Poop Transfer – Past, Present, And (No) Future
The topic is delicate (although this already is a misnomer), as most people shiver if they are not disgusted hearing for the first time what…
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Whole Blood Assay – An Innovative Approach Targeting Research On Inflammasomes
The general idea that our immune system consists of an innate and adaptive part is well-known nowadays. Even though basic mechanisms and pathways of our…
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Food-Caching And Spatial Cognition: Harsher Winters Favor More Caching And Better Cognitive Abilities
One of the large questions in the study of the evolution of animal cognition is why there is large variation both among and within species…
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Next Generation Industrial Biotechnology: An Alternative To Costly Chemical Procedures
Industrial biotechnology aims to use bioprocessing of sustainable agriculture products, such as starch, fatty acids and/or cellulose, to produce bulk chemicals including polymeric materials and…
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Developments In Piezoelectric Nanogenerators
Acceleration sensors play a crucial and essential role in many fields, such as large mechanical structure testing, national defense, transportation, auto industry, biomedical devices, and…
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Antidepressant Discontinuation Syndrome
Depression is a highly prevalent, severely debilitating mental disorder that affects nearly 5% of the global population, and has a high risk of relapse. Commonly…
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Using Hansen Solubility Parameters To Reduce Permeation In Clay
Ancient humans have long used pottery as their main containers for storing food and as a cooking device even before the Neolithic period. These potteries…
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Policies And Market Uncertainty: Exploring The Impact On Renewables Adoption
There is a wide international consensus on the need to limit global warming. This is evident from the 195 countries who have adopted a binding…
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Observational Learning Is A Vital Factor In Shaping Complex Behaviors
Among the multiple ways to learn behaviors, from classical conditioning to insight learning, observational learning is among the most powerful learning strategies. It allows animals,…
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Commonly-Used General Anesthetic Causes Gastrointestinal Tract Motility Complications
Modern general anesthesia was successfully used only one hundred and sixty years ago, but nowadays we can’t imagine surgery operations without it. From the wide…
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A Novel Class Of Anti-Cancer Drugs
Most current anti-cancer drugs are not very specific for killing cancer cells. They preferentially kill cancer cells because they kill fast-growing cells, and cancer cells…
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