IMAGE: Representative fluorescence lifetime images of this sensor in response to glutamate uncaging to simulate plasticity in single synapses. Warmer colors indicate lower fluorescence lifetime, corresponding to a higher activity. view more In an increasingly connected world, translators and interpreters play a key role in the exchange of ideas and information. They serve the vital purpose…
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IMAGE: Graphic depiction of the process of using cobalt- and manganese-doped nanoparticles to kill tumors via magnetic hyperthermia. view more CORVALLIS, Ore. — Researchers at Oregon State University have developed an improved technique for using magnetic nanoclusters to kill hard-to-reach tumors. Magnetic nanoparticles — tiny pieces of matter as small as one-billionth of a meter —…
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Of Balmain’s Theme Park PARIS — A crystal ball prediction: The real money in the future of fashion will be spectacles and theme parks. Tyra Banks had it right. Like “America’s Next Top Model,” Ms. Banks’s widely syndicated and entirely unrealistic game show, her proposed new attraction Modelland appears to be a logical next step…
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Last Thursday, at Nightingale Plaza, a trendy club in West Hollywood, fans of Megan Thee Stallion wore sashes bearing the phrase “Cognac Queen” (the title of one of her songs) and waited for the rapper to arrive for the night’s event: a pageant of sorts. Though rap may be a male-dominated arena where women are…
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A federal judge on Tuesday issued a permanent injunction against U.S. Stem Cell, a Sunrise, Fla., clinic accused of blinding three patients by injecting a fat extract into their eyes. The company is just one of hundreds of businesses that have sprung up around the country offering to treat a wide array of illnesses with…
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WASHINGTON — There’s an old maxim about the press, sometimes attributed to H.L. Mencken: “Journalism is to politician as dog is to lamp post.” That’s why eyebrows were raised last night when the dogs hosted a party for a lamp post, with some of journalism’s loudest barkers gathering for Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the outgoing White…
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The drugmaker AbbVie said on Tuesday that it planned to buy Allergan, the maker of Botox, for about $63 billion, in one of the biggest mergers in the health care industry this year. The deal represents a classic response to a perennial drug industry challenge: how to recover when a blockbuster drug is losing its…
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Arnold JerockiGetty Images A 500-meter hot pink ribbon rolled down the middle of a beautiful lavender field in Provence, France to serve as the runway for Jacquemus’s 10-year-anniversary show, just miles away from designer Simon Porte Jacquemus’s stomping grounds. The bright pink runway coupled with the idyllic setting spoke to the playful, countryside chic aesthetic…
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