In 1999, Fabio Coppedè joined Prof. Lucia Migliore’s group at the Department of Human and Environmental Sciences of the University of Pisa for the preparation of his Master Degree thesis in Biological Sciences. In that period he worked on oxidative DNA damage and genetic susceptibility to Parkinson’s disease. In 2000, he was the recipient of a “Mobility Grant” from the University of Pisa and ha...

Common features of current information systems have significant impact on software architectures of these systems. The systems can not be realised as monoliths, formal specification of behaviour and interfaces of the systems’ parts are necessary, as well as specification of their interaction. Moreover, the systems have to deal with many problems including the ability to clone components and to ...

Associate Editors Ralph A. Bradshaw, University of California, San Diego Steven P. Briggs, University of California, San Diego Steven A. Carr, Broad Institute, Cambridge Anne-Claude Gavin, EMBL, Heidelberg Gerald W. Hart, Johns Hopkins University Medical School, Baltimore Timothy Karr, Kyoto Institute of Technology Elise C. Kohn, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda Elizabeth A. Komives, Uni...

Wataru Araki is presently a section chief at the National Institute of Neuroscience, National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry (NCNP), Tokyo, Japan. His research mainly focuses on the molecular and cellular mechanisms underlying neurodegenerative dementia disorders including Alzheimer’s disease. He seeks the core problems in the pathogenesis of the diseases with an aim to translate the discov...

JCB’s motto has long been “By the scientists, for the scientists,” and we want to take this opportunity to welcome five new scientists who have joined the JCB community over the past twelve months. To keep up with the ever-evolving field of cell biology, JCB regularly seeks out respected and dedicated members of the community to join our editorial board so that the fairness, timeliness, and qua...

Objective: To assess the accuracy of sentinel lymph node biopsy in breast cancer, therefore, reducing the morbidity of axillary clearance in patients having clinically impalpable axillary lymphnodes. Study Design: A Prospective study Place and Duration of Study: This study was conducted at the Department of Surgery, Unit II, Chandka Medical College / Hospital, Larkana from January 2014 to Decem...

In this first issue of the Netherlands Heart Journal in 2017, I would like to introduce to you a new editorial board, consisting of an editor-in-chief and five deputy editors. It is an Amsterdam-based editorial board to facilitate close interaction between the board members. It is the ambition of the new editorial board to further improve the journal’s current impact factor as an index of its q...