The limitless role of p53 in cell cycle machinery: Good news or bad news?

Good News or Bad News? Let the Market Decide

News stories about publicly traded companies are labeled positive or negative according to price changes of the company stock. It is shown that models based on lexical features can distinguish good news from bad news with accuracy of about 70%. Unfortunately, this works only when stories are labeled according to cotemporaneous price changes but does not work when they are labeled according to s...

Phosphate binders in CKD: bad news or good news?

Hyperphosphatemia has long been considered an important contributor to the mineral and bone disorder associated with CKD (CKD-MBD). Already 50 years ago, Slatopolsky et al. showed that as GFR decreased, fractional phosphate excretion rose because of inhibition of tubular phosphate reabsorption by parathyroid hormone (PTH), thus preventing serum phosphorus to rise. In the last 10 years, fibrobla...

The Good News and the Bad News

There is much that is attractive about Michael Burawoy’s examination of the critical turn to a public sociology. I find plausible his account of the academic nature of 1970s radical sociology especially that mobilized notions such as Althusser’s “theoretical practice.” I also was cheered to read the account of the positive developments currently in train in the USA and especially with how socia...

hiv/aids good news and bad news

Traditional eye medicines--good or bad news?