‘This Old House’ Turns 40

While filming a 40th anniversary special for “This Old House” recently, Bob Vila, the show’s original host, stopped to consider why, after all these years, people still can’t seem to get enough of home improvement shows. “This Old House,” which began chronicling home renovations in 1979, was one of the first such shows to air…

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Estimating gender biases among health care professionals, surgeons

What The Study Did: This study used measures of implicit and explicit biases to assess how health care professionals associated men and women with career and family, and how surgeons associated men and women with surgery and family medicine. Authors: Arghavan Salles, M.D., Ph.D., of Washington University in St. Louis, is the corresponding author. (doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2019.6545)…

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Caspase-1 initiates apoptosis, but not pyroptosis, in the absence of gasdermin D

IMAGE: Recently, it has been demonstrated that activated caspase-1 induces pyroptosis, inflammatory and necrosis-like programmed cell death, although it was previously thought to induce apoptosis. It was not known why caspase-1… view more  Background Most unnecessary or dangerous cells such as virus-infected cells commit suicide by activating an in-built suicide program. This type of cell death…

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