6 Podcasts for Pet Owners
These shows will help you to appreciate your bond with your furry friends, learn more about how their brains work and navigate the challenges of spending less time with them as the world reopens.
All’s Fair in Love and (Civil) War
Lucy Mills Hochman and Adam Allen Gillenwater’s love is a battlefield. A historical battlefield, that is. Ms. Hochman and Mr. Gillenwater, both 31, met in the fall of 2015 working for the American Battlefield Trust, a nonprofit organization focused on the restoration of battlefields from the Civil War, the War of 1812 and the Revolutionary…
Her Prescription for Love? ‘Divine Organization’
Though Dr. Jennifer Berman devoted her life to urology and studying women’s sexual health, she made room for “divine organization.” A 2018 “Oprah” episode on manifesting love inspired her to scribble down traits of an ideal mate, even how he would look, “although that wasn’t a big part of it,” she said. After a high-conflict…
Crossing Paths Until They Became a Couple
Even with a population of nearly 700,000, Washington can still seem like a small town, as Dr. Noemie Levy and Graham Gottlieb discovered. The two met in March 2012, outside a yogurt shop at 10 or 11 p.m., when a close friend of Dr. Levy, who was also a grade-school friend of Mr. Gottlieb, waved…
Why Won’t Anyone Help Me in This Sex Shop?
I didn’t see what the problem was. I’m a perfectly respectable woman who knows what she wants and has the ability to pay for it. At 83, I may be a little older than most, and legally blind, but generally speaking, people are pleased to welcome me into their shops and boutiques and promptly move…
Acta Pharmaceutica Sinica B Volume 11, Issue 6 publishes
IMAGE: Celebrating 10 Years of Acta Pharmaceutica Sinica B view more Credit: Acta Pharmaceutica Sinica B In 2021 Acta Pharmaceutica Sinica B (APSB) is celebrating its 10th anniversary. The journal was founded with the goal of creating a global high-level forum centred around drug discovery and pharmaceutical research/application. APSB was included by Chemical Abstracts in 2011,…
Scientists discover key player in brain development, cell communication
IMAGE: Two astrocyte neighbors communicating with each other and many other cells in the mouse brain. view more Credit: Baldwin Lab, UNC School of Medicine CHAPEL HILL, NC – When we think of the brain, we think of neurons. But much of the brain is made of non-neuronal cells called glial cells, which help regulate brain…
An educational intervention can help vapers use their e-cigarettes to quit smoking
TAMPA, Fla. — E-cigarettes spark many concerns, especially when it comes to youth vaping. However, emerging evidence suggests that e-cigarettes can be a helpful tool in smoking cessation. Researchers in Moffitt Cancer Center’s Tobacco Research and Intervention Program wanted to build upon this evidence by testing whether they could help dual users, people who use…
Scientists discover how dengue vaccine fails to protect against disease
CHAPEL HILL, NC – Developing a viable vaccine against dengue virus has proved difficult because the pathogen is actually four different virus types, or serotypes. Unless a vaccine protects against all four, a vaccine can wind up doing more harm than good. To help vaccine developers overcome this hurdle, the UNC School of Medicine lab…
Structural biology reveals new opportunities to combat tuberculosis
IMAGE: The mycobacterial ESX-5 secretion system is located in the bacterial inner membrane and consists of six units, which assemble into a symmetrical structure with a pore at the centre. view more Credit: Isabel Romero Calvo/EMBL Tuberculosis is one of the top ten causes of death worldwide, infecting about one-quarter of the world’s population. Although it…