Ageing research: Japan faces the old old problem

Ageing research in the post-genome era: new technologies for an old problem.

The sequencing of a growing number of genomes, and of the human genome in particular, has paved the way for remarkable technological innovations that are revolutionizing research across the life sciences. Large-scale sequencing and emerging techniques and approaches, like microarrays and systems biology, are changing the way researchers study life and its intrinsic complexity. Cells and the mol...

Old Friends , New Faces : Motivation Research in the 1990

Old Familiar Faces

Newcomer joints old familiar faces.

akayasu arteritis (TA) is a chronic vasculitis of unknown etiology that involves the aorta and its main branches, such as the innominate, carotid, subclavian, vertebral, and renal arteries, as well as the pulmonary and coronary arteries.1 This disease is more common in young females in Asia, Middle East, and Middle and South America than in Europe and North America. TA has 2 stages: an acute, “...

Old Problem

The concept of anticipation, the occurrence of a genetic disorder at progressively earlier ages in successive generations, has been debated from the early years of this century, with myotonic dystrophy as the most striking example. Throughout most of this period there has been controversy as to whether the phenomenon resulted from observational and ascertainment biases or reflected a more funda...