In Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) theory, the necessary and absolute conditions for natural pregnancy of a woman should have prosperous “Shen qi” and menstruation, andher “Renmai” (Conception Vessel) and “Chongmai” (Thorough fare Vessel) are vigorous in functions. Successful conception occurs when the woman has sexual intercourse with a man who has flourish kidney energy dissipated from ove...

Talent, dedication and organisational skills play a pivotal role in the success of scientific and clinical research. However, your capacity to flourish and succeed is often affected by your professional relationships with your peers and bosses. Throughout your career, you will be faced (if not already) with a variety of awkward interpersonal situations. This is the point where sophisticated man...

Patents and strategies which utilize them play an increasingly important role in securing the foundation and growth of bioscience companies. Technology in this area is on the cutting edge of helping society to maintain the health of its population, entering into many aspects of everyday life, from medicine to food products. In order to flourish in this competitive environment, many companies ac...

Since the late 1950s there has been an explosion in the field of bioethics. Gone are the days when problems were resolved by emulating seniors in the profession. Writing in The National Medical Journal of India, Dr SK Pandya laments that today “unfortunately the number of role models in the medical colleges is diminishing as unethical practices flourish and this adds to the frustration of stude...

Microbial biology is undergoing a renaissance, and in this special section we explore bursts of progress in areas ranging from how pathogens invade cells to the origins of life. News reports beginning on this page focus on the extremophiles--unusual microbes that flourish in harsh conditions--while the Articles that follow probe a broad range of topics, including plant-microbe interactions and ...

The spirit of life science entrepreneurship is alive and well, with outstanding innovation hubs arising throughout the country and the world. Of note, many of these hubs flourish in close proximity to research universities. If universities are the engine for discovery, then startups are the vehicle for innovation. The creativity and drive of young researchers has the potential to explore novel ...

Three-valued logics belong to a family of nonclassical logics that started to flourish in the 1920s and 1930s, following the work of ( Lukasiewicz, 1920), and earlier insights coming from Frege and Peirce (see (Frege, 1879), (Frege, 1892), (Fisch and Turquette, 1966)). All of them were moved by the idea that not all sentences need be True or False, but that some sentences can be indeterminate i...

Tessman responds to her three critics’ comments on Burdened Virtues, focusing on their concerns with her stipulation of an “inclusivity requirement,” according to which one cannot be said to flourish without contributing to the flourishing of an inclusive collectivity. Tessman identifies a naturalized approach to ethics—which she distinguishes from the naturalism she implicitly endorsed in Burd...