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1. Curbing the major and growing threats from invasive alien species is urgent and achievable

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Roy, Helen E., Pauchard, Aníbal, Stoett, Peter J., Renard Truong, Tanara, Meyerson, Laura A., Bacher, Sven, Galil, Bella S., Hulme, Philip E., Ikeda, Tohru, Kavileveettil, Sankaran, McGeoch, Melodie A., Nuñez, Martin A., Ordonez, Alejandro, Rahlao, Sebataolo J., Schwindt, Evangelina, Seebens, Hanno, Sheppard, Andy W., Vandvik, Vigdis, Aleksanyan, Alla, Ansong, Michael, August, Tom, Blanchard, Ryan, Brugnoli, Ernesto, Bukombe, John K., Bwalya, Bridget, Byun, Chaeho, Camacho-Cervantes, Morelia, Cassey, Phillip, Castillo, María L., Courchamp, Franck, Dehnen-Schmutz, Katharina, Zenni, Rafael Dudeque, Egawa, Chika, Essl, Franz, Fayvush, Georgi, Fernandez, Romina D., Fernandez, Miguel, Foxcroft, Llewellyn C., Genovesi, Piero, Groom, Quentin J., González, Ana Isabel, Helm, Aveliina, Herrera, Ileana, Hiremath, Ankila J., Howard, Patricia L., Hui, Cang, Ikegami, Makihiko, Keskin, Emre, Koyama, Asuka, Ksenofontov, Stanislav, Lenzner, Bernd, Lipinskaya, Tatsiana, Lockwood, Julie L., Mangwa, Dongang C., Martinou, Angeliki F., McDermott, Shana M., Morales, Carolina L., Müllerová, Jana, Mungi, Ninad Avinash, Munishi, Linus K., Ojaveer, Henn, Pagad, Shyama N., Pallewatta, Nirmalie P. K. T. S., Peacock, Lora R., Per, Esra, Pergl, Jan, Preda, Cristina, Pyšek, Petr, Rai, Rajesh K., Ricciardi, Anthony, Richardson, David M., Riley, Sophie, Rono, Betty J., Ryan-Colton, Ellen, Saeedi, Hanieh, Shrestha, Bharat B., Simberloff, Daniel, Tawake, Alifereti, Tricarico, Elena, Vanderhoeven, Sonia, Vicente, Joana, Vilà, Montserrat, Wanzala, Wycliffe, Werenkraut, Victoria, Weyl, Olaf L. F., Wilson, John R. U., Xavier, Rafael O., and Ziller, Sílvia R.

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2024
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5. A Green Light-Activated Insulin Depot with Ultrafast In Vivo Efficiency in the Subcutaneous Space

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Ansong, Michael, Kover, Karen, Shah, Parth, and Friedman, Simon H.

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In this work, for the first time, we demonstrate light control of a therapeutic protein’s release from a depot in the subcutaneous layer of the skin. The subcutaneous layer is a standard location for therapeutic protein depots due to its large size and ease of access, but prior attempts to utilize this space failed because insufficient light can reach this deeper layer. An analysis of existing biophysical literature suggested that an increase of photoactivation wavelength from 365 to 500 nm could allow an increase of depot irradiation in the subcutaneous by >100-fold. We therefore used a green light-activated thio-coumarin-based material and demonstrated robust release of a therapeutic, insulin, in response to skin illumination with an LED light source. We further demonstrated that this release is ultrafast, as fast or faster than any commercially used insulin, while maintaining the native insulin sequence. This release of insulin was then accompanied by a robust reduction in blood glucose, demonstrating the retention of bioactivity despite the synthetic processing required to generate the material. In addition, we observed that the material exhibits slow basal release of insulin, even in the absence of light, potentially through biochemical or photochemical unmasking of insulin. Thus, these materials can act much like the healthy pancreas does: releasing insulin at a slow basal rate and then, upon skin irradiation, releasing an ultrafast bolus of native insulin to reduce postprandial blood glucose excursions.

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2024
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