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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Atrial fibrillation, or AFib, is the most common heart rhythm abnormality. AFib occurs when the top chambers of the heart quiver or “fibrillate” instead of…
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Increasingly, anticancer drugs targeting mutant or fusion proteins found in a patient’s tumor are becoming the gold standard for modern-day cancer treatment. This personalized approach…
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Therapeutic oligonucleotides, such as small interfering RNAs (siRNA), hold great promise for the treatment of genetically-defined disorders, including diseases of the central nervous system (CNS)….
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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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Graphene is a very amazing material for its unique gapless conical band structure, its efficient wide range of light absorption, its high mechanical strength, flexibility,…
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The human immune system is a complex network of cells and soluble factors that can cleverly adapt to combat infection. For example, B cells rearrange…
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What causes asthma? At a time when global rates of asthma have reached alarming rates, this important question remains unanswered. This debilitating disease affects approximately…
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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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Both water and energy are key sustainability issues that need to be addressed. To this end, photocatalysis is advantageous not only for expediting environmental remediation…
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Investigating the birth of the Solar System is a bit like investigating the crime scene of a “cold case,” where the passage of time, here…
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