Adoptive T cell transfer, involving the ex vivo expansion of T lymphocytes, is a viable therapeutic approach for both infectious diseases and cancer, with demonstrated efficacy in treating melanoma, Epstein-Barr virus, and HIV-related infections. However, T cell transfer by clonal expansion is not clinically feasible as it does not consistently generate therapeutic quantities of T cells. Effort...

Adoptive T cell transfer, involving the ex vivo expansion of T lymphocytes, is a viable therapeutic approach for both infectious diseases and cancer, with demonstrated efficacy in treating melanoma, Epstein-Barr virus, and HIV-related infections. However, T cell transfer by clonal expansion is not clinically feasible as it does not consistently generate therapeutic quantities of T cells. Effort...

Adoptive T cell transfer, involving the ex vivo expansion of T lymphocytes, is a viable therapeutic approach for both infectious diseases and cancer, with demonstrated efficacy in treating melanoma, Epstein-Barr virus, and HIV-related infections. However, T cell transfer by clonal expansion is not clinically feasible as it does not consistently generate therapeutic quantities of T cells. Effort...

The interaction of fullerenes with biological systems and the environment is a topic of current interest. Coarse-grained molecular dynamics (CGMD) simulations are well-suited to investigate some of the factors involved because they provide access to time and length scales that are not accessible using fully atomistic simulation methods. In the case of buckyballs (C(60)) and single-walled carbon...

The optimization of diamond films as valuable engineering materials for a wide variety of applications has required the development of robust methods for their characterization. Of the many methods used, Raman microscopy is perhaps the most valuable because it provides readily distinguishable signatures of each of the different forms of carbon (e.g. diamond, graphite, buckyballs). In addition i...

Adoptive T cell transfer, involving the ex vivo expansion of T lymphocytes, is a viable therapeutic approach for both infectious diseases and cancer, with demonstrated efficacy in treating melanoma, Epstein-Barr virus, and HIV-related infections. However, T cell transfer by clonal expansion is not clinically feasible as it does not consistently generate therapeutic quantities of T cells. Effort...

Adoptive T cell transfer, involving the ex vivo expansion of T lymphocytes, is a viable therapeutic approach for both infectious diseases and cancer, with demonstrated efficacy in treating melanoma, Epstein-Barr virus, and HIV-related infections. However, T cell transfer by clonal expansion is not clinically feasible as it does not consistently generate therapeutic quantities of T cells. Effort...

Carbon can form numerous allotropes because of its valency. Graphene, carbon nanotubes,capped carbon nanotubes, buckyballs, and nanocones are well-known polymorphs of carbon.Remarkable mechanical properties of these carbon atoms have made them the subject of intenseresearch. Several studies have been conducted on carbon nanotubes or graphene. In the presentstudy, the molecular mechanics method ...

A suspended sheet of pure graphene – a plane layer of C atoms bonded together in a honeycomb lattice – is the “most two-dimensional” system imaginable. Such sheets have long been known to exist in disguised forms – in graphite (many graphene sheets stacked on top of one another), C nanotubes (a graphene sheet rolled into a cylinder) and fullerenes (buckyballs), which are small areas of a graphe...

using different DFT methods including B3LYP/6-31G(d), VWN/6-31G(d), PBE/TZP and PBE/6-31G(d) shows that, contrary to C60 , which prefers D5d symmetry, the ground state of B80 + adopts S6 point group symmetry. A D3d structure is identified as a saddle point among the S6 minima of B80 . The distortion of D3d to S6 in B80 + is attributed to a superposition of Jahn–Teller and pseudo-Jahn–Teller eff...