Author: Dr. David Lowemann

Brown fat: How cells generate heat by burning calories

Special fat cells known as brown adipocytes help maintaining body temperature by converting calory-rich nutrients into heat. This protects from gaining excess weight and metabolic disorders. An international team of researchers has deciphered a new mechanism that increases respiration and metabolic activity of brown fat cells. The researchers hope that this discovery will lead to […]

Published on September 16, 2024

Moderna’s Melanoma Vaccine Could Launch Next Year

Pharmaceutical giant Moderna plans to launch a messenger RNA-based vaccine for skin cancer in 2025. It says it has developed an mRNA vaccine with similar technology to its COVID-19 vaccine that is proving to be effective against melanoma.v”Phase 2 data is available,”… Read Full Article (External Site) Dr. David LowemannDr. David Lowemann, M.Sc, Ph.D., is […]

Published on September 16, 2024

Incremental Discourse‐Update Constrains Number Agreement Attraction Effect

Abstract While a large body of work in sentence comprehension has explored how different types of linguistic information are used to guide syntactic parsing, less is known about the effect of discourse structure. This study investigates this question, focusing on the main and subordinate discourse contrast manifested in the distinction between restrictive relative clauses (RRCs) […]

Published on September 16, 2024