Current Biology 16 (4)

Beiter K, F Wartha, B Albiger, S Normark, A Zychlinsky, B Henriques-Normark. (2006) An Endonuclease Allows Streptococcus pneumoniae to Escape from Neutrophil Extracellular Traps. Current Biology 16 (4): 401-407

Buchanan JT, AJ Simpson, RK Aziz, GY Liu, SA Kristian, M Kotb, J Feramisco, V Nizet. (2006) DNase Expression Allows the Pathogen Group A Streptococcus to Escape Killing in Neutrophil Extracellular Traps. Current Biology 16 (4): 396-400
The concurrent findings would provide a good news for the recent pandemic of Group A Step Necrotizing Fasciitis in Colorado. Hopefully, it would really supply us a real target for invasive GAP infection, as authors hypothesized.

Dewing P, CWK Chiang, K Sinchak, H Sim, P-O Fernagut, S Kelly, M-F Chesselet, PE Micevych, KH Albrecht, VR Harley, E Vilain. (2006) Direct Regulation of Adult Brain Function by the Male-Specific Factor SRY. Current Biology 16 (4): 415-420
The sexual dimorphism was joined by another player, SRY. Interestingly, no sexual hormone was invovled in this dimorphic brain function difference. Sry plays a solo, seemly.

Tassy O, F Daian, C Hudson, V Bertrand, P Lemaire. (2006) A Quantitative Approach to the Study of Cell Shapes and Interactions during Early Chordate Embryogenesis. Current Biology 16 (4): 345-358
Thanks to the newly developed generic software, 3D Vitual Embryo, it becomes possible to characterize the development of embryo at a single cell level. As a result, they reported the variability of blastosmeres' shapes, novel asymmetrical cell division, and selective neural induction, for the first time.