Books: To Kill A Mockingbird

Women in Litigation Literature: The Exoneration of Mayella Ewell in To Kill A Mockingbird

To Sing like a Mockingbird

Musical parody, i.e. the act of changing the lyrics of an existing and very well-known song, is a commonly used technique for creating catchy advertising tunes and for mocking people or events. Here we describe a system for automatically producing a musical parody, starting from a corpus of songs. The system can automatically identify characterizing words and concepts related to a novel text, w...

A lysin to kill

An enzyme produced by a bacteriophage can enter human cells and kill intracellular Streptococcus pyogenes.

A License to Kill

Much of our knowledge of the basal mechanism underly-44 Lincoln's Inn Fields ing programmed cell death derives from the elegant London WC2A 3PX studies of Horvitz and colleagues on developmental cell United Kingdom death in the developmentally deterministic nematode worm Caenorhabditis elegans. During development of Apoptosis is the descriptive name given to the process the hermaphrodite worm, ...

To kill a brain cell

To kill a brain cell he consequences of amyloid formation by the amyloid precursor protein (APP) in Alzheimer's disease (AD) have been the focus of many studies, yet little is known about the nonpathogenic function of APP. On page 27, some progress is made in this direction by Chen et al., who show that APP induces a suicide pathway in neurons. APP initiates this death-inducing cascade when it ...