Why a ban on embryo research would be a tragedy.

Defining embryo death would permit important research.

President Bush and many other opponents of using human embryos created by cloning or in vitro fertilization to produce stem cells for research hold an essentialist view: They think that a person's life begins as soon as the potential for a human being exists; thus, an embryo is simply a person who hasn't yet been born. Many proponents of using embryos for research take a more existential view: ...

What are Altmetrics and why would anyone be interested?

Go to the landing page of Nursing Open and click on an issue and then on an article and above the tabs that take you to the content of the article you will see a coloured indicator labelled ‘AM score’ and, in some cases, a number next to it. That number is the Altmetric score; Altmetrics being a contraction of ‘alternative metrics’. This score indicates the extent to which the article has recei...

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The buffalo that would be a tiger

What is it like doing science in India? Let me make the operating rules clear before I answer. Every question about India has two ‘correct’ answers which say exactly opposite things. Furthermore, each of the one billion Indians will disagree with one another and with what any outsider has to say about India. Being a scientist in India is wonderful. Really. Every good grant proposal gets funded....