How I got into orthopaedics

How I got over the Christmas flu.

How microbial proteomics got started.

Publication in 1975 by Patrick O'Farrell of a procedure to separate the proteins of Escherichia coli in a two-dimensional array on polyacrylamide gels marked the birth of the field now called proteomics. Although O'Farrell's contribution was soon to have wide ranging effects on research in many fields, the initial impact was greatest in the arena of whole cell physiology. Refinements and amplif...

Online prescribing. How one doctor got caught.

Last fall, Arizona's medical board found general surgeon Darryl J. Mohr guilty of "unprofessional conduct" for approving online orders for Viagra and other drugs without examining or having direct contact with the buyers. In addition to ending Mohr's thriving online practice, the case reveals a growing gap between Internet and traditional medicine, and the inadequacy of current methods for moni...

Neurons that Remember How We Got There

In this issue of Neuron, Daie et al. (2015) show that the eye velocity-to-position neural integrator not only encodes the position, but also how it was reached. Representing content and context in the same neuronal population may form a general coding principle.

How the zebrafish got its stripes

H ow the zebra got its stripes is a frequent topic in popular literature about the natural world. For developmental biologists, however, it is much easier to study the biology of pattern formation in zebrafish, where the tools of experimental embryology and genetics have proved to be very useful. Now, in eLife, David Parichy from the University of Washington and coworkers – including Dae Seok E...