You’re going to learn about how our body’s pH is helping us fight cancer, how memories aren’t stored where we thought they were, and how drinking coffee could have you spending a lot more at the store.

Ph power.

• “pH-Responsive Nanoparticles for Cancer Immunotherapy: A Brief Review” by Yunfeng Yan and Hangwei Ding
  • https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7466692/
• Polycarbonate-based ultra-pH sensitive nanoparticles improve therapeutic window by Xu Wang, et al.
  • https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-19651-7
• Lighting up cancer cells with pH-activated nanoparticles by Angus Chen
  • https://www.statnews.com/2022/04/10/lighting-up-cancer-cells-with-ph-activated-nanoparticles/
• Cancer Statistics by National Cancer Institute
  • https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/understanding/statistics

Memory box.

• “A Single Memory is Stored Across Many Connected Brain Regions” by The Picower Institute
  • https://picower.mit.edu/news/single-memory-stored-across-many-connected-brain-regions
• “Innovations and Inventions: SHIELD” by The Picower Institute
  • https://picower.mit.edu/innovations-inventions/shield
• “Protection Of Tissue Physicochemical Properties Using Polyfunctional Crosslinkers” by Young-Gyun Park, et al.
  • https://www.nature.com/articles/nbt.4281?WT.feed_name=subjects_microscopy
• “Memory” by Queensland Brain Institute
  • https://qbi.uq.edu.au/brain-basics/memory

Don’t drink before you shop.

• “Caffeine Consumption Leads to Impulsivity during Shopping, New Study Shows” by Natali Anderson
  • http://www.sci-news.com/othersciences/psychology/caffeine-shopping-impulsivity-10913.html
• “EXPRESS: Caffeine's Effects on Consumer Spending” by Dipayan Biswas, Patrick Hartmann, Martin Eisend, Courtney Szocs, Bruna Jochims, Vanessa Apaolaza, Erik Hermann, Cristina M. López, and Adilson Borges.
  • https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/00222429221109247

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