Turning the clock back.

This is a reflection of one of the best times of Jane Wanless's life, having the opportunity to live and work in another country, in another culture with the people she loved most with her. There are many other reasons why New Zealand will always hold a special place in Jane's heart, but as a midwife, she found the care to be truly women centred, where normality and continuity led on to long lasting trusting relationships between the midwives and the families they cared for.

Peripheral sensory neurons survive in the absence of alpha- and gamma-synucleins.

Physiological functions of alpha-synuclein, a protein implicated in certain types of neurodegeneration, and two other members of the same family, beta-synuclein and gamma-synuclein, are not clearly understood. It has been suggested that synucleins are involved in intracellular processes associated with survival of neurons and their response to stress, and that changes of synuclein ratio might have deteriorating effects on neurons. In wild-type mice, sensory neurons of the peripheral nervous system express alpha-synuclein and notably high levels of gamma-synuclein, but targeted inactivation of either of these genes has no effect on these neurons.