‘I remember standing with Bob Horvitz at the window of the old lecture room a year or so after we moved to Hinxton, looking at the enormous hole in the ground that was to be our new building. “John,” he asked me, “do you really know what you are doing?”’ Thus Sulston recalls one moment in the huge shift from being a researcher on the genetics and development of the worm Caenorhabditis elegans a...

An infectious agent new to Brazil arrived in our country in 2015, to cause significant social impact and uproar in the scientific community in the areas of human health and reproduction. The Zika virus, detected in past decades in Africa and Southeast Asia, first appeared in the Brazilian Northeast in October of the said year, primarily in the State of Pernambuco, where 25.9% of the suspected c...

Shareholder delegation of the power to fire the CEO to the board of directors is central to corporate governance. While the board ideally acts as desired by shareholders, board entrenchment may insulate a poorly performing manager from shareholders agitating for her removal. The conventional ‘costly firing’ model of managerial entrenchment views this protection from shareholders as purely negat...

We lost a beloved scholar, mentor, and environmental justice warrior when Steve Wing passed away on 9 November 2016. He was at home with his family in Pittsboro, North Carolina. Steve was an epidemiologist who studied topics that other scientists wouldn’t touch, and he did so in collaboration with the people most affected. He documented the health impacts of landfills, industrial-scale livestoc...

Girls and boys who celebrate their 15th birthday this year have never known a world without AIDS. In 1986 WHO began work on a global strategy for dealing with the new pandemic, but this was not universally perceived as a sound public health policy commitment. Many saw it as a diversion of health resources from more urgent problems, such as high childhood mortality rates caused by preventable in...

Previous articleNext article FreeThe Incalculable: Thoughts on the Collapse of Biosecurity RegimeLydia H. LiuLydia Liu Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMore26 May 2020It makes a world difference where novel coronavirus travels. For first time...

My heartfelt thanks to the editors for inviting me participate in this special issue. I am humbled by invitation and doubly pleased share my thoughts. was given freedom respond via interview or written text; latter suits best. have a tone hoping convey way an may occurred as consider framing of call few queries posed conversation. US-based scholar, thus while extending conversation globally, re...

This is the first of three articles covering the development of drug metabolism research in the United States during the first 100 years of the American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics (ASPET). Before 1909, the majority of drug metabolism research was performed in Europe. The period from 1909 to 1958 saw extensive development of the methods required for modern metabolism ...

Amidst a larger surge in the number of books and periodicals published in late-nineteenth-century Britain, a corresponding surge occurred in the radical press. The counter-cultural press that emerged at the fin de siècle sought to define itself in opposition to commercial print and the capitalist press and was deeply antagonistic to existing political, economic, and print publishing structures....

This paper challenges two main arguments often presented to show that cloning a human being would be morally wrong per se. These arguments are that human cloning would be intrinsically wrong 1) because it involves manufacturing a person rather than creating or reproducing one, and 2) because it violates some claim or right that individuals have to be biologically unique. I argue that while clon...