My Compiler Does Not Understand Me

Just so genome stories: what does my neighbor tell me?

Discovery supposes either chance or inductive reasoning. We document here an approach to explore genome texts, where the neighborhoods of genes and gene products (in the genome, in phylogeny, in metabolic pathways, in codon usage bias, ‘‘in biblio’’. . .) were used to make inferences about the function of unknown genes. Examples are provided in the case of pyrimidine biosynthesis, showing that ...

ME and My Shadow

Everyone Exposed to Methyleugenol Whether you intend to or not, chances are you will consume approximately 6 micro-grams of methyleugenol (ME) today, according to a report in this month's issue by Dana B. Barr and colleagues of a study designed to measure ME in human blood _ serum [EHP 108:323-328]. ME is a compound that occurs naturally in a variety of spices and herbs, including clove oil, nu...

See me through my eyes

What my cancer taught me.

Animal Cognition: Bring Me My Spear

Chimpanzees regularly hunt mammals, but use only their hands and teeth: for the first time, chimpanzees have now been found to make tools in order to spear mammalian prey.