Microbiology gaining ground after lean years

What is microbiology gaining from genomics?

Is IPv6 Finally Gaining Ground?

W hen the Internet Engineering Task Force approved Internet protocol version 6 several years ago, proponents acclaimed it as a major development. Since then, IPv6 (see the sidebar " IPv6 Primer ") has received support only in some areas. In Asia, for example, the profusion of smart cellular phones and PDAs has caused the demand for IP addresses to outstrip the limited supply provided by IPv4, t...

Gaining ground on breast cancer.

June 20 0 8 Breast cancer is the most commonly diagnosed malignancy among women and, after lung cancer, the second leading cause of cancer-related deaths in North America. Yet unlike the survival rate for individuals diagnosed with lung cancer, the rate for women diagnosed with breast cancer has been rising dramatically over the past decade—to the point where breast cancer could soon lose its r...

Ten Years after "Reliable Knowledge": Are We Gaining?

The kinds of questions we ask in wildlife biology are at least as important as the methods we use to get answers to questions in research. In this essay, I urge wildlife biologists to vigorously pursue "why" questions rather than "how" questions or descriptive studies that should serve only as a starting point for our investigations. Behavioral ecologists are currently involved in a debate over...

Graham Warren: Gaining ground on the Golgi

T he elegantly stacked cisternae of the Golgi are central to secretory protein maturation and traffi cking. Graham Warren has made it his life's work to demystify the biology of this essential organelle. Trained as a classical biochemist in England, Warren took a position as group leader at the then newly established European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL). There, he studied protein traffi...