Summer Holidays

Sunday Holidays

. Sir, Will you please find .1 little space for my proposal 111 your valuable paper and oblige. It is rather curious that the medical department should have no holiday unlike other departments, and it is sometimes a matter which causes great inconvenience to its employs. Some years back the work of the Indian dispensaries was light as most of the people were used to the eastern methods of treat...

Happy Holidays

Holidays in the sun.

If you are reading this editorial in the week of publication, chances are that you do not work in one of the countries bordering the Mediterranean. If you are in Scandinavia, this is probably your first opportunity even to read my editorial from July. Most of Europe now takes a full four or five weeks of vacation, usually corresponding to the calendar month of July in the north or August in the...

Radiation holidays stimulate tumor immunity

Radiotherapy is a standard treatment for cancer and is used since a long time as a stand-alone therapy or in combination with surgery and systemic therapies including immunotherapy. Its acts through induction of irreversible DNA damage to which tumor cells are more susceptible because of frequent mutations in DNA repair pathways. Fractioned radiotherapy, given as daily low doses during multiple...

Summer holidays as break-point in shaping a tannery sludge microbial community around a stable core microbiota

Recently, several investigations focused on the discovery of a bacterial consortium shared among different wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs). Nevertheless, the definition of a core microbiota over time represents the necessary counterpart in order to unravel the dynamics of bacterial communities in these environments. Here we performed a monthly survey on the bacterial community of a consorti...