In a recent study published in Cell, researchers examined the wealth of information available regarding the heterogeneity of tissue macrophages. They pursued a conceptual framework for better ...

IT has been known for some time that after an attack of acute pancreatitis an intrinsically "normal" gall bladder may not function temporarily (as evidenced by cholecystography). 1 As far as we are ...

Differences in the geographic origin of genes may affect the function of human mitochondria--energy-generating organelles inside of cells--according to a new study. Mitochondria have their own genome, ...

Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences, Vol. 148, No. 931 (Feb. 18, 1958), pp. 217-240 (24 pages) The properties of foam and bubbles arising in the lung have been ...

The origin, function, and nomenclature of the Attic pear-shaped black-figured vases broadly referred to as 'Attic phormiskoi' are matters of continuing scholarly dispute. This paper addresses these ...

Here, I propose a new model for the origin of new gene functions: an adaptive radiation model that integrates the amplification mutagenesis phenomenon observed in bacterial genetics with the patterns ...