A Tribute to Mauro Arruda - "A genius of surgery who will be remembered forever"

A tribute to a deceased genius

Science and Technology (KAIST). The reason for its extraordinariness was not the symposium theme 'Emerging Biomaterials', nor the reputed scientific speakers from around the world, but the commemoration of a respected scholar who had committed suicide a year ago. Professor Tae Gwan Park was a prominent master and mentor of bioma-Engineering in 1980, he earned his doctorate from the Department o...

Who will we be?: JAMA surgery !

T HE ARCHIVES OF SURGERY WILL BE OFFIcially renamed JAMA Surgery, beginning January 1, 2013; the other 8 Archives journals will be renamed similarly for their specialties. When I discussed this with the new JAMA editor, Howard Bauchner, MD, I was excited about the new name. We are uniquely linked to JAMA and this name change will broadcast that association even more vividly. The Archives of Sur...

Who wants to live forever?

For millennia, human civilization has been fascinated with overcoming death. Immortality, eternal youth or at least the prospect of reaching biblical age have had a strong lure for religion, art and popular beliefs. Life after death, which is, in essence, eternal life, is the one central element of nearly all religions since Ancient Egypt. If we believe the Old Testament, some of the patriarchs...

A Tribute to Late Professor Mahlagha Ghorbanli

This edition of IJPP celebrates ten years of steady publication of Iranian Journal of Plant Physiology. The story of IJPP is that of a journey that started from a local forum where the researchers and scholars mainly from the Islamic Azad University could share findings of their studies, gradually developing into an international peer-reviewed jour...

Who amongst us will be selected?