S&S: Health & Disease
- Tackling resistence: bacteria, humans, animals and the environmentAn Interview with Stuart Levy, Professor at Tufts University School of Medicine and President of the Alliance for the Prudent Use of Antibiotics
An Interview with Stuart Levy, Professor at Tufts University School of Medicine and President of the Alliance for the Prudent Use of Antibiotics
- Holger Breithaupt (breithau{at}embl-heidelberg.de)
An interview with Stuart Levy from Tufts University about the causes and problems of antibiotic‐resistant bacteria and what needs to be done to address this rapidly worsening threat to public health.
- © 2014 The Author
- Internet addiction disorder and youthThere are growing concerns about compulsive online activity and that this could impede students' performance and social lives
There are growing concerns about compulsive online activity and that this could impede students' performance and social lives
- Patricia Wallace, Senior Director and the head (pwallace{at}jhu.edu) 1
Although not officially recognized as a disorder, obsessive use of the Internet is a very real problem that can negatively impact health, well being, social life and academic performance. But what is it and how should we treat it?
- © 2014 The Author
- The IκB kinase complex in NF‐κB regulation and beyond
- ↵*Corresponding author. Tel: +49 30 9604 3816; Fax: +49 30 9604 3866; E‐mail: scheidereit{at}mdc-berlin.de
The IKK complex is the central hub for NF‐κB activation, but many NF‐κB independent substrates highlight the diversity of IKK function and crosstalks with other pathways. Structural information has recently shed light into IKK architecture, activation and substrate recognition.
- Received September 11, 2013.
- Revision received October 31, 2013.
- Accepted November 6, 2013.
- © 2014 The Authors
- Science is the drug
- Howy Jacobs
… in which Howy confesses to some eccentric proclivities.
- Copyright © 2013 European Molecular Biology Organization
- Three sides of a coin
- Holger Breithaupt
The ‘Drugs & Science’ series in EMBO reports will highlight the therapeutic, the risky and the societal aspects of drug use and abuse.
- Copyright © 2013 European Molecular Biology Organization
- Thirteen follies and fallacies about alternative medicine
- Edzard Ernst1
Thirteen common misunderstandings about alternative medicine and the consequences for health.
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- Complex diseases require complex therapies
- Ravi Iyengar1
Understanding disease causes and drug action at the molecular and systems levels could help to identify combinations of drugs that are more effective than individual drugs alone.
- Copyright © 2013 European Molecular Biology Organization
- Paving a regulatory pathway for phage therapyEurope should muster the resources to financially, technically and legally support the introduction of phage therapy
Europe should muster the resources to financially, technically and legally support the introduction of phage therapy
The growing problem of antibiotic‐resistant bacteria has re‐kindled interest in phage‐based therapies. Yet, the use of phages to treat life‐threatening bacterial infections is held back by the lack of an appropriate regulatory framework for phage therapy.
- Copyright © 2013 European Molecular Biology Organization
- Brothers in armsMilitary funding for basic and applied biomedical science is thriving, with civilian applications delivered along the way
Military funding for basic and applied biomedical science is thriving, with civilian applications delivered along the way
- Andrea Rinaldi1
The horrific injuries and difficult working conditions faced by military medical personnel have forced the military to fund biomedical research to treat soldiers; those new technologies and techniques contribute significantly to civilian medicine.
- Copyright © 2013 European Molecular Biology Organization
- The Henrietta Lacks legacy grows
Now that the NIH has reached an agreement with Henrietta Lacks's family concerning the use of the HeLa cell line, what lessons can we learn about informed consent and the unforeseen use of biological samples?
- Copyright © 2013 European Molecular Biology Organization
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