EMPIRE’S NEW CLOTHES

The parasite’s new clothes

A population of stems cells continuously rejuvenates the outer surface of a human parasitic flatworm.

The emperor's new clothes

bewildered by my first reading of Hans Christian Anderson's 'The Emperor's New Clothes'. It was a story book with pictures, and the emperor was drawn prancing down the street in underclothes befitting the Victorian era (I was amused to discover that in today's versions he is depicted stark naked). I was disappointed with the end of the tale, not being old enough for what is, in effect, a story ...

The emperor's new clothes.

Replica Symmetry Breaking’s New Clothes

We present a theorem proving the impossibility of recent attempts to decouple the Replica Symmetry Breaking (RSB) picture for finite-dimensional spin glasses from the existence of many thermodynamic (i.e., infinite-volume) pure states while preserving another signature RSB feature — space filling relative domain walls between periodic and antiperiodic finite-volume states. Thus the putative not...

New cotton clothes are healthier.

-The value of the leucocyte adherence inhibition (LAI) test in the diagnosis of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) was investigated in 36 patients with this tumour. The sensitivity and specificity of the tube LAI test was assessed in 21 patients with HCC, 15 apparently healthy individuals, 9 patients with various forms of benign liver disease and 5 patients with non-hepatic neoplasms. In only 42% o...