Endless Summer (1964): Consuming Waves and Surfing the Frontier

The Endless Summer

People with metabolic syndrome and obesity are at an increased risk of mortality from cardiovascular disease. Over the past decade, there has been intensive research into new ways to stimulate weight loss to lower this risk. One of the key tissues is the metabolically active brown adipose tissue (BAT). Given that this is a thermogenic tissue, it can be stimulated by cold and is suggested by som...

"Hard days on the endless frontier" revisited.

Due to the intensive Ph.D. program launched by the Hungarian government 3 years ago, I recently had the chance to be one of the examiners in numerous doctoral exams. Talking to other Hungarian and foreign colleagues, I think that my alarming experience can be generalized: our recent doctors in the field of life sciences are quite outstanding experts in their particular specialized field and res...

Surfing on the cardiovascular frontier wave.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1160/TH15-01-0086 Thromb Haemost 2015; 113: 439–440 The very first conference of “Frontiers in Cardiovascular Research” took place in the archipelago paradise of Hawaii in the middle of the Pacific Ocean from September 26 to 27, 2013. The venue for the meeting was the Sullivan Auditorium at the University of Hawaii Cancer Center located on the John A. Burns School of Medici...

Surfing on Calcium Waves

A key question in brain development is how migration of neuronal precursors is guided to establish the ordered laminar layers. In the April 20, 2007 issue of Cell, Guan et al. show that the leading process of migrating cerebellar granule neurons senses repulsive Slit molecules by generating a Ca(2+) wave that propagates to the soma to cause reversal of cell polarity and migration.

The Endless Summer: Thermoneutrality Prevents Monocytosis and Reduces Atherosclerosis.