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Keystone Symposia kicked off the start of 2012 with two joint meetings on Epigenomics and Chromatin Dynamics and a star-studded list of speakers. Held in Keystone, CO, January 17-22, and organized by Steven Jacobsen and Steven Henikoff and by Bradley Cairns and Geneviève Almouzni, respectively, there was plenty happening in these sessions that it did not seem to matter that the ski-slope condit...

1 Australian Institute of Tropical Health and Medicine, James Cook University, Cairns, QLD, Australia, 2Immune Imaging Program, The Centenary Institute, Newtown, NSW, Australia, 3 Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia, 4 Centre for Inflammatory Diseases, Monash University Department of Medicine, Monash Medical Centre, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, 5 Discipline of Derm...

In Situ X-Ray Absorption Spectroscopic Study of Li1.05Ni0.35Co0.25Mn0.4O2 Cathode Material Coated with LiCoO2 Aniruddha Deb, Uwe Bergmann, Stephen P. Cramer, and Elton J. Cairns* Environmental Energy Technologies Division and Physical Bioscience Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory, Menlo Park, California 9402...

1 Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Tropical Medicine, School of Medicine & Health Sciences, The George Washington University, Washington DC, United States of America, 2 Research Center for Neglected Tropical Diseases of Poverty, School of Medicine & Health Sciences, The George Washington University, Washington DC, United States of America, 3 Centre for Biodiscovery and Molecular Devel...

Mountains and high ground are often venerated as special places. It is their enigmatic quality as high places, their prominence and permanence in both the mental and physical landscapes that draws us to them. In the Neolithic/Bronze Age mountain tops in Ireland were frequently used for ritual purposes, often indicated by the presence of various monuments such as passage tombs, cairns as well as...

Computer viruses are a worrying real-world problem, and a challenge to theoretical modelling. In this issue of the Computer Journal, Erkki Mäkinen proposes universal Turing machines in a critique of an earlier paper, ‘A framework for modelling Trojans and computer virus infection’ (Thimbleby, H., Anderson, S. O. and Cairns, P. (1998) Comp. J., 41, 444–458). This short paper is a reply by those ...

In conjunction with the Creating Futures conference, the inaugural meeting of the National Indigenous Health and New Media Forum (NIHNMF--pronounced as 'nymph') was held at the Tanks Gallery in Cairns, Queensland, Australia. This paper describes the background to this innovative meeting of media minds. It also explores an emerging vision for addressing Indigenous health disparities through digi...