A silver lining for hurricanes

Every silver lining has a cloud.

Every cloud has a silver lining.

phamide, and Rituximab Versus FCR Alone in Subjects With Relapsed Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia] study).8 If the results of this pivotal trial confirm the findings of Byrd et al,7 it will have an important influence on the treatment strategy of patients with CLL. In recent years, 4 drug combination therapies with FCR and alemtuzumab or FCR and mitoxantrone in refractory/relapsed CLL patients wer...

A potential silver lining for antimicrobial treatments against certain bacteria

Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) causes TB in humans and there is an increasing number of drug-resistant Mtb strains across the globe. As a result, it is important that effective anti-TB agents are available. David Alland (University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, NJ, USA) and coworkers recently reported a new class of thiophene (TP) compounds that are able to destroy Mtb via Pks13 in...

The Silver Lining of Cloud Computing

“Due to decades of technology acquisitions to fuel growing businesses, enterprises are now facing a breaking point with their IT systems. Some systems can’t share information and workloads, servers are highly underutilized and the cost of energy is becoming greater than the value of the systems the energy powers. In some cases, nearly 70 percent of companies’ IT budgets can be devoted to managi...

The Silver Lining Around Fearful Living

This paper discusses in layperson’s terms human and computational studies of the impact of threat and fear on exploration and creativity. A first study showed that both killifish from a lake with predators and from a lake without predators explore a new environment to the same degree and plotting number of new spaces covered over time generates a hump-shaped curve. However, for the fish from th...