It has been suggested that the size of the base of the tongue is an important factor determining
the degree of difficulty of direct laryngoscopy. A relatively simple grading system which …

For decades, it was thought that many common dermatological conditions had no relationship
to diet. Studies from recent years, however, have made it clear that diet may influence …

During cancer cell invasion, faster moving cancer cells play a dominant role by invading
further and metastasizing earlier. Despite the importance of these outlier cells, the source of …

PURPOSE: Cancer patients who undergo radiotherapy remain at life-long risk of radiation-induced
injury to normal tissues. We conducted a randomized, controlled, double-blind …

Controlled manipulation of particles from very large volumes of fluid at high throughput is
critical for many biomedical, environmental and industrial applications. One promising …

Beyond the discovery in the mid-19th century that ether and nitrous oxide could be used to
render patients unconscious during surgical procedures, subsequent developments in our …

We demonstrate a simple process for the fabrication of rigid plastic master molds for soft
lithography directly from (poly)dimethysiloxane devices. Plastics masters (PMs) provide a cost-…

Generation Z is a common name for the most recent generation at the labor market. Members
of generation Z, born after 1990, are characterized as highly connected, active use of …

OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to test the hypothesis that a liberal blood glucose
strategy (121–180 mg/dL) is not inferior to a strict blood glucose strategy (90–120 mg/dL) …

Dominant optic atrophy (DOA) is the commonest form of inherited optic neuropathy. Although
heterogeneous, a major locus has been mapped to chromosome 3q28 and the gene …