Contents
Vol 1, Issue 9
Contents
Editorial
- Peer-to-Peer Sharing Spurs Scientific Innovation
The peer-to-peer renegades notwithstanding, open sharing of data among scientists must be the rule rather than the exception in the biomedical arena.
Commentary
- A Call for Sharing: Adapting Pharmaceutical Research to New Realities
In recent decades, a proprietary culture, which wrongly posits that all intellectual property must be restricted, has spread across the pharmaceutical industry and threatens to stall the engine that has yielded many valuable treatments.
Research Article
- Identification of an Autoantigen Demonstrates a Link Between Interstitial Lung Disease and a Defect in Central Tolerance
A defect in immune tolerance to self-antigens may underlie the lung damage that accompanies many autoimmune diseases.
Editors' Choice
- How Some Monkeys Tolerate SIV
Both susceptible and resistant monkey species respond immunologically to SIV infection, but only resistant ones can dampen the response to avoid disease.
- Harbingers of Metabolic Havoc
The exact combinations of symptoms displayed by patients may allow physicians to identify those destined to develop metabolic syndrome so that treatment can begin early.
- Seizing the Moment
One source of absence epilepsy is an overactive inhibitory receptor.
- Stopping a Mutant Kinase in Its Tracks
A new compound shows promise for treating patients with drug-resistant chronic myeloid leukemia.