How do nonmotile organisms protect themselves from intense light? While motile single-celled algae can swim toward or away from light (phototaxis), many photosynthetic algae are nonmotile. Studying ...

Astrocytes are important regulators of blood flow and play a key role in the response to injury and disease in the central nervous system (CNS). Despite having an understanding that structural changes ...

Recent concern for local drug delivery and withdrawal of the first Food and Drug Administration-approved bioresorbable scaffold emphasizes the need to optimize the relationships between stent design ...

Mechanical metamaterials are man-made materials with extraordinary properties that come from their geometrical structure rather than their chemical composition. For instance, they can be engineered to ...