Ankara Torn Apart: Arab Spring Turns into Turkey’s Autumn

Autumn spring.

artists; signatures and monograms, an international directory. Castagno, John. Scarecrow Pr., ©2007 567 p. $225.00 Castagno, a multimedia artist and sculptor and author of other books in the Artists’ Signatures and Monograms series, presents a reference for identifying, authenticating, and verifying signatures and works of wellknown and little-known abstract artists. About 2,300 painters, print...

Nuclear Envelope: Torn Apart at Mitosis

The findings of two recent studies suggest a novel mechanism for nuclear envelope breakdown in which cytoplasmic dynein anchored on the outside of the nucleus generates tension, thus triggering tearing of the nuclear envelope.

Biological characteristics of autumn and spring runs of Caspiomyzon wagneri into the Shirood River, Iran

Demystifying the Arab Spring

In Tunisia, protesters escalated calls for the restoration of the country's suspended constitution. Meanwhile, Egyptians rose in revolt as strikes across the country brought daily life to a halt and toppled the government. In Libya, provincial leaders worked feverishly to strengthen their newly independent republic. It was 1919. That year's events demonstrate that the global diffusion of inform...

Torn apart: membrane rupture in muscular dystrophies and associated cardiomyopathies.

Muscular dystrophies are often caused by mutations in cytoskeletal proteins that render cells more susceptible to strain-induced injury in mechanically active tissues such as skeletal or cardiac muscle. In this issue of the JCI, Han et al. report that dysferlin participates in membrane resealing in cardiomyocytes and that exercise results in increased membrane damage and disturbed cardiac funct...