“We give ‘em plums all right!” Insider stories from the Royal Albert

All We Are Saying Is Give Plants a Chance!

Plant functional genomics have come of age, not only because rice and the model Arabidopsis thaliana are fully DNA sequenced and hundreds of thousands of expressed sequence tags (ESTs) are available on data bases, but because of the isolation of genes defined by mutations controlling plant-microbe interactions, flowering, plant architecture, and hormone perception. Through this, we learnt that ...

Are We Asking All the Right Questions About Quality of Care in Low- and Middle-Income Countries?

We are the stories we tell.

'Give 'em the old razzle dazzle'.

Janet Yellen channels Billy Flynn? Last week the Fed Chairwoman treated us to a master class of rhetorical misdirection which produced some memorable examples of doublespeak, including the soon to be classic "Just because we removed the word 'patient' does not mean we're going to be 'impatient."' But perhaps more surprising than her new heights of verbal dexterity was the market's euphoria at b...

The right to give blood.