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Editorial Jan-Mar 2017.cdr

Annual Retreat Jan . 29 - 31 , 2017

Cystic Fibrosis Current Awareness Bulletin Jan - Feb 2017

Introduction Respiratory viruses, such as those that cause influenza and the common cold, are a regular feature of life for the entire human population. Among people with CF, these viruses are associated with prolonged respiratory illness and show a clear association with pulmonary exacerbations which in turn are associated with lung function decline and risk of death. Human rhinovirus is the m...

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We formulate a complete path integral bosonization procedure for any fermionic theory in two dimensions. The classical action of the bosons in the bosonized theory is −i times the logarithm of the Jacobian of a local chiral transformation, with the boson fields as transformation parameters. Three examples, the Schwinger model, the massive Thirring model and massive non-Abelian bosonization, are...

Profile of Lily and Yuh Nung Jan, winners of the 2017 Vilcek Prize in Biomedical Science.

The 2017 Vilcek Prize in Biomedical Science has been awarded to Lily Y. Jan and Yuh Nung Jan, professors in the department of physiology at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), and Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigators. The Jans are being recognized for demonstrating how ion channels contribute to neuronal signaling and how neurons acquire their cell fates and morphologie...