I was 67 and waiting for the judge to decree the end of my 35-year marriage. To the world, by which I mean the world of women, it seemed that the intervening decades had made me all but invisible. In my mind, women did not merely walk past me but through me, as if I…
We’re looking for a few new voices. Maybe yours? The New York Times is inviting college students nationwide to write an essay that tells the plain truth about what love and relationships are like for them today. In previous contests, which attracted thousands of entries from students at hundreds of colleges and universities, the winning…
IMAGE: Mark Basham, project coordinator for the citizen science project demonstrates how to spot viruses. This will help train Artificial Intelligence systems! view more Credit: Diamond Light Source, 2019 Today sees the launch of an innovative Citizen Science Project by Diamond Light Source, the UK’s national synchrotron science facility.The project uses a crowdsourcing model to call…
IMAGE: A laser shining onto an untethered, ultrasmall carbon fiber electrode to stimulate neurons via the photoelectric effect. view more Credit: J. Mater. Chem. B, 2015,3, 4965-4978 – Reproduced by permission of The Royal Society of Chemistry. PITTSBURGH (February 15, 2019) … Neural stimulation is a developing technology that has beneficial therapeutic effects in neurological disorders,…
Dublin, Tuesday, February 12th, 2019 – Researchers from Trinity College Dublin have become the first to describe a model of mitochondrial epilepsy which raises hope for better therapies for patients with this incapacitating condition. Their paper has been published in BRAIN, the peer-reviewed international journal of neurology. Mitochondrial disease is one of the most common…
VIDEO: This movie depicts the conformational changes that accompany SUMO E1 binding to COH000. Selected structural elements are labeled and regions of the enzyme that become disordered in the SUMO… view more Credit: Medical University of South Carolina, courtesy of Dr. Shaun Olsen A research team at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) has discovered…
IMAGE: These are highlights of the new issue of the Cardiovascular Innovations and Applications Journal (Volume 3 Issue 3). view more Credit: Compuscript 2019 The journal Cardiovascular Innovations and Applications (CVIA) has just published a new issue, Volume 3 Issue 3. This is a Special Issue on Stable Ischemic Heart Disease with major articles by leading…
VIDEO: Dae Hyuk Moon, M.D., discusses a new nuclear medicine tracer that may allow better diagnosis of acute venous thromboembolism (VTE). Acute VTE is a disease that includes deep-vein thrombosis and… view more Credit: Kim C, Lee JS, Han Y, et al. A first-in-human study featured in the February issue of The Journal of Nuclear Medicine…
Results from the NRG Oncology clinical study NRG-RTOG 0415 determined that a hypofractionated radiotherapy schedule (H-RT), a treatment schedule that delivers a total dose of radiotherapy over a shorter period of time, is not worse than the conventional radiotherapy schedule (C-RT) in terms of bowel, bladder, sexual, and general quality of life (QOL) as well…
IMAGE: MyPal aims to investigate the use of apps and electronic games created and adapted specifically to the personal needs of patients. view more Credit: Lancaster University Lancaster University is sharing in a €4m project to use gaming technology to improve the care of both adults and children with cancer. The project – called “MyPal: Fostering…