Exercise: Great for Heart Health, Just as Great for Cardiac Preconditioning Research

Good to Great , or Just Good ?

Executive Overview Good to Great has been on BusinessWeek’s best-seller list since its October 2001 release. In Good to Great, author Jim Collins identified a set of 11 firms as great, then used them to derive five management principles he believed led to “sustained great results.” We contend that due to two fatal errors, Good to Great provides no evidence that applying the five principles to o...

New Hopes and Challenges for Treatment of Neurodegenerative Disorders: Great Opportunities for Young Neuroscientists

Research at Great Ormond Street

There have recently been opened, at the Hospital for Sick Children in Great Ormond Street, a new pathological and a new biochemical laboratory. In the Pathological Laboratory investigations are being made into the causes of summer diarrhoea and rickets in children. In addition, experiments are being made as to the value of the complement fixation test in tuberculosis, and as to the precipitatio...

Clinical Implication of Surgical Resection for the Rare Cardiac Tumors Involving Heart and Great Vessels

This study aimed to investigate the clinical implication of surgical resection for the malignancies of heart and great vessels. Between January 2001 and May 2011, a retrospective review of the results in 12 patients was conducted. There were 6 patients with primary cardiac tumor including leiomyosarcoma, angiosarcoma, undifferentiated type sarcoma and malignant fibrous histiocytoma. The remaini...

Great teachers for STEM.

www.sciencemag.org SCIENCE VOL 325 28 AUGUST 2009 1037 COVER Pseudocolored scanning electron micrograph (magnification ~34,000x) of the surface of mouse airway epithelia showing cilia protruding from epithelial cells; short protrusions in the foreground are microvilli from a nonciliated cell. In human airway epithelia, these motile cilia bear receptors that detect bitter compounds and signal th...