International research sheds light on waiting times

Synchrotron sheds new light on research questions.

International comparisons of waiting times for cardiovascular procedures.

Waiting times for important and resource-intensive cardiovascular procedures have become a popular index for assessing the degree of rationing of medical care that is perceived to exist within various nationally subsidized health care systems. Until the health care reform debate took a repose, pro tern, in the summer/autumn of 1994, the U.S. citizenry had been exposed to extensive coverage in t...

The worm sheds light on anesthetic mechanisms

One hundred and sixty five years have passed since the first documented use of volatile anesthetics to aid in surgery, but we have yet to understand the underlying mechanism of action of these drugs. There is no question that, in vitro, volatile anesthetics can affect the function of numerous neuronal and non-neuronal proteins. In fact, volatile anesthetics are capable of binding such diverse p...

BEAMing sheds light on drug resistance.

Targeted therapies against somatically altered genes are currently used for the treatment of many human cancers. The nascent technology known as BEAMing has the potential to increase the clinical utility of these agents because it allows for the detection of cancer mutations in peripheral blood, providing a rapid assessment of tumor mutation status.

Pyrosequencing sheds light on DNA sequencing.

DNA sequencing is one of the most important platforms for the study of biological systems today. Sequence determination is most commonly performed using dideoxy chain termination technology. Recently, pyrosequencing has emerged as a new sequencing methodology. This technique is a widely applicable, alternative technology for the detailed characterization of nucleic acids. Pyrosequencing has the...