Knights, Dragons, and the Holy Grail

Pursuing the "Holy Grail".

Over the past decade, several large, randomized trials have allowed us to better define the appropriate population for primary prevention implantable cardioverterdefibrillator (ICD) placement, saving thousands of lives every year. MADIT II (Multicenter Automatic Defibrillator Implantation Trial II) and SCD-HeFT (Sudden Cardiac Death in Heart Failure Trial) have demonstrated a survival benefit o...

The Holy Grail of Psychiatry

"Holy Grail" is a well-known metaphor for the eternal spiritual pursuit for truth and wisdom. It suggests that in order for us to find what no one has found, we must search where few have looked. In 2013, a group led by Helen Mayberg published a groundbreaking paper that sought an answer to one of the most discussed conundrums in psychiatry and neuroscience: Can specific patterns of brain activ...

Spinal anesthesia: the Holy Grail?

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Clusia: Holy Grail and enigma.

Clusia is the only genus with bona fide dicotyledonous trees performing Crassulacean acid metabolism (CAM). Clusia minor L. is extraordinarily flexible, being C(3)/CAM intermediate and expressing the photosynthetic modes C(3), CAM, CAM-cycling, and CAM-idling. C(3) photosynthesis and CAM can be observed simultaneously in two opposite leaves on a node and possibly even within the same leaf in th...

Searching for the Holy Grail?