Marie Dumont1, Arnaud Lehner1, Sophie Bouton2, Marie Christine Kiefer-Meyer1, Aline Voxeur1,3, Jérôme Pelloux2, Patrice Lerouge1 and Jean-Claude Mollet1,* Laboratoire de Glycobiologie et Matrice Extracellulaire Végétale (Glyco-MEV) EA4358, Normandy University, University of Rouen, Institut de Recherche et d’Innovation Biomédicale, 76821 Mont-Saint-Aignan, France, Laboratoire Biologie des Plante...

In type 1 diabetes, autoimmune-mediated damage and destruction of insulin-producing b-cells lead to a raised blood glucose. Glucose itself is toxic and some recovery of b-cell function is expected in the honeymoon phase after insulin treatment is instituted, but it was previously believed that all b-cells will ultimately be lost. In fact, there are individuals who continue to have some function...

In “Imaging or Imagining? A Neuroethics Challenge Informed by Genetics,” Judy Illes and Eric Racine (see this issue) argue that “traditional bioethics analysis” (TBA), as developed in the field of genethics, is insufficient to deal with moral and metaphysical challenges endemic to recent developments in neuroscience. They claim that “the link between the brain and the self is far more direct th...

Li & Racine (2008) consider the nonparametric estimation of conditional cumulative distribution functions (CDF) in the presence of discrete and continuous covariates along with the associated conditional quantile function. However, they did not propose an optimal data-driven method of bandwidth selection and left this important problem as an ‘open question’. In this paper we propose an automati...

C a r c o t i s c o n s i d e r e d t h e father of neurology. Not so much appreciated are his contributions t o m e d i c i n e a n d rheumatology. In fact he has been considered o n e o f t h e m o s t influential physicians of all time. Charcot was born on 29th November 1825 in Paris. His father was a carriage builder. He could support higher e d u c a t i o n o f o n l y one of his four son...

I used to feel that the safety of chiropractic treatment was unquestionable. I still believe that relatively and statistically speaking, cervical spinal manipulative therapy is a low risk procedure. However, the benefit of objectivity that time for reflection provides has refined my thoughts on this matter. Now that the issue of safety has been raised, it appears that the chiropractic professio...

I believe that research and teaching collectively support one another. Research strengthens teaching; teaching sustains research. As a result, a lot of what drives my research is not only based on my personal interests within the field of computer science, but is also influenced by what I teach and, perhaps more specifically, the feedback that I receive from the students that I teach. I find th...

at Toulouse and Paris he eventually joined the Army of the Rhine at Strasbourg aS surgeon. He later became chief surgeon to the Army in Italy and Napoleon gave him carte blanche in the organization of the medical division. He was with Napoleon at all his battles, and on his return to Paris from Egypt in 1801 honours were showered upon him. During the pauses between campaigns he gave courses of ...