November 2014 I walked 56 miles in a very successful twelve hour race. After that race I set a goal to become a United States Centurion. A Goal to Walk 100 miles within the 24 hour time limit. I started this blog in February 2015 as a personal journal of my training. I reached my ...
Large pterosaurs needed strong limbs to get off the ground, but thick bones would have made them too heavy. The solution? A pterosaur's wing bones were hollow tubes, with walls no thicker than a playing card. Like bird bones, they were flexible and lightweight, while strengthened by intern...
Truly a dichotomy in its own right, Bhutan is unlike any other place you’ll visit. The monks still meditate for years on end in caves. The teenagers are as westernized and as typical as in any other part of the world. The ruler of the country gave way to becoming a democracy. Have ...
While it might seem outrageous to single out the family of connexin or gap junction genes from the approximately 25 thousand genes in the human genome that led to (a) symbols of conscious objects; (b) translation of those abstractions so a spoken language could be communicated; (c) the ...
This classification is useful not only for the differential diagnosis but also for the depth diagnosis, as pedunculated carcinomas are confined to the mucosa. Both rapid GB wall blood flow (GWBF) and the irregularity of color signal patterns on Doppler imaging, and heterogeneous enhancement in ...
Multiple different cell types comprise the cellular compartment of the TME: (i) cells that are present in the normal tissue before tumor development; (ii) cells that are recruited to the tumor-associated stroma from distal sites (i.e., the circulation or bone marrow cells). The first type ...
When we think about infectious diseases, the identification of the predominant type of response may aid understanding of the evolution of infections in a mammalian host. Consequently, this can lead to the development of new intervention tools to avoid or control pathogens, as vaccines and drugs ...