This essay explores four answers to the question ‘What kinds of things are psychiatric
disorders?’ Essentialist kinds are classes whose members share an essence from which their …

Human mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) are considered to be a promising source of cells in
regenerative medicine. They have large potential to differentiate into various tissue-specific …

The Tuberculosis Database (TBDB) is an online database providing integrated access to
genome sequence, expression data and literature curation for TB. TBDB currently houses …

When holes are doped into an antiferromagnetic insulator they form a slowly fluctuating
array of “topological defects”(metallic stripes) in which the motion of the holes exhibits a self-…

About 17% of humanity goes through an episode of major depression at some point in their
lifetime. Despite the enormous societal costs of this incapacitating disorder, it is largely …

Soil is the basis of production in agriculture and forestry, the nourisher of mankind and an
important component of the human environment. Much more attention should therefore be …

Help-seeking attitudes have been an important part of research into the kinds of college
students who do and do not seek psychotherapy. The current study investigated the relationship …

Hepatoblastoma, the most common pediatric liver cancer, is tightly linked to excessive Wnt/β-catenin
signaling. Here, we used microarray analysis to identify two tumor subclasses …

The effective control of tuberculosis (TB) has been thwarted by the need for prolonged,
complex and potentially toxic drug regimens, by reliance on an inefficient vaccine and by the …

Magnetic resonance (MR) imaging was performed on 64 patients with 109 vertebral compression
fractures, the cause of which could not be determined from plain radiographs. Twenty-…