Editorial: Roots—The Hidden Provider

Editorial: Roots—The Hidden Provider

Most plant roots are found hidden underground. They can form immense root systems with lengths of several kilometers featuring an architecture with up to millions of branch roots. Their versatile functions range from anchoring plants in soil via storing photosynthetic products to the vital uptake of water and nutrients. Plants build the basis of a food chain that ends with more than seven billi...

Guest Editorial Gambling: The Hidden Addiction

For most people, gambling is a relaxing activity with no negative consequences. However, others develop excessive behaviour: gambling becomes a disorder or an addiction that manifests itself as an irrepressible impulse to wager money. The activity has negative consequences and dominates the lives of those suffering from pathological gambling. Among other things, excessive gambling leads to the ...

Editorial Commentary: Genomic Epidemiology: Revealing Hidden Reservoirs for Klebsiella pneumoniae

Classically defined infectious disease epidemiology is being upended by the replacement of low-resolution phenotypic and molecular technologies with highresolution whole-genome shotgun sequencing of pathogens. The evolution of molecular epidemiology has been under way for 10 years, but the speed of the transition has recently quickened. Previously unrecognized pathogen reservoirs and modes of t...

Editorial: combat orthopaedics for the civilian provider, with special emphasis on the dismounted complex blast injury.

Editorial: Cancer Care Delivery and Women’s Health: Beyond the Patient and Provider Relationship