ICARDA gets down to business

Australia: campaign gets smoking parents to cut down.

A campaign to protect children from environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) has achieved a significant level of behaviour change by smoking parents. The ''Car and home: smoke free zone'' campaign resulted in a 55.7% increase in the number of reported smoke-free homes occupied by smokers with children aged under 6. There was also a 41.8% increase in the number of reported smoke-free cars. ETS exposure...

The APC/C gets Trim'd down for apoptosis

The APC/C gets Trim'd down for apoptosis H uang et al. describe how the anaphase-promoting complex (APC/C) limits cell death and how this inhibition is relieved following DNA damage. Bcl-2 family proteins such as Bax stimulate apoptosis by promoting the release of cytochrome c from mitochondria. A protein called modulator of apoptosis-1 (MOAP-1) helps activate Bax, but this protein is usually d...

Examples of Farming Systems Research at Icarda

Primary care research conducted in networks: getting down to business.

This seventh annual practice-based research theme issue of the Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine highlights primary care research conducted in practice-based research networks (PBRNs). The issue includes discussion of (1) theoretical and methodological research, (2) health care research (studies addressing primary care processes), (3) clinical research (studies addressing the imp...

Transcription Gets to the Checkpoint

The rapid cell proliferation characteristic of early animal embryos is accomplished with an abbreviated cell cycle and no DNA replication checkpoint. Blythe and Wieschaus provide evidence that nascent zygotic transcription precedes—and may trigger—this checkpoint at the midblastula transition.