Focus on quality, not just quantity

Pass quantity, focus on quality

Journal of Hematology & Oncology is pleased to see the exponential growth in the number of publications from China, especially in hematology and oncology. This editorial calls for putting more weight on the quality of the future scientific output and invites rigorous dialogs among policy makers, granting agencies, academic leaders, physicians, and scientists, followed by concrete actions, to ac...

Living with pulmonary hypertension: quality not just quantity.

P ulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is a rare disease characterised by progressive right heart failure and premature death with a median survival prior to the availability of effective treatments of ,3 yrs [1, 2]. There has been significant progress in its management over the last two decades with the introduction of three classes of targeted therapies: prostanoids, endothelin-1 receptor ant...

Quality, not just quantity: the role of qualitative methods in anesthesia research.

T Memory Cells: Quality not Quantity

Immunological memory to pathogens is associated with clonal expansion and heightened responsiveness of antigen-specific T cells. Recent work emphasizes that, for efficient protective immunity, qualitative changes in T memory cells are vitally important.

Quality not quantity: the pufferfish genome.

The genome of the pufferfish, Fugu rubripes (Fugu) is compact. With a similar gene complement to mammals and a genome size of just 400 Mb, gene density is high averaging one every 6-7 kb. Initial characterization of this genome has shown that although genes are much smaller and more densely spaced, their intron/exon structure is conserved with the resulting introns being small. There is little ...