Toxicity testing gets a makeover

Toxicity Testing and the Toxicity Testing and the Current Situation in IRAN

Toxicity Testing and the Toxicity Testing and the Current Situation in IRAN

NIH needs a makeover.

This elegantly carved jade face from Liangzhu in southeastern China provides an intriguing glimpse into the beliefs of the people who lived there from 3400 B.C.E. to 2250 B.C.E. As described in a special News Focus section beginning on page 930, discoveries at Liangzhu and other regions far from the traditional heartland of Chinese civilization are revealing surprisingly complex ancient culture...

Getting Healthier Through Microbiome Makeover

In this issue of EBioMedicine, Liping Zhao and colleagues show that children with obesity have similar gut microbiota dysbiosis regardless of their geneticmakeup,whether it is simple obesity (no underlying pathology) or genetic obesity (Prader–Willi syndrome). Furthermore, their microbiome profile can be changed by a 1-month dietary intervention. Interestingly, the authors also show that transf...

Testing for Toxicity

ACCIDENT and Emergency Medicine is a relatively new but rapidly expanding specialty, and although many textbooks related to it have been published in recent years for doctors, the same has not occurred for nurses. This book, written by a team of doctors in Lancaster, covers a wide range of the emergencies and not so acute conditions seen in every casualty department, and the nurse is given very...