This editorial article argues for No Borders as a practical political project . We first critically examine borders as ideological, generating and reinforcing inequality . We consider some responses to injustices produced by borders: the call for “human rights”; attempts to make immigration controls more “humanitarian”; and trade unions’ organizing and campaigning with undocumented workers . Re...

Mentors without Borders is a proposed international mentoring network that allows trainee geneticists to identify mentors from a list of volunteers who are not at one's own institution. It is an experiment, a matchmaker between a junior and a senior professional. These mentors do not replace the mentors at the home institution but allow the mentee, if desired, to identify mentors outside of the...

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.

science of the nature” or (in a translation first used in 1615) as the “science of the normal function of living things.” It is selfevident that a “physiological” approach cannot be overly focused. As a modern science, physiology also can no longer be defined by particular methods or techniques that are employed only in this discipline. Nevertheless, physiology is a selfstanding discipline that...