Intra-abdominal fat is an established risk factor for the metabolic syndrome. In this issue of Cell Metabolism, Tran et al. (2008) test the cell-autonomous and location-related properties of transplanted intra-abdominal and subcutaneous fat depots. While subcutaneous fat seems to confer metabolic benefits, species differences in adipose biology justify caution in interpreting the results.

High precision localization technology is the basis of fine-grained Location-based Service (LBS), such as interactive games, etc. A novel location system named Dragon is proposed, which provides target location in centimeter-level precision with 10Hz refreshing rate. Dragon uses a Fake-spot filtration algorithm to deal with the NLOS measurements and uses Extended Kalman Filtering (EKF) to handl...

Although high levels of tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs) generally correlate with good prognosis in high-grade serous ovarian cancer (HGSC) patients, little is known about the phenotype or specificity of these cells. We have recently demonstrated that TIL expressing the intra-epithelial lymphocyte marker CD103 (official name, integrin αE, ITGAE) abundantly infiltrate HGSCs, strongly correl...

Overview of fault location techniques for HV (EHV) transmission lines as well as for distribution networks is presented. One-end and two-end fault location for traditional uncompensated transmission lines is considered first. The presented two-end fault location is based on unsynchronised measurements at the line terminals. Then the technique with phase co-ordinates approach is utilised for loc...

Metastatic cell heterogeneity presents a significant obstacle to the development of targeted molecular and immunotherapeutics. Profiling of melanocyte differentiation antigens has revealed a nonstochastic, site-specific pattern of expression in metastases that was highest in brain, intermediate in soft tissues/lymph nodes, and lowest in visceral sites. Site-specific antigen heterogeneity, thus,...