Angiogenesis during pregnancy: all routes lead to MAPKs

Molecular Evolutionary Routes That Lead to Innovations

1 Institut de Génomique Fonctionnelle de Lyon, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, 32-34 Avenue Tony Garnier, 69007 Lyon, France 2Hayama Center for Advanced Studies, The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, Kanagawa 240-0193, Japan 3Division of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Institute of Population Health Sciences, National Health Research Institutes, 35, Keyan Road, Zhunan, Miaoli County...

Pigeon Navigation: Different Routes Lead to Frankfurt

BACKGROUND Tracks of pigeons homing to the Frankfurt loft revealed an odd phenomenon: whereas birds returning from the North approach their loft more or less directly in a broad front, pigeons returning from the South choose, from 25 km from home onward, either of two corridors, a direct one and one with a considerable detour to the West. This implies differences in the navigational process. ...

Is it all right to drink a little during pregnancy?

QUESTION When I told a female patient who just transferred from another city to abstain from alcohol during pregnancy, she was surprised. She mentioned that, in the past, several doctors had told her it was all right to drink moderately. I am confused. Have I missed something? ANSWER No, you have not. Women should be advised to abstain from alcohol during pregnancy. There are insufficient dat...

All Roads Lead To Rome

Legendary mathematician Paul Erdos liked to talk about the perfect proofs of mathematical theorems maintained by God. In [1], six different proofs are given to the infinity of prime numbers. Unlike mathematical proofs which are mentally reproducible objects, signal processing researchers can have an intimate discussion with God by creating computational algorithms which are experimentally repro...

All traces lead to ROMA