Mystery genre

Death rate mystery

Knowing the true rate of death from covid-19 will help us fight the pandemic, but for the moment it eludes us, reports Michael Le Page.  

1 Worlds of Genre — Metaphors of Genre

Melanoma mystery

Biological variability has confounded efforts to confirm the role of PREX2 mutations in melanoma.

Mystery solved

Mutant mice lacking the integrin alpha8 subunit exhibit variable defects in kidney development with most mutants missing both kidneys. Several lines of evidence indicate that the known extracellular matrix ligands for integrin alpha8beta1 are either dispensable for or not involved in alpha8beta1 signaling during kidney development. This suggests the presence of an unknown ligand. A novel alpha8...

Genre Taxonomy

In this paper, we propose a genre taxonomy as a knowledge repository of communicative structures or “typified actions” enacted by organizational members. The Genre taxonomy aims at helping people to make sense of diverse types of communicative actions, and has three features to achieve this objective. First, the genre taxonomy represents the elements of both genres and genre systems, sequences ...