… but gives $30m back to NSF

Mathematics funding. NSF initiative gives field a chance to show relevance.

Fetal cell microchimerism in the maternal heart: baby gives back.

In this issue of Circulation Research, Kara et al1 present an elegant series of experiments demonstrating that after murine maternal myocardial infarction, fetal cells engraft and differentiate into endothelial cells, smooth muscle cells, and cardiomyocytes at the site of injury. These cells, when isolated and cocultured with neonatal cells, appear to be capable of differentiating into beating ...

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ADAGIO-Lipids gives promises but faces the setbacks.

The rapidly increasing global wave of obesity associated with cardiometabolic risk factors portends a daunting increase of cardiovascular disease. Consequently, the search for effective and safe drugs and new therapeutic avenues to fight obesity stands at the frontline because of a market with enormous opportunities. Rimonabant is a selective CB1 endocannabinoid receptor antagonist that was the...

Nsf.

Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) facilitate largescale identification of genomic variants that are associated with complex traits. However, susceptibility loci identified by GWAS so far generally account for a limited fraction of the genotypic variation in patient populations. Predictive models based on identified loci also have modest success in risk assessment and therefore are of limit...