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Start/Stop Codes

Stop worrying; start growing

Ever since the Asilomar Conference on ‘Recombinant DNA’ in February 1975, regulatory policies relating to recombinant DNA technology have focused on the idea that this technology implies threats to human health and the environment [1]. As a consequence, the explicit goal of these policies is to protect society and nature from an assumed hazard, or, if protection is not possible, at least to del...

Stop competing, start talking!

According to current belief, the molecular networks orchestrating cell death or exit from mitosis upon extended mitotic arrest do not interact, stubbornly executing two parallel biological programs and competing to define a stochastic decision between death and a chance for survival with uncertain destiny. However, recent findings by Diaz-Martinez et al (2014) in this issue of The EMBO Journal ...

Optimizing a Start-Stop System

Many people are working on improving the efficiency of car's engines. One approach to maximizing efficiency has been to create start-stop systems. These systems shut the car's engine off when the car comes to a stop, saving fuel that would be used to keep the engine running. However, these systems introduce additional energy costs, which are associated with the engine restarting. These energy c...

Stop lecturing and start teaching

Whether this distribution of effort is correct may be subject to debate, but at least a significant portion of the workload of many medical physicists is spent in education. Especially for medical physicists in an academic setting, much of this time is spent in formal courses — teaching medical physics students, medical residents, or allied health personnel such as radiography students and radi...