A marriage of convenience or necessity?

Public private partnerships: a marriage of necessity.

Harnessing the unprecedented flexibility that iPSC technology and gene editing offer academic and industry-based researchers requires developing an interactive model of collaboration. Such a model will have to leverage the basic research expertise in academia with the pharmaceutical industry's knowledge in manufacturing and high throughput technology to be successful.

Strategic Alliances – A Marriage of Convenience or a Matter of Trust?

P2P and Cloud: A Marriage of Convenience for Replica Management

P2P and cloud computing are two of the latest trend in the Internet arena. They could both be labeled as “large-scale distributed systems”, yet their approach is completely different: based on completely decentralized protocols exploiting edge resources the former, focusing on huge data centers the latter. Several Internet startups have quickly reached stardom by exploiting cloud resources, unl...

Revision of Iranian pharmacy education, an idea or a necessity?

Human resources development in society or organization is a necessity to secure progress. Without such development societies or organizations fail to achieve their objectives. Human resources development is a three-stage measure to meet the requirements of each society or organization. These three stages are: a) planning and programming: at this stage qualitative and quantitative needs are dete...

“To be or not to be” for PET in rheumatology. A marriage of love or of convenience?

The mechanisms responsible for the development and course of rheumatic diseases are not yet fully explained. Molecular imaging is one of the tools used to investigate them, with nuclear medicine being its prominent part. Unlike computed tomography (CT), ultrasonography (USG), or magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), which reveal only structural disorders, radioisotope imaging enables us to present ...