Three Things Which Concern Me

Three Quite Different Things That Matter to Me

I am somewhat abashed to say, right at the start of this piece, that I don’t think of myself as a cell biologist—any more than as a geneticist or biochemist. One of the great glories of our field is that it is bursting the dam and flooding the plains. Cell biologists investigate not just the cell but also the whole organism and its ecosystem, and peer, with revelation, at individual molecules. ...

Things my mother never taught me.

which ferdowsi and shã¢hnã¢me do people most prefer?

vulgar stories, beliefs and information about ferdowsi and shahname, in contrast with those compiled and put into written form, are of a different folkloric nature. some of these narratives have been recently compiled in the first volume of ferdowsi name. their general content deals with the details and indefinites of ferdowsi's biography and some religious, ethical, mental and artistic pa...

Nerve transfers which have worked for me

Distal nerve transfers have contributed enormously to the strategies in brachial plexus reconstruction. They help to overcome the pitfalls of nerve grafting from proximal root (or peripheral nerve) stumps and work, effectively, as tendon transfers. Although use of the intercostals for transfer to the musculocutaneous nerve was first described, using a graft of the ulnar nerve, in the 1960s, tra...

‘Take me home and allow me to die peacefully’ – an ethical dilemma of grave concern

Take me home and allow me to die peacefully' Á an ethical dilemma of grave concern B rain death that refers to the irreversible end of all brain activity, including involuntary activity necessary to sustain life, due to total necrosis of the cerebral neurons following loss of blood flow and oxygenation (1, 2). Using brain-death criteria, the medical community can declare a person legally dead e...