Shepard's mirrors or Simon's scissors?

Visualizing the Results of Shepards CiteFinder

In this paper, we describe the process we undertook to design an interactive visualization for a data set created by the Shepard’s CiteFinder legal search engine.

Social egg freezing: a reproductive chance or smoke and mirrors?

Autologous human oocyte cryopreservation allows storing woman’s eggs to be used later by the same donor when therapeutic or elective reasons induce women to postpone motherhood. In the case of non-medical motivation, this practice is termed social freezing. By shifting the awareness from a medical procedure to social relations, frozen oocytes are becoming polemic bio-objects, which pose new que...

The Mirrors Model : Macroscopic Diffusion Without Noise or Chaos

Scissors for autolysosome tubules.

Autophagic lysosome reformation (ALR) is a cellular process in which lysosomes are reformed through scission of protolysosomes from tubular structures extruded from autolysosomes. Despite recent progress, the molecular mechanism of ALR is far from clear. A paper in this issue of The EMBO Journal has identified lysosome-localized PI(3)P, which is generated by the VPS34–UVRAG complex in an mTOR-d...

Keratome and scissors.

THE problem of the perfect cataract section and how it should be made is prominent in the minds of ophthalmic surgeons. We are all aware that the success of a lens extraction is substantially dependent upon the accuracy of the section, and there are few of us who cannot recall tragedies or near-tragedies resulting from the improper opening of the eye. With this in mind, and in spite of average ...