We have investigated how Drosophila P element insertions are distributed in the chromosomal region near their starting site. A single P element residing in the euchromatin of minichromosome Dpl187 was mobilized following a cross to the A2-3 (99B) strain, and progeny bearing transpositions were identified with a minimum of bias by performing Southern blots on progeny. Approximately 12% of all pr...

M en might build more muscle, but women are better at keeping what they have, if results from Deasy et al. (page 73) are any indication. The group shows that female muscle stem cells are better than their male counterparts at regenerating lost muscle. The authors were led into the realm of muscle and sex when they realized that they were relying heavily on cell lines derived from female mice to...

The morbidity and mortality due to tuberculosis (TB) is high worldwide, and the burden of disease among women is significant, especially in developing countries. Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacilli reach the genital tract primarily by haematogenous spread and dissemination from foci outside the genitalia with lungs as the common primary focus. Genital TB in females is a chronic disease with low-...

jumping on everyone else’s bandwagon, but has anyone ever evaluated the ‘science forecast’ ten years down the road? Nevertheless, this chapter provides several extremely useful starting points. The chapters are a bit heterogeneous in style, with some having glossaries and/or useful ‘future directions’ sections, whilst others do not. However, the quality of the chapters is consistently high, and...

T HE influence of plane of nutrition upon economically important traits of cattle has received considerable attention. Many studies have been concerned with low energy levels, but only limited data concerning the effects of excessive fat deposition on females have been reported. A high plane of nutrition for cattle has been shown to increase weight and skeletal size (Hansson, 1956; Reid et al.,...

We used National Performance Evaluation Survey data to estimate the prevalence and associated factors of edentulism among noninstitutionalized adults aged 35 years and older in Mexico. Statistically, the variables positively associated with edentulism were older age (odds ratio [OR]=1.08) and female gender (OR=1.79). Nonsmoking status (OR=0.70) and having a higher wealth index score (OR=0.72) w...

BACKGROUND Few models of how community mobilisation works have been elaborated in the scientific literature, and evaluation of the impact of these programmes on HIV and other health outcomes is extremely limited. Avahan, the India AIDS Initiative, has been implementing community mobilisation as part of its prevention programming with groups of high-risk individuals across six states since 2005....