Asian influenza was truly the Phineas Fogg of diseases, spreading around the world in less than twice eighty days with a rapidity to delight the most sanguine of Jules Verne virologists. This global dissemination has been attributed to the capacity of Asian virus to infect a highly susceptible population (1, 2). Beyond belaboring the obvious, what more needs to be said about how Asian influenza...

Introduction: Sometimes, enteral nutritional therapy via catheter is absolutely necessary for the nutritional needs of an oncological child and a clinical case is presented herein that involved its initial rejection by the mother and her oncological child who was suffering from severe lack of nutrition. The objective of this study was to examine why the patient and responsible rejected the ente...

THE present paper records the results of some analyses of carotenoid material in cave detritus, carried out as part of a research on the causes of pigment lack in the cave fauna. There is reason to suppose that the ancestral pigment of the numerous unpigmented cavernicolous Crustacea was the carotenoid pigment astacin, since closely related above-ground species frequently contain this pigment. ...

2016 marks the awarding of the inaugural ISCB Innovator Award, which honors an ISCB scientist who is within two decades of receiving a graduate degree, has consistently made outstanding contributions to the field, and continues to forge new directions. The inaugural winner is Dr. Serafim Batzoglou (Fig 1), Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Stanford University. Batzoglou will re...