G9a Is SETting the Stage for Colorectal Oncogenesis

Setting the stage for onchocerciasis.

What Is the Best Treatment for Stage IV Colorectal Cancer?

For decades, clinicians have seen patients who present with extensive stage IV colorectal cancer, frequently with hepatomegaly, weight loss, and poor performance status. Such patients receive supportive care or, if performance status allows, a trial of systemic chemotherapy. With the increased use of preoperative imaging, clinicians are now seeing many patients who present with asymptomatic or ...

Which stage of mouse embryos is more appropriate for vitrification?

Objective Vitrification has been shown as one of the most effective methods of cryopreservation for mammalian embryos. However, there is no consensus which stage of embryonic development is the most appropriate for vitrification with subsequent maximal development after thawing. This study was carried out to explore and compare the effect(s) of vitrification on mouse 2-cell, 4-cell, 8-cell, mor...

Setting the Stage

Metadata, literally " data about data, " has become a widely used yet still frequently underspecified term that is understood in different ways by the diverse professional communities that design, create, describe, preserve, and use information systems and resources. It is a construct that has been around for as long as humans have been organizing information, albeit transparently in many cases...

SEttiNG tHE StaGE

This article reports a case of a decision-making process in a Swedish local government reorganizing hosting of software applications. One question raised is, how the attempt of improving governance and being more of an e-government, influences hosting decisions. The case findings suggest, that organizations planning to decentralize decision-making in order to make better decisions and to increa...