Stamp Out Gonorrhea Now!

Stamp out lung cancer

Over the course of the past several decades, we have made only a few small strides in our fight against lung cancer, in spite of significant efforts put in by the medical research community. The overall five-year survival for lung cancer still remains lower than 20%. In the era of molecularly targeted therapies, new drugs, specifically the drugs that target the EGFR and the VEGF pathways, have ...

Explaining the Food Stamp Cash-Out Puzzle

Empirical studies have shown that food stamp participants spend a higher proportion of their benefit on food than they would with an equivalent amount of cash. Our study demonstrates that this result can be explained by the decisionmaking behavior of multi-adult households. Multi-adult households spend a higher proportion of their food stamp benefit than they would with an equivalent amount of ...

Out of Africa, for now.

times before – flying into a large city in the developing world at night at the end of a long journey. This city looks a little darker, a little less well lit than other cities I have seen from the air. As with all the other times before, my heart beats out of control in my chest and my throat is parched. I am excited, nervous, bursting. I feel like a small boy on the first day at a new school....

[Watch out for cold injuries now].

Millimeter-scale contact printing of aqueous solutions using a stamp made out of paper and tape.

This communication describes a simple method for printing aqueous solutions with millimeter-scale patterns on a variety of substrates using an easily fabricated, paper-based microfluidic device (a paper-based "stamp") as a contact printing device. The device is made from inexpensive materials, and it is easily assembled by hand; this method is thus accessible to a wide range of laboratories and...