Raising profile

Raising profile

Within days of taking office, Colin Blakemore, former professor of physiology at the University of Oxford and now head of the Medical Research Council, was on the road. In the first few months of his appointment he is spending as much time as possible learning at first hand about the strategies for medical research in UK universities, sharing his initial thoughts about the role of the MRC, and ...

DNA microarrays: raising the profile.

Expression profiling using DNA microarrays is starting to come of age. The past year has seen significant advances in the number, scope and quality of studies that incorporate expression profiling experiments. Attention is starting to move on from making DNA microarrays to appropriate experimental design and sophisticated data analysis techniques.

Preemptive Fund-Raising and Challenger Profile in Senate Elections

Primary care forward: raising the profile of Cuba's nursing profession.

Feature The Alma-Ata International Conference on Primary Health Care was a watershed in global health: the hard-won consensus established health care as a human right and accessible primary care as fundamental to 'health for all,' and especially to closing the gap between rich and poor countries. At the time, Cuba had already transformed its own health approach by adopting a single, universal p...

A profile of grandparents raising grandchildren in the United States.

This article examines the prevalence of grandparent caregiving in the U.S. and presents a national profile of grandparent caregivers based on current data from the national Survey of Families and Households. More than one in ten grandparents are found to have cared for a grandchild for at least 6 months, with most of these having engaged in a far longer-term commitment. Although custodial grand...