elt: a trojan horse in disguise?

ELT: A Trojan Horse in Disguise?

Many people believe that language teaching is a neutral practice. However, this belief is not without its own opponents. To many scholars, teaching languages cannot be devoid of teaching cultural values of the target language, which tacitly aims at denigrating cultural values of the community of the learners who are learning it. The ultimate purpose of such cultural oppression, according to the...

TESOL: Trojan Horse of Globalisation

E-Cigarette: a modern Trojan horse?

Smoking is an addiction that is widespread throughout the world. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), it is the leading cause of preventable death in developing countries. Despite this, therapeutic resources are limited. There are only three first-line pharmacological treatments for this severe disease: nicotine, bupropion and varenicline, all of which have low success rates, with ...

The new GMS contract--a Trojan horse?

An intestinal Trojan horse for gene delivery.

The intestinal epithelium forms an essential element of the mucosal barrier and plays a critical role in the pathophysiological response to different enteric disorders and diseases. As a major enteric dysfunction of the intestinal tract, inflammatory bowel disease is a genetic disease which results from the inappropriate and exaggerated mucosal immune response to the normal constituents in the ...

Engineering Trojan-horse bacteria to fight cancer.

In this issue of Blood, Massa et al demonstrated that tumor-tropic bacteria engineered to express specific cancer-related antibodies can recognize and specifically destroy the malignant cells by infecting them with toxic cargo. The findings provide an essential step in establishing the novel approach of enlisting engineered bacteria that speak cancer’s language to outsmart and defeat cancer