B cells pay a price

Social Evolution: Slimy Cheats Pay a Price

Variation in the routes to social success has led to the designation of 'cheats' and 'cooperators', but new work shows that selection on non-social traits can give the illusion of social cheating in the social amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum.

A heart price to pay for anaemia.

Revision arthroplasty: a high price to pay.

patients tested were hypothyroid. The table shows the time of onset of the hypothyroidism; in five patients it developed during follow up, after six months to 10 years. There was no significant difference in mean age, erythrocyte sedimentation rate, haemoglobin concentration, or platelet count between the hypothyroid and euthyroid patients. As expected, there were proportionately more women tha...

Sex workers to pay the price.

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Gram-negative antibiotic resistance: there is a price to pay

Resistance rates are increasing among several problematic Gram-negative pathogens that are often responsible for serious nosocomial infections, including Acinetobacter spp., Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and (because of their production of extended-spectrum beta-lactamase) Enterobacteriaceae. The presence of multiresistant strains of these organisms has been associated with prolonged hospital stays, ...