When cells become committed to apoptosis, they shatter their mitochondrial networks through the actions of the mitochondrial fission protein DRP1. Massive fragmentation of mitochondria facilitates simultaneous release of cytochrome c from all mitochondria within a cell, thus promoting further progression along the apoptotic pathway. In this issue, Tondera et al (2009) describe a new process wit...

Background: sage is a form of touch therapy that functions as an important treatment technique has been known for long time. In the community, role baby massage still held by traditional birth attendants. Even though great benefits babies, many mothers don't their babies independently. The implementation done when sick or fussy, and routine care after birth.
 Objectives: purpose this study...

Viruses that attack bacteria – bacteriophages – can be fussy: they only inject their genetic material into the bacteria that suit them. The fussiness of bacteriophages can be exploited in order to detect specific species of bacteria. Scientists from Warsaw have just demonstrated that bacteriophage-based biosensors will be much more efficient if prior to the deposition on the surface of the bact...

Results Among 317 patients; 18 (7 females, 11 males) were enrolled. Consanguinity and family history of FMF were present in 28% and 56% of the patients, respectively. Clinical features seemed to be similar to general FMF patients; however, 50% of the patients were fussy children. The diagnosis of FMF was significantly delayed; the mean age at onset of therapy was 65.44 + 43.75 months. 38% of th...

Hieroglyphs dominated the landscape of the Egyptian civilisation. These elaborate symbols were ideal for inscriptions on the walls of majestic temples and monuments, and indeed the Greek word hieroglyphica means 'sacred carvings', but they were too fussy for day-to-day scribbling, so other scripts were evolved in Egypt in parallel. These were the 'hieratic' and 'demotic' scripts, which can crud...