The Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad, India, was host for an international forum, or "brainstorming meeting," on proteomics held in November 2014, which provided the opportunity to showcase proteomic science in India and to allow discussions between Indian scientists and students and several international visitors. This provided an amalgamation of speakers and participants w...

The Annual Bio-Ontologies meeting (http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/ stevens/meeting03/) has now been running for 6 consecutive years, as a special interest group (SIG) of the much larger ISMB conference. It met in Brisbane, Australia, this summer, the first time it was held outside North America or Europe. The bio-ontologies meeting is 1 day long and normally has around 100 attendees. This year there w...

Purpose: Hepatic resection and liver transplantation are surgical therapeutic options for small-sized HCC. But, the therapeutic option for patients meeting the Milan criteria with preserved liver function is facing a dilemma. In this study, we examined the outcomes of surgical resection for HCC patients meeting the Milan criteria with preserved liver function and rationale of hepatic resection ...

Although long-term care receives far less U.S. policy attention than health care does, long-term care matters to many Americans of all ages and affects spending by public programs. Problems in the current long-term care system abound, ranging from unmet needs and catastrophic burdens among the impaired population to controversies between state and federal governments about who bears responsibil...

OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to develop a Hirschsprung's disease (HD) core outcome set (COS). METHODS Candidate outcomes were identified from a systematic review and stakeholder nomination. A three-phase Delphi process and consensus meeting were used to prioritise candidate outcomes based on scores assigned by stakeholder participants using a nine-point scale. In phases two and t...

Chemoprevention or the now more preferred 'cancer prevention' is the long-term administration of a biological or chemical agent to reduce the risk of cancer. This approach has long been active in individuals at high risk of developing breast or colon cancer. The aim of this expert meeting was to review the current status of the field of cancer prevention and potential, emerging biomarkers speci...

s/Meetings Nagarkatti, N., Blair, R.E., DeLorenzo, R.J. The role of leaky ryanodine receptors in the rat pilocarpine model of acquired epilepsy. Society for Neurosciences Meeting, Chicago, IL, October 17-21, 2009. Nagarkatti, N., Deshpande, L.S., DeLorenzo, R.J. The prevention of epileptogenesis through calcium modulation in a hippocampal neuronal culture model of status epilepticusinduced acqu...

Since the first Strategies for an HIV Cure Meeting organised by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) in 2012, one of the primary purposes of the meeting has been to facilitate communication and foster collaboration across the NIAID-funded Martin Delaney Collaboratories for HIV cure research (MDC), the broader HIV cure-related research field, and industry and communi...

Interaction through meetings is among the richest human communication activities. Recently, the problem of building information repositories out of recordings of real meetings has gained interest. We report here a summary of the first two years of research carried out within the Swiss funded research project (IM)2, together with some lessons learned and future perspectives.

BACKGROUND Between 75 and 89% of residents living in long-term care facilities have limited mobility. Nurses as well as other licensed and unlicensed personnel directly involved in resident care are in a key position to promote and maintain the mobility of care-dependent persons. This requires a certain level of competence. Kinaesthetics is a training concept used to increase nursing staff's in...