Energizing Rheumatology Training: Put Teaching Back into the Academic Limelight

Energizing rheumatology training: put teaching back into the academic limelight.

Centrosomes back in the limelight.

Centrosomes and centrioles were ‘born’ towards the end of the nineteenth century when they were first spotted and studied by astute cell and developmental biologists, including Edouard Van Beneden, as well as Theodor Boveri and Walther Fleming, who coined the terms ‘centrosome’ and ‘centriole’, respectively, that still designate these structures today. There was much initial excitement about ce...

MKP-2: out of the DUSP-bin and back into the limelight.

The MKPs (mitogen-activated protein kinase phosphatases) are a family of at least ten DUSPs (dual-specificity phosphatases) which function to terminate the activity of the MAPKs (mitogen-activated protein kinases). Several members have already been demonstrated to have distinct roles in immune function, cancer, fetal development and metabolic disorders. One DUSP of renewed interest is the induc...

Sonographic training in rheumatology: a self teaching approach.

OBJECTIVE To evaluate a self teaching approach to be followed by a novice without previous practical experience in musculoskeletal ultrasonography. METHODS The novice was given short general training (two hours) by an experienced sonographer focusing on the approach to the ultrasound equipment, and asked to obtain the best sonographic images of different anatomical areas as similar as possibl...

Plant genomics moves into the limelight.

Two major considerations impelled Ronald Phillips [University of Minnesota and Director of the National Research Initiative of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)], and Michael Freeling (University of California, Berkeley), to organize a recent colloquium, ‘‘Protecting our Food Supply: The Value of Plant Genome Initiatives’’ (Stanford, CA, June 2–5). First, the increased wealth of the dev...