Scheduled to land in August of 2012, the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) Mission was
initiated to explore the habitability of Mars. This includes both modern environments as well as …

There is strong evidence that rotifers cannot become abundant members of freshwater
zooplankton communities in the presence of large (≳ 1.2 mm) Daphnia. Indirect evidence comes …

Until the 1970s, the left ventricle was consid-ered an isolated shell in which the left ventricular
diastolic pressure-volume relation depended on the myocardium's material properties and …

Eleven susceptibility loci for late-onset Alzheimer's disease (LOAD) were identified by previous
studies; however, a large portion of the genetic risk for this disease remains unexplained. …

The autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) are a group of conditions characterized by impairments
in reciprocal social interaction and communication, and the presence of restricted and …

Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is a leading cause of visual impairment and
blindness in the elderly whose etiology remains largely unknown. Previous studies identified …

The Alzheimer Disease Genetics Consortium (ADGC) performed a genome-wide association
study of late-onset Alzheimer disease using a three-stage design consisting of a discovery …

A pathological hallmark of Alzheimer’s disease is an accumulation of insoluble plaque
containing the amyloid-β peptide of 40–42 amino acid residues 1 . Prefibrillar, soluble oligomers …

We present a droplet-based microfluidics protocol for high-throughput analysis and sorting
of single cells. Compartmentalization of single cells in droplets enables the analysis of …

We investigate several ways to improve the performance of sparse LU factorization with
partial pivoting, as used to solve unsymmetric linear systems. We introduce the notion of …