new advances in mass spectrometry-based proteomics technology are having amajor impact on our understanding of how human spermatozoa acquire their capacity for fertilization. a complete analysis of the proteins found in the human spermatozoa is essential for understanding the events leading up to, and including, fertilization and early embryo development. in this short review, we have collected...

Research Interest:-Cancer Biology The goal of our research effort is to understand the biology of cancer cells. From an understanding of the defects in a cancer cell, rational strategies for treatment can be developed.

David Smyth is a plant developmental geneticist. He began his independent career at Monash University in Melbourne in 1974, where he investigated the basis of the very large genomes of the true lilies (Lilium species) when DNA cloning methods became available. Two abundant dispersed elements turned out to be retrotransposons, revealing their important role in bulking up some plant genomes. In 1...

R700 Current Biology 25, R693–R710, Augu Ballard roots his development in the language of computation, the only tool available with which we can express the full breadth of necessary concepts, from mathematics to logic, representations, input and output, algorithms, control, systems, memory, interaction, and more (see also [8]). He uses this full breadth of computational methodologies far more ...

Recent evidence suggests that nearly 25% of U.S. adults (47 million) suffer from some level of sleep deprivation. The impact of this sleep deprivation on the U.S. economy includes direct medical expenses related to sleep deprivation and related disorders, the cost of accidents, and the cost of reduced worker productivity. Sleep research has examined the effects of sleep deprivation on a number ...

and others developed quantitative ways of coping, well before the photon had been conceived. Photon scattering can now accommodate all scattering phenomena, but as Johnsen points out, it is computationally messy. Chapter six is a tough one for those of us who belong to the rays and waves tradition. It includes transparency, reflection and refraction but is titled simply ‘Scattering with interfe...

ion representations such as differing prosodic templates (Crowhurst 1992, Prieto 1992) and constraint reranking (Colina 2003) have been proposed to account for these differences, as have different morphological parses (Bermúdez-Otero 2007). There are however, some concrete characteristics that are related to the dialectal differences such as whether the stem contains the diphthongs [je] and [we...

David Baulcombe was born in the Midlands of the UK into a non-scientifi c family. He studied botany as an undergraduate at Leeds University (BSc 1973) and started his own research group at the Plant Breeding Institute in Cambridge after his PhD in Edinburgh (1977) and spells as a postdoc in Montreal and Athens Georgia. He has been in the Sainsbury Laboratory in Norwich since 1988 where he is a ...