It has been more than a decade since Benedict Anderson urged us to consider the nation a
particular kind of cultural artefact and to study national communities in terms of the style in …

None of the approximately 750,000 known asteroids and comets in the Solar System is
thought to have originated outside it, despite models of the formation of planetary systems …

Bacteria communicate with one another using chemical signal molecules. As in higher
organisms, the information supplied by these molecules is critical for synchronizing the activities …

The modern socialist movement in Britain and the modern commercial entertainment industry
both developed rapidly in the late Victorian and Edwardian eras. Though the question of" …

Background: Hypertension is a leading risk factor for cardiovascular diseases. Our objectives
were to examine the prevalence and incidence of diagnosed hypertension in Canada and …

The recovery of an intact epithelium following lung injury is critical for restoration of lung
homeostasis. The initial processes following injury include an acute inflammatory response, …

Bacteria sense and respond to environmental cues to control important developmental
processes. Two widely conserved and important strategies that bacteria employ to sense …

Cyclic di-GMP (c-di-GMP) is a second messenger molecule that regulates the transition
between sessile and motile lifestyles in bacteria. Bacteria often encode multiple diguanylate …

We describe the Pan-STARRS Moving Object Processing System (MOPS), a modern software
package that produces automatic asteroid discoveries and identifications from catalogs of …

Two chemical signaling systems, quorum sensing (QS) and 3′,5′-cyclic diguanylic acid (c-di-GMP),
reciprocally control biofilm formation in Vibrio cholerae. QS is the process by …