When killers come good

When do neural codes come from convex or good covers?

How does your brain keep track of your position in space? In a familiar environment, hippocampalneurons known as place cells become associated to regions of space known as their receptive fields.The firing patterns of place cells form a neural code. Modeling receptive fields as convex open regionsof Euclidian space agrees closely with experimental results. Given a set of place field...

When Motherhood Doesn't Come Naturally

The wish to have a child is a deep instinctual urge; the ability to care for the child is not innate and must be nurtured. In fact, many new mothers feel torn between their desire for a child and their wish to be free of long involvements and responsibilities. Becoming a mother is a testing time for a woman. Then she takes on the truly feminine role as opposed to just being a sex partner in a r...

All Good Things Come in Threes

Signal from space: Two black holes with 31 and 25 solar masses merge and emit gravitational waves. The colors characterize the strength of the field. Children learn the principle of cause and effect early on: if you touch a hot stove, you’ll get burned. But animals such as wolves understand causal relationships, too – and as a study has shown, they are even better at it than dogs. A research te...

Good things come in small packages

Current ovarian cancer treatments based on surgery/chemotherapy show limited efficacy. Targeting immunosuppression is a requirement for the effectiveness of novel promising anti-tumor immunotherapies. Our latest work in preclinical models shows that nanoparticle-mediated delivery of immunostimulatory microRNAs specifically to tumor-associated leukocytes is sufficient to re-program immunological...

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