The New Vital Sign: Where Do You Live?

The risk where you live.

Heat shock proteins (hsps) and cyclophilins (CypA) are intracellular chaperone molecules that facilitate protein folding and assembly. These proteins are selectively expressed in cells following exposure to a range of stress stimuli, including viral infection. Hsp species are highly immunogenic, eliciting humoral, cytotoxic T lymphocyte (CTL), and natural killer (NK) cell responses against viru...

They Know Where You Live!

In this paper, we demonstrate the possibility of predicting people’s hometowns by using their geotagged photos posted on Flickr website. We employ Kruskal’s algorithm to cluster photos taken by a user and predict the user’s hometown. Our results prove that using social profiles of photographers allows researchers to predict the locations of their taken photos with higher accuracies. This in ret...

Temperament: Where Do You Set The Cutoff?

The study of temperament has embodied two important concepts: the “normal” and the “pathological” with the huge consequences on the description of human behavior. Both research and clinical practice are increasingly referring to temperament in various endeavors. Consequently, the Institute for Development Research Advocacy and Applied Care (IDRAAC) adapted the Temperament Evaluation of the Memp...

Where do you draw the line?

Where do you come from; where do you go? Pluripotency, differentiation and malfunction of stem cells.

The international conference 'Stem Cells in Development and Disease' took place in September 2011 at the Max-Delbrück-Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) in Berlin. It brought together scientists working on different types of stem cell and covered the latest findings in stem cell biology, including the genetic and epigenetic mechanisms of reprogramming, maintenance of pluripotency and different...