Molecular biology has driven a powerful reductionist, or molecule-c- tric, approach to biological research in the last half of the 20th century. Red- tionism is the attempt to explain complex phenomena by defining the functional properties of the individual components of the system. Bloom (1) has referred to the post-genome sequencing era as the end of naive reductionism. Red- tionist methods will continue to be an essential element of all biological research efforts, but naive reductionism, the belief that reductionism alone can lead to a complete understanding of living organisms, is not...

The ability to regulate cell volume in the face of osmotic challenge is one of the fundamental of cellular homeostatic mechanisms. This work describes the key aspects of cell volume control. It is organized around concepts and cellular/molecular processes rather than around mechanisms of volume regulation in specific cell types.

Molecular biology has driven a powerful reductionist, or molecule-c- tric, approach to biological research in the last half of the 20th century. Red- tionism is the attempt to explain complex phenomena by defining the functional properties of the individual components of the system. Bloom (1) has referred to the post-genome sequencing era as the end of naive reductionism. Red- tionist methods will continue to be an essential element of all biological research efforts, but naive reductionism, the belief that reductionism alone can lead to a complete understanding of living organisms, is not...

"Sex, drugs, rock and roll, and tentacles." -- Jeffrey Thomas, author of Monstrocity Kevin Strange's fiction has been described as bleak, hopeless, bizarre, and always unpredictable. This is Strange at his most nihilistic. The Last Gig on Planet Earth collects eight tales full of suspense, of dread, of that side of human nature that most pretend does not exist. Strange sets his spotlight directly in its gnarled face and demands it reveal its most twisted secrets. The Last Gig on Planet Earth is the story of a band willing to write songs directly from the dreaded Necronomicon if that's what it...

While the Machines ravage humanity in a horrific, prolonged and violent genocide, the survivors of this nightmare apocalyptic world spend their short, violent lives hiding and running, doing their best to avoid the giant torture robots and man-sized retrieval units. That is, until they find Computerface, a man with an iPad grafted to his face. This bizarre disfigurement confuses the robot retrieval units, giving the human survivors an upper hand against the robots for the first time since their uprising. But will Computerface become the hero this decimated world needs, or will he remain the...

In a dystopian future where Barack Obama is lord and emperor of the only city left on earth after the zombie apocalypse, one young man must fight his way through a tournament pitting zombie against remote controlled zombie if he hopes to stop the evil, half-cyborg dictator from destroying Steel City and the rest of the fabled Obamamerica beyond. Time traveling terrorists, giant robot zombies made of zombies, and Barack Obama like you've never seen him before are but a few of the twists and turns that make Robamapocalypse one of the weirdest, most action packed bizarro stories you'll ever lay...

Mr. P was just your average, ordinary junior college English professor, that is until his wife unexpectedly dies. Without his moral compass to guide him, Mr. P soon spirals into a pit of despair, indulging in every form of fleshy carnality his 62 year old mind can imagine. After learning of a secret gangbang party from a flyer found at his local porn shop, Mr. P embarks on a bizarre journey involving midgets with huge cocks, female-to-male transgender bangers, and a hostess whose kinks involve more than just dressing up like a giant stuffed animal. Has Mr. P bitten off more than he can chew?...

After Cthulhu awakens and destroys civilization as we know it, humans are used as slaves and food by their new slimy, submerged masters. One such young man, Ricky, works at an undersea fast food joint where he's forced to kill and cook other humans for the Deep Ones to eat. But he has a plan. His restaurant caters to the Big Man himself, and if Ricky's plan works, he could pull off the unthinkable: He could actually Kill Cthulhu.

A gateway to another dimension buried deep inside a disembodied rectum. Scavengers who achieve immortality by sewing themselves into new bodies. A woman obsessed with having sex with the Loch Ness Monster. These tales, and more, comprise the second collection from Bizarro Fiction workhorse, Kevin Strange. These seven stories follow his acclaimed 2013 collection, The Last Gig on Planet Earth and other Strange Stories, and promise to be more violent, more horrific, and more bizarre than anything he's published yet. Let's get weird, gang. Let's get strange.