A new editorial in one of my most favorite journals now finds that immune cell signal transduction is just too complicated to be effectively queried using traditional methods and mindsets – something that I felt for some long time to be true not only for immunology for also for genetics, yea, yea.

Having written in the last year a widely discussed paper about Informed Consent the new WMA revision #25 makes this rather waste paper:

For medical research using identifiable human material or data, physicians must normally seek consent for the collection, analysis, storage and/or reuse. There may be situations where consent would be impossible or impractical to obtain for such research or would pose a threat to the validity of the research. In such situations the research may be done only after consideration and approval of a research ethics committee.

With this paragraph in effect you can now to do every test on every sample that you possess. I will tell you from my practical experience how this work (Show me more…)

Thanks to the great audience in Washington DC watching our pro-con show about vitamin D and allergy. Are you still wondering about all the monkeys on my opponent’s slides? Me too…
With having fever from a flu on the way back to Europe, a picture came to my mind showing the 3 apes that are unable to see, hear and speak …
Mail me if there remain any doubts about the Th1 blocking effect of D3 or go to one of the recent reviews – I have take this for granted as it is even in standard textbooks like Roitt’s Immunology. (Show me more…)

An American team believes to describe science activity by web clicks on journal pages.

with the conclusion (Show me more…)

There seems to be a GWAS repository that has an entry of an asthma study otherwise not known in the biomedical literature and – as see on the screenshot -results tables are empty. (Show me more…)