Were they Mound-Builders?

"And They Were Silent": Reflections on Legalism

Australian Internet Stocks : Were They Special ?

and we acknowledge the contributions of participants at these conferences. All errors or omissions are our own. Abstract Were Australian Internet stock returns unusual? We examine daily returns on a primary sample of the 21 Australian Internet stocks in the Merrill Lynch (Australian) Internet Stock Index at the climax of the boom-bust period, between 21 September 1999 and 20 September 2000. App...

Proteomics in asthma: the clinicians were right after all, were not they?

Clinical disease phenotypes with underlying information of molecular and biological signatures for the same, is a prerequisite for improving medical care and developing more effective, stratified management strategies. This commentary reviews the research carried out by Cao et al. to unravel biological networks associated with different clinical categories of asthma. It finally comments on the ...

Antigen and Memory CD8 T Cells: Were They Both Right?

: Picture yourself as a researcher in immunology. To begin your project, you ask a question: Do CD8 T cells require antigen to maintain a memory response? This question is of prime importance to numerous medical fields. In chronologic order, you digest the literature, but unfortunately, you hit a major stumbling block in the 1990s. The crux of the problem is that which so often happens in scien...

Modelling ecological communities as if they were DNA

Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, Ascot, Berkshire, United Kingdom Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Wallingford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, University of Minnesota, 1987 Upper Buford Circle, Saint Paul, Minnesota, 55108, USA Department of Life Sciences, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UK The Exelixis La...