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We humans thrive on social contact, and conversation is our main means of interaction. Many of us can recall long conversations and having difficulty putting an end to these, but also other times when we may feel aggrieved that the conversation has come to a premature end.
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Stem cell therapy: a revolutionary cure or a pandora's box. [PDF]
This review article examines how stem cell therapies can cure various diseases and injuries while also discussing the difficulties and moral conundrums that come with their application.
Marei HE.
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On-demand storage and release of antimicrobial peptides using Pandora's box-like nanotubes gated with a bacterial infection-responsive polymer [PDF]
Background: Localized delivery of antimicrobial agents such as antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) by a biomaterial should be on-demand. Namely, AMPs should be latent and biocompatible in the absence of bacterial infection, but released in an amount enough to ...
Junjian Chen +9 more
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In delegation problems, a principal does not have the resources necessary to complete a particular task, so they delegate the task to an untrusted agent whose interests may differ from their own. Given any family of such problems and space of mechanisms for the principal to choose from, the delegation gap is the worst-case ratio of the principal's ...
Bechtel, Curtis +2 more
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Immune Reconstitution Inflammatory Syndrome: Opening Pandora’s Box [PDF]
One of the purposes of antiretroviral therapy (ART) is to restore the immune system. However, it can sometimes lead to an aberrant inflammatory response and paradoxical clinical worsening known as the immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome (IRIS ...
Mariana Meireles +2 more
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