The grim milestone of three million deaths due to the global pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) was reached a few weeks ago.COVID-19 is a multi-system all-pervasive disease with protean manifestations, and its major signs and symptoms, such as the incessant dry
Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) is useful to assist with identification of the source of a biological sample, or to confirm matrilineal relatedness.Although the autosomal genome is much larger, mtDNA has an advantage for forensic applications of multiple copy number per cell, allowing better recovery of sequence information from degraded samples.In addit
This year marks the fiftieth anniversary of the first implant of an inflatable penile prosthesis (IPP).The authors of this paper want to celebrate the event with a narrative review of the current literature.The main scopes are antibiotic prophylaxis, patient satisfaction, and future developments.The implant of the first IPP in 1973, performed by Br