1 Division of Hematology/Oncology, Boston Children’s Hospital, Department of Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber-Cancer Institute, and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA 2 Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber-Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA 3 Harvard Stem Cell Institute, Boston, MA, USA 4 Current affiliation – Incyte Corporation, Wilmington, DE 5 Human Oncol...

This paper tracks the fortunes of the debate on whether children playing at baptism can actually administer and receive a valid sacramental baptism from Rufinus of Aquileia (late 4th to early 5th century) through ca. 1300. Theologians and canonists who addressed this question arrived at no consensus. They often disagreed with their own masters, applied Rufinus to a range of issues he never took...

The discovery of statistical laws of heredity by Gregor Mendel was an important advance in biological science. However, Mendel's opinion that the entire character was transmitted was not derived from his data and instead reflected prior beliefs outside the domain of science. It is argued here that Mendel, a monk and later abbot of an Augustine monastery, was influenced by St. Augustine's theory...

In 2003, academic staff members at The University of the West Indies Faculty of Medical Sciences St Augustine Trinidad and Tobago combined their expertise to make strides in Alzheimer's and Dementia research in Trinidad and Tobago. Dr. Nelleen Baboolal, Dr. Gershwin Davis and Professor Amanda McRae began developing a project that has produced significant results by examining not only the epidem...

Masakazu Shinohara,* Megumi Kibi,* Ian R. Riley, Nan Chiang, Jesmond Dalli, Bryan D. Kraft, Claude A. Piantadosi, Augustine M. K. Choi, and Charles N. Serhan Center for Experimental Therapeutics and Reperfusion Injury, Harvard Institutes of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts; Department of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, No...

Abstract Philosophers of education often view the role religion in with suspicion, claiming it to be impossible, indoctrinatory or controversial unless reduced secular premises and aims. The ‘post-secular’ ‘decolonial’ turns new millennium have, however, afforded opportunities revaluate this predilection. In a social intellectual context where arguments previous generations philosophers may cha...

Southern chinch bug, Blissus insularis Barber (Heteroptera: Blissidae), is the most destructive insect pest of St. Augustine grass, Stenotaphrum secundatum Waltz (Kuntze), in the southern United States. The present study is focused on assessing genetic variability in five populations of B. insularis collected from Texas and Florida where St. Augustine grass is widely grown. The amplified fragme...