Homing in on delivery

Homing in on helminths.

I am honored to give this lecture dedicated to the memory of Dr. Fred Soper, whose pioneering efforts against the insect vectors of malaria and yellow fever are legendary. Soper and his col leagues also played key roles in restoring the con cept of eradication to respectability after the col lapse of earlier campaigns to eradicate hookworm and yellow fever. When Soper was himself in vited to gi...

Homing in on L-selectin.

Homing in on Intracellular Aβ?

mers or ADDLs appear to accumulate in the AD brain. These soluble aggregates have been shown to be potent neurotoxins that can acutely disrupt neuronal func-In this issue of Neuron, a study by Billings et al. tion in vivo. The limited immunohistochemical studies points to intracellular A␤ as a possible cause of neu-using antibodies that recognize these oligomers or ronal dysfunction. In a mouse...

Homing in on ant navigation.

infection, even when challenged with comparatively low numbers of bacteria. The result is a triumph for the approach of mining bacterial metabolic diversity for applied uses. In this case, Dong et al. capitalized on the discovery that many bacteria can degrade, and so inactivate, AHLs. Earlier, the same group 5 had isolated hundreds of bacterial species from soil and screened them for the abili...

Quality of Service Delivery: Economic Effects of Multi-Homing and Content Delivery Networks

The structure of the Internet serves as a big "commoditizer" of all traffic. Therefore all data, be it time critical or not is transported at the same speed. However, recent trends in the internet are changing this structure. The practices of multi-homing and using content delivery networks reduce the commodity nature of data being transported and put terminating Internet service providers in a...