Sandra Escher – an Obituary

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Sandra Schmid: Collaring endocytosis

T hroughout her career, Sandra Schmid has been at the leading edge of endocytosis research. It was her laboratory that fi rst identifi ed the GTPase dynamin as a central player in en-docytosis (1). Since then, she's devoted her research efforts to characterizing this critical cellular process (2) and dynamin's role therein, as the protein that collars and then pinches off forming endocytic vesi...

QT dispersion: time for an obituary?

Perhaps the believers and disbelievers represent two different poles of scientific and research attitude. Some believe that the original concept of QT dispersion is correct merely because the technology can be applied to existing ECGs, and that the results more or less frequently (irrespective of the reproducibility) statistically distinguish between clinically defined groups. Others point to t...

Mushroom-Body Memories: An Obituary Prematurely Written?

Studies on insect olfactory learning have established the mushroom bodies as key brain structures for the formation of long-term memory (LTM). Two new neurons in the fly brain are reported now as essential sites for LTM formation, while mushroom bodies are claimed to be unnecessary to this end.

Obituary Notice

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