Editorial Board Jônatas Santos Abrahão Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil Wuguo Chen University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA François Denis University of Limoges, France Tahar Kernif Institut Pasteur d’Algérie, Algeria Xavier de Lamballerie Marseille Medical University, France Vu Dang La University of Pennsylvania, USA Míriam-José Álvarez Martínez University of Barcelona, Spain...

Ben Neill will present a set with the LEMUR robots and his newly redesigned mutantrumpet, a hybrid electro-acoustic instrument. In this new set of future dub jazz, the LEMUR robots provide dubstep rhythms live in real time and are combined with deep sub basslines and the otherworldly sonic explorations of the mutantrumpet. Neill’s instrument allows him to interact with the robots in a variety o...

Science is indeed interminable. Criticizing old ideas, coming up with new ones in an iterative process of creative destruction and reinvention is the spice of life for research. But there is another seemingly interminable aspect of science, at least in the biomedical arena, related to journal publication. When I was a postdoctoral fellow with Julius “Julie” Axelrod at the National Institutes of...

Ben Eggleston’s comment nicely weaves together several strands of the approach to normative ethics that informs the essays in Part II of Facts, Values, and Norms. I quite agree with what he says concerning how and where the strands might reinforce one another, so I will concentrate in my reply on the places he finds strains and gaps especially his questions concerning the nature of valoric cons...

Aims: The aim of this study was to compare the risk factors and prevalence of vascular calcification (VC) in pre-dialysis and hemodialysis (HD) patients with Balkan endemic nephropathy (BEN) or other kidney diseases (non-BEN). Materials and Methods: The study involved 115 patients, 32 pre-dialysis and 83 HD patients, separated into groups of BEN and non-BEN patients. In addition to interviews, ...

It has been shown previously that in the chick embryo the cell adhesion molecule BEN/SC1/DM-GRASP is expressed by neurons in the inferior olive (IO) and by their terminal axonal arbors in the cerebellar cortex, the climbing fibers (Porquié et al., 1992b). Here, new information on the expression of BEN during the formation of the olivocerebellar projection adds the important notion that BEN is a...