#cellpress

[naked-jellybean]

This is an illustration that got scrapped, still sad it never got published so i'm giving it life here 💫

[gmartinezmolina]

Repost from @cellpress • Spider silk’s supposed "healing properties" might have no basis in science⁠ ⁠ As far back as ancient Rome, spider silk has been used as a remedy to treat everything from skin lesions to warts. In the past, doctors have covered open wounds in cobwebs or advised patients to place cocoons on infected teeth. In modern times, however, the literature contains conflicting reports of whether or not spider silk has antimicrobial properties. In the journal iScience, researchers from @aarhus_university revisit these old experiments and debunk the myth of antibiotic spider silk.⁠ ⁠ To read more from this #iScience paper, click on this image in our link in bio 👉 @cellpress⁠ ⁠ 📸 credit: André Alliot⁠ ⁠ iScience, Fruergaard et al.: “The myth of antibiotic spider silk” https://www.cell.com/iscience/fulltext/S2589-0042(21)01093-2⁠ ⁠ #CellPress #SciComm #spider #spiderweb #spidersilk #myth #mythbuster⁠ https://www.instagram.com/p/CUqXuzoPL7j/?utm_medium=tumblr

[lecv140291]

Jefe médico de China recibe vacuna para coronavirus. https://lecv140291.blogspot.com/2020/07/jefe-medico-de-china-recibe-vacuna-para.html

[snowpoppiess]

Also type the URL or DOI of any academic article into Sci-Hub and they generally have it.

[materialsscienceandengineering]

Plant inspired silicone and saltwater composites have osmotically active response

A pair of researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have developed an artificial material that emulates the way that plants use fluids to defy gravity. In their paper published in the CellPress journal Matter, Amrita Kataruka and Shelby Hutchens describe their synthetic plant tissue analog and its possible uses.

As the research pair note, plants are able to push fluids from ground level up through stalks or trunks and from there out into branches or twigs to provide substance for flowers and leaves—despite having no muscle tissue. Such an ability, they note, is driven by osmosis—as water is depleted from upper cells, it is pulled from those at lower levels through permeable membranes. Kataruka and Hutchens also note that prior efforts to mimic such activity have centered around the use of hydrogels—unfortunately, such materials, they point out, tend to suffer from loss of stiffness as swelling increases due to oversaturation.

In their effort, the researchers tried a different approach, using micrometer size drops of saltwater, each embedded in tiny pouches made of polydimethylsiloxane (a type of silicone) to create artificial plant tissue. Under such an arrangement, the packet walls are both permeable and stretchable. The resulting synthetic plant tissue analog (PTA), the researchers note, works in ways very similar to live plants. When they are placed in a tank of water, for example, they reach a certain degree of stiffness and remain in that state for as long as needed—the permeability is one directional.

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[baylaart]

It's an exciting day! The illustration I made for #Metamorphosis in an Era of Increasing Climate Variability by @dkskelly , Lowe, Martin, and Woods has been published in @cellpress Trends in Ecology & Evolution! #sciart #scientificillustration #ecology #evolution #watercolor #commissionsopen https://www.instagram.com/p/CJ6U60FMrXT/?igshid=14mk4aexxxyd5

[omgscienceme-blog]

First official blog post for my new science blog. This blog is designed to reach out to the general public with exciting new research going on in all areas of science and technology. Please like/share/comment/follow.

[zacharycoffin]

So simple, yet so difficult... "Verily yoga is not for him...who is too much addicted to sleep, nor even to wakefulness, O Arjuna." Gita 6.16 . Reposted from @hubermanlab - SLEEP TELLS ALL (OR MOST ANYWAY) • Sleep is at the foundation of mental health, physical health, and performance. Everyone has different sleep needs; some people only need 6 hours a night. Some people need as much as 10. Most need 7-8hrs. Some people benefit from a nap of 90 minutes (or less) in the afternoon, whereas other people find that naps alter their nighttime sleep. - How focused, emotionally stable and able to face challenges during the day we feel is mainly related to the duration and quality of our sleep. There is no greater barometer of our well being. - Indeed, we work through our emotional challenges during rapid eye-movement sleep, which occurs mainly in the second half of our sleep night. Tissue repair occurs in sleep. Dreams can indeed have meaning but not always. The point is that sleep is not just about rest and restoration — it informs and reflects how we are doing in our waking life. - Learning to identify the correlations between sleep quality and dreams and the events of our daily life is one of the most powerful things we can do for a mental health, physical health and performance. All the while paying attention to trying to get quality sleep of sufficient amounts for 80% or more of the nights of our life. THIS IS POSSIBLE FOR ALL USING SIMPLE SCIENCE-SUPPORTED TOOLS. - All of those tools and more are covered at the level of mechanisms and specifics on the PERFECT SLEEP or MASTER SLEEP episodes of the Huberman Lab Podcast (available in all formats, with references and links to resources) by going to hubermanlab.com Everything is timestamped so you can navigate quickly to the topics most of interest to you. Please also download our sleep tool kit newsletter, which is completely zero cost. You can also find it at Hubermanlab.com - @hubermanlab @stanford.med @stanford @nihgov @nimhgov @nih_nccih @societyforneuroscience @cellpress - #neuroscience #science #ciencia #mentalhealth #physicalhealth #protocols #sleep #information — view on Instagram https://ift.tt/tWkQBwT

[radiobaixadasantista]

#RBSRock tem a honra de apresentar mais um Lançamento as Bandas @Anthesis @CellPress @Botfly , indicação e assessoria @nofuneral.online musica está nossa Programação ⠀ www.radiobaixadasantista.com.br ⠀ #rocknroll #horrorcolab #music #rbsrock #radio #radiobaixadasantista (em Radio Baixada Santista) https://www.instagram.com/p/CQa5yKKgYZ7/?utm_medium=tumblr

[archaeologyhub]

هفته گذشته در نشریه One Earth  cellpress   گروهی از دانشمندان از موسسه ها و دانشگاههای مختلف به ویژه موسسات ایتالیایی مقاله ای تحقیقی در رابطه با تاثیر تغییرات اقلیمی کلان بر انقراض گونه های مختلف انسان ریختی را منتشر کرده اند. مقاله با این پرسش شروع می شود که با توجه به اینکه حداقل در محدوده زمانی اواخر دوره زمین شناسی پلیوسن تا اواخر پلیستوسن شش گونه ی انسان ریخت شامل هومو هابیلیس (H. habilis)، هومو ارگستر (H. ergaster)، هومو ارکتوس (H. erectus)، هومو هایدلبرگنسیس (H. heidelbergensis)، نئاندرتال (H. neanderthalensis) و در نهایت هوموساپینس (H. sapeins) می زیسته اند که در این میان تنها آخری موفق به ادامه حیات شده و مابقی در دوره های مختلف منقرض شده اند، چرا؟

[willkboddington-blog]

Achievements and milestones both technically and professionally

It has been a goal of mine since the outset in my internship and even overall university experience to develop a broad skill set and make myself as appealing to employers as possible. In many ways this can be related to how an athlete approaches their training. As Parker (2012) states “this is analogous to athletics, where an emphasis on “winning” can lead to individuals being discouraged and abandoning sports, whereas an emphasis on skill development helps athletes improve their abilities and then win more often.” In this case for me and my fellow classmates winning may be securing our full-time dream job, but this isn’t necessarily the goal straight away, it is more so we can develop our skills and abilities so we can apply for and be suitable to as many jobs as possible.

So, when it comes to what I have achieved both technically and professionally, almost everything I have achieved and learned at GESAC has been something new and something I can add to my skill set. Many things I have learnt has been brand new information, including things that I haven’t studied as part of the content I cover at university. These technical skills specifically include; administrative work, budgeting and financing and overall maintenance of leagues/sporting competitions.

One achievement I have been particularly proud of is how I have been able to build my initiative. There has been now several occasions where I have been trusted by my supervisors to complete work without either of them in the office and I feel I have completed this work to a high standard. I am not afraid to answer and make phone calls some, if not most of these calls would be corresponding with complaints from players or parents involved in the competitions. I felt I was able to handle these situations well and while also showing how much I had learned to this point about the internal competitions and the centre itself in regards to rules and regulations. In these situations, it is obvious I was able to develop my professionalism and my ability to deal with difficult situations.

I am also extremely proud and thankful for the new relationships I have formed during my time at GESAC. From the very beginning of the internship I could tell I was going to fit in nicely to the organisation and have been able to work with people of similar interests, values and even age. Given the size of the centre there is always someone to talk to and also still I am meeting and getting to know new faces every day. These relationships have greatly increased my confidence that I will be able to secure work at GESAC beyond the completion of my hours whereas earlier on during my internship it was quite apparent that there might not be an opportunity for me. Given the circumstances, I would be extremely proud of my efforts if I am to secure employment after my hours have been completed and this is obviously the ultimate goal for me from this point forward.

REFERENCES:

Parker, R 2012, Skill Development in Graduate Education, CellPress, viewed 18th November 2019, https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1097276512003863