The Tasmanian devil is under threat of extinction due to the transmissible devil facial tumor disease (DFTD). This fatal tumor is an allograft that does not induce an immune response, raising questions about the activity of Tasmanian devil immune cells. T and B cell analysis has been limited by a lack of antibodies, hence the need to produce such reagents. Amino acid sequence analysis revealed ...

Devil facial tumour disease (DFTD) is a fatal, transmissible malignancy that threatens the world's largest marsupial carnivore, the Tasmanian devil, with extinction. First recognised in 1996, DFTD has had a catastrophic effect on wild devil numbers, and intense research efforts to understand and contain the disease have since demonstrated that the tumour is a clonal cell line transmitted by all...

The arrival of the dingo in mainland Australia is believed to have caused the extinction of three native vertebrates: the thylacine, the Tasmanian devil and the Tasmanian native hen. The dingo is implicated in these extinctions because, while these three species disappeared during the late Holocene of mainland Australia in the presence of the dingo, they persisted in Tasmania in its absence. Mo...

Divergent selection is the main driving force in sympatric ecological speciation and may also play a strong role in divergence between allopatric populations. Characterizing the genome-wide impact of divergent selection often constitutes a first step in unravelling the genetic bases underlying adaptation and ecological speciation. The Midas cichlid fish (Amphilophus citrinellus) species complex...

To keep up with the frantic pace at which devices come out, drivers need to be quickly developed, debugged and tested. Although a driver is a critical system component, the driver development process has made little (if any) progress. The situation is particularly disastrous when considering the hardware operating code (i.e., the layer interacting with the device). Writing this code often relie...

The implementation of visual languages requires a wide range of conceptual and technical knowledge from issues of user interface design and graphical implementation to aspects of analysis and transformation for languages in general. We present the DEViL system that incorporates such knowledge. It generates complete language implementations from high level specifications. DEViL is the successor ...

The Angel-Devil game is an infinite game played on an infinite chess board: In each move the Angel, a generalized chess king, jumps from his current square to some location at distance at most k, while his opponent, the Devil, blocks squares trying to strand the Angel. The Angel wins if he manages to fly on forever. It is a long-standing open question whether some Angel of sufficiently large po...

2007 III DEDICATION To the owners of the glowing hearts and burning vigor.……………. To those who sacrificed their money, souls and blood for their faith..... To those who faced the devil of evil and the devil of craving………. To Al-Aqsa Intifada martyrs and all the martyrs of Palestine………. To the spirit of the struggling martyr, my nephew, Rami Ganim……… To the stubborn heroes and political prisoners...

He who sups with the devil needs a long spoon. To cast the pharmaceutical industry in the role of the devil may seem a little unfair, but the British Biotech affair has shown all too clearly that there are times when the industry must be kept at arm's length from the development of its own drugs. This paper describes briefly the problems which beset British Biotech-reports of which have general...