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  • "One in four" with a mental health problem: the anatomy of a statistic
    [22 Feb 12, 3:40pm] “It’s time to talk” is a campaign currently being promoted by Time to Change, a charity whose aim is to change attitudes to people with mental ill health. On the charity’s website a banner tells us:...
  • Exploiting non-communicable disease
    [22 Feb 12, 3:40pm] The developed world is ever more cynical about Big Pharma, having suffered decades of marketing spin, drug scandals, and the manipulation of research. So drug companies are now eyeing the developing...
  • Seeing through the alcohol statistics haze
    [22 Feb 12, 3:40pm] bmj;344/feb22_2/e1273/FIG1F1fig1The prime minister’s intervention last week on the misuse of alcohol—“one of the scandals of our society”—was as significant for what it didn’t say as for what it did....
  • Untitled
    [22 Feb 12, 3:40pm] When a woman with hypothyroidism had her dose of thyroxine increased she felt worse, not better. She was tired and developed headaches, nipple discharge, and weight gain. Her thyroid stimulating...
  • And in this manner he died
    [22 Feb 12, 3:40pm] Elizabeth Gaskell’s biography of Charlotte Brontë, published in 1857, two years after its subject’s death, caused a controversy and produced the threat of several libel actions (there were changes to...

Nature

  • Flu papers warrant full publication
    [22 Feb 12, 12:00am] Although more debate is needed, the benefits of publishing sensitive data outweigh the risks that have so far been made public.
  • Turing at 100
    [22 Feb 12, 12:00am] This year marks the centenary of the birth of Alan Turing. He deserves your attention.
  • Over the line
    [22 Feb 12, 12:00am] Dishonesty, however tempting, is the wrong way to tackle climate sceptics.
  • The man behind the machine
    [] Alan Turing is famous for many reasons. Andrew Hodges delves into why Turing's achievements took so long to be recognized.
  • Evolution: Lilliputian lizards come to light
    [22 Feb 12, 12:00am] The forests of northern Madagascar harbour a dwarf chameleon that is the smallest lizard in the world in terms of total length. Adult males of the diminutive Brookesia micra reach a length of less than 24 millimetres.B. micra and three other tiny

Nature R. Genetics

  • Development: Parental influences on plant development
    [31 Jan 12, 12:00am] Two ways in which parental genomes may influence the development of the early embryo are through the inheritance of maternal transcripts and through altering gene expression by genomic imprinting. In two recent studies, the authors have dissected the…
  • Gene expression: Protein-mediated mRNA interference
    [14 Feb 12, 12:00am] The authors identified a protein in the archaeon Haloquadratum walsbyi that cleaves mRNAs at a specific 7-base sequence. This protein, MazF-hw, is a homologue of mRNA interferases identified in bacteria, but the previously identified proteins recogni…
  • Genomic instability: Transgenerational effects of anticancer drugs
    [14 Feb 12, 12:00am] Do chemotherapeutic drugs have effects on the offspring of treated individuals? These authors treated male mice with clinically relevant doses of one of three widely used anticancer drugs and then measured the mutation rate at an expanded simple tand…
  • Cancer: Genomic and epigenomic analyses of cancer
    [14 Feb 12, 12:00am] The February issue of Genome Research includes a range of papers describing the genomic and epigenomic profiling of various cancer types. The publications cover: the identification of genomic markers to be used in disease diagnosis and monitoring; th…
  • Genome evolution: Unexpected relationship between mutation rate and genome complexity
    [14 Feb 12, 12:00am] The hypothesis that genome size and complexity are inversely correlated with mutation rate has been challenged by a study of mitochondrial genomes in the Silene plant genus. Contrary to expectation, species that have experienced recently accelerated…

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Faculté Biologie & Médecine

  • Une nouvelle stratégie pour l'UNIL
    [21 Feb 12, 3:27pm] La nouvelle Direction de l'Université de Lausanne a remis son plan d'intentions pour la période 2012-2016 au Département de la Formation, de la Jeunesse et de la Culture du canton de Vaud. Après 10 ans de croissance ininterrompue et un…
  • 41e Prix ARC Léopold Griffuel: appel à candidatures
    [21 Feb 12, 8:25am] Ce prix prestigieux d'une valeur de 150'000.- euros est attribué à un chercheur ou à une équipe, en activité, dont les travaux ont abouti à une avancée majeure dans le domaine du cancer.
  • Journée des Masters 2012
    [20 Feb 12, 10:08am] Vous hésitez encore ? La Journée des Masters vous aide à faire votre choix, le 6 mars de 12h à 17h30.
  • Recherche clinique en neurosciences
    [17 Feb 12, 12:37pm] Deux chercheurs du Département des neurosciences cliniques (DNC) du CHUV, le Dr Alexandre Croquelois et le Prof. Bogdan Draganski, viennent de recevoir le soutien du FNS pour un montant de 750'000.- francs, dans le cadre d'un consortium a…
  • Cancer du sein: taux de mortalité en baisse en Europe
    [16 Feb 12, 2:21pm] Dans l'Union européenne, le taux de mortalité par cancer du sein a reculé de 7% entre 2002 et 2006. Tel est le résultat d'une étude conduite par le Département d'épidémiologie de l'Institut Mario Negri de Milan, en collab…

Université de Lausanne

  • Nomination à la direction de la Fondation Jean Monnet pour l'Europe
    [22 Feb 12, 3:30pm] Monsieur Gilles Grin, actuellement vice-directeur, devient directeur de la Fondation à compter du 1er juillet 2012.
  • APOCALYPSE NO! Contre le désastre écologique, une nouvelle humanité solidaire
    [21 Feb 12, 7:34am] Conférence grand public donnée le jeudi 23 février sur le campus par Alain Grandjean avec réponse de Dominique Bourg (UNIL), modération Alain Kaufmann (UNIL).
  • Journée des Masters 2012
    [20 Feb 12, 9:10am] Vous hésitez encore ? La Journée des Masters vous aide à faire votre choix, le 6 mars de 12h à 17h30.
  • Cours public
    [20 Feb 12, 8:13am] "Voyager au Moyen Age", c'est le thème proposé par le CEMEP - Centre d'études médiévales et post-médiévales - pour un série de conférences ouvertes au public.
  • Une nouvelle stratégie pour l'UNIL
    [17 Feb 12, 11:47am] La nouvelle Direction de l'Université de Lausanne a remis son plan d'intentions pour la période 2012-2016 au Département de la Formation, de la Jeunesse et de la Culture du canton de Vaud. Après 10 ans de croissance ininterrompue et u…

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