Genetics and the public interest.

abstract：:Conrad et al. have generated human adult germline stem cells (haGSCs) from human testicular tissue, which they claim have similar pluripotent properties to human embryonic stem cells (hESCs). Here we investigate the pluripotency of haGSCs by using global gene-expression analysis based on their gene array data and comp...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Ko K,Araúzo-Bravo MJ,Tapia N,Kim J,Lin Q,Bernemann C,Han DW,Gentile L,Reinhardt P,Greber B,Schneider RK,Kliesch S,Zenke M,Schöler HR

更新日期：2010-06-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Alternative splicing of eukaryotic messenger RNA precursors is now known to be of widespread importance in generating multiple transcripts from a single gene. This phenomenon has emphasized the problem of the way in which splice sites are selected; recent studies have discussed the role of secondary structure or affin...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Eperon LP,Estibeiro JP,Eperon IC

更新日期：1986-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：:An optimal search theory, the so-called Lévy-flight foraging hypothesis, predicts that predators should adopt search strategies known as Lévy flights where prey is sparse and distributed unpredictably, but that Brownian movement is sufficiently efficient for locating abundant prey. Empirical studies have generated con...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Humphries NE,Queiroz N,Dyer JR,Pade NG,Musyl MK,Schaefer KM,Fuller DW,Brunnschweiler JM,Doyle TK,Houghton JD,Hays GC,Jones CS,Noble LR,Wearmouth VJ,Southall EJ,Sims DW

更新日期：2010-06-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The molecular machinery responsible for the generation of transport carriers moving from the Golgi complex to the plasma membrane relies on a tight interplay between proteins and lipids. Among the lipid-binding proteins of this machinery, we previously identified the four-phosphate adaptor protein FAPP2, the pleckstri...

journal_title：Nature

authors： D'Angelo G,Polishchuk E,Di Tullio G,Santoro M,Di Campli A,Godi A,West G,Bielawski J,Chuang CC,van der Spoel AC,Platt FM,Hannun YA,Polishchuk R,Mattjus P,De Matteis MA

更新日期：2007-09-06 00:00:00

abstract：:It is widely accepted that obesity and associated metabolic diseases, including type 2 diabetes, are intimately linked to diet. However, the gut microbiota has also become a focus for research at the intersection of diet and metabolic health. Mechanisms that link the gut microbiota with obesity are coming to light thr...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Sonnenburg JL,Bäckhed F

更新日期：2016-07-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Historical ecologists working in the Neotropics argue that the present natural environment is an historical product of human intentionality and ingenuity, a creation that is imposed, built, managed and maintained by the collective multigenerational knowledge and experience of Native Americans. In the past 12,000 years...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Erickson CL

更新日期：2000-11-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The superposition principle is a fundamental tenet of quantum mechanics. It allows a quantum system to be 'in two places at the same time', because the quantum state of a physical system can simultaneously include measurably different physical states. The preparation and use of such superposed states forms the basis o...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Hofheinz M,Wang H,Ansmann M,Bialczak RC,Lucero E,Neeley M,O'Connell AD,Sank D,Wenner J,Martinis JM,Cleland AN

更新日期：2009-05-28 00:00:00

abstract：:It has long been contentious whether the large representation of the fovea in the primate visual cortex (V1) indicates a selective magnification of this part of the retina, or whether it merely reflects the density of retinal ganglion cells. The measurement of the retinal ganglion-cell density is complicated by latera...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Wässle H,Grünert U,Röhrenbeck J,Boycott BB

更新日期：1989-10-19 00:00:00

abstract：:RecBCD enzyme is a processive DNA helicase and nuclease that participates in the repair of chromosomal DNA through homologous recombination. We have visualized directly the movement of individual RecBCD enzymes on single molecules of double-stranded DNA (dsDNA). Detection involves the optical trapping of solitary, flu...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Bianco PR,Brewer LR,Corzett M,Balhorn R,Yeh Y,Kowalczykowski SC,Baskin RJ

更新日期：2001-01-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Transposable elements are viewed as 'selfish genetic elements', yet they contribute to gene regulation and genome evolution in diverse ways. More than half of the human genome consists of transposable elements. Alu elements belong to the short interspersed nuclear element (SINE) family of repetitive elements, and with...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Aktaş T,Avşar Ilık İ,Maticzka D,Bhardwaj V,Pessoa Rodrigues C,Mittler G,Manke T,Backofen R,Akhtar A

更新日期：2017-04-06 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：:Sex in mammals is determined in the fetal gonad by the presence or absence of the Y chromosome gene Sry, which controls whether bipotential precursor cells differentiate into testicular Sertoli cells or ovarian granulosa cells. This pivotal decision in a single gonadal cell type ultimately controls sexual differentiat...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Matson CK,Murphy MW,Sarver AL,Griswold MD,Bardwell VJ,Zarkower D

更新日期：2011-07-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Chemokines are small secreted proteins that stimulate the directional migration of leukocytes and mediate inflammation. During screening of a murine choroid plexus complementary DNA library, we identified a new chemokine, designated neurotactin. Unlike other chemokines, neurotactin has a unique cysteine pattern, Cys-X...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Pan Y,Lloyd C,Zhou H,Dolich S,Deeds J,Gonzalo JA,Vath J,Gosselin M,Ma J,Dussault B,Woolf E,Alperin G,Culpepper J,Gutierrez-Ramos JC,Gearing D

更新日期：1997-06-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations of the presenilin-1 gene are a major cause of familial early-onset Alzheimer's disease. Presenilin-1 can associate with members of the catenin family of signalling proteins, but the significance of this association is unknown. Here we show that presenilin-1 forms a complex with beta-catenin in vivo that incr...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Zhang Z,Hartmann H,Do VM,Abramowski D,Sturchler-Pierrat C,Staufenbiel M,Sommer B,van de Wetering M,Clevers H,Saftig P,De Strooper B,He X,Yankner BA

更新日期：1998-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The outcomes of evolution are determined by a stochastic dynamical process that governs how mutations arise and spread through a population. However, it is difficult to observe these dynamics directly over long periods and across entire genomes. Here we analyse the dynamics of molecular evolution in twelve experimenta...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Good BH,McDonald MJ,Barrick JE,Lenski RE,Desai MM

更新日期：2017-11-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Tumour necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha) is a potent pro-inflammatory and immunomodulatory cytokine implicated in inflammatory conditions such as rheumatoid arthritis, Crohn's disease, multiple sclerosis and the cachexia associated with cancer or human immunodeficiency virus infection. TNF-alpha is initially expressed...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Gearing AJ,Beckett P,Christodoulou M,Churchill M,Clements J,Davidson AH,Drummond AH,Galloway WA,Gilbert R,Gordon JL

更新日期：1994-08-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Most normal mammalian cells have a finite lifespan, thought to constitute a protective mechanism against unlimited proliferation. This phenomenon, called senescence, is driven by telomere attrition, which triggers the induction of tumour suppressors including p16(INK4a) (ref. 5). In cultured cells, senescence can be e...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Michaloglou C,Vredeveld LC,Soengas MS,Denoyelle C,Kuilman T,van der Horst CM,Majoor DM,Shay JW,Mooi WJ,Peeper DS

更新日期：2005-08-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Liver cirrhosis is a major cause of death worldwide and is characterized by extensive fibrosis. There are currently no effective antifibrotic therapies available. To obtain a better understanding of the cellular and molecular mechanisms involved in disease pathogenesis and enable the discovery of therapeutic targets, ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Ramachandran P,Dobie R,Wilson-Kanamori JR,Dora EF,Henderson BEP,Luu NT,Portman JR,Matchett KP,Brice M,Marwick JA,Taylor RS,Efremova M,Vento-Tormo R,Carragher NO,Kendall TJ,Fallowfield JA,Harrison EM,Mole DJ,Wigmore SJ

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:IgE and its receptors are believed to have evolved as a mechanism to protect mammals against parasites. But other and intrinsically innocuous antigens can subvert this system to provoke an allergic response. For human populations in industrialized countries, allergy and asthma now represent a far greater threat than p...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Sutton BJ,Gould HJ

更新日期：1993-12-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Unicellular organisms such as yeasts require a single cyclin-dependent kinase, Cdk1, to drive cell division. In contrast, mammalian cells are thought to require the sequential activation of at least four different cyclin-dependent kinases, Cdk2, Cdk3, Cdk4 and Cdk6, to drive cells through interphase, as well as Cdk1 t...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Santamaría D,Barrière C,Cerqueira A,Hunt S,Tardy C,Newton K,Cáceres JF,Dubus P,Malumbres M,Barbacid M

更新日期：2007-08-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein chains coil into alpha-helices and beta-sheet structures. Knowing the timescales and mechanism of formation of these basic structural elements is essential for understanding how proteins fold. For the past 40 years, alpha-helix formation has been extensively investigated in synthetic and natural peptides, incl...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Muñoz V,Thompson PA,Hofrichter J,Eaton WA

更新日期：1997-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Much of our knowledge of galaxies comes from analysing the radiation emitted by their stars, which depends on the present number of each type of star in the galaxy. The present number depends on the stellar initial mass function (IMF), which describes the distribution of stellar masses when the population formed, and ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Cappellari M,McDermid RM,Alatalo K,Blitz L,Bois M,Bournaud F,Bureau M,Crocker AF,Davies RL,Davis TA,de Zeeuw PT,Duc PA,Emsellem E,Khochfar S,Krajnović D,Kuntschner H,Lablanche PY,Morganti R,Naab T,Oosterloo T,Sarz

更新日期：2012-04-25 00:00:00

abstract：:At the molecular level, muscle contraction is the result of cyclic interaction between myosin crossbridges, which extend from the thick filament, and the thin filament, which consists mainly of actin. The energy for work done by a single crossbridge during a cycle of attachment, generation of force, shortening and det...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Lombardi V,Piazzesi G,Linari M

更新日期：1992-02-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The midbrain region periaqueductal grey (PAG) is rich in opioid receptors and endogenous opioids and is a major target of analgesic action in the central nervous system. It has been proposed that the analgesic effect of opioids on the PAG works by suppressing the inhibitory influence of the neurotransmitter GABA (gamm...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Vaughan CW,Ingram SL,Connor MA,Christie MJ

更新日期：1997-12-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Neutrophils activated by the formyl peptide f-Met-Leu-Phe transiently accumulate a small subset of highly polar inositol lipids. A similar family of lipids also appear in many other cells in response to a range of growth factors and activated oncogenes, and are presumed to be the direct or indirect products of 3-phosp...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Stephens LR,Hughes KT,Irvine RF

更新日期：1991-05-02 00:00:00

abstract：:In the Caenorhabditis elegans hermaphrodite germ line, sperm and then oocytes are made from a common pool of germ-cell precursors. The decision to differentiate as a sperm or an oocyte is regulated by the sex-determining gene, fem-3. Expression of fem-3 in the hermaphrodite germ line directs spermatogenesis and must b...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Ahringer J,Kimble J

更新日期：1991-01-24 00:00:00

abstract：:In songbirds, the remarkable temporal precision of song is generated by a sparse sequence of bursts in the premotor nucleus HVC. To distinguish between two possible classes of models of neural sequence generation, we carried out intracellular recordings of HVC neurons in singing zebra finches (Taeniopygia guttata). We...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Long MA,Jin DZ,Fee MS

更新日期：2010-11-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Arteries and veins are morphologically, functionally and molecularly very different, but how this distinction is established during vasculogenesis is unknown. Here we show, by lineage tracking in zebrafish embryos, that angioblast precursors for the trunk artery and vein are spatially mixed in the lateral posterior me...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Zhong TP,Childs S,Leu JP,Fishman MC

更新日期：2001-11-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Clear cell renal cell carcinoma (ccRCC), the most common form of kidney cancer, is characterized by elevated glycogen levels and fat deposition. These consistent metabolic alterations are associated with normoxic stabilization of hypoxia-inducible factors (HIFs) secondary to von Hippel-Lindau (VHL) mutations that occu...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Li B,Qiu B,Lee DS,Walton ZE,Ochocki JD,Mathew LK,Mancuso A,Gade TP,Keith B,Nissim I,Simon MC

更新日期：2014-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The question of whether DNA is able to transport electrons has attracted much interest, particularly as this ability may play a role as a repair mechanism after radiation damage to the DNA helix. Experiments addressing DNA conductivity have involved a large number of DNA strands doped with intercalated donor and accep...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Fink HW,Schönenberger C

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00