RCN shuns TUC affiliation

The nucleus shuns MAPK

pon differentiation, many cell types no longer proliferate in response to growth factor–activated MAPK. But MAPK has more than just mitogenic effects, and the cells must still activate and respond to MAPK to adjust lipid metabolism, protein synthesis, and other cellular functions. On page 689, Smith et al. identify a simple, yet until now elusive, mechanism by which cells uncouple MAPK's prolif...

Igt - Rcn Workshop

Planets in 47 Tuc

We consider the survivability of planetary systems in the globular cluster 47 Tucanae. We compute the cross sections for the breakup of planetary systems via encounters with single stars and binaries. We also compute the cross sections to leave planets on eccentric orbits. We find that wider planetary systems (d > ∼ 0.3 AU) are likely to be broken up in the central regions of 47 Tucanae (within...

RCN calls time on MRSA.

You would not be surprised if you opened tomorrow’s newspaper to read: ‘Nurses in plea for action over £115m hospital superbugs.’ But that headline has been published before, in a 1996 edition of the Daily Mail. It accompanied a story about a resolution at RCN congress calling for a nationwide surveillance scheme to monitor antibiotic-resistant infections. Now, with an election looming, the pol...

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