A Note on Originality, Editorial Courage and Our Latest Prize Winner

2005 MLA Sheep Prize Winner

Routine husbandry procedures, such as castration and tail docking, are known to induce pain and distress in lambs (Grant, 2004; Kent et al., 2001). This raises important welfare concerns and has attracted debate on the acceptability of such practices. The most common method of castration and tail docking involves the application of a rubber ring to the scrotum or tail, usually without anesthesi...

JCS Prize. 2013 winner: Liam Cheeseman.

We are pleased to announce that the winner of the 2013 JCS prize is Liam Cheeseman for his paper entitled ‘Specific removal of TACC3–ch-TOG–clathrin at metaphase deregulates kinetochore fiber tension’ (Cheeseman et al., 2013). The prize, $1000, is awarded annually to a junior researcher who is the first author of the paper that is judged by the Editors and Editorial Board to be the best eligibl...

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