The Lazy Bacterium

The Lazy Bacterium

A new model of bacterial growth shows that a certain amount of idleness may enable the cell to adapt quickly to a change in fortune 27.08.2018 Bertrand Russel famously railed against the idea that idleness is the root of all evil, writing in his essay In Praise of...
An Algorithm that Rivals Experts Could Save Lives

An Algorithm that Rivals Experts Could Save Lives

A joint venture of the Weizmann Institute of Science and New York University recently won first place in a competition for innovation in echocardiography 13.08.2018   electrocardiogram Ultrasound equipment has shrunk in both size and price in recent years – so...
Switching Sides: The Betrayal of an Anti-Cancer Gene

Switching Sides: The Betrayal of an Anti-Cancer Gene

Reeducating cells in the tumor microenvironment reverses some of the malignancy 25.07.2018   The effects of p53 in cancer-associated fibroblasts on cancer cell migration: Cancer cells (magenta) migrate in the direction of cancer-associated fibroblasts (yellow) It...
Hot, Dense and Fast

Hot, Dense and Fast

Electrons in a “viscous flow” surpass conductivity limits and could lead to new types of electronic devices 19.07.2018   Optical image of a graphene device with point contacts varying in width from 0.2 to 0.6 μm. Scale bar: 10 μm Bus drivers will tell you that...