RAN goes global

ISBER Goes Global.

ISBER’s vision is to be the leading global forum for promoting harmonized high quality standards, ethical principles, and innovation in the science and management of biorepositories. Our mission is to create opportunities for sharing ideas and innovations in biobanking and for harmonization of scientific, technical, legal, and ethical approaches to evolving challenges in biobanking. For those r...

Death Goes Global:

We present a case study—the U.S. death care industry—that largely violates the assumptions of foreign direction investment (FDI) theory. Based on this anomaly, we develop several questions to help us understand whether this is a unique case, whether other anomalies may also exist, and what this might mean for FDI theory. We hope to generate discussion to help us answer these questions.

Amyloid goes global.

The brains of patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) contain abundant plaques composed of beta-amyloid (Abeta) peptides. It has been assumed that amyloid plaques and soluble Abeta oligomers induce neuronal pathology in AD; however, the mechanism by which amyloid mediates pathological effects is not clearly understood. In vivo calcium (Ca2+) imaging and array tomography studies with AD mouse mod...

Direction Repulsion Goes Global

When viewing two superimposed, translating sets of dots moving in different directions, one overestimates direction difference. This phenomenon of direction repulsion is thought to be driven by inhibitory interactions between directionally tuned motion detectors. However, there is disagreement on where this occurs-at early stages of motion processing, when local motions are extracted; or at the...

Guilt-by-association goes global.