Health

The brain is a fascinatingly complex organ, responsible for all that we do and experience. The brain is so complex that even to simply discuss…
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“The physician must … have two special objects in view with regard to disease, namely, to do good or to do no harm” (Hippocratic Corpus,…
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Plants produce and build up triacylglycerol (TAG, familiar to most people as vegetable oils) in their seeds as a main carbon and energy resource for…
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Human life has always depended on natural resources. Nature provides our housing, food, fragrances, and oils, and is our pharmacy. It remains the basis of…
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Medicine, like other areas of human activity, is full of paradoxes. Unfortunately, paradoxes in medicine are often associated with wrenching cost – human lives. While…
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Noncompressible torso hemorrhage (NCTH) is a significant cause of mortality in both civilian and military settings. NCTH is a high-grade injury present in the pulmonary,…
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RNA transcription in eukaryotic organisms occurs in the nucleus of the cell where the cell’s DNA is located. In prokaryotic organisms that lack a membrane-bound nucleus,…
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A human body contains about 37 trillion (3.7 X 1013) cells [1] that originated from a single zygote. This developmental process is precisely controlled by…
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The difference between nucleosides vs. nucleotides involves the presence or absence of a phosphate group. A nucleoside consists of a nucleobase and a sugar (ribose…
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In recent decades, there has been a significant increase in clinical efforts to develop bone anabolic agents that enhance bone regeneration by stimulating the activity…
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Accurate visualization is critical for cancer surgery.  A large portion of the Oncologic surgeon’s task is distinguishing normal tissue from cancer. The goal is to…
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