Cis-regulatory architecture of a brain signaling center predates the origin of chordates

This article first outlines key arguments that demonstrate how the ‘neoliberal model of development’s’ global unleashing of capital is leading human civilisation to the brink of collapse. This ‘intellectual pessimism’ informs the ‘optimistic will’ central to the second part of this article which outlines an alternative democratic socialist model of development. This alternative is founded on a project of global cooperation to construct a national-trans-national regulatory architecture that can facilitate an ecologically balanced, materially secure, flexible and democratically solidaristic collection of local accumulation regimes that in aggregate would comprise a sustainable, progressive and pandemic-preventing planetary mode of accumulation.

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The primary cilium as a cellular signaling center: lessons from disease

Current Opinion in Genetics & Development ◽

10.1016/j.gde.2009.04.008 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 19 (3) ◽

pp. 220-229 ◽

Cited By ~ 107

Author(s):

Madeline A Lancaster ◽

Joseph G Gleeson

Keyword(s):

Primary Cilium ◽

Cellular Signaling ◽

Signaling Center

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The informational turn in food politics: The US FDA’s nutrition label as information infrastructure

Social Studies of Science ◽

10.1177/0306312716671223 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 47 (2) ◽

pp. 145-171 ◽

Cited By ~ 18

Author(s):

Xaq Frohlich

Keyword(s):

Information Overload ◽

Information Infrastructure ◽

Consumer Information ◽

Nutrition Labeling ◽

Consumer Empowerment ◽

Niche Markets ◽

Regulatory Architecture ◽

The Us ◽

Informational Environment ◽

Us Fda

This article traces the history of the US FDA regulation of nutrition labeling, identifying an ‘informational turn’ in the evolving politics of food, diet and health in America. Before nutrition labeling was introduced, regulators actively sought to segregate food markets from drug markets by largely prohibiting health information on food labels, believing such information would ‘confuse’ the ordinary food consumer. Nutrition labeling’s emergence, first in the 1970s as consumer empowerment and then later in the 1990s as a solution to information overload, reflected the belief that it was better to manage markets indirectly through consumer information than directly through command-and-control regulatory architecture. By studying product labels as ‘information infrastructure’, rather than a ‘knowledge fix’, the article shows how labels are situated at the center of a legally constructed terrain of inter-textual references, both educational and promotional, that reflects a mix of market pragmatism and evolving legal thought about mass versus niche markets. A change to the label reaches out across a wide informational environment representing food and has direct material consequences for how food is produced, distributed, and consumed. One legacy of this informational turn has been an increasing focus by policymakers, industry, and arguably consumers on the politics of information in place of the politics of the food itself.

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A Serrate-expressing signaling center controls Drosophila hematopoiesis

Genes & Development ◽

10.1101/gad.1052803 ◽

2003 ◽

Vol 17 (3) ◽

pp. 348-353 ◽

Cited By ~ 136

Author(s):

T. Lebestky

Keyword(s):

Signaling Center

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Politics of Evidence and Right to Health Care in India: The Challenges in Fixing Accountability of Medical Doctors in Patient Rights Violations in the Private Health Care Sector in India

Archives of Health Science ◽

10.31829/2641-7456/ahs2018-1(1)-102 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 1-19

Keyword(s):

Health Care ◽

Health Care Sector ◽

Patient Rights ◽

Medical Doctors ◽

Private Health Care ◽

Right To Health Care ◽

Patients Rights ◽

Regulatory Architecture ◽

Health Care Policies ◽

Admissible Evidence

Privatization oriented government health care policies have stimulated robust growth of private health care sector in India, without putting in place regulatory architecture that safeguards patients’ rights. The lack of adequate regulatory framework to govern them has put patients to undue disadvantage. This paper, based on primary investigation, analyses the ‘politics of evidence’ that patients are confronted with and are forced to navigate, in redressing ethical and patient rights violations against private medical establishments. The analysis of cases indicates that in the current medico-legal ecosystem is non-conducive to patients and impedes obtaining legally admissible evidence against medical professionals. The prevailing redressal avenues are significantly hostile to patients and unduly favour the private medical establishments who enjoy support and impunity from prosecution under the implicit state patronage. The paper makes a compelling case for a comprehensive regulatory architecture that simultaneously regulates the private medical establishments and safeguards the rights of patients.

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