Do all mammals dream?

Do mammals make all their own inositol hexakisphosphate?

A highly specific and sensitive mass assay for inositol hexakisphosphate (InsP6) was characterized. This centres around phosphorylating InsP6 with [32P]ATP using a recombinant InsP6 kinase from Giardia lambia, followed by HPLC of the 32P-labelled products with an internal [3H]InsP7 standard. This assay was used to quantify InsP6 levels in a variety of biological samples.Concentrations of InsP6 ...

Health for all? Dream on!

Happiness for All : Living the Dream ?

Sukhov went off to sleep, and he was completely content. Fate had been kind in many ways that day; he hadn’t been put in the cells, the gang had not been sent to the Socialist Community Center, he’d fiddled himself an extra bowl of porridge for dinner. . . . The day had gone by without a single cloud— almost a happy day. There were three thousand six hundred and fiftythree days like that in his...

The dream of health information for all

In 2004, an influential report in The Lancet suggested that open health information for all could be achieved by 2015. Unfortunately, this goal has not yet been accomplished. Despite progress in obtaining quality scientific articles in Latin America, it remains difficult to reliably access new and cutting-edge research. As graduating Peruvian medical students, we have confronted many obstacles ...

Stimulation of regeneration in mammals: pipe dream or realistic goal?

This article covers a broad spectrum of mammalian regenerative phenomena, including the natural capacity for regeneration of organs and tissues and the classification of mammalian reparative responses. Several broad strategies have been formulated for the stimulation or enhancement of regeneration. Historically, the most common strategy has been to alter the environment surrounding a damaged or...