In America today, opinion has turned decisively against the resurrection of artistic personalities from Greek antiquity. After investigating why scholars have taken this extreme position, this paper attempts to counter it both methodologically and philologically, then examines what we know about Skopas and his oeuvre. In particular, how do we explain his frequent appearance alongside Praxiteles in the sources, their disputes over attribution included? I then discuss some individual works, offering new or overlooked evidence for their date and attribution, and finally present a new reconstruction and evaluation of the Tegea temple’s interior, based on recent work at Tegea by Jari Pakkanen.

The Capitoline Aphrodite counts among the most copied statues of antiquity. In 1951, Bianca Felletti Maj collected 101 replicas of the type compared with 33 for the Medici Aphrodite and a mere five for the so-called Aphrodite of the Troad; and many more examples have surfaced since. Yet despite the Capitoline type’ s popularity, the date, location and authorship of its original remain clouded, as does its relation to these other ‘pudica’-type Aphrodites, especially the Medici. Leaving aside the Aphrodite of the Troad, this article presents new evidence that may resolve one of these problems and sheds some new light upon some of the others.

© 2015 by the American Diabetes Association.This is the third in a series of Perspectives on intracellular signaling pathways coupled to proliferation in pancreatic β-cells. We contrast the large knowledge base in rodent β-cells with the more limited human

The International Knockout Mouse Consortium (IKMC) developed high throughput gene trapping and gene targeting pipelines that produced mostly conditional mutations of more than 18,500 genes in C57BL/6N mouse embryonic stem (ES) cells which have been archived and are freely available to the research community as a frozen resource. From this unprecedented resource more than 6,000 mutant mouse strains have been produced by the IKMC and mostly the International Mouse Phenotyping Consortium (IMPC). In addition, a cre-driver resource was established including 250 inducible cre-driver mouse strains in a C57BL/6 background. Complementing the cre-driver resource, a collection of comprising 27 cre-driver rAAVs has also been produced. The resources can be easily accessed at the IKMC/IMPC web portal (www.mousephenotype.org). The IKMC/IMPC resource is a standardized reference library of mouse models with defined genetic backgrounds that enables the analysis of gene-disease associations in mice of different genetic makeup and should therefore have a major impact on biomedical research.