The Editor-in-Chief of the European Journal of Cardiothoracic SurgeryyInteractive CardioVascular Thoracic Surgery (EJCTSyICVTS) can be appointed for a maximum of two terms of five years each. The former Editor-in-Chief, Ludwig von Segesser, has served these two terms and I am proud to be chosen as the new Editor-in-Chief of these prestigious journals (Fig. 1). This change in the incumbent of th...

The asteroid Asterina gibbosa lives all its life in close relation to the sea bottom. Indeed, this sea star possesses an entirely benthic, lecithotrophic development. The embryos adhere to the substratum due to particular properties of their jelly coat, and hatching occurs directly at the brachiolaria stage. Brachiolariae have a hypertrophied, bilobed attachment complex comprising two asymmetri...