Revival of gene therapy

Revival of cytokine therapy in heart failure?

Dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) and heart failure is a serious disease with a high morbidity and mortality rate in spite of optimal medical therapy. Although coronary artery disease is the main aetiology for the condition, a large group of patients have non-ischaemic DCM. Regenerative therapy with stem cells has been a focus to improve cardiac function, physical performance, and quality of life, a...

ژن درمانی Gene Therapy

Blues revival

Thousands of one of Britain's most spectacular butterflies, which became extinct in the country in 1979, flew again this summer as a result of a careful research, reintroduction and conservation programme that provides a model for other flagship species. The British Large Blue (Maculinea arion) occurs across Europe and northern Asia and is one of six large blue species globally, all of which ar...

Revival of the Kondo effect

33 WHY would anyone still want to study a physical phenomenon that was discovered in the 1930s, explained in the 1960s and has been the subject of numerous reviews since the 1970s? Although the Kondo effect is a well known and widely studied phenomenon in condensedmatter physics, it continues to capture the imagination of experimentalists and theorists alike. The effect arises from the interact...

Hashish revival in Morocco.

BACKGROUND In less than a decade, Morocco reportedly saw cannabis cultivation decrease by 65%, and hashish production is widely believed to have followed the same trend. Yet large anomalies exist between the alleged fall of hashish production in Morocco and international seizure data. While no explanation for such a discrepancy existed, the main hypothesis was that cannabis cultivation and hash...