Xenotransplantation—caution, but no moratorium

Harmful moratorium on stem cell research.

STEM--but no stem.

TWO CONVERGING EVENTS TOOK PLACE ON 9 AUGUST THAT OUGHT TO HAVE THE scientific community scratching its collective head. One of these is an anniversary: On that date in 2001, President George W. Bush signed an Executive Order banning any use of federal funds to support research on stem cells (save, of course, for those 78 preexisting cell lines, only 21 of which are available). That position is...

Another string.... but no bow.

Based on a positive personal experience, the authors advocate the use of a wound protector/retractor such as the Alexis system in total hip arthroplasty, to avoid intra-operative bacterial contamination from the skin, while avoiding damage to the skin and other soft tissues.

No knowledge but through information

Why would we settle for data when we can have information? Or information when we can have knowledge? Discussions often reflect an implicit ordering of these terms: data < information < knowledge, i.e., information trumps data and knowledge trumps information. In a corporate/organizational context, information management came first as a field of inquiry, followed, beginning in the 1990s by disc...

Proposed Moratorium on Changes to Network Protocol

Bill Crowther’s RFC No. 67 raised a much more fundamental issue than the question of marking. Any change to presently established protocol is going to involve changes in the hardware/software development efforts that have, in some instances, been going on for over 6 months. In the case of Multics, this effort has yielded programs either complete or in the advanced debugging stages. This is no d...