Subbiah Pugazhenthi, Leonid Akhov, Gopalan Selvaraj, Maorong Wang, and Jawed Alam Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Diabetes, Department of Medicine, University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center, Aurora; and Section of Endocrinology, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Denver, Colorado; Plant Biotechnology Institute, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada; and Department of Molecul...

1 Leiden University Medical Centre, The Netherlands {m.roos,m.thompson,r.kaliyaperumal,a.jacobsen}@lumc.nl 2 Universidad Politcnica de Madrid, Spain [email protected] 3 Istituto Superiore di Sanitá, Italy [email protected] 4 University Medical Center Groningen, The Netherlands [email protected] 5 Wageningen Plant Research, The Netherlands [email protected] 6 Dutch Techcentre...

How do pathogens, whether they parasitize plants or animals, acquire virulence to new hosts and resistance to the arms we deploy to control disease? The significance of these questions for microbiology and for society at large can be illustrated by the recent worldwide efforts to track and limit the emergence of human transmissible strains of swine and avian influenza virus and of multidrug-res...

1Department of Pediatrics and Medical Genetics, Medical University, Plovdiv Vasil Aprilov 15-A Str., Plovdiv 4002, Bulgaria 2University Hospital “St. George” Plovdiv, 66 Peshtersko Shuse Str., Plovdiv 4000, Bulgaria 3Psychiatric ward for active treatment of men, State Phsychiatry Hospital Pazardzhik, 28 Bolnichna Str. 4400 Pazardzhik, Bulgaria 4Department of Plant Phisyology and Molecular Biolo...

Reproductive medical tourism is by some accounts a multibillion dollar industry globally. The seeking by clients in high income nations of surrogate mothers in low income nations, particularly India, presents a set of largely unexamined ethical challenges. In this paper, eight such challenges are elucidated to spur discussion and eventual policy development towards protecting the rights and hea...

This article analyzes several French eighteenth century physiological theories that later on were classified as vitalist. The overall background is set by the tradition of Montpellier medical school, in particular by the physiological and medical ideas of Théophile de Bordeu. Paul-Joseph Barthez was initially trained in this setting, however, his conception of the autonomy of life was also heav...