Reflections of a whistle-blower.

abstract：:In legumes, root nodule organogenesis is activated in response to morphogenic lipochitin oligosaccharides that are synthesized by bacteria, commonly known as rhizobia. Successful symbiotic interaction results in the formation of highly specialized organs called root nodules, which provide a unique environment for symb...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Krusell L,Madsen LH,Sato S,Aubert G,Genua A,Szczyglowski K,Duc G,Kaneko T,Tabata S,de Bruijn F,Pajuelo E,Sandal N,Stougaard J

更新日期：2002-11-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The development of colloidal quantum dots has led to practical applications of quantum confinement, such as in solution-processed solar cells, lasers and as biological labels. Further scientific and technological advances should be achievable if these colloidal quantum systems could be electronically coupled in a gene...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Milliron DJ,Hughes SM,Cui Y,Manna L,Li J,Wang LW,Alivisatos AP

更新日期：2004-07-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Histoplasma capsulatum, like many other fungal pathogens, is dimorphic: it exists as mycelia in the soil and yeast in animal hosts. Because only the yeast phase is parasitic, factors which affect morphogenesis have been of interest for understanding and controlling pathogenicity. In culture, the mycelial to yeast tran...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Lambowitz AM,Kobayashi GS,Painter A,Medoff G

更新日期：1983-06-30 00:00:00

abstract：:In the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans six hypodermal cells, the vulval precursor cells, are each competent to generate vulval cells. Normally only the three nearest precursor cells to the uterine anchor cell generate the vulva (22 nuclei), while the three others fuse with the non-specialized hypodermal syncytium (hyp...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Herman RK,Hedgecock EM

更新日期：1990-11-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Guanine-nucleotide exchange factors on ADP-ribosylation factor GTPases (ARF-GEFs) regulate vesicle formation in time and space by activating ARF substrates on distinct donor membranes. Mammalian GBF1 (ref. 2) and yeast Gea1/2 (ref. 3) ARF-GEFs act at Golgi membranes, regulating COPI-coated vesicle formation. In contra...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Richter S,Geldner N,Schrader J,Wolters H,Stierhof YD,Rios G,Koncz C,Robinson DG,Jürgens G

更新日期：2007-07-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Microsomes prepared from rabbit or pig aortas transformed endoperoxides (PGG2 or PGH2) to an unstable substance (PGX) that inhibited human platelet aggregation. PGX was 30 times more potent in this respect than prostaglandin E1. PGX contracted some gastrointestinal smooth muscle and relaxed certain isolated blood vess...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Moncada S,Gryglewski R,Bunting S,Vane JR

更新日期：1976-10-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein modification by the conjugation of ubiquitin moieties--ubiquitination--plays a major part in many biological processes, including cell cycle and apoptosis. The enzymes that mediate ubiquitin-conjugation have been well-studied, but much less is known about the ubiquitin-specific proteases that mediate de-ubiqui...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Brummelkamp TR,Nijman SM,Dirac AM,Bernards R

更新日期：2003-08-14 00:00:00

abstract：:For many pathogens the availability of genome sequence, permitting genome-dependent methods of research, can partially substitute for powerful forward genetic methods (genome-independent) that have advanced model organism research for decades. In 2002 the genome sequence of Plasmodium falciparum, the parasite causing ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Winzeler EA

更新日期：2008-10-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) is the leading cause of death from infection worldwide1. The only available vaccine, BCG (Bacillus Calmette-Guérin), is given intradermally and has variable efficacy against pulmonary tuberculosis, the major cause of mortality and disease transmission1,2. Here we show that intravenous ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Darrah PA,Zeppa JJ,Maiello P,Hackney JA,Wadsworth MH 2nd,Hughes TK,Pokkali S,Swanson PA 2nd,Grant NL,Rodgers MA,Kamath M,Causgrove CM,Laddy DJ,Bonavia A,Casimiro D,Lin PL,Klein E,White AG,Scanga CA,Shalek AK,Roede

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Quantum superposition lies at the heart of quantum mechanics and gives rise to many of its paradoxes. Superposition of de Broglie matter waves' has been observed for massive particles such as electrons, atoms and dimers, small van der Waals clusters, and neutrons. But matter wave interferometry with larger objects has...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Arndt M,Nairz O,Vos-Andreae J,Keller C,van der Zouw G,Zeilinger A

更新日期：1999-10-14 00:00:00

abstract：:How to image objects that are hidden from a camera's view is a problem of fundamental importance to many fields of research, with applications in robotic vision, defence, remote sensing, medical imaging and autonomous vehicles. Non-line-of-sight (NLOS) imaging at macroscopic scales has been demonstrated by scanning a ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： O'Toole M,Lindell DB,Wetzstein G

更新日期：2018-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Silbo Gomero is a whistled language that is a rare and endangered surrogate of Spanish, used by shepherds on the island of La Gomera in the Canary Islands for communication over long distances on difficult terrain. Here we show that areas of the brain normally associated with spoken-language function are also activate...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Carreiras M,Lopez J,Rivero F,Corina D

更新日期：2005-01-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The neurotrophin receptor TrkB is essential for normal function of the mammalian brain. It is expressed in three splice variants. Full-length receptors (TrkB(FL)) possess an intracellular tyrosine kinase domain and are considered as those TrkB receptors that mediate the crucial effects of brain-derived neurotrophic fa...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Rose CR,Blum R,Pichler B,Lepier A,Kafitz KW,Konnerth A

更新日期：2003-11-06 00:00:00

abstract：:N-methyl-d-aspartate (NMDA) receptors (NMDARs) are a major class of excitatory neurotransmitter receptors in the central nervous system. They form glutamate-gated ion channels that are highly permeable to calcium and mediate activity-dependent synaptic plasticity. NMDAR dysfunction is implicated in multiple brain diso...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Gielen M,Siegler Retchless B,Mony L,Johnson JW,Paoletti P

更新日期：2009-06-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding brain circuits begins with an appreciation of their component parts - the cells. Although GABAergic interneurons are a minority population within the brain, they are crucial for the control of inhibition. Determining the diversity of these interneurons has been a central goal of neurobiologists, but this...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Kepecs A,Fishell G

更新日期：2014-01-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Angiotensin II is an important effector molecule controlling blood pressure and volume in the cardiovascular system. Its importance is manifested by the efficacy of angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors in the treatment of hypertension and congestive heart failure. Angiotensin II interacts with two pharmacologicall...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Murphy TJ,Alexander RW,Griendling KK,Runge MS,Bernstein KE

更新日期：1991-05-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Diatoms dominate the biomass of phytoplankton in nutrient-rich conditions and form the basis of some of the world's most productive marine food webs. The diatom nuclear genome contains genes with bacterial and plastid origins as well as genes of the secondary endosymbiotic host (the exosymbiont), yet little is known a...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Allen AE,Dupont CL,Oborník M,Horák A,Nunes-Nesi A,McCrow JP,Zheng H,Johnson DA,Hu H,Fernie AR,Bowler C

更新日期：2011-05-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The site of action of the antispastic drug baclofen has long been considered to reside in the spinal cord although supraspinal effects have also been reported. This beta-chlorophenyl derivative of the neurotransmitter gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) depresses both monosynaptic and polysynaptic transmission in the cord ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Price GW,Wilkin GP,Turnbull MJ,Bowery NG

更新日期：1984-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：:A congressional investigation alleges that some researchers have failed to report all the drug-company money that they have received--and that universities may have been too slow to police them. ...

journal_title：Nature

authors：

更新日期：2008-10-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Fluorescence polarization (FP) equilibrium binding assays differ from other types of binding studies in one important regard: they require no steps to separate free from bound tracer and are therefore fast, simple and accurate. ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Checovich WJ,Bolger RE,Burke T

更新日期：1995-05-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The best spectrographs are limited in stability by their calibration light source. Laser frequency combs are the ideal calibrators for astronomical spectrographs. They emit a spectrum of lines that are equally spaced in frequency and that are as accurate and stable as the atomic clock relative to which the comb is sta...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Wilken T,Curto GL,Probst RA,Steinmetz T,Manescau A,Pasquini L,González Hernández JI,Rebolo R,Hänsch TW,Udem T,Holzwarth R

更新日期：2012-05-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The interneuronal messenger nitric oxide (NO) may play a central role in the processing of olfactory information. Several circuit elements in the mammalian olfactory bulb contain NO synthase or its functional equivalent, NADPH diaphorase. The effects of NO on cellular excitability or circuit dynamics in the olfactory ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Gelperin A

更新日期：1994-05-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Carbonates on large Solar System bodies like Earth and Mars (the latter represented by the meteorite ALH84001) form through the weathering of silicates in a watery (CO3)2- solution. The presence of carbonates in interplanetary dust particles and asteroids (again, represented by meteorites) is not completely understood...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Kemper F,Jäger C,Waters LB,Henning T,Molster FJ,Barlow MJ,Lim T,de Koter A

更新日期：2002-01-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutating the CAACCCCAA sequence in the RNA component of telomerase causes the synthesis in vivo of new telomere sequences corresponding to the mutated RNA sequence, demonstrating that the telomerase contains the template for telomere synthesis. These mutations also lead to nuclear and cell division defects, and senesc...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Yu GL,Bradley JD,Attardi LD,Blackburn EH

更新日期：1990-03-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Below water depths of about 300 metres, pressure and temperature conditions cause methane to form ice-like crystals of methane hydrate. Marine deposits of methane hydrate are estimated to be large, amassing about 10,000 gigatonnes of carbon, and are thought to be important to global change and seafloor stability, as w...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Wood WT,Gettrust JF,Chapman NR,Spence GD,Hyndman RD

更新日期：2002-12-12 00:00:00

abstract：:In their investigation into whether female mate-choice drives male dispersal, Höner et al. argue that female spotted hyaenas (Crocuta crocuta) prefer mates whose tenure in the social group is less than the females' age, to avoid paternal incest, and suggest that male dispersal reflects this preference. However, we are...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Van Horn RC,Watts HE,Holekamp KE

更新日期：2008-07-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Three-wave mixing in nonlinear materials--the interaction of two light waves to produce a third--is a convenient way of generating new optical frequencies from common laser sources. However, the resulting optical conversion yield is generally poor, because the relative phases of the three interacting waves change cont...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Baudrier-Raybaut M,Haïdar R,Kupecek P,Lemasson P,Rosencher E

更新日期：2004-11-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Non-volcanic tremor is a weak, extended duration seismic signal observed episodically on some major faults, often in conjunction with slow slip events. Such tremor may hold the key to understanding fundamental processes at the deep roots of faults, and could signal times of accelerated slip and hence increased seismic...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Shelly DR,Beroza GC,Ide S

更新日期：2007-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability to process microbial antigens and present them at the surface of cells is an important aspect of our innate ability to clear infections. It is generally accepted that antigens in the cytoplasm are loaded in the endoplasmic reticulum and presented at the cell surface on major histocompatibility complex (MHC...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Houde M,Bertholet S,Gagnon E,Brunet S,Goyette G,Laplante A,Princiotta MF,Thibault P,Sacks D,Desjardins M

更新日期：2003-09-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Amino-acid radicals play key roles in many enzymatic reactions. Catalysis often involves transfer of a radical character within the protein, as in class I ribonucleotide reductase where radical transfer occurs over 35 A, from a tyrosyl radical to a cysteine. It is currently debated whether this kind of long-range tran...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Aubert C,Vos MH,Mathis P,Eker AP,Brettel K

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00