Daily Archives: August 30, 2016
Mutations in the SORL1 gene affect risk of early-onset Alzheimer’s disease
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is the most common cause of dementia, leading to an enormous burden on societies worldwide. In brains of patients with AD, abnormal tangles of a protein called tau are found within nerve cells, in
How to tailor flow-induced nanostructures of nanomaterials of cellulose nanofibrils?
Cellulose nanofibrils (NFCs) are the elementary reinforcing constituents of plant cell walls. They are isolated from cellulose fibers in the form of slender semi-crystalline nanofibers (Fig. 1) with outstanding intrinsic mechanical properties, e.g. a longitudinal elastic modulus
Evaluation of heart rate measurements in clinical studies – Which way to do it right?
100.000 times a day – this is the daily number of heart beats in human beings. This huge workload normally will pass by unobserved in a healthy being, but in a patient with heart disease any alteration
Is the best cancer offense a good defense?
Although the unique DiRas (Distinct subgroup of the Ras family) family of small GTPases shares homology with the pro-oncogenic Ras GTPases, it has tumor-suppressive actions. DiRas1 (also known as Di-Ras1 or Rig) has been reported to be
