Open letter to the UN's new health chief from “Alternative Nobel Prize” laureates

The 2011 Nobel Prize Laureates in Physiology or Medicine.

Letter from the New Editor-in-Chief

It gives me great pleasure to welcome you to the latest issue of Cancers, for which I now serve as Editor-in-Chief. First, thanks are due to my predecessor and the founding Editor-in-Chief, Dr. Robert Weiss. Over the past six years, he has done an outstanding job in shaping the journal to ensure its place as an online journal addressing both clinical and basic science issues related to cancer r...

Letter from the New Editors-in-Chief

Discrete geometry and computational geometry are areas of active research that belong together, can benefit from intensified interaction, and need a common platform: This was the vision of Eli Goodman and Ricky Pollack in the mid-1980s, which led to the birth of Discrete & Computational Geometry. The journal they created in 1986 has documented, highlighted, and triggered many important breakthr...

Intracellular Clearance by Nobel Laureates.

Pulmonary complications often involve a modulation of innate immune responses [11–19] , and many studies have shown that surfactant proteins play a critical role in these processes [review in 20 ]. In this issue, Sylvia Ujma et al. [21] present an excellent review article, describing surfactant proteins A and B as being expressed also in many other parts of the body, such as the reproductive, u...

The Nobel Laureates’ Campaign Supporting GMOs

More than 800 million people suffer from hunger in the world. Using modern plant breeding methods to generate so-called GMOs (Genetically Modified Organisms), agricultural scientists have shown that crop yields and nutritional quality can be greatly improved. Many GMO varieties have been specifically developed with the aim of being resistant to pests, tolerant to drought and containing benefici...