by Natalie Young | Feb 8, 2019 | Neuroscience
Our hands and fingertips are amazingly sensitive to texture. We can easily distinguish coarse sandpaper from smooth glass, but we also pick up more subtle differences across a wide range of textures, like the slick sheen of silk or the soft give of cotton. Information...
by Natalie Young | Feb 6, 2019 | Cancer
Cancer immunotherapy—an approach that removes the barriers that protect cancer cells from a patient’s immune system—has revolutionized the treatment of many cancer types. About 40 percent of melanoma patients, for example, respond to immunotherapy, enabling the immune...
