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Barrett's esophagus is a disorder in which the lining of the esophagus is damaged by stomach acid. People suffering from this disorder are at an increased risk for esophageal cancer.

This volume presents reports from three recent scientific meetings on topics in emerging fields. The first report comes from the New York Stem Cell Foundation s Fifth Annual Translational Stem Cell Research Conference convened in October 2010 at the Rockefeller University in New York City.

Waterfronts are attractive areas for many often competing uses in New York City and are seen as multifunctional locations for economic, environmental, and social activities on the interface between land and water.

The genetic dissection of human primary immunodeficiency is expanding at full speed, in at least two directions.

The perdurable question, "Who am I?" points to a deeply rooted need within us to understand the basis for the experience of unitary consciousness known as the Self. Today, the word "self" has come to refer to a host of intersecting ideas, questions, concerns, and problems that are central to the human condition and predicament.

This Annals volume presents proceedings of the conference "Basic and Clinic Ocular Motor and Vestibular Research," held as a tribute to the career of Dr. Richard John Leigh in Buenos Aires, Argentina from March 25 27, 2011.

This volume is a unique, multidisciplinary collection of scholarly reviews encompassing contemporary research on decision making and aging, including work on development and aging, and child and adolescent development.

The volume features current basic, clinical, and translational research on aspects of skeletal morphogenesis and remodeling in health and disease. Papers survey vital new insights into the mechanisms of bone development and restructuring, including cellular and mechanical triggers, receptors and signaling pathways.

Myasthenia gravis (MG), an acquired immune syndrome affecting proteins at the neuromuscular junction, causes significant muscular functional impairment and can compromise patients quality of life, including fatigue, disability, and increased mortality rates.

Myasthenia gravis (MG), an acquired immune syndrome affecting proteins at the neuromuscular junction, causes significant muscular functional impairment and can compromise patients quality of life, including fatigue, disability, and increased mortality rates.

This volume explores the evolution of infectious agents that are sexually-transmitted or transmissible in humans and animals.

This volume brings together a collection of articles that crosses traditional boundaries of scientific expertise under the common theme of transport phenomena. Transport phenomena in relation to fluid, thermal, biological, materials, and space sciences are investigated.

This volume features an important collection of review articles highlighting the top science and developments in the field of evolutionary biology. NOTE: Annals volumes are available for sale as individual books or as a journal. For information on institutional journal subscriptions, please visit www. blackwellpublishing. com/nyas.

A fundamental property of hematopoetic stem cells is their capacity to self-renew, thus providing, in principle, a limitless source of daughter cells and with the same functional properties. This volume presents the most recent developments, and their clinical implications, in hematopoietic stem cell research.

This field of women's health and disease has been attracting the attention of the scientific community over the past 50 years. At the dawn of the 21st century a substantial amount of accumulated knowledge has found its way to clinical application giving rise, however, to new pertinent questions.

Aging, reproductive physiology, demography, evolutionary biology, endocrinology, and epidemiology - just to name a few - are all disciplines that are actively looking at similar phenomena. Aging and reproductive aging are inextricably linked.

* Explores recent scientific and clinical advances in the treatment of thalassemia * Examines research working to build an understanding of adult complications associated with living with thalassemia * Looks at research making progress toward finding a cure through bone marrow and cord blood transplants, or gene therapy.

This volume features a discussion of recent advances related to the cellular and molecular mechanisms mediating the generation of reactive oxygen and nitrogen species and their role in the pathogenesis of human disease, with a particular focus on the respiratory and cardiovascular systems.

The volume highlights recent and new developments in all fields ofneuropeptides in biological homeostasis regulation such as bodyweight and metabolism, reproduction, osmotic pressure reproduction. Special attention given to the phylogenetic aspects ofneuroendocrinology, from invertebrates to mammals includinghumans.

This volume of the Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences covers recent and new developments in all fields of neuroendocrinology, including neuroendocrine control of reproduction, stress, growth and metabolism, and hypothalamic neuropeptidergic systems.

This volume features the proceedings of the In the 6th Asian Society for Mitchondrial Research and Medicine and highlights recent advances in mitochondria research.

This volume explores cancer as an individualized problem and addresses the impact of recent advances in cancer biology, genetics, tumor profiling, and medical technology in the personalization of cancer predisposition, diagnosis, prognosis, treatment, and therapy development.

This is the second installment of this annual review series presents invited papers published in collaboration with the United States Society for Ecological Economics.

This volume explores the latest clinical and basic science advances in the field of reproductive sciences. Contributions from leading experts in the field cover a wide breadth of topics from in vitro fertilization to stem cell biology.

This Annals volume includes scholarly summaries of scientific achievement by winners and finalists candidates of the 2010 Prix Galien USA, Prix Galien International, and Prix Galien Bro Bono Humanitarian Awards ( http://www. prix-galien-usa. com/index.

The social environment has an enormous influence in altering behavior, neuroendocrine function, immune system activity, and cardiovascular and metabolic function.

Recently, much attention has been focused on aging and obesity and the pivotal roles these conditions play in the development of chronic diseases such as diabetes, hypertension, and cancer.

Includes reviews on central nervous system control of glucose and energy metabolism; stearoyl CoA desaturase in obesity and metabolism; circadian disruption and metabolic dysfunction; incretin hormones; and, more.

The genetic dissection of human primary immunodeficiency is expanding at full speed, in at least two directions.