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Darwin anniversaries come home

It was an event one hundred years ago: the centenary of Charles Darwin's birth was marked widely, no more so than by one of Germany's most famous biologists, Ernst Haeckel. He delivered an address at the University of Jena celebrating Darwin as one of the last events before he retired. Another century on and many institutions worldwide have celebrations under way this year to mark 200 years sin...

You can come home again.

Patton, M

Perhaps nothing better captures the difference between quantitative and qualitative methods than the different logics that undergird sampling approaches. Qualitative inquiry typically focuses in depth on relatively small samples, even single cases (n = 1), selected purposefully. Quantitative methods typically depend on larger samples selected randomly. Not only are the techniques for sampling d...

Ralph Steinman: Dendritic cells bring home the Lasker

Ralph Steinman is perhaps best known as a codiscoverer of dendritic cells (DCs) and as a founding father of the research area that these cells have spawned. For his discovery, Steinman was recently awarded the 2007 Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research. Yet the man behind the research holds his praise for the many other scientists-in the U.S. and abroad-who have further advanced the th...

The chickens come home to roost.

As the number of human deaths from avian influenza grows and as the disease spreads geographically , fears of a 21st century influenza epidemic or pandemic mount. Even if the disease does not reach epidemic proportions imminently, the fears are nonetheless well-founded. Induc-tive reasoning leads to the conclusion that an influenza epidemic will arise, as such epidemics have arisen many times b...