Recently, the problem of data integration has been newly addressed by methods based on machine learning and discovery. Such methods are intended to automate, at least in part, the laborious process of information integration, by which existing data sources are incorporated in a virtual database. Essentially, these methods scan new data sources, attempting to discover possible mappings to the vi...

Antiterminator RNA directly modifies the transcription elongation complex so that it terminates less efficiently at intrinsic and factor-dependent terminators. These unusual RNAs were first discovered in bacteriophage HK022, where the nascent transcripts of the phage put sites promote full expression of phage genes during lytic infection. The activity of antiterminator RNA depends on specific s...

Introduction: We report the serendipitous discovery of a small number of graphite whiskers (GWs), a rare polymorph of carbon, in a range of settings within several CV3 meteorites [1]. Currently accepted growth conditions for GWs indicate that this unusual phase requires that the parent mineralogy experienced high temperature processing in contact with a carbon-containing gas. Description of Gra...

Zircon (ZrSiO4) is the most commonly used geochronometer, preserving age and geochemical information through a wide range of geological processes. However, zircon U-Pb geochronology can be affected by redistribution of radiogenic Pb, which is incompatible in the crystal structure. This phenomenon is particularly common in zircon that has experienced ultra-high temperature metamorphism, where io...

KEY CLINICAL MESSAGE An 18-year-old was presented with a large inflamed appendix (compressed by the instrument) and a spermatic cord with right undescended testicle (cryptorchidism). Patients who undergo orchiopexy after age 12 years, or no orchiopexy, are 2-6 times as likely to have testicular cancer as those who undergo prepubertal orchiopexy.