Experiencing Dystopia Through <i>Umwelt</i>: Modelling the Nonhuman Animal in <i>Hollow Kingdom</i>

Commentary: Constructing nonhuman animal emotion

The Locative Dystopia

2004 opened with the cancellation of a number of commercial airline flights at the bequest of the US administration. This serves as a reminder of the mundane and arbitrary operation of power ("Its got to the point where if there's anybody called Mohammed aboard, your flight's got a problem" senior airline source, quoted Guardian, 3 January 2004), and also of the renewed focus on surveillance an...

Reducing Anthrax Infection in Man through Animal Vaccination in Iran

Toward medical dystopia.

I a general surgeon with more than three decades in private clinical practice. Since the late 1970s, I have witnessed remarkable technological revolutions in medicine, from computed tomographic scans to robot-assisted surgery, but I have also watched as medicine slowly evolved into the domain of technicians, bookkeepers, and clerks. Government interventions over the past four decades have yield...

Optogenetics through windows on the brain in the nonhuman primate.

Optogenetics combines optics and genetics to control neuronal activity with cell-type specificity and millisecond temporal precision. Its use in model organisms such as rodents, Drosophila, and Caenorhabditis elegans is now well-established. However, application of this technology in nonhuman primates (NHPs) has been slow to develop. One key challenge has been the delivery of viruses and light ...