To the Editor Pourghaznein et al. have reported the results of a fascinating study into the effects of e-learning, lectures, and role playing on knowledge acquisition, retention and satisfaction of nursing students (1). Perhaps, their most interesting finding is related to elearning. E-learning resources have been shown to be an effective and cost-effective method of healthcare professional edu...

I pondered for several months over what I should write for this 100th Volume of FEMS Microbiology Letters before deciding that it might be useful to pose some questions about vaccination for which there seem to be no adequate answers. Although I have put these questions verbally to colleagues over several years, I thought that by putting the same questions in writing, it would not only help to ...

Experiments on model systems have revealed that cytokinesis in cells with contractile rings (amoebas, fungi, and animals) depends on shared molecular mechanisms in spite of some differences that emerged during a billion years of divergent evolution. Understanding these fundamental mechanisms depends on identifying the participating proteins and characterizing the mechanisms that position the fu...