A recent essay in CBE—Life Sciences Education criticized biology education researchers’ use of the term misconceptions and recommended that, in order to be up-to-date with education research, biology education researchers should use alternative terms for students’ incorrect ideas in science. We counter that criticism by reviewing the continued use and the meaning of misconceptions in education ...

Enrico Coen CBE FRS is a Project Leader at the John Innes Centre in Norwich, UK, who uses a variety of approaches to study patterning and morphogenesis in plants. We met with Enrico at the Spring Meeting of the British Society for Developmental Biology, where he was awarded the Waddington Medal, to ask him more about his career and his passion for art and book-writing.

1James Kwan, MBBS, BSc(Hons), MMed(ClinEpi), MRCSEd, FACEM, FCEM, University of Western Sydney, Sydney, Australia 2Cherri Hobgood, MD, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA 3Venkataraman Anantharaman, MBBS (S’pore), FRCP (Edin), FRCS Ed (A&E), FAMS, FIFEM, Singapore General Hospital, Singapore, Singapore 4Glen Bandiera, BASc, MD, MEd, FRCPC, St. Michael's Hospital, U...

CBE is pleased to launch a new feature called Points of View (POV). POVs address issues faced by many people within the life sciences education realm. We will present two or more opposing POVs back-to-back on a particular topic to promote discussion on the selected topic. Readers are encouraged to participate in the online discussion forum hosted by CBE at www.cellbioed.org/discussion/public/ma...

The Academy welcomes the opportunity to respond to the request for detailed evidence. This response was prepared by a working group chaired by Professor Peter Lachmann FRS PMedSci. The other members were Professor Peter Biggs CBE FRS FMedSci, Sir Leszek Borysiewicz FMedSci, Professor Lance Lanyon CBE FMedSci, Professor Geoffrey Smith FMedSci. Issues of particular relevance to the Academy have b...

Both the disciplines of biology and of science education have undergone a revolution. The major focus of the biological sciences—understanding life—remains unchanged, but breakthrough discoveries of the second half of the 20th century have changed the basic nature of the questions asked, whereas new and emerging technologies are changing the ways key questions are addressed (National Research C...

BACKGROUND Although early detection of breast and cervical cancer is one of the most effective means of assuring timely treatment and survival, the cultural hypothesis proposes that traditional norms, values, and beliefs deter Latinas from being screened. PURPOSE We assessed whether acculturation is associated with Latinas' receipt of a recent mammogram, clinical breast examination (CBE), and...

In a recent publication in CBE—Life Sciences Education, Woodin et al. (2010) summarized the findings and recommendations of a range of meetings and reports that addressed the changing needs of biology undergraduate education in the United States. Here in the United Kingdom, members of the community supported by the UK Centre for Bioscience are very familiar with many of the issues raised in thi...

Organizational culture is the main contextual factor that both directly and indirectly affects knowledge sharing among employees. There is no empirical research so far conducted on organizational culture of CBE that can inform selection of appropriate solutions from existing theoretical research. Our investigation found that risk avoidance is a key dimension of organizational culture that promo...

This review describes the life of Sir John Cornforth AC CBE FRS, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1975. It covers his early life in Australia, his work in Oxford, the National Institute for Medical Research, the Milstead Laboratory of Chemical Enzymology and the University of Sussex, together with the contributions made by his wife, Lady Rita Cornforth.