New therapeutic technology, new hope

Ectasia after LASIK: new treatments, new hope.

doi:10.3928/1081597X-20110412-01 C orneal ectasia remains a rare but potentially devastating complication after LASIK. In the past, treatment options have been limited; however, exciting advances have expanded our alternatives for visual rehabilitation. Any effective management strategy for ectasia after LASIK will encompass three fundamental principles: 1) halt the ectatic process; 2) reduce c...

New president, new congress..... new hope for science?

Unstructured Inversions of New Hope

Introduced as a new protocol implemented in “Chrome Canary” for the Google Inc. Chrome browser, “New Hope” is engineered as a postquantum key exchange for the TLS 1.2 protocol. The structure of the exchange is a combination of elliptic curve enhancements along with revised lattice-based cryptography. New Hope incorporates the key-encapsulation mechanism of Peikert which itself is a modified Rin...

New hope for haplotype mapping

The systematic analysis of polymorphisms across large parts of the human genome has begun to provide the first information on haplotypes and the problem of linkage disequilibrium across large genomic regions. These data suggest that significant regions of the genome show highly conserved haplotypes, potentially enhancing the ability to detect disease associations.

A new hope for Africa

After the success of the Green Revolution in conquering famine in India, Pakistan and elsewhere in Asia in the 1960s, the world entered a prolonged period of plentiful and cheap food. As documented by Roger Thurow and Scott Kilman in their book Enough: Why the World’s Poorest Starve in an Age of Plenty, this abundance shifted attention away from further agricultural development, particularly fo...