Being True to Our Own Imaginations

Ancestor to Call Our Own

Controversial new fossils could bring scientists closer than ever to the origin of humanity POITIERS, FRANCE—Michel Brunet removes the cracked, brown skull from its padlocked, foam-lined metal carrying case and carefully places it on the desk in front of me. It is about the size of a coconut, with a slight snout and a thick brow visoring its stony sockets. To my inexpert eye, the face is at onc...

Staying true to our roots

JEM © The Rockefeller University Press $15.00 Vol. 204, No. 1, January 22, 2007 1–2 www.jem.org/cgi/doi/10.1084/jem.20070030 1 In high school, well-rounded students are often labeled according to their most apparent skills. Other talents— the smart kid’s tennis prowess or the athlete’s straight As in chemistry—are often overlooked. Likewise, The Journal of Experimental Medicine is considered by...

Making Our Own Luck

QuickCheck-style property-based random testing [4] requires efficient generators for well-distributed random data satisfying complex logical predicates. Writing such generators by hand can be difficult and error prone. We propose a domain-specific language, Luck, in which generators are expressed by decorating predicates with lightweight annotations controlling both the distribution of generate...

Casting the net broader to confirm our imaginations: the long road to treating wasting disorders

Wasting embraces muscle and tissue wasting in sarcopenia and cachexia. This article describes recent advances in the field published in the Journal of Cachexia, Sarcopenia and Muscle concerning diagnostic tools, biomarker development, pathophysiology, and treatment. Studies discussed herein embrace those on sarcopenia and cachexia in heart failure, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and can...

Do we own our bodies?