- A recent post on the NIH Director’s blog showcased the video “Discovery Inside Living Cells in Multicellular Organisms” from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) lab of Roberto Weigert in the Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, and at the National Institute of Dental & Craniofacial Research. This video is the fulfillment, says Weigert, of every cell biologist’s dream–to watch living cells at work inside living tissue as they go about the business of keeping us alive.
- Researchers at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute have found that a combination of drugs known as SMAC Mimetics and immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) amplifies kill rates of cancer tumour cells in laboratory testing. The findings are reported in Nature Communications.
- Two recent studies published in JAMA illustrate how scalp cooling devices may help reduce hair loss for women receiving chemotherapy for breast cancer.
Are Bad Hospital Designs Making Patients Sicker?
Dr. Dhruv Khullar of the Massachusetts General Hospital writes in the New York Times this week about the surprisingly bad design flaws that plague hospitals and in turn, their patients. Dr. Khullar cites various studies that detail how around 30% of intensive care patients acquire infections originating in hospitals and how housing patients in private rooms can reduce the risk of both airborne and surface contact infections. You’d might think that private rooms will greatly increase construction costs, but it’s possible that the price of “single-occupancy rooms is more than offset by the money saved because of fewer infections.”
Article Linking Issues in ScienceDirect Have Been Resolved
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We continue to experience linking problems (SD-009 error) with ScienceDirect. We’ve been working with Elsevier to troubleshoot these issues. It’s not a localized event – it’s impacting institutions across the US. In the meantime, here are two workarounds to access articles on ScienceDirect:
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