Three coral diseases – skeletal eroding band, brown band, and a group of diseases called white syndromes – were found to be less prevalent inside no-take marine reserves, particularly compared with reefs with high levels of injured corals and discarded fishing line.
More suspected cases are now likely to pop up, not necessarily because bioterrorists stalk the land, but because doctors and nurses are now reporting syndromes which they might have otherwise dismissed as, say, ill-defined pneumonia.Indeed, this panic would surely be any bioterrorist's main objective.
DNA-demethylating agents, in the form of azacitidine, sold as Vidaza by Celgene, of Summit, New Jersey, and decitabine, sold as Dacogen by Eisai, a Japanese company, are used to treat myelodysplastic syndromes, the precursors of acute myelogenous leukaemia.
TWO syndromes often beset governments whose time is almost up.
For example, a drug called Vidaza, which is made by Pharmion Corporation of Boulder, Colorado, and which acts on an important class of tags called methyl groups, was approved last year by America's Food and Drug Administration for the treatment of so-called myelodysplastic syndromes, also known as "pre-leukaemia".
Instead specific, observed symptoms became the diagnostic criteria, and clusters of them, known medically as syndromes, that appeared to coexist in individual patients were given labels.
Mr Laws, by contrast, is a conspicuously numerate former banker.Thus the appointment exemplifies some familiar syndromes of government: the need, sometimes, to rely on untried youth; the need to barter ministerial posts for the support of rival internal constituencies.
And while children with SLI usually outgrow their speech handicap, the reading problems of most dyslexics linger on stubbornly throughout their lives.Despite the differences between SLI and dyslexia, Paula Tallal, a psychologist at Rutgers University in New Jersey, proposed over 20 years ago that both syndromes may arise from a simple hearing defect.
The hope was that biological markers of such syndromes would be discovered as physiological understanding increased.This was a reasonable approach in principle.
The symptoms used to define them often do not cluster neatly in the way that those of true syndromes would, and the statistical evidence for their existence is sometimes sparse.
Indeed, there is now a cottage industry in re-interpreting the lives of geniuses in the context of suggestions that they might belong, or have belonged, on the "autistic spectrum", as the range of syndromes that include autistic symptoms is now dubbed.So what is the link?
