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M odel organisms are essential for biological and biomedical research. They enable scientists to study human diseases faster, cheaper and at a larger scale than in humans, or in human tissue or cell lines. Furthermore, animal models, such as fruit flies, roundworms, mice and rats, allow the study of normal and pathological processes in a controlled and systematic way to investigate specific hyp...

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Electronic mail has become the unexciting and mundane electronic communication medium we love to hate. It wasn’t always that way. Hate is a fairly recent emotion. Email has been with us in one form or another since the earliest days of computer networks and bulletin board services. From inauspicious beginnings, it became one of the three “killer apps,” along with Telnet and FTP, that gave the I...

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This paper discusses the neo-logicist approach to the foundations of mathematics by highlighting an issue that arises from looking at the Bad Company objection from an epistemological perspective. For the most part, our issue is independent of the details of any resolution of the Bad Company objection and, as we will show, it concerns other foundational approaches in the philosophy of mathemati...

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

During the last several years, we have witnessed “the best of times and the worst of times” in the embryonic field of gene therapy. Rapid advances in human genomic sciences, the development of novel mouse models of human diseases, and the construction and characterization of new vector systems for in vivo gene transduction have significantly expanded the potential feasibility of human gene ther...