Renewed hope for developmental biology

Ascorbic Acid in Cancer: A Renewed Hope?

Ascorbic acid (AA), long known to treat scurvy, has had debatable use as an anti-neoplastic drug in the past. However recent in vitro and in vivo studies have revealed previously unexplored mechanisms through which AA selectively damages cancer cells without causing damage to normal cells. In view of newly emerging evidence, many clinical trials have been designed to study these effects in pati...

High-dose vitamin C therapy: renewed hope or false promise?

Hope for Hemangiosarcoma -Biology Based Treatment Options

Hemangiosarcoma (HSA) is a tumor with which most veterinary practitioners are well familiar. For most dogs, the diagnosis of HSA is a harbinger of bad things to come; most veterinarians consider this tumor to be the "kiss of death". Improvements in diagnosis and therapy of HSA have been slowly emerging, and new therapeutic opportunities are on the horizon. All HSA are highly malignant neoplasms...

Renewed Hope for Data Parallelism: Unintegrated Support for Task Parallelism in ZPL

This paper suggests that data parallelism is more general than previously thought and that integrating support for task parallelism into a data parallel programming language is a mistake. With several proposed improvements, the data parallel programming language ZPL is surprisingly versatile. The language and its power are illustrated by the solution to several traditionally task parallel probl...

Child survival: a message of hope but a call for renewed commitment in UNICEF report

A recent UNICEF report Committing to Child Survival: A Promise Renewed Progress Report 2013 presents a comprehensive analysis of levels and trends in child mortality and progress towards MDG 4. The global under-five mortality rate has been cut nearly in half (47%) since 1990. However, during this same period, 216 million children are estimated to have died before their fifth birthday. Most of t...