German molecular biology: New centre is launched

German Cochrane Centre

Molecular biology of papillary thyroid microcarcinomas: What is new?

Objectives: Papillary thyroid microcarcinoma (PTMC), a tumor that measures 1 cm or less, according to World Health Organization (WHO) histological classification of tumors, is the most common form of papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) comprising much more than half of all PTCs if one includes the socalled incidentalomas. Although PTMC has an excellent prognosis, a minority of cases were found to...

Molecular Systems Biology: a new journal for a new biology?

While Molecular Systems Biology may be a new journal, there has been considerable debate as to whether systems biology itself represents a new approach to biology or whether it is really just a new and catchy name for what some biologists have been doing all along. The answer to this question of course depends on how one defines systems biology. Terms that have already been used to describe sys...

New children's vaccine initiative launched.

The international community has launched the Children's Vaccine Initiative, which has created the most ambitious grouping of public and private sector interests ever to tackle a global health issue. Developed by WHO, UNICEF, UNDP, the World Bank, and the Rockefeller Foundation, the initiative is the result of decisions taken at the World Summit for Children, held in New York in September 1990....

Biology is the new physics.

Biology has long been the stepchild of the natural sciences. Compared with mathematical proofs, physical formulae and the molecules of chemistry, biology, like life itself, has often seemed unquantifiable, unpredictable and messy. Yet, scientists have striven gallantly to pin biology down through the application of the other natural sciences. Ever since Gregor Mendel (1822–1884) formulated the ...