Reprogrammed Cells Come Up Short, for Now

Telomeres come up short in heart regeneration

Telomeres come up shor t in hear t regeneration During embryogenesis, and for about a week after birth, mouse cardiomyocytes can proliferate and replace damaged heart tissue, but this regenerative capacity is lost as the mice grow older (1, 2). Newborn humans, too, can repair injured myo-cardium (3), but, in adults, heart attacks cause permanent damage, often leading to heart failure and death....

Come together, right now

A main concept in the use of grids for distributed computing or shared data management is the concept of visualization, that means user visualization and of course resource visualization. A single user should work on the shared resources of a grid without worrying about having a user accounts on all the different machines evolved in his calculation or data search process. This virtualization of...

Come together, right now

A main concept in the use of grids for distributed computing or shared data management is the concept of visualization, that means user visualization and of course resource visualization. A single user should work on the shared resources of a grid without worrying about having a user accounts on all the different machines evolved in his calculation or data search process. This virtualization of...

Influenza vaccine supply, 2005–2006: did we come up short?

BACKGROUND Although total influenza vaccine doses available in the 2005/2006 influenza season were over 80 million, CDC received many reports of delayed and diminished vaccine shipments in October to November of 2005. To better understand the supply problems, CDC and partners surveyed several health care professional groups. METHODS Surveys were sent to representative samples of influenza vac...

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