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...

Guts is a bad motherfucker in a bad, bad world. The government nuked the sky seven years ago to combat a super fast spreading virus that turns humans into blood thirsty, ravenous killing machines that look more like giant, mutated bats than people. The new sky kills these "vampires" instantly, but at a cost. The entire planet is slammed with mega-high doses of radiation every time the sun comes up, completely changing life on earth as we know it, and completely decimating what little civilization there is left. In Nuke Town, Guts wakes up in a strange motel with no memory of how he got there....

500 years after monsters wiped out the human race, a quiet calm has settled over the population of nightmare creatures that go bump in the night. They work their monster jobs, raise their monster families, tend to their monster homes, and generally enjoy the peace and prosperity of life without their sworn enemies, the human scourge, that so blighted the land for so many centuries. In fact, the only inhabitants of this new monster world that even still speak of human kind are the children who share hushed secret fairy tales about evil humans coming up from underneath their beds, pulling the...

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.

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.

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?...

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...