Ablation is the answer

Epicardial mapping and ablation of arrhythmias: is magnetic navigation the answer we have been waiting for?

Endocardial catheter ablation for cardiac arrhythmias has emerged as a powerful treatment over the last decades. Supraventricular tachycardias such as for example AV nodal reentrant tachycardias, circus movement tachycardias making use of an accessory bundle and right-sided, cavotricuspid dependent atrial flutters can be treated with a success rate close to 100 %. However, with the emerging tec...

Is there an answer?

Is There an Answer? is intended to serve as a forum in which readers to IUBMB Life may pose questions of the type that intrigue biochemists but for which there may be no obvious answer or one may be available but not widely known or easily accessible. Readers are invited to e-mail [email protected] if they have questions to contribute or if they can provide answers to questions that are provi...

When the ICU is not the answer.

Multiagent learning is not the answer. It is the question

The article by Shoham, Powers, and Grenager called “If multi-agent learning is the answer, what is the question?” does a great job of laying out the current state of the art and open issues at the intersection of game theory and artificial intelligence (AI). However, from the AI perspective, the term “multiagent learning” applies more broadly than can be usefully framed in game theoretic terms....

Is pollen limited? The answer is blowin’ in the wind

Pollen from wind-pollinated trees has traditionally been assumed to be abundant and to travel long distances, resulting in extensive gene flow. However, recent empirical work by Knapp et al., genetic analysis by Sork et al., and theoretical models by Satake and Iwasa conclude that short-distance dispersal of limited pollen might be common and play an important role in causing the highly variabl...