Stefan Meuer of the Institute of Immunology describes in the next article how defence cells perform these astonishingly finicky distinctions and the interesting prospects this new view of the immune functions opens up for the therapy of severe chronic inflammatory disorders such as morbus Crohn. Breast cancer is the most frequent tumour found in women and the external and internal factors underlying it are complex indeed. BRCA1 and BRCA2. It is estimated that changes in these genes are responsible for five to max. In the framework of a research project started in 1997 and funded by German Cancer Aid, risk patients have been provided with intensive counselling and care at 11 different medical centres.
Universities produce knowledge.
As such they are enterprises dealing in research and teaching, two things inextricably bound up with one another. To ignore or deny these differences is to forget that the efficiency and originality of universities are products of their decentralised structure and flat hierarchies. That does not however mean that adopting tried and tested business management instruments in universities is necessarily a bad investment. The first of these columns centres on the fascinating giant molecule titin, which plays a major role in the ensemble of muscle proteins alongside myosin and actin.