Scott Barnett

In honor of Women’s Health Month, reproductive health researcher and Assistant Professor Scott Barnett from the Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology shares the sobering reality of the rising rate of preterm labor, a crisis that has taken a serious toll on mothers and infants in the U.S., including his own family, in this first-person narrative. But there’s hope.

Mapping Phase Instability to Electrochemical Degradation in SrTi1-xFexO3-δ Under Solid Oxide Cell Fuel-Electrode Conditions SrTi1-xFexO3-δ (STF) is a promising fuel electrode into which reducible cations can be substituted to yield exsolution of catalytically active nanoparticles, improving performance. Since prior studies have focused on STF with Fe content x = 0.7, questions remain as to whether other compositions provide better stability and performance over a range of fuel compositions.

Abstract : Preterm labor leading to preterm birth is the leading cause of infant morbidity and mortality. At the present time, nothing can reliably halt labor once it begins. The knowledge that agonists of the β2 adrenergic receptor relax airway smooth muscle and are effective in the treatment of asthma led to the notion that β2 mimetics would prevent preterm birth by relaxing uterine smooth muscle.