The fight over antitrust’s soul

Adiponectin: no longer the lone soul in the fight against insulin resistance?

Adiponectin is one of the most effective adipokines in the context of correcting obesity-induced insulin resistance. However, adiponectin-deficient animal models show a relatively modest phenotype unless metabolically challenged. This suggests that potent compensatory mechanisms are in place. In this issue of the Biochemical Journal, Wong et al. characterize new members of the CTRPs [C1q-TNFalp...

The Soul According to Rāmānuja

Rāmānuja was the founder of Visistādvaita Vedānta School, which is one of the three main schools of Vedānta. According to Rāmānuja, the soul (cit), Brahman, and matter (acit) constitute the three principal ontological realities. Rāmānuja provides some proofs for the existence of the soul, which are mostly based on self-consciousness. The relationship of the soul with the matter, on one hand, an...

Synapses fight over glutamate receptor 1.

New fight over fetal tissue grafts.

John Abelson Frederick W. Alt Don L. Anderson Michael Ashburner Stephen J. Benkovic David E. Bloom Floyd E. Bloom Piet Borst Michael S. Brown Henry R. Bourne James J. Bull Kathryn Calame C. Thomas Caskey Dennis W. Choi John M. Coffin Paul J. Crutzen Robert Desimone Nicole Le Douarin Bruce F. Eldridge Paul T. Englund Richard G. Fairbanks Douglas T. Fearon Harry A. Fozzard K. Friedrich Theodore H...

Doctors v. government: the first major fight over pay.

Doctors refuse to compromise, says one side. The government cares more about its budget than patients, says the other side. Doctors have rejected a “very fair offer,” says a provincial health minister. Patients can’t wait for the government to balance its books, says a medical association. You know, this all sounds mighty familiar. Much of the rhetoric thrown around today in scuffles between go...