Globalisation: Don’t patch it up, shake it up

Zip it up to shut it down

DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs) can be lethal to a cell. However, most sexually reproducing organisms deliberately induce a substantial amount of developmentally programmed DSBs that are subsequently repaired via homologous recombination in meiosis. The goal of this self-damage and self-repair process is to establish physical connections between homologous chromosomes, thereby ensuring accurate...

Beefing it up

Livestock production for human consumption is growing dramatically as developing nations increasingly eat meat. But the production of such animals adds to greenhouse gas emissions and takes up biomass production that could otherwise enter the human food chain directly. have calculated the possible impacts of livestock production between 2000 and 2050 in a new report in the Proceedings of the Na...

Sketch-It-Up! Demo

Every creative project needs to have an ideation process. A good ideation process relies on a simple yet effective way of putting ideas on the table and sorting through them, also discarding them easily if necessary. However, for this ideation to be successful it has to be a process in which cheap and simple ways of exploring ideas are used along with tools that are readily accessible to everyo...

Mixing It Up

.......Like other IEEE magazines, Micro publishes many theme issues, but we also receive excellent generalinterest submissions. We would like to receive more of these, since they permit us to highlight important work in the community without requiring a number of submissions on a specific topic, and they also let us mix things up a bit. I know that I sometimes more readily crack open an issue o...

Do it standing up...