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The study of bacteriophages (viruses of bacteria) includes a variety of approaches, such as structural biology, genetics, ecology, and evolution, with increasingly important implications for therapeutic and industrial uses. Researchers working with phages in France have recently established a network to facilitate the exchange on complementary approaches, but also to engage new collaborations. ...

Ingeborg M. Bajema, Jan A. Bruijn, Alina Casian, Maria C. Cid, Elena Csernok, Emma van Daalen, Lorraine Harper, Thomas Hauser, Mark A. Little, Raashid A. Luqmani, Alfred Mahr, Cristina Ponte, Alan Salama, Mårten Segelmark, Kazuo Suzuki, Jan Sznajd, Y.K. Onno Teng, Augusto Vaglio, Kerstin Westman and David Jayne Department of Pathology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands; ...

The first ever 'Cellular Dynamics' meeting on the membrane-cytoskeleton interface took place in Southbridge, MA on May 21-24, 2017 and was co-organized by Michael Way, Elizabeth Chen, Margaret Gardel and Jennifer Lippincott-Schwarz. Investigators from around the world studying a broad range of related topics shared their insights into the function and regulation of the cytoskeleton and membrane...

Diabetes Technology Society convened a panel of insulin pump experts in Bethesda, Maryland, on November 12, 2008, at the request of the Food and Drug Administration. The group consisted of physicians, nurses, diabetes educators, and engineers from across the United States. The panel members (1) discussed safety features of insulin pump therapy and (2) recommended adjustments to current insulin ...

The 4th workshop of the European Crystal Network took place recently in Paris. Approximately 40 biomedical scientists took part in this closed meeting, whose aim was to facilitate scientific exchange and foster collaborations between centers involved in research in crystal-induced inflammation and crystal deposition diseases. Rheumatology was well represented at the meeting, but there were also...

S omething new, something old would be the best way to characterize the 2012 Basic Cardiovascular Sciences (BCVS) meeting. The conference entitled " Frontiers in Cardiovascular Science and Novel Therapy " highlighted the top scientific and translational discoveries in cardiovascular research in 15 major scientific sessions. The field's leading pioneers presented alongside junior investigators, ...

Unfortunately, all retrospective cohort studies are subject to unmeasured confounders, and research using large datasets collected for non-research purposes, such as in this study, is no different. However, we have performed a rigorous analysis of these data, and our findings are novel, biologically plausible, and clinically relevant; given the rarity of perioperative stroke and MI, it is unlik...

Analytic Epidemiology Research Branch, National Cancer Institute, Rockville, Maryland; Departments of Medicine and Pediatrics, University of California, San Diego, California; Genomics for Longevity and Health, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Gerontology, Tokyo, Japan; Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of the District of Columbia, Washington, District of Columbia; ...