Most neurological diseases and disorders lack true cures, including spinal cord injury (SCI). Accordingly, current treatments only alleviate the symptoms of these neurological diseases and disorders. Engineered neural ...

Breast cancer often results in the removal of the breast, creating a need for replacement tissue. Tissue engineering offers the promise of generating such replacements by combining cells with biomaterial scaffolds and ...

Glioblastoma multiform (GBM) tumor progression has been recognized to be correlated with extracellular matrix (ECM) stiffness. Dynamic variation of tumor ECM is primarily regulated by a family of enzymes which induce ...

While it is generally accepted that adding loss dampens and broadens plasmonic resonances, here we find adding losses can actually narrow the linewidth and increase the resonance peak. We show that the scattering cross ...

Throughout the developing world, over 200 million people drink groundwater containing fluoride concentrations surpassing the World Health Organization's maximum recommended contaminant level (WHO-MCL) of 1.5 mg F−/L, ...

Development of biomaterials for the diagnosis and treatment of neurotraumatic ailments has been significantly advanced with our deepened knowledge of the pathophysiology of neurotrauma. Canadian research in the fields of ...

This work developed a prototype of an affordable, long-term water quality detection device that provides a visual readout upon detecting bacterial contamination. This device prototype consists of: (1) enzyme-releasing ...

In Voice Over IP (VoIP) systems, intruders can launch DoS attacks by establishing a large number of open connections to prevent the system from serving legitimate users. Existing defenses against DoS attacks on VoIP systems ...

This paper analyzes sapwood variability and allometry within individuals of Populus tremuloides, Pinus contorta, Pinus banksiana, Picea mariana, and Picea glauca. Outside bark diameter at breast height (DBH) and sapwood ...

Oscillatory shear flows of axisymmetric grains exhibit amplitude-dependent rheological responses, which is related to the evolution of the microstructure. In this work, it is shown that the highly ordered configuration of ...