Not Just Content, But Style: Gypsy Children Traversing Boundaries

Die—but not just yet

eterochromatin’s repressive hold on DNA transcription can only be relinquished when activators enter the nucleus. Or so the theory goes. But now Vanessa Witte, Andreas Baur (University of Erlangen, Germany), and colleagues find that a heterochromatin component can be pulled from the nucleus by both the HIV protein Nef and activated integrins. “This is a really new concept—that chromatin-associa...

Tags are not metadata, but "just more content" - to some people

The authoring of tags – unlike the authoring of traditional metadata – is highly popular among users. This harbours unprecedented opportunities for organizing content. However, tags are still poorly understood. What do they “mean”, in what senses are they similar to or different from metadata? Different tags support different communities, but how exactly do they reflect the plurality of opinion...

Sensory Integration: It's Not Just for Children

Traversing boundaries: thrombus in transit with paradoxical embolism

A 72-year-old male is diagnosed with paradoxical embolus after he presented with concurrent deep vein thrombosis, stroke, and multiple arterial emboli in the presence of a patent foramen ovale (PFO). Paradoxical embolus requires the passage of a thrombus from the venous into the arterial circulation through a right-to-left shunt leading to systemic embolism. But, despite the high incidence of P...

The neural basis of morality: not just where, but when.

The neural basis of morality: not just where, but when We have known for some time that an intact ventromedial pre-frontal cortex (PFC) is essential for normal social and moral functioning , thanks in large part to studies of individuals who have suffered damage to it (Damasio, 1994). In this issue of Brain, Taber-Thomas and colleagues report that the specific nature of a person's moral impairm...