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Why other people’s skin always feels softer

By Guest PostOctober 3, 2015Health, Scienceada wallace, american attitude, body parts, bonding, flickr, fund, idealistic behavior, industrial phenomenon, jeffrey johnson, katsuo nishiyama, mass shooting, mizuki kawashukuda, natural building blocks, occupational sudden death, ucl, united negro college, why, wireless communication

Have you ever touched someone else and wondered why his or her skin felt so incredibly soft? Well, now researchers reporting in the Cell Press journal Current Biology on September 10 present evidence that this experience may often be an illusion. (more…)

‘Life as Research Scientist’: Angel Byrd, Cell Biologist

By BlogArenaJuly 10, 2013Education, Interview, Media, Scienceada wallace, african american, angel byrd, ecm, extracellular matrix, fund, fungal pathogens, good times, immune system cells, life, myron smith, nets, neutrophil extracellular traps, neutrophils, tougaloo college, united negro college, willie jean byrd

For years, Brown University M.D./Ph.D. student Angel Byrd had dedicated herself to studying how immune system cells capture invading fungal pathogens. Like those cells, called neutrophils, she had seized on seemingly every opportunity that had come her way. (more…)