Review of iodine behavior from nuclear fuel dissolution to environmental release.

During nuclear fuel reprocessing, radioiodine, can be released. The speciation of iodine drives its volatility, and partitioning processes are highly variable because they depend on facility operating conditions. Starting from iodine behavior in the fuel and progressing to its behavior in the environment, this review article describes the current understanding of iodine partitioning during aqueous fuel reprocessing.

Viscoelasticity of Hyaluronic Acid Hydrogels Regulates Human Pluripotent Stem Cell-derived Spinal Cord Organoid Patterning and Vascularization.

Recently, it has been recognized that natural extracellular matrix (ECM) and tissues are viscoelastic, while only elastic properties have been investigated in the past. How the viscoelastic matrix regulates stem cell patterning is critical for cell-ECM mechano-transduction. Here, this study fabricated different methacrylated hyaluronic acid (HA) hydrogels using covalent cross-linking, consisting of two gels with similar elasticity (stiffness) but different viscoelasticity, and two gels with similar viscoelasticity but different elasticity (stiffness).

Student-to-Student: A Novel Approach to Community Outreach.

Community outreach is an established method for organizations to interact with the community. It is often done to help improve the community and its members by providing resources and educational opportunities. A growing crisis facing the United States of America is a worsening physician shortage, which will negatively impact many across the nation, especially vulnerable communities.

Leiomyosarcoma of the small bowel presenting as an acute small bowel obstruction.

Leiomyosarcoma is a subtype of soft-tissue sarcoma, which is a rare soft-tissue malignancy comprising < 1% of adult cancers. There are a variety of etiologies of small bowel obstruction. Infrequently, small bowel malignancies can first present as small bowel obstruction.