A 16-year-old girl presented with bilateral back pain caused by bilateral upper pole ureteropelvic junction obstructions; an extremely rare phenomenon. Bilateral robotically assisted upper pole pyeloplasties were preformed at the same setting with an excellent clinical response. Although rare, upper pole ureteropelvic junction obstruction is a defined entity that urologists should be aware of.

astillo et al. (page 453) have identified what may be a key event in building the spindle pole body (SPB) of budding yeast. They found that the kinase Mps1p phosphorylates and thus helps organize Spc42p, an important component of the SPB central plaque. Mps1p has been a difficult protein to study, as it does double duty as a regulator of SPB structure, and as part of the spindle checkpoint sign...

Extra exocytosis rescues polarity hang et al. (page 273) report a link between the exocyst and the t-SNAREs used for vesicle–plasma membrane fusion. The link comes in the form of Sro7p and Sro77p. These are yeast homologues of lethal giant larvae (Lgl), which was already known to bind t-SNAREs. Lgl is required for cell polarity and binds directly to t-SNAREs. Mutating Lgl induces polarity defec...

We present a calculation of the complete electroweak O(α) corrections to p p (−) → W ± → ℓ ± νX (ℓ = e, µ) in the Standard Model of electroweak interactions , focusing on those corrections which do not contribute in the pole approximation. We study in detail the effect of these corrections on the transverse mass distribution, the W-width measurement, and the transverse mass ratio and cross sect...

How did you become interested in plants? I began my graduate work with Phil Leder with the hope of making transgenic mice as a means towards understanding development in a multicellular organism. It turned out to be far more difficult and timeconsuming than I had bargained for. So when it became apparent that making transgenic plants was relatively easy, I jumped at the opportunity. I also thou...

The aim of this research was to analyse the kinematic parameters and to ascertain the influence of those parameters on the pole vault result. The entity sample of the research consisted of successful vaults of 30 athletes, whose attempts were recorded at the European Junior Athletics Championships. The examinees performed the vaults as part of the qualification competition for the finale and th...

One component of the yeast spindle pole body, Spc42p, has been found to form a crystalline array within one of the central layers of the structure; the Spc42p crystal might provide a scaffold around which the spindle pole body is assembled, and could be involved in regulating the size of the spindle pole body.