In 1957, Conrad H. Waddington published a paper in which he demonstrated the inheritance of an acquired characteristic in a population in response to an environmental stimulus [1].[...].

Denis Noble discusses Conrad Waddington's classic paper, "The genetic assimilation of the bithorax phenotype", published in Evolution in 1956.

It has not been too long since we realized that Joseph Murray (1919-2012) has passed away while we heard this sad news 2 weeks ago. We never forget his memories and trip for the first time on 14th November 1974to Iran. He returned to our country one more time later to share his experiences with the country specialists. It is a great sorrow that he did not see our progress in plastic and reconst...

perience pushed a little (and only very little) beyond the actual facts of the case."2 Yet, there is equally a highly important sense in which the Congo of Heart of Darkness is not the Congo of any history book. That is to say, the apparently innocent activity of source-hunting masks a number of serious methodological problems. Perhaps the most important of these can be broached by invoking Con...

Influence of design charac­ teris tics on the outcome of retrospective cohort studies. Br J Ind Med 45:624–629. vom Saal FS, Hughes C. 2005. An extensive new literature concerning low­dose effects of bisphenol A shows the need for a new risk assessment. Environ Health Perspect 113:926–933. Sutton et al. and Tweedale both criticize our review (Conrad and Becker 2011) because we did not include i...

The CONRAD code is an object-oriented software tool developed at CEA since 2005. It aims providing nuclear reaction model calculations, data assimilation procedures based on Bayesian inference and a proper framework to treat all uncertainties involved in the evaluation process: experimental (statistical systematic) as well parameter uncertainties. This paper will present status of CONRAD-V1 dev...