How many times have you heard a manager respond to employees about organizational change with the words, "It just made sense"? To workers who are adversely impacted by the change, it might not make sense at all. That's exactly why managers who introduce artificial intelligence and enable change should never lose sight of the human impact. Early in my career, I was impacted by organizational changes that affected my job and responsibilities. Later in my career, I was the one making these changes and communicating change to employees.

Scientists have developed a tiny 3D-printed microneedle vaccine patch that could offer a pain-free alternative to needles. In trials on mice, it offered a 10-fold greater immune response and a 50-fold greater T-cell and antigen-specific antibody response compared with a needle in the arm. The polymer patch, which is smaller than a 5p coin, needs lower doses and could be mailed to people's homes and self-administered, eliminating the need for trained medical personnel. It also offers an'anxiety-free' vaccination option for people who have a'needle phobia', also known as trypanophobia, which is putting some off getting their Covid jabs. The researchers are yet to conduct clinical trials of the patch on humans, which could pave the way for a new way of administering vaccines in the future.

How many times have you heard a manager respond to employees about organizational change with the words, "It just made sense"? To workers who are adversely impacted by the change, it might not make sense at all. That's exactly why managers who introduce artificial intelligence and enable change should never lose sight of the human impact. Early in my career, I was impacted by organizational changes that affected my job and responsibilities. Later in my career, I was the one making these changes and communicating change to employees.

A sleek mechanical arm plunges into a pool of what looks like milky gray ink in Carbon's lab in Redwood City, California. The black arm slowly moves upwards, pulling a latticed plastic cube out of the bath, shiny and dripping with ink: a large-scale model of the porous structure of bone. Joseph DeSimone, Carbon's CEO and cofounder, looks on. DeSimone, a polymer chemist, helped invent these machines, and he still gets a kick out of watching them work. It is a form of 3-D printing, but it's done in a novel way that is faster than previous techniques and works with many more types of plastics.

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Neurons in area V4 have relatively large receptive fields (RFs), so multiple visual features are simultaneously "seen" by these cells. Recordings from single V 4 neurons suggest that simultaneously presented stimuli compete to set the output firing rate, and that attention acts to isolate individual features by biasing the competition in favor of the attended object. We propose that both stimulus competition and attentional biasing arise from the spatial segregation of afferent synapses onto different regions of the excitable dendritic tree of V 4 neurons. The pattern of feedforward, stimulus-driven inputs follows from a Hebbian rule: excitatory afferents with similar RFs tend to group together on the dendritic tree, avoiding randomly located inhibitory inputs with similar RFs. The same principle guides the formation of inputs that mediate attentional modulation.

Neurons in area V4 have relatively large receptive fields (RFs), so multiple visual features are simultaneously "seen" by these cells. Recordings from single V 4 neurons suggest that simultaneously presented stimuli compete to set the output firing rate, and that attention acts to isolate individual features by biasing the competition in favor of the attended object. We propose that both stimulus competition and attentional biasing arise from the spatial segregation of afferent synapses onto different regions of the excitable dendritic tree of V 4 neurons. The pattern of feedforward, stimulus-driven inputs follows from a Hebbian rule: excitatory afferents with similar RFs tend to group together on the dendritic tree, avoiding randomly located inhibitory inputs with similar RFs. The same principle guides the formation of inputs that mediate attentional modulation.

Neurons in area V4 have relatively large receptive fields (RFs), so multiple visualfeatures are simultaneously "seen" by these cells. Recordings from single V4 neurons suggest that simultaneously presented stimuli compete to set the output firing rate, and that attention acts to isolate individual features by biasing the competition in favor of the attended object. We propose that both stimulus competition and attentional biasing arisefrom the spatial segregation of afferent synapses onto different regions of the excitable dendritic tree of V4 neurons. The pattern of feedforward, stimulus-driveninputs follows from a Hebbian rule: excitatory afferents with similar RFs tend to group together on the dendritic tree, avoiding randomly located inhibitory inputs with similar RFs. The same principle guides the formation of inputs that mediate attentional modulation.