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April 19, 2019
04/03/2019
Biomechanical Engineering
Verros and co-workers report a non-intuitive control interface for a trunk orthotic device for subjects with Duchenne muscular dystrophy that can be easily used to perform daily tasks.
Image credit: Stergios Verros
04/09/2019
Psychiatry
Tahir and colleagues use a machine learning based system to identify non-verbal speech cues that can be used as indices of the negative symptoms of schizophrenia.
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04/15/2019
Microbiome
Biehl and colleagues find that deep rectal swabs for microbiome sampling are a reliable alternative to stool samples
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03/27/2019
Sport and Exercise Science
Using muscle biopsies from elite weightlifters, Nathan Serrano and colleagues investigate the basic muscle biology that explains the ability to generate high force in short timeframes.
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04/10/2019
Vaccinology
Mesa and colleagues identify sequences that may define the transition from neutralization sensitive to resistant envs.
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04/12/2019
EVERYONE BLOG
Recent research from Philip Stark and his team shows that there is plentiful source of edible greens in several East San Francisco Bay Area cities. In this blog, Glenn Jackson revisits the study to highlight their findings.
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04/03/2019
Cardiovascular Biology
Ramon Serrano and co-workers found that a smooth muscle cell-specific cross-talk between TG2 and XBP1 – two proteins involved in different cellular stress responses – has protective effects on vascular injury.
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04/08/2019
Gerontology
Lys and co-workers find that depressive symptoms decrease with aging, despite worsening physical health during this period, suggesting that clinicians should not consider depression in elderly populations as an inevitability of aging.
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04/08/2019
smart materials
Low molecular weight ε-caprolactone-p-coumaric acid copolymers as potential biomaterials for skin regeneration applications.
Image credit: Marco Contardi
04/11/2019
Dermatology
Pinto and colleagues find differences in the bacterial scalp microbiome in patients with Alopecia
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04/03/2019
Animal Behavior
Ordóñez-Gómez and colleagues investigate acoustic variation in "whinnies" of 35 free-ranging adult Ateles geoffroyi to determine the effect of isolation on contact calls.
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