Biobanking in the Year 2007

Fiscal Year 2007

The goal of this project is to apply powerful new simulation techniques to tackle computationally challenging problems in chemical dynamics, with special emphasis on electrochemistry, heterogeneous catalysis, nanoparticles, solid-state dynamics, and photochemistry. These calculations will be carried out with new high-throughput integrated software that we are developing. New research capabiliti...

International polar year 2007-08.

Year in review 2007: Critical Care – shock

The research papers on shock published in Critical Care throughout 2007 are related to three major subjects: the modulation of the macrocirculation and microcirculation during shock, focusing on arginine vasopressin, erythropoietin and nitric oxide; studies on metabolic homeostasis (acid-base status, energy expenditure and gastrointestinal motility); and basic supportive measures in critical il...

Year in review 2007: Critical Care – nephrology

We summarize original research in the field of critical care nephrology that was accepted for publication or published in 2007 in Critical Care and, when considered relevant or directly linked to this research, in other journals. Four main topics were identified for a brief overview. The first of these was the definition of acute kidney injury and recent evidence showing the validity of RIFLE (...

Constructing populations in biobanking

This article poses the question of whether biobanking practices and standards are giving rise to the construction of populations from which various biobanking initiatives increasingly draw on for legitimacy? We argue that although recent biobanking policies encourage various forms of engagement with publics to ensure legitimacy, different biobanks conceptualize their engagement strategies very ...