Cardiovascular diseases (CVD) are the number one cause of morbidity and death
worldwide. As estimated by the WHO, the global death rate from CVD is 31% wherein, a …

Background Food allergies represent one of the most rapidly increasing and significant
human challenges connected with global health. Soybean has high protein and fat quality; …

Ventricular assist devices (VADs) have already helped many patients with heart failure but
have the potential to assist more patients if current problems with blood damage (hemolysis …

In situations of power outage or shortage, such as periods just following a seismic disaster,
the only reliable power source available is the most fundamental of forces ie, manual …

Implantable left ventricular assist devices (LVAD s) became the therapy of choice in treating
end‐stage heart failure. Although survival improved substantially and is similar in currently …

Several systemic diseases, including thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura, manifest much
of their pathology through activation of endothelium and thrombotic occlusion of small blood …

Background Treating severe forms of the acute respiratory distress syndrome and cardiac
failure, extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) has become an established …

The pathological aggregation and accumulation of tau, a microtubule-associated protein, is
a common feature amongst more than 18 different neurodegenerative diseases that are …

An extended pattern search approach is presented for the optimization of the placement of
wind turbines on a wind farm. Problem-specific extensions infuse stochastic characteristics …

The synthesis of the cell-wall peptidoglycan during bacterial cell division is mediated by a
multiprotein machine, called the divisome. The essential membrane protein complex of FtsB …