Buru Island: Still Much More to Reveal

Diabetic Kidney Disease: Much Progress, But Still More to Do

W hen I was a medical student in the 1960s, about one-third of patients with type 1 diabetes developed end-stage renal disease (ESRD) by ~30 years' duration of diabetes (1), and there wasn't anything that could be done for them. Medicare only started paying for treatment of ESRD (dialysis/ transplantation) in the United States in 1973. So, most of those patients died. Recently, the Diabetes Con...

Splicing: still so much to learn.

This issue marks the 20th year since the launching of RNA in March of 1995. It is a time to celebrate, as well as to consider the substantial accomplishments achieved in these two decades, both in the RNA field as a whole, and in the specific areas in which each of us works—in my case, human premRNA splicing mechanisms and regulation, and its relevance to human disease. Moreover, this is a time...

Exercise induced asthma, still much to learn.

Policy Reforms Affecting Agricultural Incentives: Much Achieved, Much Still Needed

For decades, earnings from farming in many developing countries have been depressed by a pro-urban bias in own-country policies, as well as by governments of richer countries favoring their farmers with import barriers and subsidies. Both sets of policies reduce national and global economic welfare and inhibit agricultural trade and economic growth. They almost certainly add to inequality and p...

How much more rain?

Smart Dust particles, are small smart materials used for generating weather maps. We investigate question of the optimal number of Smart Dust particles necessary for generating precise, computationally feasible and cost effective 3–D weather maps. We also give an optimal matching algorithm for the generalized scenario, when there are N Smart Dust particles and M ground receivers.