Published June, 2014
By Adi Haber
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Adi Haber's thesis summarises the use of a new entity, the corrole, to combat one of the major cardiovascular diseases, atherosclerosis. These results will pave the way for ongoing regulated preclinical studies focussed on the development of metallocorroles as potential drugs for treating cardiovascular diseases.

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Published June, 2014
By Marvin Jens
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The introduction presents post-transcriptional gene regulation from a distinct angle, highlighting aspects of information theory and evolution and laying the groundwork for the questions addressed in the subsequent chapters, which concern the regulation of the transcriptome as the primary functional carrier of active genetic information.

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Published May, 2014
By Jing Yu
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The results in this thesis show that Dopa plays an essential role in mussel adhesion and that mussels delicately control the interfacial redox environment to achieve strong and durable Dopa mediated adhesion.

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Published May, 2014
By Nicola Salvi
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Nicola Salvi's thesis offers a remarkably cogent view of highly sophisticated NMR methods. Salvi developed these methods in order to characterize the amplitudes and frequency ranges of local motions in biomolecules such as proteins.

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Published May, 2014
By Hua Zhang
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From a new perspective, namely focusing on the interaction of selenium and mercury, this thesis provides new insights into traditional research on biogeochemical cycles of mercury in soil-plant interaction and associated human exposure and risks.

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Published April, 2014
By Margarita Puentes Vargas
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This book presents an innovative concept for the realization of sensors based on a planar metamaterial microwave array and shows their application in biomedical analysis and treatment.

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Published March, 2014
By Jianxian Gong
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In this thesis, the author describes the total synthesis of natural product Maoecrystal V in detail. In the third part, the author describes the first successful total synthesis of Maoecrystal V and investigates four strategies for constructing the key tetrahydrofuran oxa-bridge skeleton.

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Published February, 2014
By Colm Duffy
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In this thesis Colm Duffy reviews the chemistry and biology of stable lipoxin analogues. Both routes have inspired further work in the synthesis of further heteroaromatic analogues for biological evaluation.

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Published February, 2014
By Xiao-Yu Sun
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In his thesis, Xiaoyu Sun conducts the first total synthesis of all possible stereoisomers of plakortide E and also confirms the absolute configuration of natural plakortide E.

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Published February, 2014
By Zaozao Qiu
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However, their unique structures make derivatization difficult and the limited efficient synthetic methods to obtain functional carborane materials have restricted applications of carboranes within a narrow scope.

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