Background Patients often use the internet for information on their spinal surgeries. The
goal of this study was to assess and compare the quality of lumbar fusion and arthroplasty …

Genetic influences on psychiatric disorders transcend diagnostic boundaries, suggesting
substantial pleiotropy of contributing loci. However, the nature and mechanisms of these …

Many concurrent programs assign priorities to threads to improve responsiveness. When used
in conjunction with synchronization mechanisms such as mutexes and condition variables…

The Muller F element (4.2 Mb,~ 80 protein-coding genes) is an unusual autosome of Drosophila
melanogaster; it is mostly heterochromatic with a low recombination rate. To investigate …

Intestinal peristalsis is a dynamic physiologic process influenced by dietary and microbial
changes. It is tightly regulated by complex cellular interactions; however, our understanding of …

… In these retinal degeneration models, we found that microglial cells and Müller glial cells were
… glial cells, Müller glial cells, and microglial cells. In other words, Müller glial cells gradually …

Of all facets of American racial inequality studied by social scientists, racial disparity in
incarceration has proved one of the most difficult to explain. This article traces a portion of the rise …

Afforested peatlands account for about 25% of human-affected peatlands worldwide. In
some regions, particularly the British Isles, forest-tobog conversions are now underway in the …

Tumor samples are heterogeneous. They consist of different subclones that are characterized
by differences in DNA nucleotide sequences and copy numbers on multiple loci. …

Rapid advances in DNA synthesis techniques have made it possible to engineer viruses,
biochemical pathways and assemble bacterial genomes. Here, we report the synthesis of a …