Palaeontology: The new mother lode

Palaeontology: The New Conservative

Cambrian Orsten-type fossils have yielded specimens with a uniquely detailed morphology from the early stages of animal evolution. A newly discovered crustacean larva illustrates how morphology and lifestyle over half a billion years ago closely resembled those of extant relatives.

The mother lode of liver transplantation, with particular reference to our new journal.

From mother duck to mother lode: clinical education for deep learning.

this lovely mixed metaphor had its origins in a recent presentation by Vicky Niederhauser (2009), who described the need to shift from the longstanding “mother duck” model of clinical education and humorously portrayed the great risks to the “baby-duckling” nursing students as their mother-duck faculty member attempts to lead them through a clinical day. and the “mother lode?” that refers to th...

Coronary sinus in the management of functional mitral regurgitation: the mother lode or fool's gold?

The past 5 years have seen the introduction into the preclinical arena of myriad devices for the potential treatment of functional and ischemic mitral regurgitation by a percutaneous approach.1 A number of the device concepts have taken advantage of the relatively easy access to the posterior annulus of the mitral valve provided by the coronary sinus. Although attractive on initial consideratio...

Molecular Palaeontology

In the broadest possible sense, molecular palaeontology might encompass any and all chemical traces left by onceliving organismsorby their life processes.Thiswould cover fields ranging from isotope geochemistry and biomineralization to molecular biology. However, in a more restricted sense, molecular palaeontology is the study of complex organic molecules made by once-living organisms. In some ...