Seizing the Opportunity: Stem Cells Take On Epilepsy

Seizing the Digitalization Opportunity

Seizing the Opportunity: Exploiting Web Aggregation

This paper examines the development of web aggregators, entities that collect information from a wide range of sources, with or without prior arrangements, and add value through post-aggregation services. New Web-page extraction tools, context sensitive mediators, and agent technologies have greatly reduced the barriers to constructing aggregators. We predict that aggregators will soon emerge i...

Seizing an opportunity for the endocannabinoid system.

Exogenous cannabinoids can limit seizures and neurodegeneration, and their actions are largely mimicked by endogenous cannabinoids (endocannabinoids). Endocannabinoids are mobilized by epileptiform activity and in turn influence this activity by inhibiting synaptic transmission; both excitatory and some inhibitory synapses can be suppressed, leading to potentially complex outcomes. Moreover, th...

Seizing an Opportunity: Broader Definitions of Epilepsy May Lead to Better Treatments

There is not just one type of epilepsy. While some forms of the disease are characterized by convulsive seizures, others involve seizures that are barely noticeable. Seizures can occur for many reasons: they can be caused by genetic mutations, injury, or infection early in life. In addition, events in daily life, such as stress, or normal variations in hormones, such as estrogen and testosteron...

Seizing the opportunity to close the cancer divide.

On which of the battles not yet won should we focus attention when reviewing the global response to the challenge of cancer? Prevention and successful treatment are possible for many of the cancers that kill poor people of all ages globally. But to respond to this opportunity, we fi rst need to dispel the myths that surround cancer and poverty. Between 1990 and 2010 the global burden of disease...