Getting a Handle on Biosolids: New Model Estimates Microbial Exposure Risk

Getting a Handle on Biosolids: New Model Estimates Microbial Exposure Risk

Although some perfluorinated chemicals—manmade compounds used in such goods as nonstick cookware and stain protectors—are no longer manufactured, decoding the ways in which these chemicals affect humans and wildlife is important because of the stability of the compounds, their persistence in the environment, and their long retention times in living organisms. To date, the biological mechanisms ...

Getting a handle on centrosomes

entrosomes are required for cytokinesis and are important in cell cycle progression—but how are centrosomes connected to these essential cellular functions at the molecular level? On page 535, Gromley et al. describe the maternal cen-triole protein centriolin, the first integral centrosome protein linked to both cytokinesis and cell cycle progression in vertebrate cells. Overexpression, siRNA s...

Getting a handle on exhibition catalogues

This paper describes work being carried out by CIMI (the Consortium for Interchange of Museum Information) on the analysis of exhibition catalogues. This is being undertaken as part of Project CHIO (Cultural Heritage Information Online). The project plans to use the SGML (Standard Generalized Markup Language) standard to express the structure and content of source materials, including exhibitio...

Limb Movement: Getting a Handle on Grasp

The mechanical complexity of the hand is indisputable, but there is increasing evidence that its control is simplified in many tasks around synergic groups of muscles that effectively decrease the number of controlled degrees of freedom.

Getting a handle on RNA virus recombination.