Small molecules: the missing link in the central dogma.

Psychological Therapies: The Missing Link in Improving Treatment Adherence in Patients with β-thalassemia Major

Fiscal Space Assessment: A Missing Link in Financing Management of Iran’s Health System

Fiscal Space Assessment: A Missing Link in Financing Management of Iran’s Health System Nader Jahanmehr1,2, Soheila Damiri3*, Reza Goudarzi4, Zhaleh Abdi5 1 School of Management and Medical Education, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran 2 Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease Research Center, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran 3 Department of...

Small and Medium Enterprises Financing in Bangladesh: The Missing Middle

This paper aims to comprehend the intrinsic limitations of the market players in the financial system and how these create a situation of `missing middle` for small and medium industries (SME) financing in Bangladesh. A clear dualism prevails in the manufacturing industry of this country. While the SMEs maintains the biggest share in establishments and employment creation, large enterprises (LE...

Toward a New Theoretical Framework for Biology

To help us understand the nature of information processing in living systems, biology needs a new theoretical framework that is amenable to computational approaches. Recent progress in cell and molecular biology has made it clear that the “central dogma” (DNA RNA protein) is an overly simplistic concept. The goals of this paper are: 1) to specify which aspects of the central dogma are useful an...

P122: Small Molecules as Chemical and Pharmacological Tools for Neuroinflammatory Diseases Treatment (with Emphasis on Multiple Sclerosis)

Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is a neuroinflammatory disease resulting in degeneration of the myelin sheaths and death of oligodendrocytes. So far, several strategies have been introduced to control the disease. Treatment with small molecules is one of the strategies that have recently attracted the attention in the scientific community. These molecules that target epigenetic and other cellular proce...