It’s an Interesting MOF, but Is It Stable?

An innovation , but is it better ? Andrew

In this study, Sandrio et al. [1] describe their experience with an intraluminal band placed in the main pulmonary artery (PA) in 32 patients over an 8-year period, and advocate its use as optimal palliation for children requiring control of excessive pulmonary artery flow. The technique in itself is not new; Piluiko et al. [2] and Locker et al. [3] both described an identical procedure to the ...

Obestatin: an interesting but controversial gut hormone.

Obestatin is a 23-amino acid peptide hormone released from the stomach and is present not only in the gastrointestinal tract, but also in the spleen, mammary gland, breast milk and plasma. Obestatin appears to function as part of a complex gut-brain network whereby hormones and substances from the stomach and intestines signal the brain about satiety or hunger. In contrast to ghrelin, which cau...

But Is It Phenomenology?

But is it art?

It was in an evening class for painting that developmental biologist Enrico Coen began to think about the parallels between the genetic control of development and an artist’s design of a picture. When Coen’s teacher found him staring at a blank piece of canvas, Coen complained that he had no idea how to start. The teacher suggested he should begin by depicting the objects on the table with some...

But is it science?

Early years science education is not science, but a curricular construction designed to induct young children into a range of ideas and practices related to the natural world. While inquiry-based learning is an important approach to this, it is not of itself unique to science and there are a range of logico-mathematical constructions that come closer to the essence of science. In this paper we ...