Spain launches cancer research project

EDF Launches “3,000 by 2000” Project

Cis-platinum causes profound gastrointestinal symptoms in patients and these may persist for many days after drug administration. Gut mucosal toxicity may be a factor in the pathogenesis of such prolonged nausea, vomiting and anorexia. The effects of cis-platinum on mouse ileal mucosal architecture, villus epithelial cell influx and disaccharidase activity are described in comparison with dhe e...

Who launches project to prevent blindness in children.

Blindness and severe visual impairment have far reaching social, economic, and personal implications. When it occurs in children, it also poses serious barriers to the development of the child at a formative stage. Primary health care approaches such as immunization against measles and rubella, better nutrition, especially with regard to vitamin A, timely prophylaxis against eye infections in t...

Circulation Research launches a clinical track for studies in humans.

ASM Launches mBio

With this issue, ASM launches a new, interdisciplinary journal designed to accommodate the universe of microbiology and its allied disciplines under one roof. While perusing the pages of this first issue of mBio, one will note that there are articles addressing a myriad of questions in virology, bacteriology, mycology, parasitology, immunology, ecology, and basic cell biology. To have papers fr...

ASM Launches mSphere

We live in an exceptionally dynamic and exciting time for the life sciences, in which our ability to acquire and disseminate knowledge is rapid, global, and everchanging. Technological advances have altered the way in which most life sciences laboratories operate. When I was a postdoc, substantial effort was needed to master basic molecular biology techniques that were complicated at the time b...