Multiplicative computation in a visual neuron sensitive to looming.

abstract：:Although it is well established that family members resemble each other in intelligence , the extent to which this results from either shared genes or a shared environment remains controversial, perhaps especially since the relevant evidence presented by Burt has been shown probably to have been fabricated. The influe...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Teasdale TW,Owen DR

更新日期：1984-06-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The most recent Ebola virus outbreak in West Africa, which was unprecedented in the number of cases and fatalities, geographic distribution, and number of nations affected, highlights the need for safe, effective, and readily available antiviral agents for treatment and prevention of acute Ebola virus (EBOV) disease (...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Warren TK,Jordan R,Lo MK,Ray AS,Mackman RL,Soloveva V,Siegel D,Perron M,Bannister R,Hui HC,Larson N,Strickley R,Wells J,Stuthman KS,Van Tongeren SA,Garza NL,Donnelly G,Shurtleff AC,Retterer CJ,Gharaibeh D,Zamani R

更新日期：2016-03-17 00:00:00

abstract：:There is compelling evidence that sleep contributes to the long-term consolidation of new memories. This function of sleep has been linked to slow (<1 Hz) potential oscillations, which predominantly arise from the prefrontal neocortex and characterize slow wave sleep. However, oscillations in brain potentials are comm...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Marshall L,Helgadóttir H,Mölle M,Born J

更新日期：2006-11-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The polypeptide chains that make up proteins have thousands of atoms and hence millions of possible inter-atomic interactions. It might be supposed that the resulting complexity would make prediction of protein structure and protein-folding mechanisms nearly impossible. But the fundamental physics underlying folding m...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Baker D

更新日期：2000-05-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The way in which proteins attain and maintain their final form is of fundamental importance. Recent work has focused on the role of a set of ubiquitous proteins, termed chaperonins, in the assembly of phage and multisubunit proteins. The range of chaperonin action is unknown; they could interact with most cellular pol...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Van Dyk TK,Gatenby AA,LaRossa RA

更新日期：1989-11-23 00:00:00

abstract：:An experiment by the Gates Foundation is food for thought for other research agencies. ...

journal_title：Nature

authors：

更新日期：2008-10-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Since at least the last common ancestor of all life on Earth, genetic information has been stored in a four-letter alphabet that is propagated and retrieved by the formation of two base pairs. The central goal of synthetic biology is to create new life forms and functions, and the most general route to this goal is th...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Zhang Y,Ptacin JL,Fischer EC,Aerni HR,Caffaro CE,San Jose K,Feldman AW,Turner CR,Romesberg FE

更新日期：2017-11-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Photosynthetic dinoflagellates are important aquatic primary producers and notorious causes of toxic 'red tides'. Typical dinoflagellate chloroplasts differ from all other plastids in having a combination of three envelope membranes and peridinin-chlorophyll a/c light-harvesting pigments. Despite evidence of a dinofla...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Zhang Z,Green BR,Cavalier-Smith T

更新日期：1999-07-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Supersolids are exotic materials combining the frictionless flow of a superfluid with the crystal-like periodic density modulation of a solid. The supersolid phase of matter was predicted 50 years ago1-3 for solid helium4-8. Ultracold quantum gases have recently been made to exhibit periodic order typical of a crystal...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Tanzi L,Roccuzzo SM,Lucioni E,Famà F,Fioretti A,Gabbanini C,Modugno G,Recati A,Stringari S

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oligomerization of membrane proteins in response to lipid binding has a critical role in many cell-signalling pathways but is often difficult to define or predict. Here we report the development of a mass spectrometry platform to determine simultaneously the presence of interfacial lipids and oligomeric stability and ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Gupta K,Donlan JAC,Hopper JTS,Uzdavinys P,Landreh M,Struwe WB,Drew D,Baldwin AJ,Stansfeld PJ,Robinson CV

更新日期：2017-01-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Spontaneous mutations are the source of genetic variation required for evolutionary change, and are therefore important for many aspects of evolutionary biology. For example, the divergence between taxa at neutrally evolving sites in the genome is proportional to the per nucleotide mutation rate, u (ref. 1), and this ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Haag-Liautard C,Dorris M,Maside X,Macaskill S,Halligan DL,Houle D,Charlesworth B,Keightley PD

更新日期：2007-01-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The Gulf Stream transports approximately 31 Sv (1 Sv = 10(6) m(3) s(-1)) of water and 1.3 x 10(15) W of heat into the North Atlantic ocean. The possibility of abrupt changes in Gulf Stream heat transport is one of the key uncertainties in predictions of climate change for the coming centuries. Given the limited length...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Lund DC,Lynch-Stieglitz J,Curry WB

更新日期：2006-11-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Time is divided by geologists according to marked shifts in Earth's state. Recent global environmental changes suggest that Earth may have entered a new human-dominated geological epoch, the Anthropocene. Here we review the historical genesis of the idea and assess anthropogenic signatures in the geological record aga...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Lewis SL,Maslin MA

更新日期：2015-03-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Microcrystals of the lipoprotein-phosphoprotein complex which are found in the oocytes of Xenopus laevis were examined using electron microscopy. Analysis of Fourier transforms of the images of the (010) and (001) projections showed the space group to be P2(1)22(1). Ten projections were combined to produce a map of th...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Ohlendorf DH,Wrenn RF,Banaszak LJ

更新日期：1978-03-02 00:00:00

abstract：:In plants, the small GTP-binding proteins called Rops work as signalling switches that control growth, development and plant responses to various environmental stimuli. Rop proteins (Rho of plants, Rac-like and AtRac in Arabidopsis thaliana) belong to the Rho family of Ras-related GTP-binding proteins that turn on sig...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Berken A,Thomas C,Wittinghofer A

更新日期：2005-08-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Limiting the increase of CO2 in the atmosphere is one of the largest challenges of our generation1. Because carbon capture and storage is one of the few viable technologies that can mitigate current CO2 emissions2, much effort is focused on developing solid adsorbents that can efficiently capture CO2 from flue gases e...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Boyd PG,Chidambaram A,García-Díez E,Ireland CP,Daff TD,Bounds R,Gładysiak A,Schouwink P,Moosavi SM,Maroto-Valer MM,Reimer JA,Navarro JAR,Woo TK,Garcia S,Stylianou KC,Smit B

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The human T-cell leukaemia and differentiation antigen HTA 1 is defined by the monoclonal antibody NA1/34 (ref. 1) and also recognized by the monoclonal antibody OKT6. Like class I products of the human major histocompatibility complex, it has a glycosylated heavy (alpha) chain of approximately 45-50,000 molecular wei...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Kefford RF,Calabi F,Fearnley IM,Burrone OR,Milstein C

更新日期：1984-04-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Efforts to ablate soft tissue with conventional lasers have been limited by collateral damage and by concern over potential photochemical effects. Motivated by the thermal-confinement model, past infrared investigations targeted the OH-stretch mode of water with fast pulses from lasers emitting near 3,000 nm (refs 1, ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Edwards G,Logan R,Copeland M,Reinisch L,Davidson J,Johnson B,Maciunas R,Mendenhall M,Ossoff R,Tribble J

更新日期：1994-09-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Haematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) must achieve a balance between quiescence and activation that fulfils immediate demands for haematopoiesis without compromising long-term stem cell maintenance, yet little is known about the molecular events governing this balance. Phosphatase and tensin homologue (PTEN) functions as a...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Zhang J,Grindley JC,Yin T,Jayasinghe S,He XC,Ross JT,Haug JS,Rupp D,Porter-Westpfahl KS,Wiedemann LM,Wu H,Li L

更新日期：2006-05-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Volcanic eruptions contribute to climate variability, but quantifying these contributions has been limited by inconsistencies in the timing of atmospheric volcanic aerosol loading determined from ice cores and subsequent cooling from climate proxies such as tree rings. Here we resolve these inconsistencies and show th...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Sigl M,Winstrup M,McConnell JR,Welten KC,Plunkett G,Ludlow F,Büntgen U,Caffee M,Chellman N,Dahl-Jensen D,Fischer H,Kipfstuhl S,Kostick C,Maselli OJ,Mekhaldi F,Mulvaney R,Muscheler R,Pasteris DR,Pilcher JR,Salzer M,

更新日期：2015-07-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Microbiome-wide association studies have established that numerous diseases are associated with changes in the microbiota. These studies typically generate a long list of commensals implicated as biomarkers of disease, with no clear relevance to disease pathogenesis. If the field is to move beyond correlations and beg...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Surana NK,Kasper DL

更新日期：2017-12-14 00:00:00

abstract：:During an immune response, hypermutation of immunoglobulin genes in B cells proliferating within germinal centres (GCs) generates variant antibodies that react with higher affinity against either foreign or self antigens. Several experiments suggest that self-reactive B cells may be censored at this stage of the immun...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Shokat KM,Goodnow CC

更新日期：1995-05-25 00:00:00

abstract：:A main limitation of therapies that selectively target kinase signalling pathways is the emergence of secondary drug resistance. Cetuximab, a monoclonal antibody that binds the extracellular domain of epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR), is effective in a subset of KRAS wild-type metastatic colorectal cancers. Aft...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Misale S,Yaeger R,Hobor S,Scala E,Janakiraman M,Liska D,Valtorta E,Schiavo R,Buscarino M,Siravegna G,Bencardino K,Cercek A,Chen CT,Veronese S,Zanon C,Sartore-Bianchi A,Gambacorta M,Gallicchio M,Vakiani E,Boscaro V,

更新日期：2012-06-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The geometry and dimensions of branched structures such as blood vessels or airways are important factors in determining the efficiency of physiological processes. It has been shown that fractal trees can be space filling and can ensure minimal dissipation. The bronchial tree of most mammalian lungs is a good example ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Mauroy B,Filoche M,Weibel ER,Sapoval B

更新日期：2004-02-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Division of spermatogonial stem cells produces daughter cells that either maintain their stem cell identity or undergo differentiation to form mature sperm. The Sertoli cell, the only somatic cell within seminiferous tubules, provides the stem cell niche through physical support and expression of surface proteins and ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Chen C,Ouyang W,Grigura V,Zhou Q,Carnes K,Lim H,Zhao GQ,Arber S,Kurpios N,Murphy TL,Cheng AM,Hassell JA,Chandrashekar V,Hofmann MC,Hess RA,Murphy KM

更新日期：2005-08-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Surgical sectioning of the corpus callosum in epileptic patients has provided a unique opportunity to study separately the competence and processing capacities of the two cerebral hemispheres, each of which is able to perceive, think, memorize and learn independently and essentially outside the realm of awareness of t...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Sergent J

更新日期：1983-10-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Glutamate transporters are integral membrane proteins that catalyse neurotransmitter uptake from the synaptic cleft into the cytoplasm of glial cells and neurons. Their mechanism of action involves transitions between extracellular (outward)-facing and intracellular (inward)-facing conformations, whereby substrate bin...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Akyuz N,Altman RB,Blanchard SC,Boudker O

更新日期：2013-10-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The generation and selection of somatic antibody mutants are key elements of acquired immunity, essential for the affinity maturation of antibody responses dependent on T cells. The mutants are generated through a mechanism that introduces point mutations at high rate into rearranged variable (V) region genes in the c...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Jacob J,Kelsoe G,Rajewsky K,Weiss U

更新日期：1991-12-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Some observations suggest that very massive stars experience extreme mass-loss episodes shortly before they explode as supernovae, as do several models. Establishing a causal connection between these mass-loss episodes and the final explosion would provide a novel way to study pre-supernova massive-star evolution. Her...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Ofek EO,Sullivan M,Cenko SB,Kasliwal MM,Gal-Yam A,Kulkarni SR,Arcavi I,Bildsten L,Bloom JS,Horesh A,Howell DA,Filippenko AV,Laher R,Murray D,Nakar E,Nugent PE,Silverman JM,Shaviv NJ,Surace J,Yaron O

更新日期：2013-02-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Obesity is now so common within the world's population that it is beginning to replace undernutrition and infectious diseases as the most significant contributor to ill health. In particular, obesity is associated with diabetes mellitus, coronary heart disease, certain forms of cancer, and sleep-breathing disorders. O...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Kopelman PG

更新日期：2000-04-06 00:00:00