Back to the Future for Dermatophyte Genomics

Back to the Future for Dermatophyte Genomics

Dermatophytes are a uniquely pathogenic group of fungi that cause most common fungal infections globally. The major cause of athlete's foot is Trichophyton rubrum, a pathogen of human skin. A recent paper in this journal reported the sequencing and analysis of five additional genome sequences, including that of Trichophyton rubrum. These five join the existing two additional genome sequences to...

Stepping back to prepare for the future.

Correspondence: Nobhojit Roy, MS, MPH Jamsetji Tata Centre for Disaster Management Tata Institute of Social Sciences New Campus Deonar Farm Road Mumbai 400088 India E-mail: [email protected] Youichi Yanagawa and colleagues have candidly admitted the problems of the ‘‘Medical Evacuation of Patients to other Hospitals due to the Fukushima I Nuclear Accidents.’’ The Fukushima nuclear accident was a L...

Serotherapy for Ebola: back to the future.

In dramatic, front-page news, Kent Brantly and Nancy Writebol, 2 American missionary workers infected with the deadly Ebola virus, were given a “highly experimental” combination of preformed monoclonal antibodies directed against the virus and previously shown to work only in monkeys. Brantly, moribund and poorly responsive to a previous blood transfusion containing convalescent antibodies, app...

Zambia : Back to the future ?

Back to the Evolutionary Future

Many books on evolution focus on the distant past or the present. Very few authors addressing a lay audience present what evolutionary changes may look like in the future. Coker has done so in this popular science book intended for a general audience. Basing the text on his similarly named course given at Elon University, the author provides a fascinating account of diverse aspects of evolution...