Invitation to respond by rhetoric or delivery

Rhetoric, Comedy, or Shock? Bruce Gilley’s Case of Anachronism

To respond or not to respond to hydroxyurea in thalassemia: a matter of stress adaptation?

I n hereditary hemoglobinopathies, such as sickle cell anemia (SCA) and beta-thalassemia (BT), the absolute level of fetal hemoglobin (HbF) production is a critical predictor of severity. High HbF is protective against sickling and vaso-occlusive complications in SCA, and high levels of gamma-globin (the non-alpha globin component of HbF) compensate for beta-globin deficiency in BT, reducing th...

To respond or not to respond, the recurring question in plant mechanosensitivity

In nature, terrestrial plants experience many kinds of external mechanical stimulation and respond by triggering a network of signaling events to acclimate their growth and development. Some environmental cues, especially wind, recur on time scales varying from seconds to days. Plants thus have to adapt their sensitivity to such stimulations to avoid constitutive activation of stress responses....

Rolling back malaria: action or rhetoric?

The Roll Back Malaria Initiative (RBM) is a partnership of countries with endemic malaria, United Nations agencies, bilateral development agencies, the research community, the private sector, nongovernmental organizations, foundations, and the media. The participants see it as the beginning of a societal movement to bring malaria under control. The RBM partnership was formed in response to the ...

The politics of pain: rhetoric or reform?