What does training look like such that one’s improvisation can be experienced as spontaneous? In this paper, I explore how the aesthetics of “freestyle” in street dance are constituted by empirically achieved bodily ...

Violinists rely on violin crafters, or luthiers, to adjust their instruments’ acoustics. To do so, luthiers not only alter violins’ material forms but also talk with violinists about perceived and desired timbres—qualities ...

What if linguistic anthropological studies of sensory evaluation began not with wine connoisseurship but with scat identification? Focusing on Sino-Tibetan community-science collaborations on the Tibetan Plateau, this paper ...

Antofine is a naturally occurring phenanthroindolizidine alkaloid with potent antiproliferative activity against a broad range of cancer cells. Despite its remarkable cellular potency, the therapeutic development of antofine ...

Three phloroglucinol derivatives, aspidinol B (1), aspidinol P (2), and methylene-bis-aspidinol B (3), together with one flavonoid, angophorol (4), were isolated from Athyrium yokoscense (Athyriaceae). The isolated compounds ...

The canonical Wnt/β-catenin signaling pathway is aberrantly activated in most colorectal cancers and is therefore regarded as an attractive molecular target for the discovery of anticancer agents from natural products. In ...

As part of ongoing efforts to discover fungal-derived antibacterial and anticancer natural products, a soil-derived fungal strain (Penicillium sp.) was identified as a hit based on its antibacterial activity against ...

Artemisia iwayomogi Kitamura is a well-known medicinal plant widely utilized in traditional medicine for its various pharmacological properties. In this study, phytochemical investigation of the aerial parts of A. iwayomogi ...

Encoding the receptor for hepatocyte growth factor (HGF), the proto-oncogene c-Met represents one of the tyrosine kinases most commonly found to be dysregulated across human cancers, and has consequently emerged as a ...

A glucan-rich polysaccharide, designated LEP-1, was isolated from the fruiting bodies of Lentinula edodes by hot-water extraction followed by ion-exchange chromatography. Monosaccharide analysis revealed glucose as the ...