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Silent Synapses Speak Up

*Department of Psychiatry The existence of silent or ineffective synapses in the †Department of Cellular and Molecular spinal cordwas proposed over 20 years ago (Wall, 1977), Pharmacology based on experimentally induced rapid changes in the Department of Physiology ability of afferents to evoke single unit activity. However, University of California a limitation of this approach was that it was...

Silent clusters – speak up!

Microorganisms have provided mankind with a multitude of useful compounds ranging from industrial enzymes to anti-cancer compounds and antibiotics. With the aging population, our need for treatment principles against cancer, Alzheimer's disease and metabolic disorders is increasing. Also, the occurrence and spread of antibiotic resistance in pathogenic microorganisms has become one of our main ...

Time to speak up for research.

As U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Francis Collins stated in recent testimony to Congress, “Our nation has never witnessed a time of greater promise for advances in medicine.” Researchers are moving closer to developing a universal flu vaccine, cancer immunotherapy (harnessing the immune system to attack tumor cells) is on the horizon, and the public/private BRAIN initiative w...

Nurses speak up on new ORs design.

Speak up! Speak out! Building HIV and AIDS awareness among Jamaican school children.

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The Government of Jamaica, through the Ministry of Health and other ministries, assisted by international funding agencies and members of non-governmental organizations, has diligently led the charge to reduce the incidence ofHIV and AIDS in Jamaica. Yet, the continued escalation in the infection rate attested to the need for education towards the reduction of stigma and ...