Bryostatin-I—An Antineoplastic Treasure from the Deep?

Fucoxantin: A Treasure from the Sea

The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that 2.3 billion people will be overweight and 700 million obese in 2015. The reasons for this disastrous trend are attributed to the global tendency toward the reduced magnitude of exercise and physical activity and the increased dietary intake of fats, sugars and calories with reduced amount of vitamins and minerals. To prevent life-style-related ...

The Antineoplastic Agent Bryostatin-1 Differentially Regulates IFN- Receptor Subunits in Monocytic Cells: Transcriptional and Posttranscriptional Control of IFN- R2

The Treasure Chest

This is a selected list of the packages posted to CTAN from January 2004 through December 2004, with descriptive text pulled from the announcement or researched and edited for brevity. Please inform us of any errors. This installment, like the last, lists entries alphabetically within CTAN directories, rather than by date. We’ve also omitted some packages which had only minor updates, again for...

The Treasure Called Antibiotics

Annals of Ibadan Postgraduate Medicine. Vol. 14 No. 2, December 2016 56 Prior to the beginning of the 20th Century, infectious diseases accounted for high morbidity and mortality worldwide. The average life expectancy at birth was 47 years (46 and 48 years for men and women respectively) even in the industrialized world. Infectious diseases such as smallpox, cholera, diphtheria, pneumonia, typh...

Unlocking the treasure trove: from genes to schizophrenia biology.

Significant progress is being made in defining the genetic etiology of schizophrenia. As the list of implicated genes grows, parallel developments in gene editing technology provide new methods to investigate gene function in model systems. The confluence of these two research fields--gene discovery and functional biology--may offer novel insights into schizophrenia etiology. We review recent a...