Microbes fight back

Neurohawks fight back.

Bullmore et al 1 mount a defence of neuroscience in psychiatry, invoking history, a dawning golden age, Reil and Freud. Although ensuring that the curriculum for undergraduates and trainees should accurately reflect what is valuable for doctors wishing to understand and treat mental disorders, they do not fulfil the ambitions of their manifesto. Their argument against neuro-scepticism is weak. ...

Darwin's champions fight back

Researchers are building their response to the attack by creationism on evolution as interest in Darwin memorabilia continues to grow.

Lamellipodia fight back formin

Lamellipodia fight back formin T he actin-organizing activities in a reaching lamellipod fi ght back the trailing lamella, say Sarmiento et al. The feedback might coordinate inchworm-like migration in normal and cancerous cells. Tumor cells such as breast cancer carcinomas become dangerously motile because they have hyperactive actin-poly-merizing pathways that respond to epidermal growth facto...

Microbes Battle Back

Background: Docetaxel is the standard first-line agent for the treatment of androgen-independent prostate cancer (AIPC). The combination of docetaxel with molecularly targeted therapies may offer the potential to increase the efficacy and decrease the toxicity of cytotoxic chemotherapy for prostate cancer. Previous studies demonstrate activation of the human epidermal growth factor receptor (EG...

The microbes strike back.