What Do We Do about Helicobacter pylori?

Heliobacter pylori and nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) cause ulcers by different mechanisms.Under some circumstances, patients infected with H pylori may be less prone to NSAID-associated wrapin ulcers than those who are H pylori-negative.Eradication trials have yielded differing results.However, those who have studied patients who ha

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Recent Advances in Silk Sericin/Calcium Phosphate Biomaterials

Calcium phosphates (CaPs) have been widely used in the field of biomedical engineering as bone graft substitutes or as carriers for drug delivery applications.Recent developments have focused on combining CaPs with proteins to obtain functional biomaterials that accommodate a broader spectrum of functional requirements.Silk sericin was considered a

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A New Kind of Art [Based on Autonomous Collective Robotics]

The paper addresses the rationale of a process that produces artworks made by a swarm of robots.This process relies on the interaction, though the environment, of a set of robots designed to create spatiotemporal patterns from an initial homogeneous medium (the canvas).Inspired by social insect societies, the approach Platform Trucks presented here

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