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The Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces mourns for the loss of a long-standing founding director.
Flexible Brain-Machine Interface
High-density stretchable electrode grids based on a material that can resolve high spatiotemporal neural signals from the surface of the cortex in freely moving rats with stable recording quality during 3 months of implantation.
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A team of Chinese researchers investigated the plasma-induced inactivation behavior of several bacteria without and with the presence of chloride.
PROTACs: Eliminating Disease-Causing Proteins
PROTACs (proteolysis-targeting chimeric molecules): A review and discussion of the technique and its application to therapies and drug discovery.
Using BIG Data to Innovate Cancer Solutions
Cancer Reports Poster Prizes: Cancer Genomics and Mathematical Data Analysis Symposium
Printing Wearable Graphene Sensors
Graphene sensors with high-resolution features are produced on flexible tapes for wearable electronics via a simplified drop-cast-and-transfer process.
Optic Imaging to Understand the Healing of Diabetic Wounds
A team of North American researchers demonstrated a label-free and more direct way to observe and quantify microvascular and metabolic healing mechanisms, and the biological response to a topical treatment, utilizing a multimodal microscope equipped with OCT and FLIM.
Ann NY Acad Sci Special Issue: The Year in Diabetes and Obesity
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences has published this year’s installment of the annual reviews series The Year in Diabetes and Obesity, edited by Rexford Ahima (The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine).
Deep Brain Stimulation Therapies in Parkinson’s Disease
From individual neuron models to cutting-edge control approaches, the evolution of computer methods for deep brain simulation (DBS) can lead to personalized DBS therapy.
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