Polyphenols vs. Coronaviruses: How Far Has Research Moved Forward?

Has the world moved forward? A robust multidimensional evaluation

a r t i c l e i n f o This paper presents a multidimensional normative framework to evaluate whether the world moved forward between 1980 and 2008. We focus on the robustness of the results when attributing different weights to the different dimensions. Population-weighted international welfare has not worsened over this period. However, the trend in the underlying inequality is ambiguous, once...

How Far Can Mice Carry Autism Research?

In the face of growing controversy about the utility of genetic mouse models of human disease, Rothwell et al. report on a shared mechanism by which two different neuroligin-3 mutations, associated with autism spectrum disorders in humans, produce an enhancement in motor learning. The open question is how much we can learn about human ills from such models.

Does the concept of dignity warrant further research, and can the work be moved forward?

How Coronaviruses Cause Infection—from Colds to Deadly Pneumonia

The 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) behind the ongoing outbreak - which the World Health Organization has declared an international public health emergency - was named after the family of viruses it belongs to. The term “coronavirus” may have initially been unfamiliar to many, but most everyone has encountered milder forms of such viruses, of which four strains cause about a fifth of common ...

Molecular Oncology journal has moved to open access

Molecular Oncology has become fully Open Access in 2017 joining the other FEBS journals on the FEBS Press platform and Wiley. From January 2017, all articles in Molecular Oncology are published under the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY), allowing readers to access the journal irrespective of speciality, host institution or location. The journal will continue to highlight new discove...