Maastricht lets parliament flex its muscles

Myf5 and MyoD flex different muscles in transcription

Bcl-w buries its tail, lets cell die

A prolific nucleator program n studies of Drosophila cells, aurora-A kinase and centrosomin (CNN) are sometimes used as markers for centrosomes, but, other than their localization, relatively little is known about these proteins. On page 757, Terada et al. show that aurora-A and CNN must physically interact to be translocated to the centro-some, and, once there, CNN acts as a powerful microtubu...

Treatment of achalasia: lets put surgery in its right context.

Vol. 59, No. 3, March 2009 191 Madam, We read with interest the report of Ahmed et al in which they described the medical and surgical management of achalasia in 46 patients over a five-year period from their specialist units of a research centre and teaching hospital.1 The authors have made a significant effort to provide an addition to the local literature. However, we were disappointed to re...

Parliament

Disaster concentrates the mind wonderfully. The Shelton tragedy forced M.P.s to grapple with mental illness once more in Parliament's spring term after a long lull in which national economic troubles claimed their attention to the exclusion of almost all else. Mr. Kenneth Robinson, the Minister of Health, finally agreed ?and to be fair, without too much reluctance?to hold the Shelton inquiry in...

Constructability of Trip-lets

A trip-let is an object as shown on the cover of Hofstadter’s book Gödel, Escher, Bach: a solid, threedimensional object that, when viewed from three orthogonal directions, shows three different letters. In this paper we consider two problems related to the construction of such objects for a given set of three letters. First, we want to know whether the silhouettes of the object correspond to t...