Coronary vascular age comes of age

Glyceroneogenesis comes of age.

Glyceroneogenesis is a generally ignored metabolic pathway that occurs in adipose tissues and liver of mammalian species. This short review highlights a series of recent discoveries showing that glyceroneogenesis is important in lipid homeostasis.

Amyloidomics comes of age.

Potentially effective and life-saving treatment for patients with systemic amyloidosis relies on the astute clinician recognizing the signs and symptoms, histochemical identification of fibrils, and accurate diagnosis of amyloid type. In this issue of Blood, Brambilla et al report a new methodology for accomplishing the key third step in this process.

Pervaporation Comes of Age

IJHPR comes of age

The Israel Journal of Health Policy Research (IJHPR) is about to complete its third year of publication. Over the past year, the journal received its first impact factor, three of its articles crossed the 10,000 accesses threshold, submissions increased by 50%, and the journal published its fifth article collection. These accomplishments are due to the combined efforts of the National Institute...

Immunosenescence comes of age

Introduction Ageing of the immune system (immunosenescence) contributes to the increased susceptibility of the elderly to infectious disease and to the poor outcome of vaccination. Defence against pathogens is compromised mainly because of changes in adaptive immunity mediated by T and B lymphocytes; however, all components of the immune system are affected (Fig 1). Dissecting the crucial alter...