Stefan Jentsch, whose unusual creativity and trailblazing work changed forever the fields of ubiquitin biology, DNA repair, splicing, and autophagy, sadly passed away in Munich on October 29 after a short and severe illness. Stefan was born in Berlin on May 29, 1955. Following his school and university years, Stefan embarked on his graduate thesis in his still-divided hometown and joined Thomas...

New Microbes and New Infections (NMNI) remains a young journal having been launched during the ESCMID Congress in Berlin, April 2013, partly as a companion and referral journal to Clinical Microbiology and Infection (CMI), edited by Didier Raoult and from 2016 by Leonard Leibovici [1,2]. NMNI aims to provide a platform for international authors reporting facts in infectious and primarily tropic...

Creating a just culture Key words: just culture, TeamSTEPPS, human error, briefing, huddle. Circulating while administering moderate sedation/analgesia Key words: moderate sedation/analgesia, RN circulator. Monitoring RN leaving room during administration of moderate sedation Key words: moderate sedation/analgesia, propofol. Screening for obstructive sleep apnea before administering moderate se...

The prevalence of diabetes (DM) is constantly increasing worldwide at an alarming rate. According to the International Diabetes Federation in 2015, an estimated 415 million people globally were suffering from this condition [1]. Complications of DM account for increased morbidity, disability, and mortality and represent a threat for the economies of all countries, especially the developing ones...

In quest of new (”post-CMOS”) switches, in particular for ultra-low power application, the Tunnel Field Effect Transistor (TFET) [1] raised a lot of attention. The working principle of this device is the generation of electron-hole pairs by band-to-band tunneling (BTBT) between the valence band (VB) and the conduction band (CB). Thus, contrary to the common MOSFET, the source of current in a TF...

1Department of Laboratory Medicine, Konkuk University School of Medicine, 120-1 Neungdong-ro, Hwayang-dong, Gwangjin-gu, Seoul 05030, Republic of Korea 2Clinical and Molecular Medicine Department Azienda Ospedaliera Sant’Andrea, School of Medicine and Psychology, Sapienza University, Rome, Italy 3LaboratoryMedicine Department, Clinical Biochemistry Laboratory, “Città della Salute e della Scienz...

The famous theoretical biologist Hans Meinhardt died on 11 February 2016 in Tübingen. Meinhardt is well known for mathematical models of biological pattern formation, which he applied to a wide range of problems in developmental biology such as body axis formation, segmentation, limb patterning, regeneration, phyllotaxis and surface patterns — most famously the color patterns on seashells. Hans...

Imaging for breast cancer comprises multiple options in terms of modalities and protocols that have to be applied in the clinical context by radiologists, referring GPs and medical imaging technicians across a broad patient population. We will discuss the roles of modalities such as mammography (standard 2D and 3D/ DBT), breast ultrasound as well as the suite of interventional options including...

Étude de l'utilisation d'un environnement numérique de formation : méthode de remise en situation à l'aide de traces numériques de l'activité Studying how trainee teachers use an online learning environment: resituating interviews supported by digital traces Éditeur ARPACT-Association Recherches et Pratiques sur les ACTivités Référence électronique Simon Flandin, Marine Auby et Luc Ria, « Étude...

R estenosis is a significant limitation of catheter-based treatment of coronary artery disease. Early in the development of balloon angioplasty, restenosis was quite common, occurring in 30% to 40% of patients (1). Following successful angioplasty, patients who had become symptomfree developed the same symptoms they had experienced prior to the intervention. Repeat angiography demonstrated a re...