Break dancing was at its peak of popularity in the 1980s, but evidently is still part of today’s youth culture. There have been several reports of injuries associated with this activity, although none recently. While mainly of an orthopaedic nature, the injuries reported are quite varied. This is a report of a previously fit and healthy 16 year old non-smoking young man who was 5 foot 5 inches ...

Through work in the field something about the reaction of bees to the brilliant colours of flowers, it was easier to believe that a scientist had come to the false conclusion that nature had made an absurd mistake. Since that time I have been constantly drawn back to the world of the bees and ever captivated anew. I have to thank them for hours of the purest joy of discovery, parsimoniously gra...

We describe efforts over the last six years to implement regularization methods suitable for studying one or more interacting black holes by direct N-body simulations. Three different methods have been adapted to large-N systems: (i) Time-Transformed Leapfrog, (ii) Wheel-Spoke, and (iii) Algorithmic Regularization. These methods have been tried out with some success on GRAPE-type computers. Spe...

The life cycle of eukaryotes oscillates between a diploid and a haploid state; meiosis and fertilization alternate to generate the transitions between these states. Meiosis consists of two special rounds of cell division, preceded by a single phase of DNA replication. The most recent advances in this field were presented at the EMBO Conference on Meiosis, organized by Bernard de Massy and held ...

Undoubtedly, a key feature in the popularity of smartphones is the numerous applications one can install. Frequently, we learn about applications we desire by seeing them on someone else’s mobile device. A user-friendly way to obtain these particular applications could be by taking a photo of their corresponding icons as displayed on our friend’s screen. We then need to develop methods for auto...

Most nephrologists are now accepting that there are similar general clinical outcomes between hemodialysis (HD) and peritoneal dialysis (PD) patients. Patient selection had played a role in the different earlier versus later outcomes, but these cofounders are understoodand reconciled, and theyhelpedus conclude that, for clinical outcomes, these modalities are similar. Thus, the choice of therap...

A substantial body of evidence has shown that signal transducer and activator of transcription 3 (STAT3) has an important role in the heart in protecting the myocardium from ischemia and oxidative stress. These actions are attributed to STAT3 functioning as a transcription factor in upregulating cardioprotective genes. Loss of STAT3 has been implicated as well in the pathogenesis of heart failu...