Acidic shield puts a chink in p53's armour

A Welcome Chink in Drug Resistance

Given the alarming news about drugresistant super bugs, it’s a relief to know that at least one drug still works even after 50 years of clinical use. Even better, researchers think they finally know why. The drug is amphotericin B and it kills the fungus Candida albicans, a common hospital-acquired infection that can be lifethreatening. In this issue of PLOS Biology, Lindquist and colleagues sh...

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User's Knights in Shining Armour?

The aim of this article is to address the relation between a usercentred objective and social constructionism and the possibility to refine usercentred fundamentals by enhancing the awareness of the relation between humans and the constructed environment. Through social constructionism we could enter a bit deeper into questions like; (1) reality’s subjective character especially concerning tech...

Is behind armour blunt trauma a real threat to users of body armour? A systematic review.

INTRODUCTION Behind armour blunt trauma (BABT) has been defined as a non-penetrating injury caused by the rapid deformation of body armour. There has been an increasing awareness of BABT as an injury mechanism in both the military and civilian worlds; whether BABT results in serious injuries is debatable. METHOD A systematic review of the openly accessible literature was conducted using the P...

Comparison of the protection performance in a composite shield and a lead standard shield in terms of biological effects in nuclear medicine

Introduction:In the nuclear medicine departments, staff exposure to radiation is inevitable during patient positioning and radiopharmaceutical preparation. There is controversy regarding the use of usual lead aprons with respect to penetrating gamma rays used in nuclear medicine departments as well as production of characteristic lead x-ray from aprons. Methods:</stron...