REGENERATIVE MEDICINE - INITIATIVE À LA CARTE A remedy to the blood thirsty count Dracula?

REGENERATIVE MEDICINE – INITIATIVE À LA CARTE A remedy to the blood thirsty count Dracula?

Transylvania, splendidly played by the late Béla Lugosi, was maintaining himself with repeated blood meals. Due to the limited lifetime of red blood cells he needed this form of substitution therapy over and over again. It was not known then that transplantation of hematopoietic stem cells would have provided a permanent cure. To protect European Union citizens from such bad, not to say deadly,...

Death à la carte

Delegates arrived at the hotel on a rainy Sunday evening where they were immediately made welcome and encouraged to relax over dinner while chatting to other EWCD (European Workshop on Cell Death) participants. The EWCD is a bi-annual conference that focuses on all aspects of cell death. Each conference is held in a different unique location, with this year’s being no exception. The six-day mee...

Concurrent Objects à la Carte

Services are autonomous, self-describing, technology-neutral software units that can be described, published, discovered, and composed into software applications at run-time. Designing software services and composing services in order to form applications or composite services requires abstractions beyond those found in typical object-oriented programming languages. In this paper, we explore a ...

Potatoes à la Genetic Carte

Fishing history à la carte

The decline in many marine fisheries is well documented but there is less information about the scale and timing of their demise. Researchers are now beginning to search for such information in the hope that it may help reveal how different fisheries might best be conserved or restored. One novel source has been seafood prices collected from US restaurant menus dating to the 1850s, which are he...