The Usual (and Some Not-So-Usual) Suspects: A New Chemical Screening Method

Identifying the “Usual Suspects”

tHe USual Suspects

A 72-year-old man presented with a short history of headaches with reduced visual acuity in his right eye. His general practitioner then referred him to the ophthalmologist who found Grade IV hypertensive retinopathy with bilateral papilloedema on fundoscopy. He was referred to a medical team for further assessment. Eleven months prior to this current presentation, the patient developed painles...

Genetic conflicts: the usual suspects and beyond.

Selfishness is pervasive and manifests at all scales of biology, from societies, to individuals, to genetic elements within a genome. The relentless struggle to seek evolutionary advantages drives perpetual cycles of adaptation and counter-adaptation, commonly referred to as Red Queen interactions. In this review, we explore insights gleaned from molecular and genetic studies of such genetic co...

Not the usual suspects: the unexpected sources of tissue regeneration.

Not the usual suspects: human wound myiasis by phorids.

Infestation of animal tissues by dipteran larvae (myiasis) commonly occurs in many species, but it is unusual for humans in temperate regions. Nevertheless, human myiasis is regularly observed in many primary care facilities in the United States. Beyond medical issues associated with treating human myiasis, both the causal agent and the longevity of myiasis can have legal implications, for exam...