Simulating micrometre-scale crystal growth from solution.

abstract：:Few intergalactic, plausibly primordial clouds of neutral atomic hydrogen (H(i)) have been found in the local Universe, suggesting that such structures have either dispersed, become ionized or produced a stellar population on gigayear timescales. The Leo ring, a massive (M(H(i)) approximately 1.8 x 10(9)M[symbol: see ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Thilker DA,Donovan J,Schiminovich D,Bianchi L,Boissier S,de Paz AG,Madore BF,Martin DC,Seibert M

更新日期：2009-02-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Expansion of anthropogenic noise and night lighting across our planet1,2 is of increasing conservation concern3-6. Despite growing knowledge of physiological and behavioural responses to these stimuli from single-species and local-scale studies, whether these pollutants affect fitness is less clear, as is how and why ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Senzaki M,Barber JR,Phillips JN,Carter NH,Cooper CB,Ditmer MA,Fristrup KM,McClure CJW,Mennitt DJ,Tyrrell LP,Vukomanovic J,Wilson AA,Francis CD

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Apolipoprotein B (apo B) is crucial for the transport of cholesterol in humans. It is a large secretory protein that mediates the uptake of low-density lipoproteins and renders several forms of lipid droplets soluble in the blood. The binding of lipid by apo B also prevents this hydrophobic protein from precipitating ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Chuck SL,Yao Z,Blackhart BD,McCarthy BJ,Lingappa VR

更新日期：1990-07-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Over the last twenty years classical views of how compound eyes work optically have undergone a series of overhauls. Exner's central concept of an optically inhomogeneous lens cylinder has survived, and such devices are now made commercially. He was wrong, however, about some crustacean eyes. They produce images by a ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Land MF

更新日期：1980-10-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The heat-shock protein Hsp90 supports diverse but specific signal transducers and lies at the interface of several developmental pathways. We report here that when Drosophila Hsp90 is mutant or pharmacologically impaired, phenotypic variation affecting nearly any adult structure is produced, with specific variants dep...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Rutherford SL,Lindquist S

更新日期：1998-11-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Introduced in its contemporary form in 1946 (ref. 1), but with roots that go back to the eighteenth century, the gravity law is the prevailing framework with which to predict population movement, cargo shipping volume and inter-city phone calls, as well as bilateral trade flows between nations. Despite its widespread ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Simini F,González MC,Maritan A,Barabási AL

更新日期：2012-02-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Werner's syndrome (WS) is a rare autosomal recessive disease in which the affected individuals display symptoms of premature ageing. The substantial phenotypic overlap between WS and normal ageing indicates that these two conditions may have pathogenetic mechanisms in common. The WS mutation has pleiotropic effects, a...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Goto M,Rubenstein M,Weber J,Woods K,Drayna D

更新日期：1992-02-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Sex roles are typically thought of as being fixed for a given species. In most animals males compete for females, whereas the females are more reluctant to mate. Therefore sexual selection usually acts most strongly on males. This is explained by males having a higher potential reproductive rate than females, leading ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Forsgren E,Amundsen T,Borg AA,Bjelvenmark J

更新日期：2004-06-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Practice, with feedback, is a fundamental variable that influences the aquisition of motor skills: with it, everyone improves, but some improve more than others. This simple fact has led to frequent debate over the relative importance of genetic and environmental influences on motor learning. In principle these factor...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Fox PW,Hershberger SL,Bouchard TJ Jr

更新日期：1996-11-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The emergence of HIV-1 group M subtype B in North American men who have sex with men was a key turning point in the HIV/AIDS pandemic. Phylogenetic studies have suggested cryptic subtype B circulation in the United States (US) throughout the 1970s and an even older presence in the Caribbean. However, these temporal an...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Worobey M,Watts TD,McKay RA,Suchard MA,Granade T,Teuwen DE,Koblin BA,Heneine W,Lemey P,Jaffe HW

更新日期：2016-11-03 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been suggested that the initiation step in mouse skin carcinogenesis involves an alteration in epidermal-differentiation, as mouse basal keratinocytes exposed to initiators resist the arrest of cell growth that is normally associated with the induction of terminal differentiation by calcium ions. The growth of ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Yuspa SH,Kilkenny AE,Stanley J,Lichti U

更新日期：1985-04-04 00:00:00

abstract：:A major aim in immunology has been to understand how the immune system evokes characteristic responses to infection, foreign tissue grafts and tumours. The current view of immunoregulation is based mainly on studies of lymphocyte subsets, either in vitro or by adoptive transfer to irradiated recipients. Many reagents ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Cobbold SP,Jayasuriya A,Nash A,Prospero TD,Waldmann H

更新日期：1984-12-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The orexin (also known as hypocretin) G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) respond to orexin neuropeptides in the central nervous system to regulate sleep and other behavioural functions in humans. Defects in orexin signalling are responsible for the human diseases of narcolepsy and cataplexy; inhibition of orexin rece...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Yin J,Mobarec JC,Kolb P,Rosenbaum DM

更新日期：2015-03-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability to abstract principles or rules from direct experience allows behaviour to extend beyond specific circumstances to general situations. For example, we learn the 'rules' for restaurant dining from specific experiences and can then apply them in new restaurants. The use of such rules is thought to depend on ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Wallis JD,Anderson KC,Miller EK

更新日期：2001-06-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Retinoic acid is a vitamin A derivative with striking effects on development and cell differentiation. Several nuclear retinoic acid receptors (RARs), acting as ligand-inducible transcription factors, have been characterized and indirect evidence suggests that they have distinct roles. One of the most intriguing prope...

journal_title：Nature

authors： de Thé H,Chomienne C,Lanotte M,Degos L,Dejean A

更新日期：1990-10-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Using data on the global distribution of mammal, bird and amphibian species, Grenyer et al. conclude that planning based on individual taxa does not provide efficient solutions for the conservation of other taxa. They also report that the performance of existing global conservation strategies-endemic bird areas, biodi...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Rodrigues AS

更新日期：2007-12-06 00:00:00

abstract：:A crucial part of the innate immune response is the assembly of the inflammasome, a cytosolic complex of proteins that activates caspase-1 to process the proinflammatory cytokines interleukin (IL)-1beta and IL-18. The adaptor protein ASC is essential for inflammasome function, binding directly to caspase-1 (refs 3, 4)...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Mariathasan S,Weiss DS,Newton K,McBride J,O'Rourke K,Roose-Girma M,Lee WP,Weinrauch Y,Monack DM,Dixit VM

更新日期：2006-03-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The genetic architecture of autism spectrum disorder involves the interplay of common and rare variants and their impact on hundreds of genes. Using exome sequencing, here we show that analysis of rare coding variation in 3,871 autism cases and 9,937 ancestry-matched or parental controls implicates 22 autosomal genes ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： De Rubeis S,He X,Goldberg AP,Poultney CS,Samocha K,Cicek AE,Kou Y,Liu L,Fromer M,Walker S,Singh T,Klei L,Kosmicki J,Shih-Chen F,Aleksic B,Biscaldi M,Bolton PF,Brownfeld JM,Cai J,Campbell NG,Carracedo A,Chahrour

更新日期：2014-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The Coffin-Lowry syndrome (CLS), an X-linked disorder, is characterized by severe psychomotor retardation, facial and digital dysmorphisms, and progressive skeletal deformations. Genetic linkage analysis mapped the CLS locus to an interval of 2-3 megabases at Xp22.2. The gene coding for Rsk-2, a member of the growth-f...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Trivier E,De Cesare D,Jacquot S,Pannetier S,Zackai E,Young I,Mandel JL,Sassone-Corsi P,Hanauer A

更新日期：1996-12-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Vitreoscilla, a filamentous bacterium in the Beggiatoa family, synthesizes a soluble haem-protein which has two identical subunits of relative molecular mass 15,775 and two b haems per molecule. It is synthesized in relatively large quantities when the organism, a strict aerobe, is grown under hypoxic conditions. It f...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Wakabayashi S,Matsubara H,Webster DA

更新日期：1986-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：:The known endothelial mitogens stimulate growth of vascular endothelial cells without regard to their tissue of origin. Here we report a growth factor that is expressed largely in one type of tissue and acts selectively on one type of endothelium. This molecule, called endocrine-gland-derived vascular endothelial grow...

journal_title：Nature

authors： LeCouter J,Kowalski J,Foster J,Hass P,Zhang Z,Dillard-Telm L,Frantz G,Rangell L,DeGuzman L,Keller GA,Peale F,Gurney A,Hillan KJ,Ferrara N

更新日期：2001-08-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Ageing is a result of gradual and overall functional deteriorations across the body; however, it is unknown whether an individual tissue primarily works to mediate the ageing progress and control lifespan. Here we show that the hypothalamus is important for the development of whole-body ageing in mice, and that the un...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Zhang G,Li J,Purkayastha S,Tang Y,Zhang H,Yin Y,Li B,Liu G,Cai D

更新日期：2013-05-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The tropical forests of Borneo and Amazonia may each contain more tree species diversity in half a square kilometre than do all the temperate forests of Europe, North America, and Asia combined. Biologists have long been fascinated by this disparity, using it to investigate potential drivers of biodiversity. Latitudin...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Usinowicz J,Chang-Yang CH,Chen YY,Clark JS,Fletcher C,Garwood NC,Hao Z,Johnstone J,Lin Y,Metz MR,Masaki T,Nakashizuka T,Sun IF,Valencia R,Wang Y,Zimmerman JK,Ives AR,Wright SJ

更新日期：2017-10-05 00:00:00

abstract：:In addition to coordinating immune and inflammatory responses, NF-kappaB/Rel transcription factors control cell survival. Normally, NF-kappaB dimers are sequestered in the cytoplasm by binding to inhibitory IkappaB proteins, and can be activated rapidly by signals that induce the sequential phosphorylation and proteol...

journal_title：Nature

authors： De Smaele E,Zazzeroni F,Papa S,Nguyen DU,Jin R,Jones J,Cong R,Franzoso G

更新日期：2001-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Cleavage of the gasdermin proteins to produce pore-forming amino-terminal fragments causes inflammatory cell death (pyroptosis)1. Gasdermin E (GSDME, also known as DFNA5)-mutated in familial ageing-related hearing loss2-can be cleaved by caspase 3, thereby converting noninflammatory apoptosis to pyroptosis in GSDME-ex...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Zhang Z,Zhang Y,Xia S,Kong Q,Li S,Liu X,Junqueira C,Meza-Sosa KF,Mok TMY,Ansara J,Sengupta S,Yao Y,Wu H,Lieberman J

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One approach to the controlled release of drugs involves incorporation of the drug molecules into the matrix of microscopic polymer spheres or capsules. Existing methods for preparing such microparticles do not, however, always guarantee a constant release rate, for example because drug molecules may be trapped prefer...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Pekarek KJ,Jacob JS,Mathiowitz E

更新日期：1994-01-20 00:00:00

abstract：:During puberty, the mouse mammary gland develops into a highly branched epithelial network. Owing to the absence of exclusive stem cell markers, the location, multiplicity, dynamics and fate of mammary stem cells (MaSCs), which drive branching morphogenesis, are unknown. Here we show that morphogenesis is driven by pr...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Scheele CL,Hannezo E,Muraro MJ,Zomer A,Langedijk NS,van Oudenaarden A,Simons BD,van Rheenen J

更新日期：2017-02-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Hunger is a hard-wired motivational state essential for survival. Agouti-related peptide (AgRP)-expressing neurons in the arcuate nucleus (ARC) at the base of the hypothalamus are crucial to the control of hunger. They are activated by caloric deficiency and, when naturally or artificially stimulated, they potently in...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Krashes MJ,Shah BP,Madara JC,Olson DP,Strochlic DE,Garfield AS,Vong L,Pei H,Watabe-Uchida M,Uchida N,Liberles SD,Lowell BB

更新日期：2014-03-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Chick embryo fibroblasts (CEF) infected with avian sarcoma virus become rapidly transformed as a result of expression of the viral src gene in the form of a single polypeptide of molecular weight 60,000 (pp60src) with protein kinase activity and suggested preferential association with the plasma membrane. Studies with...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Witt DP,Gordon JA

更新日期：1980-09-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Pheromone-based behaviours are crucial in animals from insects to mammals, and reproductive isolation is often based on pheromone differences. However, the genetic mechanisms by which pheromone signals change during the evolution of new species are largely unknown. In the sexual communication system of moths (Insecta:...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Lassance JM,Groot AT,Liénard MA,Antony B,Borgwardt C,Andersson F,Hedenström E,Heckel DG,Löfstedt C

更新日期：2010-07-22 00:00:00