Left over life to kill

Are Guns There to Kill or to Save Life?

Gunshots are one of the most common modes of deaths and injuries among young Americans in the post-World War II era [1]. The most effective way to prevent firearm injuries is to remove guns from the home and community [1,2]. High rates of injury and death from firearms in United States (US) are in stark contrast to the cities with no or few cases. This difference is most likely related to firea...

Die to kill: psychological and sociological study of suicide terrorism

One of the principal challenges now days, especially in the countries which are engaged in inland riots, is suicide attack which spreads fear broadly in human societies. More than the legal and political reactions to this social phenomenon, one of the preventive ways, is to analyze the suicide terrorists personally. No doubt, achievement to this understanding can be influential in preventing th...

DNA vaccines and apoptosis: to kill or not to kill?

The Journal of Clinical Investigation | July 2003 | Volume 112 | Number 1 RNase. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 100:4102-4107. 14. Shinkura, R., et al. 2003. The influence of transcriptional orientation on endogenous switch region function. Nat. Immunol. 4:435–441. 15. Yu, K., Chedin, F., Hsieh, C.L., Wilson, T.E., and Lieber, M.R. 2003. R-loops at immunoglobulin class switch regions in the ch...

Do genes allow inflammation to kill or not to kill?

A lysin to kill

An enzyme produced by a bacteriophage can enter human cells and kill intracellular Streptococcus pyogenes.