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Akira Ikemi | Focusing-Alpha: The Natural Process Behind Therapeutic Change
Have you ever tried to put a feeling into words, and found that the words you reached for were not quite right? Then, a few seconds later, a better description arrives, and suddenly it clicks: yes, that’s it. The philosopher and renowned psychotherapist Eugene Gendlin noticed his most successful therapy clients doing this all the time. They would go quiet, sit with something unclear, and slowly let the right words surface. Gendlin called this ‘focusing’.
Leni Schwendinger | Night for Day: How Designing the Dark Could Save Our Cities
Imagine stepping outside at midnight to visit a library, browse a street market, or catch an open-air concert in the park. This isn’t a scene from a science fiction film – it’s the future that nighttime designer Leni Schwendinger believes we urgently need to build.
Dr Yvonne Böttcher | How Different Types of Fat Shape Health and Disease
Our bodies store fat in different places. Subcutaneous fat sits just under the skin – this is the fat you can pinch. Visceral fat, by contrast, lies deeper in the abdomen and wraps around internal organs. Doctors have long observed that visceral fat is more strongly associated with conditions such as type 2 diabetes and heart disease. Research led by Yvonne Böttcher at the University of Oslo in Norway reveals a surprisingly complex picture that could help explain why some types of body fat are more strongly linked to disease.
Dr David Bonda | How Children are Helping Scientists Understand the Brain from the Inside
When a child’s epilepsy doesn’t respond to medication, doctors sometimes need to place tiny electrodes deep inside the brain to pinpoint exactly where seizures begin. It’s a routine part of preparing some children for surgery to cure their seizures. But according to a new paper led by David Bonda and colleagues at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, those same electrodes could be doing something else too: teaching us how the developing brain actually works.
Dr Rita Petracca | The Tiny Chemical Tag That Could Change How We Fight Disease
Proteins are the working parts of our cells, built from long chains of building blocks called amino acids. But once a protein is built, the body often isn’t finished with it: small chemical tags get attached afterwards, changing how the protein behaves, where it travels, and how long it survives. One such tag, discovered only in 2011 and still poorly understood, is the focus of a new paper by Rita Petracca and colleagues at Utrecht University. It’s called lysine crotonylation, or Kcr for short, and Petracca’s team argues that it deserves far more scientific attention than it has received.
Guy Hutton – Sue Coates | The Case for One Shared Sanitation Assessment Framework
Imagine trying to fix a leaky pipe without knowing where the leak is, or even what the pipe looks like. That’s roughly the challenge facing governments and investors trying to improve sanitation services across the world’s poorer countries. Billions of people still lack access to safe toilets, and the money needed to change that is falling badly short. A new review by Guy Hutton and Sue Coates sets out, for the first time, just how many tools exist to help diagnose the problem, and why so few of them are working as well as they could.
DECIPHER: How Individuals with Rare Genetic Disorders Can Help Build a Global Knowledgebase
Attempts at disease diagnosis are often hindered by a frustratingly thin trail of evidence: a single patient, a single unusual variant, and no easy way to know whether anyone else in the world has seen the same thing. DECIPHER, a free platform hosted at EMBL’s European Bioinformatics Institute, exists to help expert clinicians and researchers alleviate this problem. First launched in 2004, DECIPHER brings together genomic variants and clinical symptoms from rare disease patients worldwide.
Dr Solly Lebelo – Dr Tranos Zuva | How Mathematics Can Make Gas Combustion Safer
Every time natural gas ignites on a kitchen hob or powers an industrial furnace, a complex chain of chemical reactions unfolds in fractions of a second. Now, Dr Solly Lebelo and Dr Tranos Zuva, both based at Vaal University of Technology in South Africa, have developed a detailed mathematical model to better understand exactly what happens during that process – and what could go dangerously wrong.
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