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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
IMAGE: CD40 receptor clustering driven by CD40 ligand or anti-CD40 antibody, 341G2 with the human IgG2 (h2) isotype. Jurkat cells expressing full length hCD40-green fluorescent protein (GFP), were treated with 10… view more Credit: University of Southampton Scientists from within the Antibody and Vaccine Group at the University of Southampton have gained novel insights into how…