Electrostatic interactions underpin self-assembly, stability, and recognition between biological molecules. The natural environment mediating these interactions is complex, containing many ions, ...

The walls of the cell where Christopher Havens was serving a 25-year murder sentence were covered in notebook paper. The sheets filled with numeric and Greek scratchings had quickly overwhelmed his ...

Stroke has been the leading cause of disability due to the induced spasticity in the upper extremity. The constant flexion of spastic fingers following stroke has not been well described. Accurate ...

Large spines are stable and important for memory trace formation. The majority of large spines also contains synaptopodin (SP), an actin-modulating and plasticity-related protein. Since SP stabilizes ...

In this paper we present a laboratory experiment in which 157 secondary-school students learned the concept of function with either static representations or dynamic visualizations. We used two ...

Contributed by Thomas J. R. Hughes, September 23, 2016 (sent for review August 27, 2016; reviewed by Krishna Garikipati and Ellen Kuhl) We perform a tissue-scale, personalized computer simulation of ...

The fetus has an absolute requirement for the n-3/n-6 fatty acids and docosahexaenoic acid (22:6 n-3; DHA) in particular is essential for the development of the brain and retina. Most of the fat ...