Playing in the big leagues

MicroRNAs: playing a big role in explaining skeletal muscle adaptation?

DESPITE OUR EXTENSIVE UNDERSTANDING of the typical responses and adaptations to an exercise stimulus, we are often left scratching our heads about outliers: what explains those subjects who fall at the tails of the normal curve? Why do some individuals show remarkable gains while others, who are working equally hard, fall so far short, potentially even showing adverse responses? This issue has ...

Playing Musical Chairs in Big Data to Reveal Variables’ Associations

1 Department of Epidemiology, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA 2 Program in Genetic Epidemiology and Statistical Genetics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA 3 Bioinformatics Research Centre, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark 4 Department of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA , USA 5 Division of Infectious Diseases, Depart...

20,000 leagues under the sea.

000 Leagues under the Sea

Just a small contingent of Pharmamar’s staff, which is, with a total of 262 employees, one of the main biotechnological companies in Spain. Ph ot os (5 ): P ha rm am ar Like Captain Nemo, the mysterious character created by Jules Verne, Jose María Fernández Sousa-Faro decided to seek his fortune in the depths of the oceans. His reasons were not, however, as obscure as Nemo’s. He had inherited t...

Health Leagues in Indian Villages

service have been in progress through the formation of health units, that the question of ^proving and extending water supplies in the rural areas has received attention and that the provision of a cheap but satisfactorysystem of night-soil disposal has also been Under investigation. A health unit is an Organization set up in an area with a population approximately 40,000 for the purpose of stu...