Measuring In Vivo Myocardial Substrate Competition Using Hyperpolarized 13C Magnetic Resonance Jessica A.M. Bastiaansen, Matthew E. Merritt, and Arnaud Comment Laboratory of Functional and Metabolic Imaging, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland, Advanced Imaging Research Center,Department of Radiology,Molecular Biophysics,Biomedical Engineering, UTSW Medical Center, Texas, United States, Institute of Ph...

Kasabach-merritt syndrome is a rare life-threatening syndrome associated with vascular tumors such as tufted angioma and kaposiform hemangioendothelioma. For this syndrome, there exist a few treatment modalities with variable results. For many years, corticosteroids have been employed in the first-line therapy. Nowadays, on the other hand, β blockers such as propranolol have been used owing to ...

Robert Insall was born in London in 1965, into a family of architects, musicians and historians. To their great surprise, he was obviously scientifically inclined from an early age. He did a B.A. at Cambridge University, then stuck around in Cambridge for a Ph.D., where he got interested in Dictyostelium, followed by a postdoc in Johns Hopkins, where he got interested in chemotaxis and cell mov...

We are investigating the signal transduction mechanisms by which extracellular hydrophilic hormones activate genes. We use Dictyostelium discoideum as a model eukaryote because it is relatively easy to perform reverse genetics on this organism and it is also capable of development. We had earlier shown that extracellular cAMP behaves as a hydrophilic

With this often quoted statement, Albert Kahn sought to differentiate his firm’s approach from that of his peers and competitors in the first half of the twentieth century. Coinciding with the rapid industrialization of the American economy during this period, Albert Kahn Associates (AKA) developed to be the premier industrial architects of this country, if not of the entire world. Kahn’s pract...

LH: How do you organize the work the students do in Biomotion? BF: They hear lectures and discuss topics for about half of the course, and then they do projects. I ask them to work in teams to design something that moves, inspired by biology. For example, they might design the next Mars Rover, using principles of biological movement. They buy toys—construction kits, and they build their designs.

conservation measures and the sustainable use of biodiversity. The society is the custodian of Linnaeus’ original library and collections and is creating a digital archive, enabling full global access. While such moves are occurring with many collections, the value of the new book is the listing of many much less well-known collections, which will not, in the near future, be available electroni...