ACTN3: More than Just a Gene for Speed

ACTN3: More than Just a Gene for Speed

Over the last couple of decades, research has focused on attempting to understand the genetic influence on sports performance. This has led to the identification of a number of candidate genes which may help differentiate between elite and non-elite athletes. One of the most promising genes in that regard is ACTN3, which has commonly been referred to as "a gene for speed". Recent research has e...

Efficient Surgery : It ’ s About More Than Just Speed

Surgical efficiency is often regarded as a measure of how quickly we surgeons can get inside an eye, remove the cataract, and close the case. We may also consider how quietly we can execute the maneuvers as well. Efficient movements within the surgical field are more likely to affect the safety of an outcome than the total time we are moving around the anterior chamber. In this article, I prese...

More than just vanilla.

More than just big ears

To the non-specialist, large ears in elephants used to mean African, small ears, Indian. But to taxonomists African elephants have long posed a more complex puzzle. During the nineteenth century, it was fashionable for wealthy trophy hunters to assign their own names to species they had shot destined for the museums of Europe. At least 18 elephant subspecies were claimed following this fashion....

EHPnet: More Than Just Unleaded