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Exploring Blended Materials Along Compositional Gradients

November 24, 2020 sarah Jonas automated experiment, Center for Functional Nanomaterials, electrospray deposition, materials discovery, Materials Science, materials science and engineering, Nanoparticles, National Synchrotron Light Source II, Polymers, scanning electron microscopy, self-assembly, Soft Matter, University Of Pennsylvania, X-ray scattering, Yale University

A new platform could accelerate the development of blended materials with desired properties.

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UA Little Rock receives nearly $450,000 to develop deep learning methods to identify cells that advance complex diseases

July 23, 2020 sarah Jonas Bioinformatics, National Institutes of Health, NIH, UA Little Rock, UALR, UAMS, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Yale University

A University of Arkansas at Little Rock professor has received a $443,854 grant from the National Institutes of Health to develop unique deep learning methods to identify key cell networks in complex diseases. Dr. Mary Yang, professor of information science and director of the Midsouth Bioinformatics Center at UA Little Rock, will conduct research that will help doctors and scientists further understand how complex diseases evolve and develop in the body as well as how to identify effective drug targets.

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Improving treatment for psychogenic seizures: “This is a group of patients that we are taking less seriously”

June 23, 2020 sarah Jonas Epilepsy, PNES, psychogenic non-epileptic seizures, Psychogenic Seizures, Psychotherapy, Seizures, Yale University

Journal prize winner Benjamin Tolchin tested motivational interviewing to help people with psychogenic non-epileptic seizures (PNES) start and continue psychotherapy. Often mistaken for epilepsy, these seizures cause serious problems, yet many health care professionals discount them as “not real.”