Follicular Life, Death, and Perpetuity

Comparison of Quality of Life, Life Satisfaction and Death Anxiety among Intra-Oriented and Outward Elderly

The purpose of this study was to compare the quality of life, life satisfaction, and death anxiety among internally oriented and out-of-home elderly in the home and home of the elderly in Kermanshah in 1396. The statistical population of the study included all elderly people in Kermanshah. A total of 168 people were selected through cluster sampling and elderly residents of the elderly in an ac...

Frozen in perpetuity: ‘abandoned embryos’ in Canada

The matter of ‘abandoned embryos’ arises when surplus IVF embryos are frozen and stored for later use. If the fertility clinic or storage facility in question does not have clear direction about what to do with these embryos, and/or payment for storage ceases, and/or the embryo providers cannot be reached, the embryos raise an ethical and practical challenge. On the one hand, there is a commitm...

Relitigating life and death.

Life, Death, and Intelligence

Worms, Life and Death

I never expected to spend most of my life studying worms. However, when it came time for me to choose an area for my postdoctoral research, I was intrigued both with the problems of neurobiology and with the approaches of genetics. Having heard that a new “genetic organism” with a remarkably simple nervous system was being explored by Sydney Brenner – the microscopic soil nematode Caenorhabditi...