Storm in Zeeland. Nick Kortekaas’ enscenering van The Tempest

Temporal Trends and Temperature-Related Incidence of Electrical Storm: The TEMPEST Study (Temperature-Related Incidence of Electrical Storm).

BACKGROUND The occurrence of ventricular tachyarrhythmias seems to follow circadian, daily, and seasonal distributions. Our aim is to identify potential temporal patterns of electrical storm (ES), in which a cluster of ventricular tachycardias or ventricular fibrillation, negatively affects short- and long-term survival. METHODS AND RESULTS The TEMPEST study (Circannual Pattern and Temperatur...

A Scientific Tempest

In the nick of time

A fatal break up poptosis can be short-circuited by inhibiting a protein that stimulates mitochondria to split. The finding suggests that mitochondrial fission is indispensable for programmed cell death. Most mitochondria are not the solitary, kidney bean–shaped objects you see in the textbooks, says Richard Youle (National A Drp1 (green) translocates to, and helps divide, mitochondria (red) du...

Tap water tempest

You know the news isn’t going to be good when the report of a new study cites sources in City Hall rather than the scientific literature. That’s exactly how the story broke in February, reporting a link between tap water and miscarriages in a California study. On February 10, the Los Angeles Times warned its readers in a front page report that “drinking five or more glasses of cold tap water pe...

Nick Talbot

Nick Talbot is Professor of Molecular Genetics at the University of Exeter, UK. He received his PhD at the University of East Anglia (UEA) and the John Innes Centre, and then carried out postdoctoral research at Purdue University in the USA. Nick moved to the University of Exeter as a Lecturer in 1993. His research is concerned with understanding the biology of rice blast disease, one of the mo...