The Death that Brings Life

Mentorship: The Bond that Brings Us Together

By the time you read this, the 37 annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience will be underway, or will have come and gone. This year also marks the 16 anniversary of Faculty for Undergraduate Neuroscience (FUN), the parent organization of JUNE. Like many of you, I look forward to the SfN meeting, not just to learn more about neuroscience and how to teach neuroscience more effectively, but a...

Systems Biology Brings Life Sciences Closer

The China-UK Systems Biology Workshop 2005 was held during June 20–21 in the National Science Park of Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China. It was organized by the Institute of Bioinformatics, Zhejiang University, and was initiated by Prof. Dr. Jun Zhu (Zhejiang University) and Prof. Dr. John Findlay (University of Leeds, UK). The workshop was part of the program called UK-China Partners in Sci...

“the effect of risk aversion on the demand for life insurance: the case of iranian life insurance market”

abstract: about 60% of total premium of insurance industry is pertained?to life policies in the world; while the life insurance total premium in iran is less than 6% of total premium in insurance industry in 2008 (sigma, no 3/2009). among the reasons that discourage the life insurance industry is the problem of adverse selection. adverse selection theory describes a situation where the inf...

Photo Animation Brings Scientists Back to Life in the Classroom†

Nanostructured magnetizable materials that switch cells between life and death.

Development of biochips containing living cells for biodetection, drug screening and tissue engineering applications is limited by a lack of reconfigurable material interfaces and actuators. Here we describe a new class of nanostructured magnetizable materials created with a femtosecond laser surface etching technique that function as multiplexed magnetic field gradient concentrators. When comb...