“Some Things Just Won’t Go Back”

Where the wild things go

ago, migratory movements have fascinated mankind. Over the last 100 years, immense effort has been put into understanding the nature of the migratory movements that animals, especially birds, make. Yet for many of these species we are only a little further in understanding where they go or how they get there than Aristotle was (Wikelski et al, 2007). How does a bird that travels thousands of mi...

Why Can’t Things Just Stay the Same

Three important changes to how public accounting in the USA is practiced have occurred in the last few years. Large firms have expanded their scope of services to such a degree that multidisciplinary practice seems the next logical step. At the same time, the success of consulting work has required some firms to bifurcate these activities into separate entities. Meanwhile, smaller practices are...

Things that go bang in the night.

Gene targeting: Things go better with Cre

New technologies are changing the way in which gene targeting experiments are being designed. It is now becoming possible to analyze gene function in defined tissues at specific times during the life of a mouse.

Getting it right when things go wrong.