Salmonella strikes a balance

Physicians' strikes--a rejoinder.

The author, a physician, rejects a previous defence of a doctors' strike. There is little justification for strikes in general, still less for doctors' strikes, he claims. Should not doctors rather 'stand above the common herd' and set an example, he asks. Furthermore the whole idea of strikes in which a third and innocent party is deliberately punished in order to apply pressure on someone els...

Striking a balance: modulation of the actin cytoskeleton by Salmonella.

Salmonella spp. have evolved the ability to enter into cells that are normally nonphagocytic. The internalization process is the result of a remarkable interaction between the bacteria and the host cells. Immediately on contact, Salmonella delivers a number of bacterial effector proteins into the host cell cytosol through the function of a specialized organelle termed the type III secretion sys...

'It takes a village' strikes a chord.

When lightning strikes twice.

The educational, occupational, and creative accomplishments of the profoundly gifted participants (IQs > 160) in the Study of Mathematically Precocious Youth (SMPY) are astounding, but are they representative of equally able 12-year-olds? Duke University’s Talent Identification Program (TIP) identified 259 young adolescents who were equally gifted. By age 40, their life accomplishments also wer...

Systems Biology Strikes Gold

Integrating synthetic biology and systems biology efforts can advance our understanding of biomolecular systems. This is illustrated in this issue by Cantone et al. (2009), who construct a synthetic gene network in yeast and use it to assess and benchmark systems biology approaches for reverse engineering endogenous gene networks.