Rapist Paul Quinn sentenced to 24 years in case that saw Andrew Malkinson wrongly convicted

Quinn will serve a minimum of 14 years. Malkinson, who spent 17 years in jail, said he was "insulted" that Quinn "received a ...

In a First, Scientists Precisely Edit Human Embryo Genes

Researchers relied on a newer gene-editing technique that may make it possible to engineer embryos, a prospect that has long ...

Conductive plastic mimics heart cell ion signaling for first time

For the first time, scientists have succeeded in artificially mimicking the ion signaling of heart muscle cells. To succeed, researchers at LiU have used organic electronics based on conductive ...
Nature

Bang! Exploding immune cells splatter potent toxins everywhere

Newly found immune cells called ‘ruptoblasts’ explode when triggered, ejecting toxic chemicals capable of delivering death to surrounding cells in just minutes. The cells’ discoverers say that this ...

Synthesized peptides can slip into cells to block hard-to-target protein interactions

Many diseases are driven by proteins interacting with each other inside cells. But blocking these interactions with drugs is ...
IEEE

Benchmarking-Charge-Conserving, Unconditionally Stable, Electromagnetic Finite-Element Particle-in-Cell Codes: Validating 3D nonlinear multiphysics simulations

Abstract: To a large extent, particle-in-cell (PIC) methods have become the default means of understanding plasma physics. As a result, there are a spate of codes, public and otherwise, that are ...