Materials and methods Two years of hot clinic appointments between 1 August 2016 and 31
July 2018 were analysed. This included final diagnosis, appointment waiting times, time …

Diabetics frequently suffer from chronic, nonhealing wounds. Although bacterial colonization
and/or infection are generally acknowledged to negatively impact wound healing, the …

Acinetobacter baumannii is an emerging human pathogen and a significant cause of
nosocomial infections among hospital patients worldwide. The enormous increase in multidrug …

Phytophthora infestans is the most destructive pathogen of potato and a model organism for
the oomycetes, a distinct lineage of fungus-like eukaryotes that are related to organisms …

DNA methylation has been implicated in chromatin condensation and nuclear organization,
especially at sites of constitutive heterochromatin. How this is mediated has not been clear. …

Embryonic stem cells (ESCs) are maintained in an undifferentiated state through expression
of the core transcriptional factors Nanog, Oct4, and Sox2. However, the epigenetic …

Welcome to Artfractures Quarterly Spring issue. We have continued along the same lines as
our winter issue by including and contrasting art historical essays, exhibition reviews, and …

Our bodies are home to an unseen ecosystem of microbes that live in symbiosis with us. In
this work, we extend the “human” in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) to include these …

Background DNA methylation and the Polycomb repression system are epigenetic mechanisms
that play important roles in maintaining transcriptional repression. Recent evidence …

Mutations in the gene encoding the methyl-CG binding protein MeCP2 cause several
neurological disorders including Rett syndrome. The di-nucleotide methyl-CG (mCG) is the …