The Life and Death of Freya the Walrus: Human and Wild Animal Interactions in the Anthropocene Era by Abigail Levin, Sarah Vincent

“…We argue that, going forward, state resources should be expended to safeguard the public from marina access if safety is a genuine concern, while private money should be spent by marinas to enact safe animal removal with a no-kill policy.…”
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The Predation Strategy of Myxococcus xanthus by Susanne Thiery, Christine Kaimer

“…In addition to growing as saprophytes, Myxobacteria are predators that actively kill bacteria of other species to consume their biomass. …”
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Non-apoptotic toxicity of Pseudomonas aeruginosa toward murine cells. by Sanhita Roy, Tracey Bonfield, Alan M Tartakoff

“…Although P. aeruginosa is especially dangerous in cystic fibrosis (CF), there is no consensus as to how it kills representative cell types that are of key importance in the lung. …”
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Iran, Iraq, and the Legacies of War by Louise Gormley, David Armani

“…Although the number of casualties is still in dispute, an estimated 400,000 were killed and perhaps 700,000 were wounded on both sides (p. 2). …”
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Habitat selection by wolves and mountain lions during summer in western Montana. by Collin J Peterson, Michael S Mitchell, Nicholas J DeCesare, Chad J Bishop, Sarah S Sells

“…We hypothesized both predator species would select habitat that maximized their chances of encountering and killing ungulates and that minimized their chances of encountering humans. …”
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A New Technique for Long Time Catheterization of Sacral Epidural Canal in Rabbits by Yüksel Erkin, Zeynep Aydın, Aydın Taşdöğen, Ayşe Karcı

“…The catheters stayed in place effectively for ten days. We encountered no catheter complications during this period. …”
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The Nucleotide Excision Repair Pathway Protects Borrelia burgdorferi from Nitrosative Stress in Ixodes scapularis Ticks by Frank C. Gherardini, Travis Bourret, Kevin Lawrence, Jeff Shaw, Tao Lin, Steven J Norris

“…The Lyme disease spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi encounters a wide range of environmental conditions as it cycles between ticks of the genus Ixodes and its various mammalian hosts. …”
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Inactivation of the Rgg2 transcriptional regulator ablates the virulence of Streptococcus pyogenes. by Anastasia A Zutkis, Srivishnupriya Anbalagan, Michael S Chaussee, Alexander V Dmitriev

“…Streptococcus pyogenes adapts to different niches encountered in the human host via the activity of numerous regulatory proteins including the Rgg family of transcriptional regulators. …”
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Tobramycin at subinhibitory concentration inhibits the RhlI/R quorum sensing system in a <it>Pseudomonas aeruginosa </it>environmental isolate by Venturi Vittorio, Babić Fedora, Maravić-Vlahoviček Gordana

“…<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Antibiotics are not only small molecules with therapeutic activity in killing or inhibiting microbial growth, but can also act as signaling molecules affecting gene expression in bacterial communities. …”
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Weed management strategies in Soybean (Glycine max) — A review by SACHIN KUMAR, S S RANA

“…Killing one or two flushes before seeding a crop and immediate cultivation of field after harvest to destroy survivors has an added advantage. …”
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Categorisation of cats: Managing boundary felids in Aotearoa New Zealand and Britain by Alexandra Palmer, Virginia Thomas

“…For example, feral cats are often killed, while valued companion cats and native wildcats are protected. …”
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Neuropsychiatric adverse effects of mefloquine - What do we know and what should we do? by Nosten, F, van Vugt, M

“…Malaria is still one of the most important tropical diseases, killing millions every year. The number of effective drugs is limited, because of the ability of the causative parasite Plasmodium falciparum to develop drug resistance. …”

Selective Predation of a Stalking Predator on Ungulate Prey. by Marco Heurich, Klara Zeis, Helmut Küchenhoff, Jörg Müller, Elisa Belotti, Luděk Bufka, Benno Woelfing

“…Our results suggest that the stalking predator lynx actively selects for size, while prey behaviour induces selection by encounter and stalking success rates.…”
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Monosodium urate crystals induce extracellular DNA traps in neutrophils, eosinophils and basophils but not in mononuclear cells by Christine eSchorn, Christina eJanko, Melanie eLatzko, Ricardo eChaurio, Georg eSchett, Martin eHerrmann

“…The function of NETs is to trap and kill microbes to avoid spreading of potential pathogens. …”
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Dante’s Plot on Francesco and Paolo in Spanish Literature of the 15th–17th Centuries by Irina V. Ershova

“…The article discusses the reception of the Divine Comedy (La Divina Commedia) by Dante Alighieri and, in particular, of Canto 5 of the Inferno and its central episode — Dante’s encounter with Francesca and Paolo, in Spanish literature of the 15th–17th centuries. …”
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Weak spatiotemporal response of prey to predation risk in a freely interacting system by Cusack, JJ, Kohl, MT, Metz, MC, Coulson, T, Stahler, DR, Smith, DW, MacNulty, DR

“…We quantified spatial overlap between the winter home ranges of GPS‐collared elk and three measures of predation risk: the intensity of wolf space use, the distribution of wolf‐killed elk and vegetation openness. We also assessed whether elk varied their use of areas characterized by more or less predation risk across hours of the day, and estimated encounter rates between simultaneous elk and wolf pack trajectories. …”

Cathepsins in Bacteria-Macrophage Interaction: Defenders or Victims of Circumstance? by Lidia Szulc-Dąbrowska, Magdalena Bossowska-Nowicka, Justyna Struzik, Felix N. Toka, Felix N. Toka

“…Macrophages are the first encounters of invading bacteria and are responsible for engulfing and digesting pathogens through phagocytosis leading to initiation of the innate inflammatory response. …”
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Antimicrobial Peptide Induced-Stress Renders Staphylococcus aureus Susceptible to Toxic Nucleoside Analogs by Alexandro Rodríguez-Rojas, Arpita Nath, Baydaa El Shazely, Baydaa El Shazely, Greta Santi, Joshua Jay Kim, Christoph Weise, Benno Kuropka, Jens Rolff

“…One of the problems encountered when developing AMPs as drugs is the difficulty of reaching sufficient killing concentrations under physiological conditions. …”
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Broad-Spectrum Antiviral Therapeutics by Rider, Todd H., Zook, Christina E., Boettcher, Tara L., Wick, Scott T., Pancoast, Jennifer S., Zusman, Benjamin D.

“…We have developed a new broad-spectrum antiviral approach, dubbed Double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) Activated Caspase Oligomerizer (DRACO) that selectively induces apoptosis in cells containing viral dsRNA, rapidly killing infected cells without harming uninfected cells. …”
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Pushing Past the Blockade: Advancements in T Cell-Based Cancer Immunotherapies by Jessica Waibl Polania, Emily C. Lerner, Daniel S. Wilkinson, Alexandra Hoyt-Miggelbrink, Peter E. Fecci

“…In this review, we will provide an overview of conventional immunotherapeutic strategies and the various barriers to T cell anti-tumor function encountered in solid tumors that lead to resistance. …”
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