Two Poem Chimera

Chimera or not chimera?

The article entitled " Evidence for Cardiomyocyte Repopulation by Extracardiac Progenitors in Transplanted Human Hearts " by Laflamme et al, 1 published in Circulation Research, confirms our early observations 2 that cardiac chimerism occurs after transplanta-tion of a female heart in a male patient. These results are also in agreement with the detection of chimerism in multiple organs after bo...

Life: A Poem

A critical care holiday poem.

Autophagy: research topic, painting, poem, dance

E ffective teachers do no simply present information for students to learn by rote for a good grade. Rather, they provide an environment in which students can engage with course material and both learn and interpret it for their own interest and goals. With this in mind, I have spent a considerable amount of time developing an active learning format for my introductory biology course, including...

Avicenna's Medical Didactic Poem: Urjuzehtebbi.

Historical research shows that many physicians experienced in medical sciences are also talented in art, literature and poetry. Avicenna was a sage who was skilled in poetry in addition to philosophy and medicine. He wrote two different types of poetry: those meant to be enjoyed for their literary qualities of novelty and imagination, and his didactic Urjuzeh. Didactic poems are different from ...