Restoring the balance

Restoring the balance.

The life cycles of women: restoring balance.

What is the answer when you hit menopause, moving along well, always fairly thin, then all of a sudden through no change of diet you gain weight, in my case 12 pounds in 6 weeks. The tiredness I felt was like no other as the hormones unbalanced themselves. The natural remedies just stopped working. You are too tired for your walks and you see this weight piling on, something you are not used to...

Editorial: Metals and neurodegeneration: restoring the balance

There is considerable evidence that abnormal biometal homeostasis is a key feature of many neurodegenerative diseases and may have an important role in the onset and progression of disorders such as Alzheimer's (AD), Parkinson's (PD), prion, and motor neuron diseases. The role of biometals in a growing list of brain disorders is supported by evidence from a wide range of sources including molec...

DSCAMs: restoring balance to developmental forces

Many of the models of neurodevelopmental processes such as cell migration, axon outgrowth, and dendrite arborization involve cell adhesion and chemoattraction as critical physical or mechanical aspects of the mechanism. However, the prevention of adhesion or attraction is under-appreciated as a necessary, active process that balances these forces, insuring that the correct cells are present and...

Restoring balance to liver stem cell research.

This month’s report from Saji et al., entitled ‘Basic fibroblast growth factor promotes the trans-differentiation of mouse bone marrow cells into hepatic lineage cells via multiple liver-enriched transcription factors’ [1], is one of a handful of recent papers helping to restore balance to the contentious field of adult stem cell research in general and, more specifically, to investigations of ...