Save That Injured Eye

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RNF169 flips the repair switch P oulsen et al. describe an enzyme that helps a cell determine which repair method to use on DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs). Unrepaired DSBs can incite genomic chaos, spurring sections of chromosomes to relocate or even vanish. To ensure that doesn’t happen, a cell wraps a molecular bandage around a DSB. Enzymes arrive at the injury and ubiquitylate the surroundi...

The injured eye.

Eye injuries come at a high cost to society and are avoidable. Ocular blast injuries can be primary, from the blast wave itself; secondary, from fragments carried by the blast wind; tertiary; due to structural collapse or being thrown against a fixed object; or quaternary, from burns and indirect injuries. Ballistic eye protection significantly reduces the incidence of eye injuries and should b...

Damage Control Resuscitation: Optimizing Blood Component Use to save Lives of Severely Injured Soldiers

Medical care in modern warfare is challenged by the use of high-explosive weapons that can induce mass casualties. In the current conflicts, improvements in body armour, the use of tourniquets and hemostatic dressings and in most cases, rapid evacuation times has resulted in higher survival rates than seen in prior wars. A major medical advance in the current conflicts is the initiation of dama...

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Eye gaze and conscious processing in severely brain - injured patients

Niedenthal et al. discuss the importance of eye gaze in embodied simulation and, more globally, in the processing of emotional visual stimulation (such as facial expression). In this commentary, we illustrate the relationship between oriented eye movements, consciousness, and emotion by using the case of severely brain-injured patients recovering from coma (i.e., vegetative and minimally conscious