MICROBIOLOGY: Adapting All Too Well

Is it all too much?

I couldn’t help but notice the recent press reports of how the weather was going to be dealt with for the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Having picked the wettest month of the year to hold the Olympic Games, the Chinese have developed one of the world’s largest weather modification strategies. Weather patterns over Beijing in recent decades indicate a 50% chance of rain during the Games. Clearly, this ...

An All Too Visible Adversary

the process by which it carries out its function. In a binding, but will also further his or her appreciation of world in which the sequencing of entire genomes, the some of the more complicated influences on protein structural elucidation of massive, multicomponent com-interactions such as allostery, avidity, cooperativity, and plexes such as the ribosome, and the identification of plasticity ...

All the microbiology nematodes can teach us

Be it their pervasiveness, experimental tractability or their impact on human health and agriculture, nematode-bacterium associations are far-reaching research subjects. Although the omics hype did not spare them and helped reveal mechanisms of communication and exchange between the associated partners, a huge amount of knowledge still awaits to be harvested from their study. Here, I summarize ...

Binge drinking: all too prevalent and hazardous.

All oxidase roads lead to angiotensin, too.

Free radicals and other oxygenor nitrogen-derived reactive species formed during cellular metabolism and respiration, like superoxide (O2 ), hydrogen peroxide (H2O2), and nitric oxide (NO), are important second messengers and fundamental mediators in biological processes, redox signaling, and cellular growth. However, over the past 2 decades it has become clear that reactive oxygen species (ROS...