Damir Janigro Editor 2009 Nearly a decade after completion of the first draft of the entire Human Genome sequence we are in a better position to assess the nature and the consequences of that heroic achievement, which can be seen as the culmination of the molecular biological revolution of the second half of the twentieth century. The achievement itself […]
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Jan Helge Solbakk • Søren Holm • Bjørn Hofmann Editors 2009 This study is the result of an interdisciplinary research collaboration and coproduction between scholars from eight different countries (Denmark, Iceland, France, Norway, Portugal, Sweden, the UK and USA). This collaboration, which has lasted since 2004, has been made possible through generous funding from the Norwegian Research Council and […]
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Harold Kalter 2009
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Christian Ehnholm Editor 2009 The key to every biological problem must in the end be sought in the cell and yet, although we know a lot about the mechanism by which cells operate, there is still a shortage in our understanding of how lipids affect cell biology. For years lipids have fascinated cell biologists and biochemists because they […]
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Jarrah Ali Al-Tubaikh Maximilian F. Reiser 2009 Radiology to me is an art more than a science; an art of imaging the human body, and an art of extracting information from an image. Radiology today is a vital specialty that almost no other medical specialty can work without. Congenital anomalies and syndromes are complex subjects in all medical […]
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Andrea Renda 2009 Many surgeons are confronted with cancer patients who have already been treated for another malignant neoplasm or who have a lesion formerly considered to be a metastasis but subsequently recognized as a new primary tumor. In other cases, individuals who have been cured of one cancer (i.e., of the digestive tract or breast) may later present […]
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Jean Revuz • Jean-Claude Roujeau Francisco A. Kerdel • Laurence Valeyrie-Allanore Editors 2009 For many reasons, dermatology has acquired a special status among medical specialties. As the most accessible organ, skin was from the origin of humanity frequently exposed to therapeutic interventions and manipulations by spouses, wizards, physicians, artists and scientists.With the tremendous development of science in the […]
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Jo-David Fine Helmut Hintner (eds.) 2009 Etiology, Diagnosis, Multidisciplinary Care and Therapy Over the past few decades increasing numbers of health care professionals worldwide have become interested in and actively involved in the day to day care of children and adults with inherited epidermolysis bullosa (EB).
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Ulrich Meyer · Thomas Meyer Jörg Handschel · Hans Peter Wiesmann (Eds.) 2009 The man-made creation of tissues, organs, or even larger organisms was for a long time a matter of myth and dream throughout the history of medicine. It now comes into clinical reality. Tissue engineering and regenerative medicine are the terms that are nowadays used to […]
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Niranjan Bhattacharya • Phillip Stubblefield Editors 2009 Francis Bacon once wrote that science progresses by a succession of small steps through a fog through which even the keen sighted explorer can seldom see more than few paces ahead; occasionally, the fog lifts and an eminence is gained, and scientific truth gets kaleidoscopically rearranged into fact and fiction.
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