Linnaeus lives on

Children's lives on the border.

Prolonged fear can have deleterious effects on the trajectory of a child’s health and can be considered “toxic stress.” Hundreds of thousands of Hispanic children living along the Texas-Mexico border are exposed to fear and discrimination on a daily basis. The authors have 35 years combined experience advocating for such children. Dr Son, a professor of pediatrics in the Division of Critical Ca...

Flies' lives on a crab

with age but is upregulated by monocular deprivation during the critical period. It appears that tPA is a permissive factor in cortical plasticity, but it does not determine whether new synapses will be formed or existing ones eliminated — this might instead depend on local levels of pre-and postsynaptic activity. The most significant structural changes in the cortex towards the end of the crit...

Linnaeus: alive and well

C arl Linné, more widely known as Carolus Linnaeus, died in 1778 but his spirit lives on in the many classification systems he developed, as well as in a more recent Swedish innovation, the Linnaeus Database (1), a major contributor to an understanding of ageing from a life course perspective. Linnaeus is widely regarded as the founder of modern taxonomy, responsible (in 1735) for introducing t...

Bonnet Macaques : Evolutionary Perspectives on Females ’ Lives

Ken Moser Lives on at UCSD