Truth In Accounting: Dont Let It Die

Why let people die?

This paper concerns those patients whose brain is irreversibly damaged to the point where they will never recover significant mental life. I examine the reasons which justify the decision to withhold or discontinue active medical intervention in these patients. They involve the identity, quality of life and agency of those beings whom we value as persons.

Granules live and let die

A chemical that boosts our ability to learn and remember also boosts blood clotting, say Morrell et al. (page 575). The learning chemical, glutamate, is released at neuronal synapses, where it activates neurons by binding to ion channel receptors. Glutamate is also abundant in the blood—particularly in clot-forming platelets—but its function outside the brain was unknown. Morrell et al. now fin...

p75NTR--live or let die.

During neuronal development, neurotrophins are essential factors that promote survival, differentiation and myelination of neurons. The trophic signals are relayed to the cells via binding to Trk receptor tyrosine kinases and the p75 neurotrophin receptor. Paradoxically, the p75 neurotrophin receptor also ensures rapid and appropriate apoptosis of neonatal neurons not reaching their proper targ...

Winter pressures. Let it flow, let it flow, let it flow.

Die and Let Live: Eliminating Dangerous Lymphocytes

Abul K. Abbas Immune Privilege: Preventing Immunological Immunology Research Division Injury to Vital Organs Department of Pathology The central nervous system (CNS), testes, and eyes are Brigham and Women’s Hospital said to be immunologically privileged sites because alloand Harvard Medical School geneic or xenogeneic tissues transplanted into these Boston, Massachusetts 02115 sites are not re...