In 1802 Gottfried Reinhold Treviranus announced the birth of a new scientific discipline. He called it “biology,” the science whose aim was to determine the conditions and laws under which the different forms of life exist and their causes. Treviranus was not alone in forging the outlines of the new science of life. He was in fact consciously synthesizing discussions that had been going on for ...

Our review (Coen and Carpenter, 1993) describes how both the similarities and differences between flowers and shoots can be explained by the action of a set of genes modifying a common growth plan. This does not imply that flowers and shoots are directly derived from one another or that they serve the same function or that they express all of the same genes. We would also like to point out that...

1Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatics, and Psychotherapy, Goethe-University, Frankfurt/M, Germany; 2Department of Women’s and Children’s Health, Center of Neurodevelopmental Disorders (KIND), Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden; 3Department of Psychiatry, Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy, Goethe-University, Frankfurt/M, Germany; 4Psychiatric University Clinics, Uni...

Nonpolyposis Colorectal Cancer Using Base Excision Sequence Scanning Analysis, Angela Brieger, Jörg Trojan, Jochen Raedle, W. Kurt Roth, and Stefan Zeuzem ( Medizinische Klinik II, Klinikum der Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität and 2 Blutspendedienst Hessen, D-60590 Frankfurt a.M., Germany; * address correspondence to this author at: Medizinische Klinik II, Zentrum der Inneren Medizin, Kliniku...

1 FB Biologie und Informatik, Goethe-Universität, 60054 Frankfurt am Main, Germany, [email protected] 2 Department of Mathematics, University of Idaho, P.O. Box 441103. Moscow, ID 83844-1103, USA, [email protected] 3 FB Mathematik, Goethe-Universität, 60054 Frankfurt am Main, Germany, [email protected] 4 Bioinformatik, Heinrich-Heine-Universität, 40225 Düsseldor...

Research Article Christoph Rosenkranz University of Cologne, Goethe University [email protected]