Meeting News: Heartfelt capillary LC/dual microelectrode system

A System for Testing of Microelectrode Sensors

No news , bad news ! A Personalized News Recommendation System

The development of the internet has drastically changed the newspaper industry, and the way people read news stories [3]. Newspapers are shifting from print to online version, with some unexpected results [1, 2, 6]. Good news for the newspaper industry? The proliferation of news aggregators such as Google News1 is blamed for killing the “old media”. With these aggregators, people visit a newspa...

A Heartfelt Thank You to Reinhold Haux.

To be responsible as the Editor-in-Chief for a scientific journal for over 15 years is nothing to be taken for granted these days in our fast-paced life. Many scientists are not willing or able to offer what scarce amount of time they may have from their full schedule, and to do so for such a long time period, for the time-consuming activities of a Publisher. This was not the case for Reinhold ...

Heartfelt crosstalk: desensitization of the GIRK current

caspase-3 (ref. 18). It has been shown that overexpression of Hsp70 does not preclude the activation of a caspase-3-like activity, but prevents the downstream morphological changes that are characteristic of dying cells. With regard to Hsp27, Pandey et al. have recently reported direct binding and inhibition of caspase-3 processing by this protein. However, the authors failed to detect an effec...

The European meeting on Helicobacter pylori: therapeutic news from Lisbon.

The current standard of Helicobacter pylori treatment has been confirmed by the studies presented at the Lisbon workshop--that is, one of three one week proton pump inhibitor (PPI) based triple therapies comprising a twice daily standard dose of a PPI in combination with two of the following antimicrobial agents: clarithromycin, amoxycillin, or a nitromidazole. This standard of treatment is als...