the philosophy of biology has existed as a distinct sub-discipline within the philosophy of science for about thirty years. the rapid growth of the field has mirrored that of the biological sciences in the same period. today the discipline is well represented in the leading journals in philosophy of science, as well as in several specialist journals. there have been two generations of textbooks...

In recent years, partly due to aging populations and partly due to worsening environmental factors, the frequency of cancer has increased significantly. Fortunately, thanks to the modern technological revolution, the end of the twentieth and the first years of the twenty-first centuries witnessed a progress of epical proportions in the molecular biology, immunology and genetics of cancer. This ...

Recent findings in stem cell biology have opened a new window in regenerative medicine. The endometrium possesses mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) called endometrial stem cells (EnSCs) having specific regenerative properties linked to adult stem cells. They contribute in tissue remodeling and engineering and were shown to have immuno-modulating effects. Many clinical trials were undertaken to asce...

Introduction Bactrocera latifrons (Hendel) is a tephritid fruit fly native to South and Southeast Asia (White and Elson-Harris 1992). First detected in Hawaii in 1983 (Vargas and Nishida 1985a), it primarily infests fruits of solanaceous plants but has also been found to infest fruits of some species of cucurbitaceous plants in Hawaii (Harris et al. 1991, 1993, White and ElsonHarris 1992, Liqui...