Abstract: A cartridge for an aerosol-generating system is provided, the cartridge including: a porous ceramic body having a porosity of between 30% and 65%; and a mesh heater engaged with the porous ceramic body, the mesh heater including a plurality of apertures, each aperture having a dimension between 50 microns and 200 microns, in which the mesh heater is a hybrid mesh heater including a network of wires and fibres, the fibres having a different material composition from the wires. An aerosol-generating system, including an aerosol-generating device and the cartridge, is also provided.

Abstract: A system is provided, including an aerosol-generating device including a heating chamber to receive an aerosol-generating article of a first type, the article including an aerosol-forming substrate; and an adapter element to be inserted into the heating chamber and configured to have an outer shape to be at least partly inserted into the chamber, the adapter element having a cavity extending along a longitudinal axis of the adapter element, the cavity being configured so that an aerosol-generating article of a second type having a diameter that is smaller than a diameter of the article of the first type is insertable into the cavity and thereby into the heating chamber, and the adapter element including a detection element configured to enable identification, by the device, of a type of the adapter element inserted into the heating chamber. A set of adapter elements, a kit, and a method are also provided.

Abstract: An electrically operated aerosol-generating system is provided, including a main unit and a tubular aerosol-generating article. The main unit includes a heating portion disposed at an outer surface of the main unit. The heating portion includes one or more electric heaters. The tubular aerosol-generating article includes a tubular aerosol-forming substrate and an inner passage, wherein the inner passage is configured to receive the heating portion of the main unit. The one or more electric heaters of the heating portion of the main unit are arranged to heat the tubular aerosol-forming substrate when the tubular aerosol-generating article is received on the heating portion of the main unit. The aerosol-generating system further includes means to determine that the tubular aerosol-generating article is received on the heating portion of the main unit.

Abstract: A container for consumer goods is provided, including a housing to receive a plurality of consumer goods and including an aperture to dispense consumer goods from the housing. First and second sealing flaps extend across the aperture and are biased towards each other to form a seal across the aperture for sealing the plurality of consumer goods within the housing. The container includes a dispensing mechanism to dispense the plurality of consumer goods through the aperture when activated by a consumer, the dispensing mechanism configured so that actuation of the dispensing mechanism advances one of the consumer goods between the first and second sealing flaps and through the aperture. The first and second sealing flaps are configured so that they are biased towards each other after each of the consumer goods is dispensed so that the consumer goods remaining in the housing are re-sealed within the container.

Abstract: A capsule (120) for use in a smoking article includes a liquid sensory enhancing material; and a shell surrounding the liquid sensory enhancing material. The shell has an outer surface rendered hydrophobic by hydrophobic groups covalently bond to the outer surface of the shell. The shell may be rendered hydrophobic by reacting hydroxyl groups at outer surface of the shell with fatty acid halides to covalently attach fatty acid moieties to the surface of the capsule.

Abstract: An electrically operated aerosol-generating system configured to detect an adverse conditions, such as a dry heater or an unauthorized type of heater, is provided, including an electric heater including at least one heating element configured to heat an aerosol-forming substrate, a power supply, and electric circuitry connected to the electric heater and to the power supply and comprising a memory, the electric circuitry being configured to determine the adverse condition when a ratio between an initial electrical resistance of the electric heater and a change in electrical resistance from the initial resistance is greater than a maximum threshold value stored in the memory or is less than a minimum threshold value stored in the memory, and to limit power supplied to the electric heater, or to provide an indication to a user, if there is the adverse condition.

Abstract: An electrically operated aerosol-generating system is provided, including a device and a removable cartridge including an aerosol-forming substrate, an electrically operated vaporizer, and first electrical contacts connected to the vaporizer, the device including a main body defining a cavity configured to receive the cartridge, an electrical power source, second electrical contacts connected to the electrical power source and a mouthpiece portion, which, in a closed position, retains the first electrical contacts on the cartridge in contact with the second electrical contacts on the device. By providing a device and cartridge based system in which the device includes a main body and a mouthpiece portion, the components for the cartridge can be simplified as compared to known cartomizer type cartridges.

Abstract: There is provided an aerosol generating system configured to heat an aerosol-forming substrate, the system including an aerosol generating device and a cartridge, a vaporizer configured to heat the aerosol-forming substrate to form an aerosol, at least one air inlet and at least one air outlet. The air inlet and the air outlet are arranged so as to define an air flow route between the air inlet and the air outlet. The aerosol generating system further includes a flow control configured to adjust a size of the at least one air inlet, so as to control an air flow speed in the air flow route.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a composition or composition of bilayer lipid vesicles displaying an influenza virus antigen and carbohydrate, and the production thereof in Nicotiana tabacum plants. Also disclosed herein are pharmaceutical compositions comprising said lipid vesicles for use in the treatment or prophylaxis of viral infections.

Abstract: Systems and methods are directed to computerized methods and one or more computer processors for quantifying the perturbation of a biological system in response to an agent. A set of treatment data corresponding to a response of a biological system to an agent and a set of control data are received. A computational causal network model represents the biological system and includes nodes representing biological entities, edges representing relationships between the biological entities, and direction values representing the expected direction of change between the control data and the treatment data. Activity measures are calculated and represent a difference between the treatment data and the control data, and weight values are calculated for the nodes. A score for the computational model is generated representative of the perturbation of the biological system to the agent and is based on the direction values, the weight values and the activity measures.