faith.hope and doubt

Faith, Hope and Doubt

Microchimerism and Renal Transplantation: Doubt Still Persists

Background: The Presence of donor leukocytes in recipients of organ allograft has been shown even several years after transplantation. However, it remains unclear whether this donor cell microchimerism plays an effective role in allograft acceptance or is simply a consequence of immunosuppressive conditions in recipients. Objective: To study microchimerism in a group of kidney transplant recipi...

1 Beyond reasonable doubt

T he Internet is a wonderful research tool. With the click of a mouse, you can beam yourself into what seems an infinite number of important lectures by eminent thinkers around the world. Just such an opportunity awaits if you search for Richard A. Muller, professor of physics at the University of California, berkeley. The results of such a search include a video of Professor Muller castigating...

Clinical assessment and the benefit of the doubt : What is the doubt ?

Introduction Clinical education and associated assessment is an important component of nurse education. A range of factors contribute to a culture that makes the assessment of clinical competence difficult. These factors are environmental, educational, cultural and linguistic diversity amongst students, student expectation, a diverse range of clinical education models. All of which contribute t...

Designing for Doubt

Vast quantities of data are collected about us and our world: credit card transactions, movements and traffic flows, social networks, disease outbreaks, bird migrations, and flowers blossoming. These datasets span a wide range of public and private information and contexts. However, it is the emergence of a host of mobile phone based citizen sensing platforms that is poised to become the domina...

Microchimerism and renal transplantation: doubt still persists.

OBJECTIVE We sought to study microchimerism in a group of kidney transplant recipients. MATERIALS AND METHODS In this study, the peripheral blood microchimerism (PBM) after renal transplantation was retrospectively evaluated in 32 male-to-female recipients of living unrelated or cadaveric donor renal transplants. Using a nested polymerase chain reaction (PCR) amplification specific for SRY re...