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CellTweets #8 Enzymes Cross Membrane Bridge to Assemble Synthesis Machinery on Lipid Droplets
Wilfling F, Wang H, Haas JT, Krahmer N, Gould TJ, Uchida A, Cheng JX, Graham M, Christiano R, Fröhlich F, Liu X, Buhman KK, Coleman RA, Bewersdorf J, Farese RV Jr, Walther TC. (2013). Triacylglycerol Synthesis Enzymes Mediate Lipid Droplet Growth by Relocalizing from the ER to Lipid Droplets. Dev Cell Feb 13.
Lipid droplets have suffered from an image problem,
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Francis Hugh Ruddle, 1929-2013, Courtesy of Yale University, photo by Michael Marsland
Francis Hugh Ruddle, a former ASCB President and a pioneer at Yale University in mapping the human genome and creating the first transgenic mouse, died March 10 in New Haven. He was 83. Ruddle coined the word “transgenic” in 1981, after startling the world the year before with a mouse born with heritable viral genetic material that had been inserted into newly fertilized mouse eggs.
Working with
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So there has been a lot of noise about whether giving women 'safety tips' to avoid being raped is a form of 'victim blaming'.Don't get Raped (source)This culminated in a great hashtag (as many things do). Follow #safetytipsforladies to see some lovely tips for avoiding rape.For example:Don't be anywhere. 100% of rapes happen in places and locations. #safetytipsforladies— Conna Stevenson (@1000DaysOfRain) March 25, 2013Others suggest simply not being a woman, not ever drinking anything, not […]
Bieneck S & Krahé B (2011). Blaming the victim and exonerating the perpetrator in cases of rape and robbery: is there a double standard?, Journal of interpersonal violence, 26 (9) 1785-97. PMID: 20587449
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Jon R. Lorsch will be the new Director of the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Lorsch, currently a professor in the Department of Biophysics and Biophysical Chemistry at Johns Hopkins University and an expert on RNA’s role in translation initiation, will start his new post sometime this summer.
Lorsch earned his Bachelor’s in chemistry from Swarthmore College in 1990 and his PhD from Harvard University in 1995 where
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Budget-making is like sausage-making: The product is hopefully tastier than the process. Photo by John Fleischman
Watching Congress craft legislation has often been compared to watching sausage being made. The product is more appetizing than the process.
Such was the case during the U.S. Senate’s debate on the FY14 Budget Resolution, a document that serves as an internal framework for the construction of the individual appropriations bills that fund the government. On
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Soft tissue sarcomas (STS) are relatively rare and represent about 1% of all solid tumours. There are more than 50…
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When I was a child, I would sit on my living room floor playing with my Lego set for hours on end. I recall building police cars, giant spaceships and all kinds of other amazing structures. My weekend mornings always began the same way: I would dump my box of Legos onto the floor and...Read more
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CellTweets #8 Enzymes Cross Membrane Bridge to Assemble Synthesis Machinery on Lipid Droplets
Wilfling F, Wang H, Haas JT, Krahmer N, Gould TJ, Uchida A, Cheng JX, Graham M, Christiano R, Fröhlich F, Liu X, Buhman KK, Coleman RA, Bewersdorf J, Farese RV Jr, Walther TC. (2013). Triacylglycerol Synthesis Enzymes Mediate Lipid Droplet Growth by Relocalizing from the ER to Lipid Droplets. Dev Cell Feb 13.
Lipid droplets have suffered from an image problem,
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