Australia's CSIRO is urged to turn back to the future

Is it too late to turn back the clock?

The esteemed health economist, Gavin Mooney, who died in tragic circumstances in December 2012, devoted his last book The Health of Nations: Towards a New Political Economy to exposing the pernicious effects of neoliberalism on healthcare. He argued compellingly that the consequences of ‘neoliberalism’ – in his usage, the reliance on market mechanisms to address all the needs of a society in th...

Tilt back to turn left

Tilt back to turn left perating an eggbeater vertically creates a vortex, but a slight tilt makes fluid move across a bowl. now claim that a similar backward tilting of mouse cilia may create a flow that defines the left side of the embryo. Flow had already been established as a determinant of left–right asymmetry, at least in mice. Leftwards flow is created by a group of ‫ف‬ 30 cilia in the mo...

Back to the Future: Past, Present, and Future is COPD360.

The treatment and management of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) have gone through significant changes over the past decade. This plenary session, part of the 2015 COPD9USA conference, examines how the diagnosis and management of COPD has become more individualized as new phenotypes have been identified. In addition, new diagnostic and management tools are evaluated and the importan...

Zambia : Back to the future ?

Back to the Evolutionary Future

Many books on evolution focus on the distant past or the present. Very few authors addressing a lay audience present what evolutionary changes may look like in the future. Coker has done so in this popular science book intended for a general audience. Basing the text on his similarly named course given at Elon University, the author provides a fascinating account of diverse aspects of evolution...