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Honing in on enteric fever

The use of metabolomics could lead to improved diagnostics for enteric fever.

Honing in on disease etiology

Copyright: © 2017. The Authors. Licensee: AOSIS. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License. What are the causes of disease? How best can laboratories detect them? And what can we do with the knowledge that laboratories generate to improve disease prevention, containment and treatment? These are questions that fall within the African Journal of Laboratory Medicine’s sc...

Honing the test-and-treat HIV strategy.

www.sciencemag.org SCIENCE VOL 328 21 MAY 2010 943 COVER Tumor-penetrating transport of cancer drugs is activated by the peptide iRGD (multicolored ring), which binds to integrin receptors (blue and yellow) in tumor blood vessels, and is subsequently cleaved. The cleaved peptide then binds to neuropilin-1 receptors (purple), activating a transport system that carries coadministered drugs, such ...

Honing the health message on BRCA mutations.

Angelina Jolie’s announcement that she had undergone a double mastectomy to ward off potential tumors induced by her BRCA1 mutation served as what Kenneth Offit, MD, called a teachable moment. “Public figures can have seismic impacts on health communication when they speak about their own experiences,” said Offit, chief of the Clinical Genetics Service at the Memorial Sloan–Kettering Cancer Cen...

Hearing the music, honing the mind.