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Cell Signalling: The Merry Lives of BAK1

Plant receptor-like kinases characterised by leucine-rich repeats have been shown to play dual roles in seemingly unrelated biological processes, inviting comparison with TOLL-like receptors of animals.

Merry Christma: An Early Network Worm

B efore computer viruses became a continual, worldwide problem, before the famous Internet worm, and even before the Internet itself, a network worm called Christma Exec spread rapidly through mainframe computers connected to worldwide networks. In 1987, system administrators, first in Europe and then around the world, found themselves facing a threat they had never seen before—a program that r...

Merry christmas for patients with hemophilia B.

Hemophilia B (also known as Christmas disease) is due to deficiency of coagulation factor IX (FIX). In this issue of the Journal, Nathwani et al. report the first unequivocal evidence of successful gene therapy for hemophilia B — a major advance in this field.1 This success for hemophilia may translate into gene therapy for other blood protein deficiencies. Hemophilia is due to deficiency in a ...

A MERry response after myocardial infarction.

I n mammals, billions of cells are turned over daily in a continuous succession of cell death and replacement. This occurs as part of either routine homeostasis (aged or excess cells) or after acute injury. These cells die usually by the process of apoptosis and are rapidly removed by neighboring or recruited phagocytes. 1 Unlike phagocytosis of pathogens, apoptotic cell clearance actively indu...