Distinct brain circuits explain contradictory behaviors of new weight-loss drugs

Cambridge scientists have solved the mystery of why both stimulating and blocking a particular "switch" in the brain can help ...
techtimes

Germanium Chip Achieves Topological Quantum State at 0.25 Tesla, Cutting Magnet Demands Tenfold

A germanium quantum well has produced a fully spin-polarized quantum Hall state at magnetic fields as low as 0.25 tesla — an order of magnitude below what semiconductor systems have conventionally ...
AppleInsider

MacBook Neo can be modded to run faster, but you probably shouldn't

A thermal pad modification can boost sustained clock speeds in the MacBook Neo under heavy loads, but it's not something that most people should attempt. Every modern processor slows down when heat ...
Variety

‘The Immaculate Room’ Review: Kate Bosworth and Emile Hirsch Imprison Themselves in a White Room for $5 Million

A chicly austere thriller starts as a timely parable of boredom and ends as a banal parable of greed. So what is there to interest the audience? For starters, there are two lively actors, dressed in ...
Frontiers

TF-ChIP Method for Tissue-Specific Gene Targets

Chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP) is an assay developed in order to define the dynamic nature of transcription processes. This method has been widely employed to identify methylated and acetylated ...
Frontiers

High-Density μLED-Based Optical Cochlear Implant With Improved Thermomechanical Behavior

This study reports the realization of an optical cochlear implant (oCI) with optimized thermomechanical properties for optogenetic experiments. The oCI probe comprises 144 miniaturized light-emitting ...
Mother Jones

What If Everything You Knew About Disciplining Kids Was Wrong?

Leigh Robinson was out for a lunchtime walk one brisk day during the spring of 2013 when a call came from the principal at her school. Will, a third-grader with a history of acting up in class, was ...
Nature

Identifying ChIP-seq enrichment using MACS

Model-based analysis of ChIP-seq (MACS) is a computational algorithm that identifies genome-wide locations of transcription/chromatin factor binding or histone modification from ChIP-seq data. MACS ...
Nature

An assessment of histone-modification antibody quality

This December, we celebrate the 100 th anniversary of Albrecht Kossel's 1910 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, which was awarded in part for his discovery of histone proteins 1. In 1964, soon ...
C&EN

Nonthermal Plasma Technology as a Versatile Strategy for Polymeric Biomaterials Surface Modification: A Review

†Polymer Chemistry & Biomaterials Research Group. ‡Research Unit Plasma Technology (RUPT). Article Views are the COUNTER-compliant sum of full text article downloads since November 2008 (both PDF and ...
C&EN

Surface Modification Using Thiol−Acrylate Conjugate Addition Reactions

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