My third year of medical school, and I have finally begun my training. I am slowly learning to be a surgeon. I will open you up and search through the detritus of sickness, extirpate what is necessary, and leave in my wake a health of my own creation. There is power in that; a power that I have already glimpsed. Reaching out and calmly saying, "knife." Deliberately moving the scalpel across the...

In This Issue In This Issue Initiate then elongate tudies on yeast have provided significant insights into eukaryotic DNA replication, but it has been difficult to examine the process in more complex organisms. On page 225, Claycomb et al. have taken advantage of a peculiar aspect of insect biology to develop a new model for studying metazoan DNA replication, and have already made one surprisin...