Wrapping Up 2019 [The Editor's Desk]

Musings from the Editors' Desk

Wrapping up the Standard Model

The award of the Nobel prize in equal shares to Prof. Yoichiro Nambu of the University of Chicago, Profs. Makato Kobayashi of the KEK laboratory in Tsukuba and Toshihide Maskawa of Kyoto University, nearly completes the series of Nobel Prizes recognizing the development of the Standard Model of Particle Physics. This model is a simple and coherent picture of fundamental particles and forces bas...

Wrapping up Stereocilia Rootlets

The actin-filled stereocilia of cochlear hair cells deflect in response to sound by pivoting around rootlets at their insertion points at the sensory cell surface. Kitajiri et al. (2010) now show that the actin-binding protein TRIOBP tightly bundles the actin filaments into rootlets, endowing these stereocilia "pivots" with unique elasticity and robustness.

Wrapping up histone regulation.

“H istones and Chromatin”, a new review series in EMBO Reports and The EMBO Journal on histones, the chief protein components of chromatin, provides a state-of-the-art focus on molecular mechanistic understanding of the regulation of chromatin. The review series is centered on the histone code hypothesis, rather than the epigenetic code— i.e. excluding DNA modifications. Since the histone code ...

The Innermost Regions of Relativistic Jets: Wrapping Up the Enigma

What are relativistic jets like within a million Schwarzschild radii of the accreting black hole that powers them? A meeting in Granada, Spain in June 2013, organized by José L. Gómez and his conspirators brought together observers and theorists to survey the current state of observational data and efforts to interpret them. This conference summary reviews the results, insights, arguments, conf...