Weekly Insulin Becoming a Reality

A vision becoming reality.

Non-animal science in toxicology and health research has been progressing for decades, but only now is it being seen widely as advanced science. The emergence of novel human biology-based tools and models, combined with legislative and regulatory change, a 21st century concept for toxicology, continuing failures in the drug pipeline, and systematic critiques of animal models, have created a piv...

Memristive synapses are becoming reality

A synapse is essentially a programmable wire used to connect groups of neurons together. The human brain possesses approximately 10 billion neurons, each of which has direct synaptic connections to approximately 10,000 neurons. Neuromorphic computers aimed at mimicking biological computation, and which have numbers of neurons and synapses approaching biological scale, can be modeled with superc...

Portable Informaticm — Is the Dream Becoming a Reality?

Number16 In 1945, Vannevar Bush wrote an article in the A t[antic Mon(h/y which has become a classic in information science. Bush, who helped pioneer computer science, called on American scientists to redirect their war research efforts toward the problems of peace. Encouraged by science's advances in controlling the material environment, Bush was optimistic that the same ingenuity could be app...

Becoming Teachers, Becoming Researchers: a Case Study

This paper presents a case study of a group in initial primary teacher education students becoming researchers of their peers’ course experiences of school – university links. The connection between university teacher preparation programmes and work in school is a well-researched area with suggestions that there is a marked disconnect between the two. The project took an emergent approach to le...

Clinical trial registries becoming a reality, but long-term effects remain uncertain.