How prescription drugs get their names
Hint: It's all in the suffix. Viagra, Prozac, Xanax, and Zoloft all went through a process to select memorable names.
Entangled polymers and nanosheets create skin-like, self-healing hydrogel
We all encounter gels in daily life—from the soft, sticky substances you put in your hair to the jelly-like components in ...
A pinch of salt can steer colloids for improved water purification and drug delivery
The ability to better steer particles suspended in liquids could lead to better water purification processes, new drug ...
Frontiers19d
Recent advances in understanding the mechanisms of plant cadmium accumulation as affected by grafting in vegetable production
Similarly, grafting affected the translocation of Cd to aboveground tissues by influencing sulfhydryl compound synthesis, the expression levels of these transporters, and consequently the Cd ...
Johns Hopkins Medicine25d
Tetralogy of Fallot (TOF)
Tetralogy of Fallot (TOF) is a combination of four congenital (present at birth) heart defects that affect infants and children. The defects occur together and change the way blood flows through the ...
Frontiers28d
Mechanisms of ubiquitin-independent proteasomal degradation and their roles in age-related neurodegenerative disease
1 Department of Biological Chemistry, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States 2 Solomon H. Snyder Department of Neuroscience, The Johns Hopkins University School ...