Nancy Witty In 2002, the International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR)was established toprovide forums for the exchange of information and ideas relating to stem cells, to strengthen global communication and collaboration between scientists, and to drive forward the field of stem cell research and its applications to medicine. Last year, the ISSCR entered its second decade and celebrated...

One of Europe’s rarest small mammals — the flying squirrel — has been given a boost to save it from extinction, sparing the Finnish government from legal action by the European Commission. The Finnish government has changed its law to protect the squirrels and paid out one million euros in compensation to about 400 farmers and landowners who have to curb normal activities for the squirrels’ saf...

Lately, it feels like I'm making my own giant leap. I've spent the past decade building up academic credentials, doing all the things a scientist needs to do to land a faculty appointment. I've published frequently in good journals, more each year. I've landed competitive funding from respected sources and built a research program that involves postgraduates. I've taught several classes and men...

study of the works of rumi and kierkegaard shows that both thinkers in some principles like faith and morality, faith and leap, and also in relation between devil and faith, and destiny and faith, come to a common point. both of them believe that human’s duty is to surrender to god’s will, and the devil is an obstacle against faith. they also put emphasize on the matter of leap in faith. moreov...

This paper proposes an efficient pattern extraction algorithm that can be applied on melodic sequences that are represented as strings of abstract intervallic symbols; the melodic representation introduces special “don’t care” symbols for intervals that may belong to two partially overlapping intervallic categories. As a special case the well established “step-leap” representation is examined. ...

Two iterative methods are considered, Richardson's method and a general second order method. For both methods, a variant of the method is _ derived for which only even numbered iterates are computed. The variant is called a leapfrog method. Comparisons between the conventional form of the methods and the leapfrog form are made under the assumption that the number of unknowns is large. In the ca...

Two experimental quantum computers tackle the most complex problems yet, suggesting an end to debate on whether “primacy”—the point at which a computer outperforms best possible classical computer—can be reached.