Editorial overview: The cell nucleus: Plastic, elastic and fantastic

Editorial overview: Cell nucleus: the nucleus: a dynamic organelle.

The nucleus is perhaps the defining feature of ‘eukaryotes’ (Greek ‘eu-’ (with) ‘-karyon’ (kernel, nucleus)), and the emperor of all eukaryotic organelles in terms of scale and complexity of organization. It is, of course, the repository for almost all genomic information, encoded in DNA sequences wrapped into chromatin as discrete polymer packages termed chromosomes, surrounded in turn by a do...

Crassulacean acid metabolism: plastic, fantastic.

The occurrence, activity and plasticity of the CAM pathway is described from an introductory viewpoint, framed by the use of the four "Phases" of CAM as comparative indicators of the interplay between environmental constraints and internal molecular and biochemical regulation. Having described a number of "rules" which seem to govern the CAM cycle and apply uniformly to most species, a number o...

Cell multiplication: editorial overview

Although the mechanisms and control of cellular reproduction have been studied for many years, it seems clear that the year under review has been one of the most remarkable yet in terms of the breadth and depth of the insights it has brought us. It also seems clear that this is no accident, and that we can expect more remarkable years of discovery in the near future. The reason is, of course, t...

Overview of the epidemiologic research: Editorial Guidelines

Epidemiology can be considered as a very old science. For example, John Graunt, a statistician, published Natural and Political Observations. In the Bills of Mortality in 1662, he analyzed the mortality rolls in London before the Great Plague, presented one of the first life tables, and reported time trends for many diseases. He provided statist...

Editorial: Plastic Pollution