Waking rest: a game changer or a name changer?

The game changer.

wants to make the transition between medical school and residency seamless. A lthough she no longer heads a medical school, Deborah Powell is making a mark on medical education. She's trying to break down the wall between medical school and residency and wants to see students trained in a way that's practical , efficient and better reflects the way medicine is practiced today. " Medicine has ev...

Graphene: the game changer?

C 2012 American Chemical Society Graphene: The Game Changer? I t has only been eight years since the isolation of graphene 1 and over a year since the 2010 Nobel Prize in Physics was jointly awarded to Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov “for groundbreaking experiments regarding the two-dimensional material graphene.” Nevertheless, the number of graphene publications is still rapidly growing. T...

Immunotherapy for Lung Cancer – a Game Changer!

GeneXpert—A Game-Changer for Tuberculosis Control?

Tuberculosis (TB) kills more people than any other single infection, the global burden of TB cases and drug resistance are increasing [1], and most patients still only have access to an inadequate diagnostic test developed more than a century ago. Recent evaluations of a desktop machine called the GeneXpert MTB/ RIF that in less than two hours simultaneously detects Mycobacterium tuberculosis a...

Embryo Selection for Cognitive Enhancement: Curiosity or Game-changer?

Human capital is an important determinant of individual and aggregate economic outcomes, and a major input to scientific progress. It has been suggested that advances in genomics may open up new avenues to enhance human intellectual abilities genetically, complementing environmental interventions such as education and nutrition. One way to do this would be via embryo selection in the context of...