‘All disease begins in the gut’: was Hippocrates right?

Obesity and cardiovascular disease: the hippocrates paradox?

Clearly, obesity is a problem that is reaching epidemic proportions in the U.S., with nearly 70% of adults being classified as overweight or obese compared with fewer than 25% 40 years ago (2,3). Although too often obesity is viewed as a cosmetic problem as opposed to a major health concern, there is no question that obesity places a “heavy” burden on the entire cardiovascular system, contribut...

Sinha Vascular Disease in a Dish : All the Right Ingredients ?

The emerging field of stem cell medicine offers unprecedented opportunities, among which the ability to model genetic diseases in vitro is one of the most exciting. In particular, disease modeling using stem cells promises to deliver a deeper understanding of disease mechanisms and to provide a test bed for novel therapies within a relatively short timeframe. The seminal discovery by Shinya Yam...

Vascular disease in a dish: all the right ingredients?

The emerging field of stem cell medicine offers unprecedented opportunities, among which the ability to model genetic diseases in vitro is one of the most exciting. In particular, disease modeling using stem cells promises to deliver a deeper understanding of disease mechanisms and to provide a test bed for novel therapies within a relatively short timeframe. The seminal discovery by Shinya Yam...

Was Einstein 100% Right ? *

The confrontation between General Relativity and experimental results, notably binary pulsar data, is summarized and its significance discussed. The agreement between experiment and theory is numerically very impressive. However, some recent theoretical findings (existence of non-perturbative strong-field effects, natural cosmological attraction toward zero scalar couplings) suggest that the pr...

Fisher Was Right