The Killers: Nick’s Initiation into Adulthood

An Investigation into the Potential Romantic Appeal of Convicted Killers

Natural born killers: NK cells drafted into the cancer fight.

Once thought of as foot soldiers in the body's fight against cancer, natural killer (NK) cells are more akin to special forces in bolstering the immune system to respond to foreign invaders. New studies are revealing that rather than randomly killing cells—as was thought for many years—NK cells are programmed to seek out specific targets on cancer cells. " For the past 25 years, we have been so...

Certain protein transducing agents convert translocated proteins into cell killers.

The majority of proteins are unable to translocate into the cell interior. Hence for peptide- and protein-based therapeutics a direct intracytoplasmic delivery with the aid of transducing agents is an attractive approach. We wanted to deliver to the cell interior a putatively cytotoxic protein VPg. Protein transduction was achieved in vitro with three different commercial products. However, in ...

Killing the killers

The bacteria that infect humans and cause cholera are themselves infected by viruses, which have the potential to influence the course of a cholera infection.

Preterm Cognitive Function Into Adulthood.

BACKGROUND Very preterm (VP; gestational age <32 weeks) and very low birth weight (VLBW; <1500 g) births are related to impaired cognitive function across the life span. It is not known how stable cognitive functions are from childhood to adulthood for VP/VLBW compared with term-born individuals and how early adult cognitive function can be predicted. METHODS The Bavarian Longitudinal Study i...