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Mechanisms, Targets, and TherapeuticsCells in our body undergo tightly regulated replication to enable growth to occur in a precise, and to ensure that damaged or worn out tissues are replaced. Regulation is mediated via many different mechanisms; it is when these mechanisms fail, and regulation is lost, that cancer can result. Recent advances in...

The Humble Truth`every heart imagines itself the first to thrill to a myriad sensations which once stirred the hearts of the earliest creatures and which will again stir the hearts of the last men and women to walk the earth&' What is a life? How shall a storyteller conceive a life? What if art means pattern and life has none? How, then, can any...

&'Mr Slope flattered himself that he could out-manoeuvre the lady...he did not doubt of ultimate triumph.&'Barchester Towers (1857) was the book that made Trollope&'s reputation and it remains his most popular and enjoyable novel. The arrival of a new bishop in Barchester, accompanied by his formidable wife and ambitious chaplain, Obadiah Slope,...

Understanding the mechanisms in health and diseaseOne of the most widespread words in medicine is placebo and placebo effect, although it is not always clear what it means exactly. Recent progress in biomedical research has allowed a better clarification of the placebo effect. We know that this is an active psychobiological phenomenon which takes...

&'Mr Slope flattered himself that he could out-manoeuvre the lady...he did not doubt of ultimate triumph.&'Barchester Towers (1857) was the book that made Trollope&'s reputation and it remains his most popular and enjoyable novel. The arrival of a new bishop in Barchester, accompanied by his formidable wife and ambitious chaplain, Obadiah Slope,...

What is consciousness and how can a brain, a mere collection of neurons, create it? In Consciousness and the Social Brain, Princeton neuroscientist Michael Graziano lays out an audacious new theory to account for the deepest mystery of them all. The human brain has evolved a complex circuitry that allows it to be socially intelligent. This social...