Opening the gates to molecular medicine

Editorial boards and their value to the professions: opening the gates to what is next.

Opening the flood gates? association of NOD2 with Crohn's disease

It's been a long time coming, but now two papers report a clear cut identification by linkage mapping of a gene involved in a common human disorder — Crohn's disease (CD). Importantly, they also indicate how the innate immune system might be involved in the aetiology of CD, because the identified gene — NOD2 — encodes an intracellular receptor for bacterial lipopolysaccharides (LPS) that activa...

Plant Pathogens Trick Guard Cells into Opening the Gates

The stomata of plants regulate gas exchange and water transpiration in response to changing environmental conditions. New work reveals that stomata also have an important role in host defense. In this issue of Cell, Melotto et al. (2006) show that stomata close upon detection of potential microbial pathogens to prevent the infection of the leaf interior. Moreover, pathogenic bacteria have evolv...

the evaluation and comparison of two esp textbooks available on the iranian market for teaching english to the students of medicine

abstract this study evaluated and compared medical terminology and english for the students of medicine (ii) as two representatives of the textbooks available on the iranian market for teaching english to the students of medicine. this research was performed on the basis of a teacher’s and a number of students’ attitudes and the students’ needs analysis for two reasons: first, to investigate...

Opening the Ecosystem Flood Gates: Architecture Challenges of Opening Interfaces Within a Product Portfolio

Technology firms are increasingly opening up their products to develop an active ecosystem of developing partners around it. Both opening up products and organizing a developer ecosystem around an organization are non-trivial. In this paper we provide a case study of a leading communications technology firm that opened up and platformized 11 product lines. First, we identify and describe four a...