reproduction and its intricate neuroimmunoendocrine regulations open a wide scope of scientific interventions. Male infertility, being responsible for about half of the overall global infertility cases, represents a complex pathophysiological mechanism. Crosstalk among the endogenous immune and endocrine mediators may affect male gonadal functions. Since male reproduction is fine-tuned by orchestrated regulation of reproductive hormones and immune regulators, a better understanding of these chemical regulations will potentiate further research in this direction.

    This issue aims to summarize the current knowledge on the hormonal and immunological regulations of male reproductive functions in physiological and pathophysiological conditions of male reproduction.

    Potential topics include but are not limited to the following:

    • Energy homeostasis  and male reproduction
    • Immunoendocrine regulation of male reproductive functions
    • Adipokines and energy metabolism in male fertility
    • Obesity and male infertility: energy imbalance to inflammation
    • Endocrine regulation of epigenetics of reproductive tract inflammation
    • Altered energy metabolism and immune regulation in aged men
    Submission Deadline30th June 2021 15th July 2021
    Publication Date1st Sept 2021

    Issue published, Read the articles at https://pubs.thesciencein.org/journal/index.php/cbl/issue/view/20

    Guest Editors:

    Pallav Sengupta, PhD
    Department of Physiology
    Faculty of Medicine & Biomedical Sciences
    MAHSA University
    [pallav@mahsa.edu.my; pallav_cu@yahoo.com]
    Sulagna Dutta, PhD
    Department of Physiology
    Faculty of Dentistry
    MAHSA University
    [duttasulagna@mahsa.edu.my; sulagna_dutta11@yahoo.com]

    Submission

    Article (Research articles and Review Articles) should be submitted online on the journal site http://www.pubs.thesciencein.org/journal/index.php/cbl as per author guidelines. Authors need to indicate submission to special issue in cover letter to editor.

    Issue published, Read the articles at https://pubs.thesciencein.org/journal/index.php/cbl/issue/view/20

    There is no publication charges for publishing in special issue or in Chemical Biology Letters.

  • Clinical and Pre-Clinical advances in Medicinal Chemistry – Special Issue Chemical Biology Letters

    The medicinal Chemistry, the science concerned with development of new drug molecules, has produced many new drug entities recently which has reached in the clinical trial stages of evaluation. This special issue is meant to cover the research advances in development of new drug molecules and science behind it (including molecular modeling and pharmaceutical science) along with the research advances with new molecules that has shown promising potential to move to clinical applications.

    Medicinal Chemistry fraternity is invited to submit their manuscript (Research Articles, Review Articles, and Short Communications) for publication in the special issue.

    Issue Editors:

    Dr. Brijesh Rathi,
    Associate Editor
    Department of Chemistry, Hansraj College,
    University of Delhi, Delhi-110007. India
    Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.)
    77 Massachusetts Ave. Cambridge, MA 02139, USA EB,
    Dr. Poonam,
    (Assistant Editor: Medicinal Chemistry)
    Department of Chemistry, Miranda House
    University of Delhi New Delhi, India

    Submission

    Article (Research articles and Review Articles) should be submitted online on the journal site http://www.pubs.thesciencein.org/journal/index.php/cbl as per author guidelines. Authors need to indicate submission to special issue in cover letter to editor.

    Submission Deadline October 16, 2021
    Issue Publication November 30 , 2021

    There is no publication charges for publishing in special issue or in Chemical Biology Letters.

    Editor recommended quality articles will be published with Diamond Open Access.

    https://pubs.thesciencein.org/journal/index.php/cbl
  • In vitro anticancer and antitubercular activities of cellulose-magnetite nanocomposite synthesized using deep eutectic solvent as a dispersant

    In the current scenario, Deep Eutectic Solvents (DESs) are persuasive greener solvents for the successful synthesis of different nanostructures due to their tunable properties with enhanced applications. We report here the successful formation of a nanocomposite based on cellulose and magnetite nanoparticles. The method of isolating cellulose from fruit shells of Limonia acidissima (L.) as detailed in the work is described for the first time. Magnetite nanoparticles were synthesized through the cost effective co-precipitation method and DES embracing choline chloride and fructose were used as non-toxic dispersant for the synthesis of cellulose-magnetite nanocomposite. Various physiochemical parameters like compositional, structural, morphological and magnetic properties are analyzed using FTIR, XRD, HRTEM, SAED and VSM techniques. Anticancer and antitubercular activities, performed by MTT and LRP assays respectively, reveals that the IC50 values for cellulose, magnetite and cellulose-magnetite nanocomposite are found to be 20.65 µg/ml, 44.66 µg/ml and 8.685 µg/ml and cellulose-magnetite nanocomposite shows 51.95% inhibition at 200 µg/ml concentration against Mycobacterium tuberculosis. The obtained results suggest that the prepared cellulose-magnetite nanocomposite can serve as a potential candidate for drug designing with the use of green solvents.

    Authors: Swathi Pon Sakthi Sri. V, Mary George

    Published in: Journal of Materials NanoScience

    Link: https://pubs.thesciencein.org/journal/index.php/jmns/article/view/188

  • Biosynthesis of Silver nanoparticles using Olive Wastewater

    Biosynthesis of the metallic nanoparticle is gaining importance because it is a single-step process, nontoxic, environmentally acceptable, and easily scaled up. The present study investigated the biosynthesis of silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) via reacting olive wastewater filtrate (OWF) with silver nitrate, and the formation of AgNPs was confirmed by a color change of the reaction mixture and visible spectrophotometry. Additionally, the influence of pH, reaction time, AgNO3 concentration, temperature, and OWF volume on the proposed method was investigated. It was found that with increasing the mentioned parameters, the formation of the AgNPs was increased under the experimental conditions. The results showed that OWF represented a promising material for the biosynthesis of AgNPs.

    Authors: Abdounasser Albasher Omar, Nawal Abdurazq Ahmad, Mawada Moftah Rajab, Nour Elhoda Berrisha, Amani Almabrouk Alnakkaa, Bushra Adel Alshareef, Rana Rajab Qadmour 

    Published in Journal of Materials NanoScience

    Link: https://pubs.thesciencein.org/journal/index.php/jmns/article/view/243

  • Medicinal applications of Saffron plant in Neurological disorders

    Saffron (Crocus sativus L.) has been widely used in traditional or phytomedicine as a treatment of neurological disorders. The saffron is showing great potential to treat various neurological diseases without any apparent side effects. As there are very limited drugs available for the treatment of neurological diseases, saffron provides hope to treat the brain disorders and conditions such as anxiety, depression, Alzheimer’s disease, and Parkinson’s disease. This brief review deals with medicinal applications of saffron plant towards neurological diseases
  • 1,3,4 Oxadiazole: An emerging scaffold to target different growth factors and kinases

    Five member heterocyclic 1,3,4-oxadiazole derivatives were synthesized and evaluated for their anticancer activity. Compounds containing 1,3,4-oxadiazole ring in their structure are characterised by multidirectional biological activity. The important mechanism behind tumor suppression by 1,3,4-Oxadiazole is related with the inhibition of different growth factors, enzymes and kinases etc. The 1,3,4-Oxadiazole scaffold is a five member heterocyclic ring having versatile activities and created interest for synthetic organic and medicinal chemists for the designing of novel compounds having anti- cancer activity. There are great potential in the development of the simple and small 1,3,4-oxadiazole nucleus which is present in various compounds that possess considerable pharmcological properties such as anticancer and aimed to evaluate new products. The main aim of this review article is to highlight the targeted activity of 1,3,4-Oxadiazole derivatives and their structure activity relationship to generate potential anticancer agents.

    Published in: Chemical Biology Letters

    Link: https://pubs.thesciencein.org/journal/index.php/cbl/article/view/163

  • Treatment of Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM): Can GLP-1 Receptor Agonists fill in the gaps?

    Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is a chronic metabolic syndrome, which occurs due to increased glucose levels in the human body. There has been lot of work in developing novel approaches to tackle this disease. GLP-1 receptor (GLP-1R), one of the class-B G-protein-coupled receptors (GPCR), is a budding molecular target to design drugs for treating type 2 diabetes. In this review, authors have summarized the physiological actions of Glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor (GLP-1R) and current available drugs based on GLP-1 RAs. Some of the exemplary studies in this area have been examined in detail. Authors conclude that development of degradation-resistant, long-acting GLP-1 receptor agonists is a promising area of research and lot of work needs to be done to understand its mechanism of action.

    Published in: Chemical Biology Letters

    Link: https://pubs.thesciencein.org/journal/index.php/cbl/article/view/132