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Shannon Fischer
Publikováno v:
IEEE Pulse. 8:31-34
Floating in a Petri dish, they look like tiny tapioca pearls in peach broth, a couple dozen in number and none much larger than the tip of a ballpoint pen. But under a microscope, dense, lumpy bodies come into focus, outlined by wispy coronas.
Autor:
Shannon Fischer
Publikováno v:
New Scientist. 233:40-43
In an interview, university professor Lisa Feldman Barrett talks about emotions. Barrett said when the sensations from one's body are very intense, one's brain categorizes them as an emotion. It does this using concepts. To understand how this works,
Autor:
Shannon Fischer
Publikováno v:
New Scientist. 232:28-33
Fischer talks about the values of lives. People may think valuing human life this way is the stuff of darkest history, now confined to the malevolent underworld of human trafficking. They look with shame to an era when a human being could legally be
Autor:
Shannon Fischer
Publikováno v:
IEEE Pulse. 7:13-16
In 2011, the California-based company Genomatica reported its success in rigging Escherichia coli microbes to convert sugar into the industrial chemical 1,4-butanediol (BDO). It was a feat of metabolic engineering: BDO is a key ingredient in the prod
Autor:
Shannon Fischer
Publikováno v:
IEEE Pulse. 6:25-29
When she was 37, Clare developed a tremor down her left side. At 39, she was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease and put on a series of medications. These helped for a time, but the effect didn't last. Within a few years, her tremors had grown so seve
Autor:
Shannon Fischer
Publikováno v:
New Scientist. 229:32-34
Fischer details the strange power of the placebo. People now know that when a person is given a pill they're told is a real medication, or any of a wide range of medical interventions, including surgery; their body creates a real physiological effect
Autor:
Shannon Fischer
Publikováno v:
IEEE pulse. 8(4)
Nearly two decades ago, Hossam Haick was working on a Ph.D. degree in chemical engineering at the Technion Israel Institute of Technology when terrible news hit: his friend and officemate had leukemia. It was Haick's first close encounter with cancer
Publikováno v:
2017 Design of Medical Devices Conference.
Natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery (NOTES) is a method in which tools are passed through a natural orifice to the surgical site. This removes the need for external incisions, which can allow patients to recover more quickly without any v
Autor:
Shannon Fischer
Publikováno v:
IEEE pulse. 7(5)
In 1991, a group of Italian researchers announced that they had isolated a new antibiotic from a chemical soup brewed with a soil-dwelling bacteria called Planobispora rosea. The drug was a type of thiopeptide, effective against grampositive bacteria
Autor:
Shannon Fischer
Publikováno v:
IEEE Pulse. 5:12-17
Three hundred eighty-two million people in the world have diabetes today. Of those, roughly 343.8 million have type 2 diabetes?the variant associated with obesity and insulin resistance?3.8 million have type 1, and 175 million don?t even know they ha