Dissolving cholesterol to unclog arteries

Cholesterol Emboli in Retinal Arteries.

How cholesterol clogs the arteries

high-cholesterol diet can be the fast track to a heart attack. But scientists are only now discovering that one of cholesterol’s most damaging effects might stem from its ability to make blood cells self-destruct. The findings appear in a pair of recent studies directed by Ira Tabas (Columbia University, New York, NY). Cholesterol is abundant in atherosclerotic lesions, which become most danger...

Dissolving the Conceptual Barriers to Teamwork

Teamwork forms the basis for innumerable approaches to workplace reorganization and its popularity appears to continue unabated. This is despite the predictions of institutional economics and social psychology that teamwork is an intrinsically inefficient form of organization. This paper examines the objections to teamwork raised by these two disciplines, focusing on the problems of “free ridin...

Dissolving Illusions

Immunity from such infections may be natural or may be acquired. By natural immunity we understand a natural resistance to infection by certain micro-organisms which are known to have pathogenic properties for other species of animals. It is know, for instance, that microbes which produce a rapidly fatal disease in one kind of animal are quite innocuous when introduced even in enormous numbers ...

Dissolving Illusions

ALTHOUGH it has not been in my power to extend the inquiry into the causes and effects of the variolæ vaccinæ much beyond its original limits, yet, perceiving that it is beginning to excite a general spirit of investigation, I think it of importance, without delay, to communicate such facts as have since occurred, and to point out the fallacious sources from whence a disease imitative of the tr...