The internet has great potential as a repository of scientific data, but finding the information you need can be like trying to pick apart a frustrating knot; you can spend hours with nothing to show but the same knot and some broken fingernails. Fortunately, a few brave souls have taken on the task of organizing the tangled knot of biological information into web ‘directory’ links pages and on...

The explosion of genomic information and the need to search for gene homologies make it more important than ever that genetic and biochemical data from model organisms should be organized in an accessible way — which is where online databases come into their own. In previous issues, The spider dealt with online resources for yeast and Caenorhabditis elegans (see Curr Biol 1998, 8:R670), Escheri...

Brain abscesses were studied in 47 patients. Thirty-four (72%) of them were between 5-15 years and 9 were infants. Otogenic source (34%) was the commonest predisposing factor, followed by scalp and face infection (21.3%) and congenital cyanotic heart disease (12.8%). Twenty (42%) patients had multiple abscesses. Supratentorial abscesses were commonest (75.9%). Predominant clinical features were...

The purpose of this research is to analyze the profile students’ Nature Science (NOS) 7th, 8th and 9th grade Junior High School in Sekolah Indonesia Kuala Lumpur. Descriptive method used describe current condition after science lesson on interaction organisms its environemnet topic conducted class. data gained through constructed response item test that given without any academics treatment bef...

Imipenem has excellent antimicrobial activity owing in part to ,-lactamase stability. We found that only 2 of over 350 Bacteroides fragilis group clinical isolates were resistant to imipenem, with an MIC of more than 16 ,ug/ml. These two isolates from the Tufts Anaerobe Laboratory (TAL) were resistant to all other P-lactam agents tested. The organisms were able to inactivate imipenem in broth c...

Imipenem has excellent antimicrobial activity owing in part to beta-lactamase stability. We found that only 2 of over 350 Bacteroides fragilis group clinical isolates were resistant to imipenem, with an MIC of more than 16 micrograms/ml. These two isolates from the Tufts Anaerobe Laboratory (TAL) were resistant to all other beta-lactam agents tested. The organisms were able to inactivate imipen...