Indeed, ‘they do things differently there’

Ruth Lehmann: Germ cells do things differently

I n most organisms, germ cells are set aside from somatic cells early in development. How are germ cells programmed for their developmental destiny and for germ line–specifi c behaviors such as meiosis? These are questions Ruth Lehmann wants to answer. Working in Drosophila, Lehmann has made many seminal discoveries in the fi eld of developmental biology. Early on, her work on maternal effect g...

How do they, indeed? A reply to Biegler et al.

Biocompatible peritoneal dialysis solutions: do they indeed affect the outcome?

Numerous studies have confirmed beneficial effects of polyglucose dialysis solution (PG-DS), an amino acid dialysis solution (AA-DS), and bicarbonate (bic) or bicarbonate/lactate (bic/lac) buffered solutions on selected components of peritoneal bioavailability or clinical parameters of peritoneal dialysis (PD) patients. Few adverse effects have also been described. A question arises whether the...

Why We Do Things Differently: Leaders and Followers?

Universal Grammar and Chaos/Complexity Theory: Where Do They Meet And Where Do They Cross?

  Abstract The present study begins by sketching "Chaos/Complexity Theory" (C/CT) and its applica-tion to the nature of language and language acquisition. Then, the theory of "Universal Grammar" (UG) is explicated with an eye to C/CT. Firstly, it is revealed that CCT may or may not be allied with a theory of language acquisition that takes UG as the initial state of language acquisition for ...