ANDRZEJ KRAUZE
This is my last editorial describing the contents of an issue of The Scientist. Beginning in mid-2011, every month that I have had to pen this message to readers, the task never failed to remind me why I love science and how rare a job it is to always be learning something new. How can this be called work? And every month, it delights me no end to see how articles about seemingly disparate areas of life-science research share fundamental connections, both mechanistic and historical.
This past weekend, I saw for the first time a preserved neuron from the jumbo or Humboldt squid (Dosidicus gigas). Its giant axon really does look like a piece of spaghetti. I knew the important role these hefty conductors of ...
