In the city that never sleeps, great science never takes a break. On 15 January 2016, the 'New York Symposium on Quantitative Biology of the Cell', a one-day local meeting of the American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB), took place at Columbia University Medical Center in upper Manhattan. Focusing on the quantitative understanding of cellular and multicellular systems, this meeting created an o...

Dream incubation refers collectively to the practices, rituals, techniques and efforts that an individual applies to intentionally evoke helpful dreams. Derived from the Latin verb incubare (in'upon' + cubare 'to lie'), the term connotes the support and nurturance provided by a laying mother bird for her developing egg. The parallels with dream influence are all too appropriate; in antiquity, t...

The flow of milk is copious and good, quite enough to satisfy the child, who remains and sleeps with the grandmother. I am given to understand that about 23 years ago the nursed this child's father, he being her husband's son by another wife. In both instances she states that, previous to suckling, the breasts were quite dry, but no sooner she applied these children to the breast, she found a c...

tutional symptoms. His general health is good, tongue is moist but furred, countenance is anxious, internal organs normal; sleeps badly; appetite and bowels regular. The history of the disease dates 15 days back, when, after sexual intercourse, he had painful micturition, and then the discharge and bubo followed. He indulges in no excesses, but simply smokes tobacco. Prescribed Copaiba Mist gii...

vulvovaginal candidiasis (vvc) is a common disease among women worldwide, therefore, accurate and rapid diagnosis of causative agents based on molecular techniques utilizing amplification of target dna is highly recomendad for epidemiological purposes and for effective treatment. the aim of this study was to identify clinically candida species from vvc patients by restriction fragment length po...

Prior to the discovery of medical treatment for diabetes, carbohydrate-restriction was the predominant treatment recommendation to treat diabetes mellitus. In this commentary we argue that carbohydrate-restriction should be reincorporated into contemporary treatment studies for diabetes mellitus.