When global science meets local legality: Deliberating and regulating forensic genetics

Forensic Science International: Genetics

X chromosome short-tandem repeats (X-STR) assays are helpful in complex kinship testing cases where autosomal and Y chromosome analyses convey little information. Their application has distinct advantages in mother-son and father-daughter kinship testing. Paternal relatives can be tested even in cases of deficiency paternity [1]. The purpose of this study was to create an allele frequency datab...

When Science Meets Religion

When global environmentalism meets local livelihoods: policy and management lessons

Creation of national parks often imposes immediate livelihood costs on local people, and tensions between park managers and local people are common. Park managers have tried different approaches to managing relationships with local people, but nearly all include efforts to promote environmental values and behaviors. These efforts have had uneven results, and there is a need to improve our under...

Animal clocks: when science meets nature.

Daily rhythms of physiology and behaviour are governed by an endogenous timekeeping mechanism (a circadian 'clock'), with the alternation of environmental light and darkness synchronizing (entraining) these rhythms to the natural day-night cycle. Our knowledge of the circadian system of animals at the molecular, cellular, tissue and organismal levels is remarkable, and we are beginning to under...

BEZ235: When Promising Science Meets Clinical Reality

In the July 2016 issue of The Oncologist, Carlo et al. report the results of a phase I clinical trial [1] of BEZ235 in patients with advancedrenal cell carcinoma(RCC).BEZ235 isadualpan-class PI3K and mTOR inhibitor currently undergoing phase I/II clinical trials as a single agent or in combination in solid tumors and hematologic malignancies. The authors are to be congratulated for reportingthe...