Rabies virus has more than one trick up its sleeve to manipulate the host defences

There's more than one way to manipulate a spine.

In 1889, Mark Twain described a rather resourceful character in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court by writing that ‘‘She was wise, subtle, and knew more than one way to skin a cat’’; that is, she had in her toolbox more than one way to get what she wanted. The exact origins of the phrase are unclear, but most of us interpret this expression as meaning that there are certain tasks that ...

Therapeutic properties of aerobic training after a cancer diagnosis: more than a one-trick pony?

Until recently there was a prevailing dogma that cancer patients may be unable to safely participate in, benefit from, or tolerate structured exercise training/rehabilitation. Nevertheless, two factors pointed to the potential benefit of exercise in cancer patients: 1) the robust efficacy of exercise to favorably impact multiple physiological and psychosocial outcomes in noncancer clinical popu...

Exploding Offers Can Blow Up in More Than One Way

We study a game in which the proposer can issue an extended or exploding offer. The responder is waiting for a better alternative, and an exploding offer has to be accepted or rejected before the responder knows whether a better alternative will arrive. An extended offer allows the responder to wait and first learn about the outcome of a better alternative. The responder, after accepting the pr...

simultaneous submission of a manuscript to more than one journal

More than one abortion.

©FFPRHC J Fam Plann Reprod Health Care 2007: 33(3) Introduction The terms ‘repeat abortion’ and ‘repeat aborter’ appear in the scientific literature from the early 1970s onwards. To begin with, the pejorative term ‘abortion recidivism’ was used by some.1 The initial concern appeared to be that women might be using abortion instead of contraception as a means of fertility control, with connotati...