All of us at Biology Open were very sad to learn of the death of Patricia Keely, one of our longest-serving Editors. Patricia joined the team upon the launch of The Company of Biologists' newest journal in 2011, demonstrating her strong support for not-for-profit scientific publishing by taking a chance on a fledgling journal that had no previous track record. She brought her expertise to bear ...

Dennis Lo, also called Yuk Ming Dennis Lo, is a professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong [5] in Hong Kong, China. In 1997, Lo discovered fetal DNA in maternal plasma, which is the liquid component of a pregnant woman's blood. By 2002, Lo distinguished the DNA differences between pregnant women and their fetuses, enabling scientists to identify fetal DNA in pregnant women's blood. Lo use...

I Some effects of inelastic channels on elastic partial wave amplitudes are discussed. A Lmvinson's <heorem fo: both the real part of the phase shift and the total phase of thz ela;+ic aml;lituie is derived. The CDD singularities required to make the elastic amplitude calculated by single channel inelastic N/D equations agree with the many channel calculation without CDD singuiarities are fully...