Clinic Conundrum

THE CONUNDRUM OF EUTHANASIA

Crop conundrum.

The lead review “Risk assessment of genetically modified crops for nutrition and health” by Magaña-Gómez and Calderon de la Barca,1 ends with a common plea: “more research is needed”. It is valid to put both this plea and the justification for other similar research into perspective. How selective are the reviews that lead to the conclusion that more of such research is needed?What comparators ...

Cancer Conundrum

The main event is when physiologic EMT is seen in gastrulation; formation and migration of neural crest cells.[3] The progression of EMT is further classified into primary (1°), secondary (2°) and tertiary (3°) EMT,[2] depending on the number or sequential sweeps of EMT and mesenchymal‐epithelial transition (MET).[2] MET signifies the conversion of the mesenchymal phenotype back into the epithe...

Conservation conundrum.

Impact Factor Conundrum

Nobody envisioned in 1955, when Eugene Garfield introduced the concept of impact factor (IF) as ametric tomeasure the average number of citations published in a particular scientific journal (Garfield 1955), that this simple mathematically based idea would eventually be completely blown out of proportion. For those unfamiliar with the terminology, the definition of IF for a specific journal is ...