“I see the future”

How I See the Yoruba See Themselves

I-19: The Future of Medical Education: from The Classroom to i-tunes

Medical training has been lately the subject of intense scrutiny. The knowledge transfer approach has shifted focus on the trainee as an active participant in the education process. The traditional view that learning stems from the transmission of knowledge, has recently been challenged. Although controversial, some suggest that a student can maximize this learning process when educators tailor...

Do You See What I See?

Studying visual illusions is critical to understanding typical visual perception. We investigated whether rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta) and capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella) perceived the Delboeuf illusion in a similar manner as human adults (Homo sapiens). To test this, in Experiment 1, we presented monkeys and humans with a relative discrimination task that required subjects to choose the lar...

Do You See What I See?

n this issue of the Journal, Hoffmann et al. (1) report on heir comparison of conventional and contrast-enhanced chocardiography, biplane cine angiography, and cardiac agnetic resonance for the detection of regional wall otion abnormalities. Their effort to acquire three or four f these modalities in the same patients creates an opporunity to consider the relative utility of these tests in a gr...

I see the light! And I see it again and again!

In 1983, Kary Mullis at Cetus conceptualized the most important of biotechnological reactions—the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) (1 ). The idea, for which Mullis was awarded the 1993 Nobel Prize in chemistry, was as simple as it was brilliant. Given the natural ability of polymerases to copy nucleic acids in the presence of short complementary oligonucleotides it should be possible to perform ...