Matt Morgan: Hold onto your red thread

Hold your breath!

R egeneration, the process by which an animal restores lost cells or body parts, occurs throughout the animal kingdom, including vertebrates, planarians and cnidarians such as hydra (Tanaka & Reddien, 2011). However, the ability to regenerate varies between species, and within a species it can be different for different body parts. Salamanders, such as axolotls and newts, possess the most impre...

Combating The Obesogenic Environment: Helping Children Hold Onto Health

Given the unprecedented global incidence of overweight in children, the issues that potentially create and sustain a circumstance of epidemic childhood overweight, and the efforts that are underway to prevent and remediate childhood overweight need to be examined. The article explores potentially interrelated causes of obesity/overweight in children and their families, and describe efforts unde...

Matt Blaze

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We present the design and implementation of Arachne, a threads system that can be interfaced with a communications library for multi-threaded distributed computations. In particular, Arachne supports thread migration between heterogeneous platforms, with dynamic stack size management and recursive thread functions. Arachne is eecient, exible and portable | it is based entirely on C and C++. To ...

Eat your fruits and vegetables but hold the salt.

So is too much of a good thing bad for us? During evolution, effective sodium conservation was favorable to survival when the environment was arid and food intake capricious. A surfeit of salt intake rarely occurred, until the modern era. Less evolutionary pressure existed to develop mechanisms to excrete excess salt. Thus, it became possible for too much salt intake to become detrimental. Clin...