With support from high places, drug importation is gaining ground

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...

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...

What is microbiology gaining from genomics?

Friends in High Places.

We demonstrate that personal connections amongst U.S. politicians have a significant impact on Senate voting behavior. Networks based on alumni connections between politicians are consistent predictors of voting behavior. We estimate sharp measures that control for common characteristics of the network, as well as heterogeneous impacts of a common network characteristic across votes. We find th...