The e-Theta Hopes

The breadth of hopes.

n engl j med 361;24 nejm.org december 10, 2009 2306 as a link between vaccination schedules and immune-mediated disorders. Such processes are not appropriate for patents in part because, at least in health care, patenting them frustrates the objectives of scientific discovery in at least three ways. First, physicians’ decision making may infringe on such a patent, and liability can also arise f...

Desert hopes

still your go-to example of a missing link? Well, it turns out that palaeontology has made great strides since you were at school and there are now numerous beautiful examples of transitional forms, from fossilised creatures linking land and marine mammals to half-ant-half-wasps preserved in amber and many others. What is more, these transitional forms are always dated to the right point in his...

Hopes fade

fossil fuels, however, would require the need to look beyond wood. Choren Industries claims that 20 million tons of straw are ploughed back into the soil each year, which could be turned into four million tons of BTL diesel, covering 14 per cent of current diesel demand. A further three to six million tons per year could be obtained from wood grown on currently unused agricultural land. Accordi...

Humboldt hopes

dramatically since 2006, especially in the wake of the UN secretary-general's call for universal malaria control coverage by the end of 2010. " The report reveals that new methods of estimating malaria incidence found 247 million cases of the disease in 2006. However, malaria deaths have declined in several countries and, in a few African nations, deaths have been reduced by half by the impleme...

Chicago's hopes.

Ketamine: the hopes and the hurdles.

i a c s t r l o s d n K etamine and related drugs are arguably one of the most exciting developments in antidepressant pharmacology in more than half a century and are a potentially new mechaism capable of mediating antidepressant action. That mechanism s the antagonism of the N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor NR) and possibly one or more subtypes of that receptor. By blockng NMDA receptors,...