I T HAS BEEN ALMOST 10 years since the viability of the clinician-scientist in ophthalmology was considered in an ARCHIVES editorial. At that time, Epstein opined that many departments of ophthalmology had turned away from supporting clinician-scientists. The economic imperative of increasing patient care activities to compensate for shrinking clinical reimbursements was a central reason, among...

A new database aims to foster partnerships among scientists in the developed and developing world and to coordinate science-based activities to help solve some of the big challenges that the developing world faces.

fantile period, toddler stage, and late childhood and adolescence. For each section there is a description of both the diseases presenting at that age period and a differential diagnosis for the symptoms manifested, such as ataxia, seizures, and dementia. In addition, for each disease there is a concise, readable section detailing the symptomatology in both its classical presentation and its va...

Welcome to the course page for Business Finance for Life Scientists This content is designed provide an overview of financial statements, and basic finance principles used in financial planning and decision making. The goal of this workshop is to help prepare scientists who want to start their own labs, and inform scientists who want to go into industry. This page includes the lecture videos, c...

(This talk is a joint work of Edwin Beggs, José Félix Costa and John V. Tucker.) Consider the classical model of a Turing machine with an oracle. The classical oracle is a one step external consultation device. The oracle may contain either non-computable information, or computable information provided just to speed up the computations of the Turing machine. In this talk we will consider the ab...

The article discusses the publication activity of scientists in the field of studying the consequences of US economic sanctions against Iran, and their impact on the development of science and the economy in this countries. The paper considers the dynamics of publication activity in the field of biomedicine of Iranian scientists over the past 20 years. Increased sanctions have led to a shortage...