Mentorship Never Ends

Credentials for a PharmD graduate: The voyage never ends

Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD) is a professional pharmacy degree qualification offered by universities world-wide. While the graduates from the West are familiar with scope and job opportunities that present on completion of a PharmD degree, graduates from Asia and the Middle-East are coming to grips with the future of PharmD program and the role that it could play in career advancement. Through t...

“It Never, Ever Ends”: The Psychological Impact of Wrongful Conviction

COMMENTARY p 53 – Mdm 2 — the affair that never ends

The p53–Mdm2 paradigm represents the best-studied relationship between a tumor suppressor gene which functions as a transcription factor and an oncogene, which functions primarily as an E3 protein ligase. The intimate relationship between these two partners has expanded to include almost every cellular biological system – from development, to growth control and programmed cell death. The affair...

The Circle That Never Ends: Can Complexity Be Made Simple?

There is no need to try to ease into the discussion because the issue being discussed here is too involved to waste words that way. It is important to get right to the point. The starting premise is that we seek to understand the world in which we live. This leads immediately to a whole set of related premises that define the problem as being the answer to the question “how we can obtain that w...

Science Never Ends: a New Paradigm Is Being Born in Biology

The spiraling advances in our knowledge of the natural world appear to drive the paradox that sooner or later science will no longer have questions left to answer. Distinguished thinkers thought that such a transcendental moment had already arrived. Of note is the case of physicist Albert Michelson, who in 1894, upon delivering the main address during the dedication of the Ryerson Physical Labo...