Editorial: Bruce Merrifield at the ?Crossroads of Chemistry and Biology?

Editorial. At the crossroads.

Transplant Biology at a Crossroads

Feature M att Scott allows that he might not have been thinking too clearly that night in 1985 when the accident happened. After all, it was 2 A.M. when he and his friends returned home from a night of indulging in seasonal cheer, a few days before Christmas. That's when someone thought it might be fun to blow up the old firecracker that had been sitting around the house since midsummer. " I ha...

DNA as information: at the crossroads between biology, mathematics, physics and chemistry.

On the one hand, biology, chemistry and also physics tell us how the process of translating the genetic information into life could possibly work, but we are still very far from a complete understanding of this process. On the other hand, mathematics and statistics give us methods to describe such natural systems-or parts of them-within a theoretical framework. Also, they provide us with hints ...

Integrative Cell Biology: Katanin at the Crossroads

A new study showing a functional and physical interaction between the ROP effector RIC1 and the microtubule severing enzyme katanin brings together auxin signaling and microtubule ordering in Arabidopsis pavement cells.

Histones: At the Crossroads of Peptide and Protein Chemistry