In failing...[her] when she needed them most, it is now clear that some members of the University’s Faculty of Medicine heard her muffled cries of academic freedom from the back room, yet their response was to serve another round of drinks and turn the music up louder. With the bombshell revelations in the...affair, the plug may have been pulled on this business sponsored party, and hopefully a...

The Canadian Bioethics Society has taken some constructive steps in its attempt to learn from the Olivieri case W e would like to thank the authors and editors of the JME's minisymposium on the Olivieri case in the February 2004 issue of the journal for continuing and extending the dialogue about this important challenge to the North American bioethics community. This minisymposium is of specia...

The primary spermatocytes of Drosophila virilis have been shown to undergo an approximate 300-fold increase in volume and to possess an abundance of ribo somes in the cytoplasm (Ito 1960). These ribosomes are probably involved in the biosynthesis of the various materials needed for this tremendous volumetric increase. Olivieri and Olivieri (1965) have demonstrated that RNA synthesis occurs in s...

Transfusion therapy for inherited anemias and acquired refractory anemias both improves the quality of life and prolongs survival. A consequence of chronic transfusion therapy is secondary iron overload, which adversely affects the function of the heart, the liver and other organs. This session will review the use of iron chelating agents in the management of transfusion-induced secondary iron ...

Flower color variation among plant populations might reflect adaptation to local conditions such as the interacting animal community. In the northwest Iberian Peninsula, flower color of Gentiana lutea varies longitudinally among populations, ranging from orange to yellow. We explored whether flower color is locally adapted and the role of pollinators and seed predators as agents of selection by...