Kuru, a familial degenerative disease of the nervous system occurring in a restricted ar-ea of the Highlands of New Guinea, has apparently/ been transmnitted to chimpanzees, but not to any other of then many experimental hosts tried. Transmission of the kuru syndrome from chimpanzee to chimpanzee has now been effected, with a shortening of the incubation period to I year from the 1 12 to 2-V2 y...

data types support modularity and reusability.Because of the high reliability requirements of embedded systems andthe poor testing environments usually associated with them, it paysto have as much veri cation as possible performed in the developmentenvironment. An ADT-based language with strong type checking per-formed at compile-time helps considerably in improving reliabil...

We present the R package stellaR, which is designed to access and manipulate publicly available stellar evolutionary tracks and isochrones from the Pisa low-mass database. The procedures for extracting important stages in the evolution of a star from the database, for constructing isochrones from stellar tracks and for interpolating among tracks are discussed and demonstrated. Due to the advanc...

We recently identified a tumor-associated antigen that was recognized by human monoclonal antibody L94. The antibody-reactive 707-AP sequence RVAALARDAP, cloned from a melanoma cDNA library, was also found to be recognized by peripheral blood lymphocytes (PBLs) from melanoma patients. In this study, 707-AP was used to stimulate melanoma patients' PBLs for the establishment of peptidespecific CT...

Background: Protein glycosylation, the covalent attachment of carbohydrates, is very common, but in many cases the biological function of glycosylation is not well understood. Recently, uorescence energy transfer experiments have shown that glycosylation can strongly change the global conformational distributions of peptides. We intend to show the physical mechanism behind this structural e ect...

Top Abstract Historical background Clinical presentation and... Differential diagnosis Incidence and patient... Implicated blood components Pathogenesis Prevention Definition Conclusions References Transfusion-related acute lung injury (TRALI) is a life-threatening adverse effect of transfusion that is occurring at increasing incidence in the United States and that, in the past 2 reporting year...