Engineering a biomedical revolution.

abstract：:The development of photolabile caged neurotransmitters has made possible the study of the split-second kinetics of receptor-ligand interactions. An instrument has now been developed for activating the neurotransmitter and measuring the neuron's response. ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Marque JJ

更新日期：1989-02-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Colorectal cancer (CRC) is a heterogeneous disease of the intestinal epithelium that is characterized by the accumulation of mutations and a dysregulated immune response. Up to 90% of disease risk is thought to be due to environmental factors such as diet, which is consistent with a growing body of literature that des...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Janney A,Powrie F,Mann EH

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most Oryza sativa cultivars die within a week of complete submergence--a major constraint to rice production in south and southeast Asia that causes annual losses of over US 1 billion dollars and affects disproportionately the poorest farmers in the world. A few cultivars, such as the O. sativa ssp. indica cultivar FR...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Xu K,Xu X,Fukao T,Canlas P,Maghirang-Rodriguez R,Heuer S,Ismail AM,Bailey-Serres J,Ronald PC,Mackill DJ

更新日期：2006-08-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Long-term potentiation (LTP) in the hippocampus is widely studied as the mechanisms involved in its induction and maintenance are believed to underlie fundamental properties of learning and memory in vertebrates. Most synapses that exhibit LTP use an excitatory amino-acid neurotransmitter that acts on two types of rec...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Davies SN,Lester RA,Reymann KG,Collingridge GL

更新日期：1989-04-06 00:00:00

abstract：:During early mammalian development, as the pluripotent cells that give rise to all of the tissues of the body proliferate and expand in number, they pass through transition states marked by a stepwise restriction in developmental potential and by changes in the expression of key regulatory genes. Recent findings show ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Pera MF,Tam PP

更新日期：2010-06-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Oestrogens are involved in the growth, development and homeostasis of a number of tissues. The physiological effects of these steroids are mediated by a ligand-inducible nuclear transcription factor, the oestrogen receptor (ER). Hormone binding to the ligand-binding domain (LBD) of the ER initiates a series of molecul...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Brzozowski AM,Pike AC,Dauter Z,Hubbard RE,Bonn T,Engström O,Ohman L,Greene GL,Gustafsson JA,Carlquist M

更新日期：1997-10-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The cyanobacterium Prochlorococcus is the dominant oxygenic phototroph in the tropical and subtropical regions of the world's oceans. It can grow at a range of depths over which light intensities can vary by up to 4 orders of magnitude. This broad depth distribution has been hypothesized to stem from the coexistence o...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Moore LR,Rocap G,Chisholm SW

更新日期：1998-06-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Explaining the large-scale diversity of soil organisms that drive biogeochemical processes-and their responses to environmental change-is critical. However, identifying consistent drivers of belowground diversity and abundance for some soil organisms at large spatial scales remains problematic. Here we investigate a m...

journal_title：Nature

authors： van der Linde S,Suz LM,Orme CDL,Cox F,Andreae H,Asi E,Atkinson B,Benham S,Carroll C,Cools N,De Vos B,Dietrich HP,Eichhorn J,Gehrmann J,Grebenc T,Gweon HS,Hansen K,Jacob F,Kristöfel F,Lech P,Manninger M,Martin J

更新日期：2018-06-01 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：:Adenosine is a potent modulator of transmitter release at a variety of synapses. The adenosine A1 receptor is assumed to reside in presynaptic terminals and to function as a negative autoreceptor. How adenosine reduces transmitter release is uncertain; it may reduce the calcium influx during nerve terminal depolarizat...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Yawo H,Chuhma N

更新日期：1993-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The nuclear bulge is a region with a radius of about 200 parsecs around the centre of the Milky Way. It contains stars with ages ranging from a few million years to over a billion years, yet its star-formation history and the triggering process for star formation remain to be resolved. Recently, episodic star formatio...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Matsunaga N,Kawadu T,Nishiyama S,Nagayama T,Kobayashi N,Tamura M,Bono G,Feast MW,Nagata T

更新日期：2011-08-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Non-impulsive seismic radiation or 'tremor' has long been observed at volcanoes and more recently around subduction zones. Although the number of observations of non-volcanic tremor is steadily increasing, the causative mechanism remains unclear. Some have attributed non-volcanic tremor to the movement of fluids, whil...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Rubinstein JL,Vidale JE,Gomberg J,Bodin P,Creager KC,Malone SD

更新日期：2007-08-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Processes such as the scattering of alpha particles ((4)He), the triple-alpha reaction, and alpha capture play a major role in stellar nucleosynthesis. In particular, alpha capture on carbon determines the ratio of carbon to oxygen during helium burning, and affects subsequent carbon, neon, oxygen, and silicon burning...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Elhatisari S,Lee D,Rupak G,Epelbaum E,Krebs H,Lähde TA,Luu T,Meißner UG

更新日期：2015-12-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Excision of introns from nuclear precursors to messenger RNAs (pre-mRNAs) by the spliceosome requires two distinct phosphodiester transfer (transesterification) reactions: exchange of a 3'-5' for a 2'-5' bond in the first step (lariat formation) and exchange of one 3'-5' phosphodiester for another in the second step (...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Moore MJ,Sharp PA

更新日期：1993-09-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The nucleotides immediately surrounding intron/exon junctions of genes transcribed by RNA polymerase B can be derived from 'consensus' sequences for donor and acceptor splice sites by only a few base changes. Studies in vivo have underlined the importance of these junction nucleotides for splicing. In higher eukaryote...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Rautmann G,Breathnach R

更新日期：1985-05-30 00:00:00

abstract：:In Drosophila, Decapentaplegic (Dpp) and Wingless (Wg) are two secreted signalling proteins of the transforming growth factor (TGF)-beta and Wnt families, respectively. Although both are often required during development, only a few downstream components of these signalling pathways have been described. Here we presen...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Mann RS,Abu-Shaar M

更新日期：1996-10-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The medial entorhinal cortex (MEC) is part of the brain's circuit for dynamic representation of self-location. The metric of this representation is provided by grid cells, cells with spatial firing fields that tile environments in a periodic hexagonal pattern. Limited anatomical sampling has obscured whether the grid ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Stensola H,Stensola T,Solstad T,Frøland K,Moser MB,Moser EI

更新日期：2012-12-06 00:00:00

abstract：:T-cell differentiation in the thymus is thought to involve a progression from the CD4-CD8- phenotype through CD4+CD8+ intermediates to mature CD4+ or CD8+ cells. There is evidence that during this process T cells bearing receptors potentially reactive to 'self' are deleted by a process termed 'negative selection' One ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Berg LJ,Fazekas de St Groth B,Pullen AM,Davis MM

更新日期：1989-08-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Self-incompatibility in flowering plants is often controlled by a single nuclear gene (the S-gene) having several alleles. This gene prevents fertilization by self-pollen or by pollen bearing either of the two S-alleles expressed in the style. Sequence analysis shows that three alleles of the S gene of Nicotiana alata...

journal_title：Nature

authors： McClure BA,Haring V,Ebert PR,Anderson MA,Simpson RJ,Sakiyama F,Clarke AE

更新日期：1989-12-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Magnetic surveys of the martian surface have revealed significantly lower magnetic field intensities over the gigantic impact craters Hellas and Argyre than over surrounding regions. The reduced fields are commonly attributed to pressure demagnetization caused by shock waves generated during meteorite impact, in the a...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Carporzen L,Gilder SA,Hart RJ

更新日期：2005-05-12 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：:The distribution of geochemical species in the Earth's interior is largely controlled by fractional melting and crystallization processes that are intimately linked to the thermal state and evolution of the mantle. The existence of patches of dense partial melt at the base of the Earth's mantle, together with estimate...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Labrosse S,Hernlund JW,Coltice N

更新日期：2007-12-06 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：:The most basic objection to human embryonic stem (ES) cell research is rooted in the fact that ES cell derivation deprives embryos of any further potential to develop into a complete human being. ES cell lines are conventionally isolated from the inner cell mass of blastocysts and, in a few instances, from cleavage st...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Chung Y,Klimanskaya I,Becker S,Marh J,Lu SJ,Johnson J,Meisner L,Lanza R

更新日期：2006-01-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Nutrients, such as amino acids and glucose, signal through the Rag GTPases to activate mTORC1. The GATOR1 protein complex-comprising DEPDC5, NPRL2 and NPRL3-regulates the Rag GTPases as a GTPase-activating protein (GAP) for RAGA; loss of GATOR1 desensitizes mTORC1 signalling to nutrient starvation. GATOR1 components h...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Shen K,Huang RK,Brignole EJ,Condon KJ,Valenstein ML,Chantranupong L,Bomaliyamu A,Choe A,Hong C,Yu Z,Sabatini DM

更新日期：2018-04-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Immune-challenged vertebrate females transfer specific antibodies to their offspring, but this gratuitous immunity cannot operate in invertebrates. Here we show that constitutive immune defence is enhanced in sexual offspring of the bumble-bee Bombus terrestris L. when the parental colony is immune-challenged. Our fin...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Moret Y,Schmid-Hempel P

更新日期：2001-11-29 00:00:00

abstract：:When a portrait is coarsely quantized into blocks, the block structure hides the face, although lower spatial frequencies of the original image sufficient by themselves for recognition are preserved. Recognition can be recovered by blurring the image, or otherwise attenuating the spurious higher spatial frequency comp...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Morrone MC,Burr DC,Ross J

更新日期：1983-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The cellular oncogene c-Ki-ras is amplified 30- to 60-fold in cells of the mouse adrenocortical tumour Y1. The amplified oncogene is located in double minute chromosomes and in a homogeneously staining chromosomal region, common karyotypical anomalies of tumour cells. The amounts of c-Ki-ras specific mRNA and of the p...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Schwab M,Alitalo K,Varmus HE,Bishop JM,George D

更新日期：1983-06-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)-associated enzyme Cas9 is an RNA-guided endonuclease that uses RNA-DNA base-pairing to target foreign DNA in bacteria. Cas9-guide RNA complexes are also effective genome engineering agents in animals and plants. Here we use single-molecule and bulk...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Sternberg SH,Redding S,Jinek M,Greene EC,Doudna JA

更新日期：2014-03-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The cloning of mammals from differentiated donor cells has refuted the old dogma that development is an irreversible process. It has demonstrated that the oocyte can reprogramme an adult nucleus into an embryonic state that can direct development of a new organism. The prospect of deriving patient-specific embryonic s...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Hochedlinger K,Jaenisch R

更新日期：2006-06-29 00:00:00