Looking back at 2018 and ahead to 2019: Royal Society of Biology News

Edna at 15: looking back and looking ahead.

continuing this treatment contrasts with good comfort care at the end of life.3-5 Research since Edna shows that medically supplied nutrition and hydration does not improve survival among patients with advanced dementia, and increases the risks of aspiration, pneumonia, and gastrointestinal discomfort.6-10 Since the Nancy Cruzan and Terri Schiavo cases in the 1990s, many medical organizations h...

Requirements Engineering at Age 20: Looking Back, Looking Ahead

The panelists will look back at the progress in requirements engineering since its emergence as a fullfledged sub-discipline of software engineering in 1976.. This was primarily marked by a set of special sessions on software requirements engineering at ICSE 2 in October, 1976, followed by the publication of some of the key ICSE 2 papers in the January 1977 IEEE Transactions on Software Enginee...

Tobacco quitlines: looking back and looking ahead.

Telephone based tobacco cessation services, or quitlines, have become central components of many comprehensive tobacco control programmes. This paper provides an overview of their history, noting milestones in the growth of quitlines. Key factors in their worldwide adoption were solid evidence from clinical trials with large community samples and strong backing from public health officials. Qui...

Disabilities: looking back and looking ahead.

Neoepitopes of Cancers: Looking Back, Looking Ahead.

The search for specificity in cancers has been a holy grail in cancer immunology. Cancer geneticists have long known that cancers harbor transforming and other mutations. Immunologists have long known that inbred mice can be immunized against syngeneic cancers, indicating the existence of cancer-specific antigens. With the technological advances in high-throughput DNA sequencing and bioinformat...