Chronicles - April 2014

Cover vol. 11, no. 2, April 2014

STD Awareness Month — April 2014

Genomic resources notes accepted 1 April 2014 - 31 May 2014.

This article documents the public availability of a global transcriptome comparison between Lyme disease tick vectors, Ixodes scapularis and Ixodes ricinus.

Events in Multimedia Electronic Chronicles (E-Chronicles)

The nature of information has changed significantly in the last two decades. Now information is multimedia, sensitive to its spatio-temporal roots, live, and dynamic. Current database and search technology is very limited in addressing organization, management, and access of emerging information systems. In this paper, we address some of the fundamental issues that must be addressed in general ...

SPLASH! milk science update: April 2014 issue

• An antibody, SIgA, found in breast milk alters the kinds of bacteria that colonize the infant gut. • The SIgA antibody also appears to change “turn on” and “turn off” genes involved in the rapid growth of the intestines that is normal in early life, as well as genes specifically linked to intestinal bowel disease. • These findings suggest a potential new role for the antibody in treating bowe...