According to findings by researchers at Duke Medicine, a potentially lethal fungal infection appears to gain virulence by being able to anticipate and disarm a hostile immune attack in the lungs. Defense mechanisms used by the fungus iCryptococcus neoformans/i enable it to lead to fatal meningitis, which is one of the opportunistic infections often associated with death in HIV/AIDS patients, organ transplant recipients, diabetics and other immunosuppressed ...
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Researchers have not been able to fully crack the brain's "neural code despite many remarkable discoveries in the field of neuroscience during the past several decades. The neural code details how the brain's roughly 100 billion neurons turn raw sensory inputs into information we can use to see, hear and feel things in our environment. In a perspective article published in the journal iNature Neuroscience/i on Feb. 25, 2013, biomedical engineering professor ...
Could a sports teams learn something from the manufacturing industry? According to Timothy Chan of the University of Toronto (U of T) and Douglas Fearing of the Harvard Business School they could learn plenty. Using statistics from the 2012 Major League Baseball season, Chan and Fearing found that positional flexibility - the ability of a player to play multiple positions - is valuable, responsible for up to 15 per cent of the team's runs, as was the case with ...
