Massachusetts pours money into local life sciences research

Money and Inflation in Coonial Massachusetts

Money and Inflation in Colonial Massachusetts

This article argues that the quantity theory of money is not supported by the evidence. Contrary to the quantity theory, the article says, the value of money depends primarily on how carefully it is backed. That is, the rate of inflation depends more on underlying fiscal policies than on rates of money growth. The evidence for this argument comes from a close look at the way in which the colony...

NIBLSE: A Network for Integrating Bioinformatics into Life Sciences Education

*Department of Biology, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA 92182; †Department of Biology, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 63130; ‡Department of Teacher Education, ¶Department of Biology, and @School of Interdisciplinary Informatics, University of Nebraska at Omaha, Omaha, NE 68182; §Department of Biology, College of Wooster, Wooster, OH 44691; ||Department of Biology, G...

The oblique perspective: philosophical diagnostics of contemporary life sciences research

This paper indicates how continental philosophy may contribute to a diagnostics of contemporary life sciences research, as part of a "diagnostics of the present" (envisioned by continental thinkers, from Hegel up to Foucault). First, I describe (as a "practicing" philosopher) various options for an oblique (or symptomatic) reading of emerging scientific discourse, bent on uncovering the basic "...

Recent developments in life sciences research: Role of bioinformatics

Life sciences research and development has opened up new challenges and opportunities for bioinformatics. The contribution of bioinformatics advances made possible the mapping of the entire human genome and genomes of many other organisms in just over a decade. These discoveries, along with current efforts to determine gene and protein functions, have improved our ability to understand the root...