Jeffrey Brenner. (Photo by MacArthur Foundation) Jeffrey Brenner doesn’t believe in blaming a person for showing up at an emergency room for a cold or an ear infection, even if the illness could have been treated in a doctor’s office at much lower cost. Instead, he faults the health care system, and he wants to prove that if providers, employers and insurers work together more effectively, that...

otherwise of the tumour. Examination of the tumour for stainable fat is also recommended. Furthermore, vaginal cytology for cestrogenic activity and estimation of circulating oestrogenic hormone should also be performed in laboratories where facilities for such investigations exist. The view expressed by Novak and Woodruff (1962) in relation to the functioning properties or otherwise of Brenner...

Alexandra J. Berges, BS; Ioan A. Lina, MD; Rafael Ospino, Hsiu-Wen Tsai, PhD; Michael Brenner, Vinciya Pandian, Ana M. Rule, Alexander T. Hillel, MD

Extrapulmonary neuroendocrine carcinoma (EP-NEC) have been found in most organs, but the most common sites are the gastrointestinal tract, cervix uteri and urogenital tract (Strosberg et al., 2010, Walenkamp et al., 2009). Recently it has been defined as a pathological entity in breast cancer (Tavassoli et al., 2003). Additionally, in up to 30% of EPNEC cases, no primary site can be identified ...

Jacob Brenner, Chris Oura, Itai Asis, Sushila Maan, Dani Elad, Narender Maan, Orly Friedgut, Kyriaki Nomikou, Ditza Rotenberg, Valizar Bumbarov, Peter Mertens, Hagai Yadin, and Carrie Batten Author affi liations: Kimron Veterinary Institute, Bet Dagan, Israel (J. Brenner, D. Elad, O. Friedgut, D. Rotenberg, V. Bumbarov, H. Yadin); Institute for Animal Health, Pirbright, UK (C. Oura, S. Maan, N....

Each year the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB; http:// www.iscb.org) honors a young scientist who has already achieved a significant and lasting impact on our field. The ISCB Awards Committee, comprised of current and former directors of the society and chaired by Søren Brunak, director of the Center for Biological Sequence Analysis at the Technical University of Denmark, ...