Myco‐heterotroph–fungus marriages – is fidelity over‐rated?

Is the brain overrated?

Determinism Is Overrated

Our accelerating computational demand and the rise of multicore hardware have made parallel programs, especially shared-memory multithreaded programs, increasingly pervasive and critical. Yet, these programs remain extremely difficult to write, test, analyze, debug, and verify. Conventional wisdom has attributed these difficulties to nondeterminism, and researchers have recently dedicated much ...

The Synaptic Vesicle Cycle: Is Kissing Overrated?

In this issue of Neuron, Granseth et al. re-examine the mechanism of endocytosis at hippocampal synapses using a new optical reporter, sypHy. They conclude that only a single slow mode of endocytosis operates at this synapse and that retrieval after physiological stimuli is largely, if not solely, dominated by the clathrin-mediated pathway. These conclusions dispute previous assertions that "ki...

Honeybee dance language: is it overrated?

In a recent article inTREE, Grüter and Farina [1] point out that in honeybee dance language the communication of spatial (navigational) information is embedded in several additional informational components. As a consequence, followers of dances do not need to perceive or use the spatial information encoded in the dances to show adaptive foraging behavior. However, whether this is sufficient to...

Lipaemia: an overrated interference?

Reagent method sheets for analysis of common serum analytes often highlight the possibility of interference from lipaemia but the information given is often brief and may not be instrument-specific. Thus study assesses the degree of interference from lipaemia in a range of common serum analytes on the Bayer Opera (with a serum blank) using a commercial polymer, LipoClear, as a lipid-clearing ag...