the president of the Torre association that has been caring for the cats since 1993. A former opera singer who still exudes the gravitas—with her sweep of silver hair and long black dress—that she no doubt projected from the stage, Silvia told me that 25 years ago she used to walk by...
After clicking on the “P27986-P42336” button, MPM will load the information for PIK3CA-PIK3R1. Although both proteins were mutated in various cancer types, most of the interface mutations were detected on PIK3CA (Fig. 5b, orange bars). By exploring the “More” section, we also found th...
quickly climb on conspecific (not necessarily parental) adults and cling to them before the latter start walking in search of a plant. This “riding” behavior is likely to be adaptive for the nymphs, for it shortens their journey and the time they spend off a host plant. Adults however...
The last year has seen a lot of changes for me in all aspects of my life. I was appointed as the Finance Director for the charity I’ve worked for over the last 3 and a half years or so, which has stretched me in ways I couldn’t have imagined, but has also been more fulfilling...
We both chuckled and then moved on to other small talk. The bell rang minutes later and our children rushed over to our waiting spot, bursting to ask if their friends could come over and if we’d carry their backpacks for them while they did the monkey bars one last time before the ...
I didn’t like the shoes; they were sturdy brown things from Clarks, with T-bars and no hint of a patent shine but I still wasn’t sure I wanted dog sick on them. ‘Don’t worry,’ my mother said, ‘I’ll clean them for you.’ When we got home, I assume the first thing ...
The bars indicate the percentages of parasitoids that selected either odor source. Dark shading indicates herbivore-damaged plants and gray shading indicates herbivore-undamaged plants. The numbers indicate the number of parasitoids that made a choice, and the numbers in parentheses indicate the total ...
reasons). It's one thing to see wildlife from a distance or behind bars, but completely different to have them prance right in front of you (sea lions and marine iguanas). This trip marked the first time in my life that I've crossed the equator. I got a silly t-shirt for it, ...
for London Pride in the British Airways magazine “Proud to be the Queens’ Greengrocer” it said. That made me smile. Although I did not find time for a full ceremonial tea experience, I managed to grab half an hour between bacon shopping and leaving for the airport to go and take ...
Bishop, where Austin moved without Wallace in 1895, wasn’t the model for Jimville in The Land of Little Rain, but it’s close in spirit. Austin’s “Bret Harte town,” with 300 inhabitants and four bars, is a place of survival, “like the herb-eating, bony-cased old tortoise.” ...