There's More Than One Path to Womanhood

simultaneous submission of a manuscript to more than one journal

More than one abortion.

©FFPRHC J Fam Plann Reprod Health Care 2007: 33(3) Introduction The terms ‘repeat abortion’ and ‘repeat aborter’ appear in the scientific literature from the early 1970s onwards. To begin with, the pejorative term ‘abortion recidivism’ was used by some.1 The initial concern appeared to be that women might be using abortion instead of contraception as a means of fertility control, with connotati...

More than One Adam?

From Marco Polo to Richard Nixon, narratives of the encounter between Chinese and Westerners have been defining texts of European cultures and their descendants. Successive but sporadic reports from travellers, missionaries, diplomats, traders and others have provided a model of an alternative way of arranging people, of organizing their lives, of thinking about the state of being human; one th...

More than one way to attach

ow cells connect to each other and to the extracellular matrix (ECM) was a sticky issue in the early 1980s. Integrins, molecules that hook the cy-toskeleton to ECM proteins such as collagen and fibronectin, hadn't been discovered, but evidence for a link between external and internal fibers was mounting. For example, Irwin Singer (1979) observed that extra-cellular fibronectin molecules closely...

More than one way to go.

D ramatic changes accompany the death of cells. Attempts to align these changes into cognate groups and identify the mechanisms responsible for them have led to substantial and sometimes surprising insights into cell biology. One such constellation of structural and functional changes is associated with apoptosis (a death process found in development, atrophy, the targets of cell killing by the...