Seeing decade by decade

Crunch decade

that the recent outbreak of malaria around Nairobi has been caused by climate change,” it says. “In fact this probably has more to do with changes in drainage systems and population expansion. But in the Central Highlands the researchers have been able to rule these out and directly attribute the change to a 2oC rise in temperature.” The institute is using climate models to predict when epidemi...

A Decade

Decade of progress: decade of change. The future is now!

Over the short history of infection control practice, a mere quarter century, those of us in the profession have witnessed, developed, and adapted to continuous change. In spite of responding to this rapid change, we are constantly urged to reevaluate what we are doing, as well as how we are doing it. We continue, challenged with new ideas, new processes, and new information. Indeed, even some ...

Decade of War: Enduring Lessons from a Decade of Operations1 SUMMARIzeD By eLIzABeTH yOUnG

The year 2001 began with the inauguration of a U.S. President deliberately aiming to shift the use of the military away from the numerous humanitarian and peacekeeping interventions of the 1990s toward responding to and defeating conventional threats from nation-states. The mood was optimistic, with the new U.S. national Security Strategy, recently put in place by the departing Clinton administ...

A Decade of Riboswitches

Riboswitches were discovered in 2002 in bacteria as RNA-based intracellular sensors of vitamin derivatives. During the last decade, naturally occurring RNA sensor elements have been found to bind a range of small metabolites and ions and to exert regulatory control of transcription, translation, splicing, and RNA stability. Extensive biochemical, structural, and genetic studies have established...