Asentiment I have expressed before and will undoubtedly continue to express is how ordinary people can make such an extraordinary impact on those around them, as well the profession a whole. The subject of this quarter's Completed Careers Column one person. His brilliance, matched by very memorable personality, makes Cees Keyer fascinating ‘character’ in EMC community. He missed who knew him, b...

PhD Completed

Vertebrates exhibit evolutionarily conserved asymmetries in the pattern of internal organ placement that are essential for their normal physiological function. Left-right asymmetries in organ situs are dependent upon the formation of an intact left-right axis during embryogenesis. Recently many of the molecular components involved in the initiation and maintenance of the left-right axis have be...

PLoS Biology | http://biology.plosjournals.org Of the 300 or so viruses that cause disease in humans, HIV may have the greatest adaptive advantage. Like most persistent viruses—including the herpesviruses Epstein–Barr and cytomegalovirus (CMV)—HIV employs various strategies to counteract its host’s response to infection. But HIV possesses a unique ability to sustain a progressive attack on the ...