WANTED, AN EXPLANATION.

Wanted, an Anthrax vaccine: Dead or Alive?

It has been more than 100 years since the realization that microbes are capable of causing disease. In that time, we have learned a great deal as to how each organism has adapted to the immune system so as to avoid elimination. As well, we have also learned an immense amount since Louis Pasteur first proposed that the solution to infectious diseases was to culture the microbes and attenuate the...

Diagnosis Wanted

Wanted—Skulls

In order to determine the characters of a race, it is necessary that comparison should be made of at least twenty skulls. It is further desirable to have as many of the bones of the skeleton as possible, as comparison of pelvic and long bones give important results in determining race peculiarities. The Hunterian Museum, now under the direction of Professor Flower, F. E. S., is especially inter...

An Explanation of Splaying

Just as in bottom-up splaying, the idea is to follow each access by a restructuring of the search tree along the path from the accessed item to the root of the tree. The restructuring is done in a local fashion, i.e., without using information about the global structure of the tree. We call the restructuring algorithm the super̈ isor; it operates with a set of rules called the ruleset. Each unit...

An epistatic explanation

Interactions between two gene variants that rarely cause midline craniosynostosis on their own make the development of the disorder a certainty.