A vertebrate’s first line of defense against pathogens are antibodies. An antibody receptor, pIgR (polymeric immunoglobulin receptor) is conserved across…
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Schekman Going to Kansas City, Kansas City, Here He Comes This Thursday and Friday, March 24-25, Nobel laureate and former…
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You’ve probably seen animations of microtubule transport (MT) where a kinesin motor protein strolls along a microtubule, towing a massive…
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In depictions of the founding age of science, such as that of Dr. Frankenstein, we always see the lone scientist…
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The cell’s recycling station, the lysosome, is coming to light as a cause for concern in a host of diseases,…
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“The tumor had given a first hint of its existence in St. Louis, but it was in Rio de Janeiro…
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As breast tumors progress, the matrix surrounding the tumor cells becomes stiffer. How normal cells sense and respond to the…
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Collaboration has its place in scientific research, and always will. It is impossible to fathom a world in which individual…
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It is the ultimate consolation for every researcher who ever published a fabulous paper and got crickets. The paper,…
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Last week at a congressional hearing entitled “Bioethics and Fetal Tissue” before the Select Investigatory Panel on Infant Lives, I…
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