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"I have no doubt that 20 years from now we will treat some diseases by restoring or enhancing [the numbers of certain microbes]." —David Relman, MD, associate professor of medicine, commenting on a study of how microbes found in the gut may contribute to obesity. Boston Globe, May 22.
"There's going to be a multiplier effect to this." —Michael Longaker, MD, the Deane P. and Louise Mitchell Professor, on the effect of the 16 training fellowships in stem cell research at Stanford, which are funded by the California Institute of Regenerative Medicine. San Francisco Business Times, May 19.
"Things start to go backwards. It's devastating." —Gregory Enns, MD, assistant professor of pediatrics and director of the biochemical genetics program at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital, discussing Krabbe disease, a rare neurological disorder usually fatal before age 2. San Mateo County Times, May 22.
"Television hasn't been around forever." —Thomas Robinson, MD, associate professor of pediatrics, on how parents can find other ways to occupy their children besides relying on television to be an electronic babysitter. USA Today, May 25.