Are you my mother?

Are you pulling my airway?

E xcessive airway narrowing is a hallmark of asthma. This is due to unencumbered shortening of airway smooth muscle, leading to severe airways obstruction and even closure of airways. Remarkably, in healthy subjects, this does not occur, and there is little doubt that the explanation of this apparent ‘‘protection’’ in normal subjects will be essential for our understanding of asthma. Parenchyma...

Are you my mother? Kin recognition in the ant Formica fusca.

In social insects, workers trade personal reproduction for indirect fitness returns from helping their mother rear collateral kin. Colony membership is generally used as a proxy for kin discrimination, but the question remains whether recognition allows workers to discriminate between kin and nonkin regardless of colony affiliation. We investigated whether workers of the ant Formica fusca can i...

Are you my mother? A judge's decision in in vitro fertilization surrogacy.

You Are Always on My Mind

Dr. Torrey is a research psychiatrist who specializes in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. He is Founder of the Treatment Advocacy Center, Associate Director of the Stanley Medical Research Institute, and the author of American Psychosis: How the Federal Government Destroyed the Mental Illness Treatment System. Ms. Dailey is a legislative and policy counsel at the Treatment Advocacy Center. S...

You are what your mother ate.

First brought to scientific attention several decades ago by the report of a dose-response, inverse relation between birth weight and adult risk of cardiometabolic diseases (1), evidence that early nutrition, stress, and other similar environmental exposures can have lingering impacts on later health outcomes has now been widely documented in human populations and in experimental animal model w...