Monthly Archives: February 2016
Africa’s roads to ruin?
Medicare at 50: a long political struggle
Medicare came into being 50 years ago. In the context of the long history of struggles to obtain national health insurance in the USA, this was a momentous act. Organized efforts to attain national health insurance in
Skin versus nerve as a source of cells for the treatment of spinal cord injury
Following injury to the adult human spinal cord spontaneous repair processes fail resulting in life-long functional deficits below the level of injury, which can include paralysis, absent or abnormal sensory perception, chronic pain, and diminished cardiovascular, respiratory,
Artificial vision by Direct Optic Nerve Electrode (AV-DONE)
Wait a minute, how come heavier reacts faster?! Quantum effects in biochemistry and medicine
Imaging tumor development using next generation raster scan optoacoustic mesoscopy
A brain haemorrhage during anticoagulant therapy: what therapy next?
We read with interest the articles by Ntaios and by Ricci et al. concerning pros and cons of restarting oral anticoagulants (drugs that work to prevent the coagulation (clotting) of blood) after intracerebral hemorrhage. While we appreciate
The genetic secrets of Uveal Melanoma
HDL cholesterol: sometimes more is not necessarily better
A synaptic receptor with a dual personality
TGFbeta signalopathies as a paradigm for translation medicine
Marfan syndrome (MFS) is a disorder that affects different organ systems, such as the heart, aorta, eyes and the skeleton. Typically MFS patients present with tall stature, hands with long fingers, chest deformity. One of its most
Parkinson’s alpha-synuclein assembles in the disease prone stable dimers
Importance of updating prognostic predictions: an example from breast cancer
Understanding stability in functional nanoparticle inks
The past decade has seen an explosion of interest in 3-D printing. While many applications of 3-D printing use curable polymers to construct macroscopic scale objects (think printing of toys, jewelry, and architectural models), one of the
Sexual dimorphism in pituitary prolactin tumors
European Pharma Summit 2016
Organizer: GTCbio Start date: May 11th, 2016 End date: May 13th, 2016 We invite you to attend the European Pharma Summit 2016, which will take place on May 11-13, 2016 in Berlin, Germany. This event seeks to