New building defies the metro

The cost of the illness that defies.

Terrorism: behavior defies psychiatric diagnosis.

Highlight—Tiny, Unseeing Mite Defies Expectations

For those who love and study insects and arachnids, they can see the underappreciated wonders of the biological realm. In the face of so much diversity, so much remains to be discovered. A recent study in Genome Biology Evolution is a case in point. Researchers sequencing the genome of a mite have found what might seem stranger than fiction: a mite that has retained genes important to sight, de...

Malignant Pediatric Gliosarcoma Defies General Survival Data

Gliosarcoma, a variant of glioblastoma multiforme, is a dimorphic tumor known for its intra-axial occurrence and poor survival of less than a year. Here is an 11-year-old boy with gliosarcoma. He had a near total excision and postoperative chemoradiotherapy. He has lived through the disease for over 34 months with a residual disease.This case report is to report an unusual long survival of glio...

Why the Best YA Fiction Often Defies Classification

Afew years ago, I received a phone call from a desperate sixth grade reading teacher. “Help!” she cried, “I have a literary mutiny on my hands. I need your help now!!” I immediately raced upstairs. Our sixth graders read Louis Sachar’s Holes as a required novel. The teacher uses Holes as part of her unit on fantasy. In a time where many middle schoolers are steeped in Harry Potter and Paolini, ...