Concise Commentary: Bloating Makes a Comeback in IBS

Phoenix rising: gene therapy makes a comeback.

Despite the first application of gene therapy in 1990, gene therapy has until recently failed to meet the huge expectations set forth by researchers, clinicians, and patients, thus dampening enthusiasm for an imminent cure for many life-threatening genetic diseases. Nonetheless, in recent years we have witnessed a strong comeback for gene therapy, with clinical successes in young and adult subj...

Practicality makes a comeback: Dynamic MRI without the overhead

Introduction: Free-breathing, non-gated time-resolved scans carry great potential for applications such as cardiac imaging, catheter tracking and image guided therapy. However, insufficient temporal resolution and problems with real-time reconstruction have limited their use. The sliding window algorithm solves the second problem, but is known to introduce temporal blurring. Modern approaches s...

Comeback victory.

Whale comeback

Last month I came across a folder of papers I had written at the age of 16 for my high school English class. This occasion, in some ways like Proust’s madeleine, triggered recollections of how I, as a 16 year-old, framed the thoughts I had about what I wanted to do with my life. One of those early papers was about Frost’s poem The Road Not Taken. I remember not terribly liking the poem. But the...

Coal Poised for a Comeback?

Agricultural animal research has been immensely successful over the past century in developing technology and methodologies that have dramatically enhanced production efficiency of the beef, dairy, swine, poultry, sheep, and aquaculture industries. In the past two decades, molecular biology has changed the face of agricultural animal research, primarily in the arena of genomics and the relative...