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Survival of the fittest.

Case in point: The nonsense known as Creationism. I admit that I teach physics, and I do not have much interest in biology or medicine. Nonetheless, I know the difference between biology and bull. I am amazed at how many science students enter our university without the slightest knowledge of what Darwinian evolution is or what it means. It would seem that the American Taliban who wish to repla...

Survival of the fittest.

Catherine Draper is a staff nurse at Queen Elizabeth Hospital King's Lynn NHS Foundation Trust, Norfolk.

Survival of the fittest

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THE Genetics Society of America's George W. Beadle Award honors individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the community of genetics researchers and who exemplify the qualities of its namesake as a respected academic, administrator, and public servant. The 2014 recipient, Hugo Bellen, has made seminal contributions to the fields of genetics, developmental biology, and neuroscience. ...

Gemifloxacin: survival of the fittest.

The incidence of penicillin resistance in pneumococci is increasing in the USA, having risen from <5% before 1989 to >35% in 1997. There has also been a shift in the ratio of intermediate to high-level resistance from 3 or 4:1 to 2 or 1:1. Multidrug resistance and resistance to macrolides and fluoroquinolones in pneumococci is also a matter of concern. The implications for empirical treatment o...