Future articles in the Hope of progress series will address what genomics can offer to the study of the response to infectious disease, the problems of vaccinating children in undeveloped countries, and protein folding problems underlying neurological disease.
In the third of our three Hope of progress articles, on autism, Martin Raff explicitly embraces all levels of description, from the behaviour of the autistic child to the single nucleotides upon whose polymorphisms current notions of the underlying genetic architecture are built.
This is from a low base, of course, following decades of penny-pinching under government ownership, a botched privatisation in 1996 that created perverse incentives and huge scope for waste, and a recent bout of wrong-headed ministerial interference following some headline-grabbing rail crashes (see article).The clearest evidence of progress is in the trains themselves.
This review article presents a summary of progress in the surface engineering of naturally produced particles in recent years.
This article presents an overview of progress in elucidating gene enzyme relationships, cellular localization, and regulatory mechanisms governing glycerolipid metabolism in yeast.
He's kicked the Pentagon's P.R. apparatus, especially that of the U.S. 3rd Army and its paid contractors, into gear, churning out articles to push his narrative of "progress".
An article yesterday about the absence of progress in weekend negotiations on an intelligence overhaul bill referred incorrectly to the committee headed by Senator John W. Warner, Republican of Virginia, who said Friday that he was concerned that the legislation might interfere with the military chain of command.
More cases may follow, including Sunbeam, a bankrupt home-appliance company whose former boss, Al "Chainsaw" Dunlap, has been accused of cooking the books.That these cases are only just beginning to show public signs of progress (see article) has been a source both of anxiety for Justice Department officials and of political pressure on the prosecutors.
In this article, I give an overview of progress from studies of one of these groups, the threespine stickleback of small coastal lakes in British Columbia, Canada.
The reader is referred to the following books and research articles which provide an extensive account of progress made on Ulam's problem during the last seventy years (cf. [8 33]).
