Baptism by History

Uveal Melanoma: Beyond a Baptism

Ophthalmologists focus on a very specialized region of the body; however, our years of general medical training are useful for patients, especially those with uveal melanoma. While hereditary uveal melanoma (UM) is very rare (<1% of uveal melanomas) [1], patients with a high frequency of personal and/or family history of cancer are found inabout 12% of unselected patients with UM [2]. The incre...

The Origin and Meaning of Baptism

Baptism of fire of a Web-based design assistant

DYNAMO – a Dynamic Architectural Memory On-line – is a Web-based design assistant to support architectural design education. The tool is conceived as an (inter-)active workhouse rather than a passive warehouse: it is interactively developed by and actively develops its users' design knowledge. Its most important feature is not merely that it presents students with design cases, but that those c...

[Baptism out of necessity--a medico-historiografic view].

Baptism of necessity of life-threatened newborns was proclaimed by church law and related midwifery regulations from the second half of the 16th century. Midwives were for centuries the only lay persons attending the pregnant woman, parturient woman and newborn, so they were obliged to baptize newborns with life-threatening conditions, which were rather common and associated with high mortality...

In vivo birthdating by BAPTISM reveals that trigeminal sensory neuron diversity depends on early neurogenesis.

Among sensory systems, the somatic sense is exceptional in its ability to detect a wide range of chemical, mechanical and thermal stimuli. How this sensory diversity is established during development remains largely elusive. We devised a method (BAPTISM) that uses the photoconvertible fluorescent protein Kaede to simultaneously analyze birthdate and cell fate in live zebrafish embryos. We found...