Graham Molineux l Tara Arvedson l MaryAnn Foote Editors 2012 On April 25, 1953, 58 years ago, JD Watson and FHC Crick published their article entitled “A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid” in the journal Nature. This article has been cited for its brevity, only 1 page and 1 diagram.
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Henry M. Staines l Sanjeev Krishna Editors 2012 Malaria is a devastating disease that extracts huge health and economic costs from the poorest countries in endemic regions. Malaria is caused by single celled parasites, belonging to the genus Plasmodium that have infected humans (and related primates) for thousands of years.
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Janos Minarovits ● Hans Helmut Niller Editors 2012 Epigenetic regulatory mechanisms ensure the heritable transmission of gene expression patterns from one cell generation to another, helping progeny cells to “remember” their proper cellular identity.
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Jean-Marie Lachapelle • Howard I. Maibach 2012 This concise “How to patch/prick test” rapidly reached a third edition, presumedly because of its evidence-based approach, combined with practicality. Dr. Sigfried Fregert remains the stimulus to keep this text “updated.” We are indebted to Dr. Fregert and to other founding members of the ICDRG for their prescient insights.
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Martin Wolf ● Hans Ulrich Bucher Markus Rudin ● Sabine Van Huffel Ursula Wolf ● Duane F. Bruley David K. Harrison Editors 2012 The 38th annual ISOTT conference was held on the Monte Verità in Southern Switzerland from 18th to 23rd of July 2010. The beautiful Mediterranean surrounding and the pleasant weather contributed to an excellent conference.
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Thomas Decker • Mathias M€uller Editors 2012 The year 2011 marks the 20th anniversary since the discovery of Jak-Stat signal transduction. During this period we have witnessed the pathway expand from exclusively interferons to other cytokines and beyond. What was once a specialized field has rapidly advanced to become general interest and a must-read in every molecular biology textbook.
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Mark von Itzstein Editor 2012 Influenza virus remains a significant threat to humanity [1] despite the discovery of novel antiviral therapies and the continuing development of seasonal vaccines. Annual influenza epidemics exact a high toll in morbidity, estimated to be in the range of three to five million cases of severe illness, and mortality, with up to half […]
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Georg Wick • Cecilia Grundtman 2012 It had long been known that inflammatory-immunologic processes play a role in the development of cardiovascular diseases in general and atherosclerosis in particular. However, during the last two decades this notion has gained increasing momentum, both in basic research and clinical medicine.
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Athena P. Kourtis ● Marc Bulterys Editors 2012 This book presents the collective scholarship by well-recognized experts summarizing the current knowledge on HIV and infant feeding. Although the focus is upon HIV postnatal transmission through breast milk, the lessons learned to date have shown the importance and benefits of breastfeeding as well as the disadvantages and risks of […]
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Roy G. Smith ● Michael O. Thorner Editors 2012 The past 5–10 years has seen an explosion of publications on the pharmacological properties of ghrelin and the implications of how this information might extrapolate to understanding ghrelin’s role in normal physiology.
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