Why are we not getting any closer to preventing suicide?

Why are we not getting any closer to preventing suicide?

Plant functional types : are we getting any closer to the Holy Grail ?

1 Laboratoire d’Ecologie Alpine, CNRS UMR 5553, Université Joseph Fourier, BP 53X, 38041 Grenoble Cedex 9, France. [email protected] 2 Instituto Multidisciplinario de Biología Vegetal (CONICET – UNC) and FCECFyN, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina 3 Department of System Ecology, Institute of Ecological Science, Vrije Universiteit, De Boelelaan 1085, 1081 HV Amsterdam, The N...

Are we any closer to combating Ebola infections?

In March, 2009, a scientist working in a highcontainment laboratory in Germany pricked herself with a needle that had just been used to infect a mouse with the Ebola virus. Although rare, similar laboratory accidents with Ebola virus have been reported in the UK (1976), USA (2004), and Russia (2004), of which the one in Russia was fatal. Additionally, there have been at least three exposures to...

Schizophrenia pathophysiology: are we any closer to a complete model?

Schizophrenia, a severe brain disorder that involves hallucinations, disordered thinking and deficiencies in cognition, has been studied for decades in order to determine the early events that lead to this neurological disorder. In this review, we interpret the developmental and genetic models that have been proposed and treatment options associated with these models. Schizophrenia was initiall...

Viral markers for HIV cure trials: are we getting any closer?

The definite proof of concept of an effective treatment aimed at HIV cure would be a very prolonged or permanent HIV remission after interruption of treatment. However, treatment interruption studies have generally resulted in a quick viral rebound in nearly all patients with the exception of a few isolated cases of long-term post-treatment control. Consequently, biomarkers that could predict w...