Inhibiting Ferroptosis — A New Hope For Intracerebral Hemorrhage Therapy
Strokes can be divided into two main subtypes — ischemic and hemorrhagic. Ischemic stroke is the more common type and is caused by a blockage…
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Investigating The Effects Of Retrograde Blood Flow In Hypertension
The endothelium, which is the inner cell layer of our vessels, is heavily associated with the maintenance of cardiovascular health. In health conditions, the endothelium…
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The Blind Spot – Reducing Knowledge Gaps In Urban Poverty With Earth Observation Interacting With Structured And Unstructured Geodata
We live in a period of one of the largest human migrations ever: the shift from rural to urban environments, resulting in an urbanized world…
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Modeling Frazil And Anchor Ice
During cold weather, water may become supercooled. When the water body is well mixed, supercooling may penetrate to a significant depth, even all the way…
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Clustering By Shared Subspaces: A New Framework For Data Analysis
Clustering is a fundamental data analysis technique with applications in engineering, medical and biological sciences, social sciences, and economics. For example, clustering could be used…
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Life Without Light – Traces Of Chemosynthesis In Microbially-Formed Minerals And Rocks
Approximately 4 billion years ago, the first life on Earth used energy from the oxidation of reduced chemical compounds – a mode of biomass production…
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Laser Welding Of Mg-Ti Dissimilar Metals With The Assistance Of Al And Ni Elements
Lightweight structures have been in high demand in the automotive and aerospace industries in recent years, aiming to improve fuel efficiency and reduce gas emissions…
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Fossil Beetles From Cretaceous Amber Show New Insights Into Early Plant-Insect Relationships
Coleoptera, commonly known as “beetles,” with about 400,000 species, is the largest order in nature, constituting almost 40% of described insects and 25% of all…
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On The Shoulders Of Giants, Part 2: Stewart Wolf And The Pharmacology Of Placebos
In comparison to Henry Beecher’s much-cited paper, “The Powerful placebo,” of 1955 (1), Stewart Wolf’s paper, “The pharmacology of placebos,” of 1959 (2) is today almost…
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Increasing Pressures On The Alpine Ecosystem Along The Qinghai-Tibet Railway In Tibet
The central Qinghai-Tibet Plateau (QTP), from Geermu (Golmud) in the Qinghai Province to Lhasa in the Tibet Autonomous Region, features important engineering infrastructures, including the…
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Towards The Engineering Of Living Cells That Mimic Computers
Synthetic biology is challenging our current conception at multiple levels with an unprecedented potential. The aim is the (re)engineering of gene regulatory circuits to end…
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