Artificial Nanodecoys For Hepatitis B
Chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection places patients at high risk of death due to liver cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma, and it remains a global…
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How Math Can Help Us Build Better Drugs
Every one of our bodies contains trillions of cells, each of which plays a specific role to ensure our physiology remains stable, a state called…
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Trading Reproductive Potential For Survival? How Acidification Could Affect A Key Crustacean In The Future Ocean
The climate is changing. This dire scenario is slowly starting to be felt all around the world, with global temperature averages increasing and climate patterns…
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Depression Formation On Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko
Photographs of the nucleus of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko show its unexpected shape: two ellipsoidal blocks called the Head and Body, connected by a “neck.” On the…
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Dodo Bird Meets Goldilocks: Psychotherapy And The Placebo Effect
In Alice in Wonderland (Chapter III, “A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale”), Alice viewed a race among all animals initiated by the Dodo bird. “……
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Bioenergy From Willow Can Help Sweden Become Independent Of Fossil Fuels
The Swedish government has decided that Sweden shall be one of the world’s first fossil-free welfare nations. By 2045, no net greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions…
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What Is The Red Material Found On Uranus’ Moons?
The seventh most distant planet in our Solar System, Uranus, is orbited by the mid-sized regular satellites Miranda, Ariel, Umbriel, Titania, and Oberon (Figure 1)….
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Aqueous Biphasic Systems: The Greener Approach For Separation Of Biomolecules
The separation and recovery of biological molecules from biomass or fermentation media with minimum environmental effect is a tedious task, and developing such efficient and cost-effective…
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How To Be An “Isolated” Researcher In Renewables And Not Die
I am an engineer with a Ph.D. in nuclear technology. I worked in the Argentinean National Atomic Commission for fifteen years, researching fluidized beds, boiling…
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Can A Top-down Freezing Core Explain Ganymede’s Magnetic Field?
The Jovian moon Ganymede possesses an internally generated, present-day magnetic field. This finding was one of the most unexpected ones during the Galileo mission back in…
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Organ Cryopreservation: Nature’s Protocol For Freezing Organs
Every year in Canada, 1600 people are added to the organ transplant waiting list, but there are only 20.9 donors available per million people; as…
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