Portable Sleep Monitoring Systems: Broadening the Horizons

Broadening your horizons

Travel is an integral part of a career as a life scientist — in fact, you can’t become a scientist without travelling. In the early stages it’s quite natural to have serious doubts about whether you’re on the right career path. Traveling lets you forget these worries and puts things in perspective. You will then begin to see whether you are just worrying unecessarily or whether you are really f...

Broadening the Horizons of Turf Bermudagrass

Broadening the horizons for yellow fever

The vaccine against yellow fever is one of the safest and most effective ever developed. With an outstanding record in humans, has this live attenuated vaccine been overlooked as a promising vector for the development of vaccines against pathogens outside its own genus? Recent studies, including a report by Tao et al. on page 201 of this issue, have sparked renewed interest.

Discordant cardiac xenotransplantation: broadening the horizons.

a Transregio Collaborative Research Center 127, Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich, Germany b Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich, Germany c Revivicor, Blacksburg, VA, USA d Living Cell Technologies, Auckland, New Zealand e Chair of Livestock Biotechnology, Weihenstephan, Technical University, Munich, Germany f Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensi...

Portable monitoring in sleep apnoea: the way forward?

P opulation-based epidemiological studies estimate the prevalence of obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome (OSAS) to be at least 2% of adult females and 4% of adult males in the developed world based on an apnoea/ hypopnoea frequency (AHI) of .5 events?h-1 associated with excessive daytime sleepiness. However, a substantial proportion of these individuals are undiagnosed [1–3]. Furthermore, it is v...