Daily Archives:November 6, 2015
When sulfur meets oxidant
Transition-metal-catalyzed oxidative cross-coupling between boronic acids and heteroatom nucleophiles has been well known as the Chan−Lam reaction and emerged as a powerful protocol for the construction of carbon-nitrogen bonds or carbon-oxygen bonds, due to a variety of
Two views on the protein folding puzzle
Protein chain folding is a miracle. The protein chain is gene-encoded and initially has no structure (Fig. 1, left panel). Its intricate structure (Fig. 1, right), with every atom in its unique position, results from spontaneous folding.
Protein expression is useful to screen high risk patients for cancer
Endometrial cancer is the most common type of uterine cancer in the United States. The American Cancer Society estimates 54,870 newly diagnosed endometrial cancer cases and 10,170 deaths caused by endometrial cancer in 2015. Most patients (~80%) have a subtype called
Bees get their ‘fix’ in virtual reality
How does a small insect, with its tiny eyes and brain, see the world it moves through? Obviously an insect can’t answer our question directly, so scientists have developed other means to uncover the answers. One approach
Are users satisfied with single sign-on technologies in ER?
In the past few years, many healthcare-related applications and computers devices have been installed in healthcare settings. The regulatory requirements have driven the expansion of the electronic health record (EHR) and electronic structured data reporting. Activities traditionally
