UICC puts More Emphasis on Anticancer Activity

More Emphasis on Complex Numbers

More emphasis on resection rates!

10 years after apartheid. New South Africa puts emphasis on reclaiming humanity's past.

With the government setting the priorities, some scientists were bound to feel left out in the cold. According to medical biochemist Wieland Gevers, the government has turned a deaf ear to his funding requests for the Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine, a new biomedical research facility that he founded on the University of Cape Town campus in 2001. So far, its funding has c...

The CCM complex puts a cap on integrin activity

C erebral cavernous malformations (CCMs) are common brain lesions formed by abnormally dilated and leaky blood vessels that can hemorrhage and cause strokes and seizures. The lesions are associated with defects in the adhesions that connect vascular endothelial cells, but Faurobert et al. reveal that CCMs are aggravated by aberrant cell–extracellular matrix interactions (1). CCMs can be caused ...

Sequestration puts Drp1 on furlough

A potato virus makes its move T ilsner et al. describe how three viral proteins combine to help newly synthesized viruses spread to neighboring plant cells. Plant viruses move between cells through narrow channels in the cell wall called plasmodesmata. Potato virus X, which replicates on the surface of the endoplasmic reticulum (ER), encodes three proteins—TGB1, 2, and 3—that promote the virus'...