Nibbling away at synaptic development

Keep nibbling at the edges.

Alifelong passion for natural history and an aptitude for chemistry had led me to study for a B.Sc. in biochemistry at University College London (UCL) from 1963 to 1966. It was during this period that the allosteric theory of enzyme regulation was put forward by JacquesMonod, Jean-Pierre Changeux, and Francois Jacob at the Institute Pasteur. This explained how the end products of a biosynthetic...

Cohsasa--nibbling at the health care elephant.

Medicare reform: nibbling at catastrophic costs.

Embryonic Trogocytosis: Neighborly Nibbling during Development

New work in Caenorhabditis elegans shows that during embryogenesis endodermal cells interact with and regulate primordial germ cells by actively excising and digesting germ cell lobes. Endodermal cells utilize proteins linked to endocytosis to perform this unique 'cannibalistic' process.

Squirreling away at Parkinson's.

A compound that triggers hibernation in ground squirrels can also protect brain cells from the lack of oxygen following a stroke.