An unlikely materials scientist

Anthony Hyman: From unlikely scientist to Royal Society Fellow

Hyman tinkers with cellular machines in his Dresden workshop

Listeria Meningitis: An Unlikely Pathogen in an Unlikely Host

Although a broad range of organisms must be considered in the diagnosis of infectious meningitis, viral and bacterial causes are most commonly observed. Streptococcus pneumoniae, Haemophilus influenzae, and Neisseria meningitidis are some of the more commonly isolated pathogens in bacterial meningitis. This illness typically presents with a well-documented set of signs and symptoms. The followi...

Aging: Cancer – an unlikely couple

Caffey disease: an unlikely collagenopathy.

Infantile cortical hyperostosis (also known as Caffey disease) is characterized by hyperirritability, acute inflammation of soft tissues, and profound alterations of the shape and structure of the underlying bones, particularly the long bones, mandible, clavicles, or ribs. In this issue of the JCI, Gensure et al. undertook fine mapping of the genetic locus for this disease in a large kindred of...

Advice to an aging scientist.

Fifty years ago, Peter Medawar and George Williams developed two now-classic theories for the evolution of senescence. In the past 20 years, evolutionary biologists studying aging have developed explicit mathematical models of these theories, used these models to derive explicit predictions, and tested these predictions using a variety of approaches. But, we argue here, our singular focus on th...