Staging Othello: Turning students into directors

Turning Perversion into Fervor

Turning sunlight into stone

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Turning manure into gold

At a time of global warming, growing environmental concerns and a political situation that is making many industrialised countries critically review their dependency on Middle Eastern oil, the need to develop alternatives to fossil fuels is becoming increasingly important. And this is not just a recurring demand from environmentalists; most industrialised countries signed the Kyoto Treaty, comm...

Turning Meiosis into Mitosis

Apomixis, or asexual clonal reproduction through seeds, is of immense interest due to its potential application in agriculture. One key element of apomixis is apomeiosis, a deregulation of meiosis that results in a mitotic-like division. We isolated and characterised a novel gene that is directly involved in controlling entry into the second meiotic division. By combining a mutation in this gen...

Turning fat into muscle

Mature DCs and the NKT cell ligand -galactosyl ceramide ( -GalCer) are a promising combination for boosting immunity in humans, according to a study on page 1503. Chang and colleagues used -GalCer–pulsed DCs to immunize cancer patients and showed that the treatment resulted in long-term expansion of both NKT cells and virus-specific CD8 T cells. -GalCer, a glycolipid derived from marine sponges...