New year wishes and updates

Best wishes for a happy and prosperous New Year

Farewell and Best Wishes

permanent editor-in-chief is selected. With publication of this issue, I have reached a long-planned retirement from the NIEHS and Environmental Health Perspectives (EHP ). The mission of EHP is to serve as a forum for the discussion of the interrelationships between the environment and human health by publishing in a balanced and objective manner the best peer-reviewed research and most curren...

Secure Software Updates: Disappointments and New Challenges

A client can use a content distribution network to securely download software updates. These updates help to patch everyday bugs, plug security vulnerabilities, and secure critical infrastructure. Yet challenges remain for secure content distribution: many deployed software update mechanisms are insecure, and emerging technologies pose further hurdles for deployment. Our analysis of several pop...

Sports cardiology: current updates and new directions.

INTRODUCTION In 1901, Dr W Collier submitted a paper to the British Medical Journal entitled, ‘The effects of severe muscular exertion, sudden and prolonged, in young adolescents’. This early article demonstrated the predicament faced by physicians when dealing with athletes suspected of, or diagnosed with, a cardiovascular disease. Collier describes the case of an Oxford University mile runner...

SMART 6: recent updates and new developments

Simple modular architecture research tool (SMART) is an online tool (http://smart.embl.de/) for the identification and annotation of protein domains. It provides a user-friendly platform for the exploration and comparative study of domain architectures in both proteins and genes. The current release of SMART contains manually curated models for 784 protein domains. Recent developments were focu...