Comeback Victory

Comeback victory.

Whale comeback

Last month I came across a folder of papers I had written at the age of 16 for my high school English class. This occasion, in some ways like Proust’s madeleine, triggered recollections of how I, as a 16 year-old, framed the thoughts I had about what I wanted to do with my life. One of those early papers was about Frost’s poem The Road Not Taken. I remember not terribly liking the poem. But the...

The Comeback Kid?

Balloon angioplasty revolutionized coronary revascularization; however, elastic recoil and restenosis caused by cellular proliferation are major drawbacks of angioplasty. Intracoronary stenting, which could tackle dissections and eliminate elastic recoil, became the next mode of intervention but was limited by stent thrombosis and increased neointimal hyperplasia, leading to in-stent restenosis...

The Comeback of Scarlet Fever

Streptococcus pyogenes (group A Streptococcus, GAS) is arguably the clone (Tse et al., 2012; You et al., 2018). The emm12 type is not new most virulent of all clinically important streptococci with a propensity to cause severe invasive diseases, toxic shock syndrome, and immunopathological damages such as acute rheumatic fever. Since the 1980s, severe GAS infections such as necrotizing fasciiti...

Coal Poised for a Comeback?

Agricultural animal research has been immensely successful over the past century in developing technology and methodologies that have dramatically enhanced production efficiency of the beef, dairy, swine, poultry, sheep, and aquaculture industries. In the past two decades, molecular biology has changed the face of agricultural animal research, primarily in the arena of genomics and the relative...