Pestivirus as a cause of white matter damage -down but not out

Down but not out

By his mid-forties, Darwin had established his scientific reputation, was married with a young family and had built on the solid connections that came with his and his wife's well-known middle class families. 'He was one of the kindest and truest men that it was ever my good fortune to know,' said his influential scientific colleague, Thomas Huxley. With no need to seek employment, Darwin took ...

"Down but not out".

Out but not down

his research partner Nico Forraz. He plans to open the world's biggest institute devoted to cord blood and adult stem cells. McGuckin has been a leader of researchers working in the UK on stem cells derived from babies' umbilical cord blood. The method is less controversial than embryo-derived stem cells as no embryo is destroyed in the process. He told the Times Higher Education that France ha...

Erythropoietin as a cardioprotective agent: down but not out.

Erythropoietin (EPO) is an important regulator of the production red blood cells, and cloning of the gene led to the development of recombinant human EPO preparation, rhEPO. EPO caught the public eye when some leading athletes started to take it to increase the oxygen-carrying capacity of the blood and, thereby, to achieve enhanced athletic performance. Thus, they were conveniently able to achi...

Leprosy: Down But Not Out

Where is the world’s only leprosy museum? Calcutta? Louisiana? No. It’s in Bergen, Norway. I visited the Leprosy Museum in Bergen last year, when visiting my friend, Jan Eggum, a well-known Norwegian singer and composer. The museum houses the original laboratories and surgeries where Dr. Armauer Hansen and his colleagues dld the frst systematic research on leprosy. The “leprosarium” where Hanse...