What are you working on? You have certainly been asked that question many times, whether it be at a Saturday night party, during a discussion with your neighbors, or at a family gathering. Communicating with a lay audience about scientific subjects and making them attractive is a difficult task. But difficult or not, you will have to do it for many years, not only with your family and friends, ...

down syndrome (ds), trisomy 21, is the most common chromosomal syndrome that affects one in 600-800 live births. the advanced maternal age is the only well known risk factor to cause ds. our study revealed that many young mothers produced ds children than advanced age mothers in india. a total of 150 suspected ds cases were investigated cytogenetically. randomly selected 200 healthy families in...

Congenitally missing of maxillary lateral incisors is one of the most common patterns of hypodontia. This paper presents a nine year old boy with congenital missing of lateral incisors. Familial history showed that, his mother, aunts, uncle and grandmother have also congenital absence of lateral incisors.

The Spider Woman or Grandmother Spider legends are part of the creation mythology for several southwestern American Indian tribes, including the Hopi, Pueblo, and Navajo. One story says that in the beginning of time only two beings existed: Tawa, the Sun God, with the powers of all that is above; and Spider Woman, the Earth Goddess, with the powers of all that is below. The Sun God imagined the...