S-layers put to therapeutic use?

Can employers put genetic information to good use?

Ontologies Put More Meaning into Meaningful Use

The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act, enacted as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, positioned the Meaningful Use of interoperable Electronic Health Records as a critical goal and encouraged nationwide EHR adoption. The Consolidated Health Informatics (CHI) initiative recommended the following three terminologies for EHRs: SNOM...

S-layers: principles and applications

Monomolecular arrays of protein or glycoprotein subunits forming surface layers (S-layers) are one of the most commonly observed prokaryotic cell envelope components. S-layers are generally the most abundantly expressed proteins, have been observed in species of nearly every taxonomical group of walled bacteria, and represent an almost universal feature of archaeal envelopes. The isoporous latt...

Building Therapeutic Relationships: Choosing Words That Put People First

As health care professionals (HCPs), what we know, do, and say has an impact on people. People with diabetes come to us when they are vulnerable, and our knowledge, actions, and words give us the power to help them overcome their fear and learn what they need to take care of themselves. Unfortunately, the words used in diabetes care often lead to shame instead. When HCPs interact with people wh...

Put to the test

Personalized heart muscle cells made from stem cells in the laboratory could be used to check an individual's response to potential new drugs before clinical trials.