Hydroxyapatite is a very interesting ceramic that has been explored recently for various biomedical applications ranging from bone pastes and cements to tissue scaffolds due to its biodegradability and biocompatibility. ...

Resistance to existing antimicrobial agents is a global threat to human health care, and new drugs with novel mechanisms of action are required in order to keep pace with the emergence of drug resistant pathogens. The ...

Instabilities in cardiac repolarization, presented as T-wave alternans (TWA) in the ECG, are a known precursor of re-entrant cardiac arrhythmias, e.g. ventricular tachycardia (VT) and ventricular fibrillation (VF). ...

Anxiety and depression are highly comorbid, and mechanisms of their co-occurrence remain largely unclear. Several longitudinal studies suggest that anxiety disorders tend to temporally precede depression, but few comorbidity ...

Local adaptation in widely-dispersed marine species may result from strong selection on multiple life history traits that differ among populations. This results in unique sets of traits that maximize fitness of individuals ...

The angiotensin II type 1 (AT₁) receptor is a G protein coupled receptor that is highly active in various cardiac disease states. Both the AT₁ receptor and its primary effector, angiotensin II (A2), ...

The blue light using flavin (BLUF) domain proteins are a novel class of photosensors that bind flavin noncovalently in order to sense and respond to high intensity blue (450 nm) light. The transcriptional antirepressor ...