Featured Thoughts, News and Microarticles from the Scientific Community.
Blood groups and growth, newer aspects
Peter Arend–May 15, 2010
Decades ago a fortunate experimental condition was discovered in the anatomy of the C57BL/10J inbred mouse, where a purely endogenous origin of "natural" antibody production could be demonstrated (1, 2, 3) and growth processes already were required...(Read more)
“Artemisinin”- A Major Breakthrough In Malaria Chemotherapy
Subhendu Chakroborty–May 9, 2010
Malaria is a vector borne parasitic disease caused by the genus Plasmodium, affecting over 100 countries of the tropical and subtropical regions of the world. Four different Plasmodium species infect humans and cause distinct disease patterns: P. fa...(Read more)
MicroRNA, trinucleotide repeats, and the genetics of general cognitive ability (IQ)
Volkmar Weiss–Apr 16, 2010
A full understanding of the genetics of schizophrenia, autism, dyslexia, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), alzheimer and a large number of neurodegenerative diseases seems to be impossible without reckoning with IQ as a major confoundi...(Read more)
Dennis Quaid and Medical Errors
James Douglas Orton–Apr 12, 2010
On the drive to work today I listened to an interview on CSPAN's Washington Journal with a doctor based in Texas and actor Dennis Quaid. Nearly a year ago, Quaid and his wife Kimberly were in the room when their newborn twins were given a dose of he...(Read more)
Himadri Das–Apr 14, 2010
Please feel free to leave a comment if you know the diagnosis. (Read more)
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in Patients with HIV: A Review of the Current Literature
Josh Matacotta–Mar 2, 2010
Several studies have found that people living with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) suffer from posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) at a higher rate than that of the general population (Gore-Felton et al., 2001; Kimerling et al., 1999; Martine...(Read more)
Graeme Smith–Jan 20, 2010
Recent research has shown that facilitation follows attention in the Cerebral Cortex. In order to understand why this might be, it is important to recognize the fact that the 40 hertz signal noted in a recent article on anesthesia, and Facilitation m...(Read more)
Psychoneuroimmunology discussion group
Peter Todd–Jan 14, 2010
I have just completed my personal profile for membership of the proposed psychoneuroimmunology discussion group within ResearchGATE. This interdisciplinary science which emerged from the field of psychosomatic research, was founded by such pioneers a...(Read more)
Phosphorylation, the link between Bipolar and Schizophrenia
Graeme Smith–Dec 17, 2009
When people think of Circadian Rhythms, they think of sleep cycles, or those silly Bio-rhythm horoscopes in the newspaper. Recently however science has shown that even cyanobacteria have clock-like systems in their cells. A recent article on CAIK in...(Read more)
Why do we still use adenoviral type 5 backbones for Gene Therapy?
Ijad Madisch–Nov 23, 2009
I worked for several years in adenoviral research. My main research focus was to understand the evolution of adenoviruses and to understand how recombination events of adenoviruses effects the emergence of new adenoviruses. Adenoviruses are widely kn...(Read more)
Kusnadi Tjung–Nov 18, 2009
My study focuses on an aspect of NHS Connecting for Health Electronic Health Record system. The study builds upon a collaboration between NHS Connecting for Health (CFH), the developers of the NHS Electronic Health Record (EHR) and the University of...(Read more)
Constraint Based Architecture for Artificial Consciousness
Graeme Smith–Nov 17, 2009
Jerry Fodor, published a book called The Mind Doesn't Work That Way! in around 2000 or thereabouts in which he published some discussion on the scope and limitations of Computational Psychology. In it he suggested that Neural Network architectures ha...(Read more)
