Oral Anticoagulant Therapy—When Art Meets Science

Art meets science?

What’s the best thing about HHMI funding? There's lots of it. The annual HHMI budget was $330 million in 1994, of which about 80 % was spent on the 227 HHMI investigators. For those who need lots of money for mice or equipment, HHMI funding can be the answer to a prayer. And HHMI, unlike most other funding bodies, does not discourage long-term, risky research or projects with little obvious rel...

Museum laboratories: where art meets science.

Jitter separation: Where science meets art

In an ideal world, rise and fall times would be infinitely fast and every edge of a digital stream would consistently fall the exact same time away from the last. The end result would be no jitter, no wiggling, and no eyes diagrams that suffer from being closed or close to closed. Unfortunately it is not a perfect world, and what once was conceived as an infinitely fast edge, becomes slower as ...

Diagnosis of loss of consciousness: When art meets science

Some aspects of neurological care require as much art as science, and this can apply to diagnosis, provision of long-term care, and in tailoring medication to individuals. Transient loss of consciousness (t-LOC) is a common medical complaint, and eliciting the cause of such events is an important and sometimes demanding task. The difficulties in t-LOC diagnosis are increased by the usually inco...

Art meets science: The Cosmopolitan Chicken Research Project

The Cosmopolitan Chicken Project is an artistic undertaking of renowned artist Koen Vanmechelen. In this project, the artist interbreeds domestic chickens from different countries aiming at the creation of a true Cosmopolitan Chicken as a symbol for global diversity. The unifying theme is the chicken and the egg, symbols that link scientific, political, philosophical and ethical issues. The Cos...