Editorial: Daring to Speak Out

Editorial: Daring to Speak Out

When we commented on the Brussels bombings in Issue 3, we did not imagine that further shocking violence would be in the forefront of our minds only a few months later. Two horrific events in recent weeks have brought tragedy to the lives of individuals and families and forced into public consciousness issues of principle which lie at their heart. The mass shootings in the early hours of Sunday...

Silent pericentromeric repeats speak out.

Pericentromeres are essential structural components of the chromosome that function to ensure proper sister chromatid segregation during cell division. These chromosomal domains are composed of major satellite DNA repeats whose constitutively heterochromatic structure facilitates kinetochore formation (1). Characteristically demarcated by the silencing histone mark trimethyl-histone-3lysine-9, ...

. ' . Students Speak Out on Tenure Cases

Danes rebounded after Wednesday's Pittsburgh loss lo beat Oswego before a small crowd.

Physicians' Obligation to Speak out for Prisoners' Health.

As this is written, military review hearings at the US detention center at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, are under way to determine whether any of the individual detainees has been wrongly classified as an "illegal combatant" by the Department of Defense, and is, thus, eligible for repatriation. The men facing these hearings have been held, often in solitary confinement, for up to 21⁄2 years and have n...

It's Time for Doctors to Speak Out on Climate Change.