Understanding Obesity One Adipocyte At A Time
As the rate of obesity and overweight increases worldwide at an alarming rate, the quest goes on to find new therapeutics targeting obesity-associated disorders, including…
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Overweight: Growing Influence Of Genes With Aging
Researchers have shown that the influence of genes changes during the first years of life. In childhood, there are other factors in particular that affect…
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On/Off Switching During The Synthesis Of Complex Sugars
Glycosylation is the ubiquitous, highly-regulated process by which carbohydrate is added to proteins and lipids to form glycoconjugates (glycans). These carbohydrate portions of glycans can…
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ORC Technology For Residential Applications
The last decades of worldwide social, economic, and technological developments have led to an increase in the number of people requesting energy-consuming living amenities. This…
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Toward An Accurate Understanding Of Radiative Heat Transfer In Advanced Nuclear Reactors
Heat transfer is governed by three mechanisms: conduction, convection, and thermal radiation. Conventionally, thermal radiation is often neglected in heat transfer analyses since, under most…
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Combination Of Life Cycle Thinking And Environmental Communication To Improve Our Pro-Environmental Behavior
Municipal solid waste (MSW) is the waste that we produce in our home. It is mainly composed of putrescible and many recyclable materials, such as…
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How Do We Make Sense Of -omic Datasets? A Strategy Integrating Gene Perturbation And Computational Analysis May Help
Neurological disorders remain one of the last frontiers of medicine. Available treatments are few; of those that exist, most only mitigate symptoms and do nothing…
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Can A Baby’s Birth Size Tell Us Something About The Late-Life Risk For Dementia And Cognitive Impairment?
There is evidence for long-lasting negative effects of adverse birth characteristics such as low birth weight, short birth length, small head circumference, preterm birth, and…
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Variations In Earth’s Orbital Precession Drove Monsoonal Variability In The Bengal Fan Over The Last 200,000 Years
The monsoon is a tropical climate system with a strong seasonal rain and wind pattern that affects more than 50% of the world’s population. The…
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Within-host Competition Slows Evolution Of Drug Resistance In Malaria
Most cases of malaria can be cured with a simple course of antimalarial drugs, but many of these drugs have lost their effectiveness because the…
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Measuring Long-Term Climate Change In North America During The Common Era
Recent floods and droughts have resulted in billions of dollars of damages and loss of life. The occurrence of these extreme weather events has varied…
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