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From the depths of the ocean to outer space …
Over 300 articles have been published in the Microbiology section of ELS and a number of these deal with those microorganisms which have an ability to thrive in extreme habitats: from hypersaline lakes to alkaline ones, and hydrothermal vents to the cold deep ocean. The unique biochemical features of... Read more
"Science and Society" within ELS
Science and Society is the largest single section in ELS. It covers both the history and philosophy of the life sciences, as well as the rapidly developing field of bioethics. These latter articles in particular are regularly updated, as new knowledge and technologies throw up ethical and legal ramifications.... Read more
HIV Vaccine Approaches
On 24th September 2009, the phase 3 RV144 trial of two vaccine candidates used in a prime-boost combination in Thailand reported the most positive results yet seen for an HIV vaccine. The combination of a live recombinant canary pox vector containing three HIV genes followed by a boost with recombinant... Read more
FEATURED ARTICLES
Antibiotic Resistance Plasmids in Bacteria
Antibiotic resistance plasmids are bacterial extrachromosomal elements that carry genes conferring resistance to one or more antibiotics. They are notorious for their ability to transfer conjugatively between bacterial species and are significantly involved in the emergence and dissemination of multiple... Read full article
Oncogenic Kinases in Cancer
Oncogenesis involves the generation and transmission of signals that result in deregulation of cell proliferation, inhibition of apoptosis and morphological changes. Transmembrane or cytoplasmic tyrosine and serine/threonine kinases participate both directly and indirectly in cell transformation and... Read full article
Complement: The Alternative Pathway
The alternative pathway of complement is a powerful and evolutionarily old defence system of innate immunity that inactivates invading microorganisms and modified self cells. For survival in an immunocompetent host, pathogenic microbes must provide means to interfere with alternative pathway activation... Read full article
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Sir David Weatherall
Sir David Weatherall, a distinguished medical geneticist and haematologist has had lifelong involvement in medical care and clinical teaching. He was Regius Professor of Medicine at Oxford University and is the world authority on thalaessemia. In History of Clinical Medicine, Weatherall examines medicine from Hippocratics through to Pasteur and Koch.
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