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Myelin: Keeping nerves well wrapped up

The recently determined structure of protein zero, P0, the most abundant peripheral nerve myelin protein, provides new insights into the molecular structure of myelin and potential disease mechanisms in hereditary peripheral neuropathies.

“Wrapped Up” Vaccines in the Context of HIV-1 Immunotherapy

Wrapped branes as qubits.

Recent work has established a correspondence between the tripartite entanglement measure of three qubits and the macroscopic entropy of the four-dimensional 8-charge STU black hole of supergravity. Here we consider the configurations of intersecting D3-branes, whose wrapping around the six compact dimensions T6 provides the microscopic string-theoretic interpretation of the charges, and associa...

Corals wrapped in plastic

A new way into the ER Membrane-embedded proteins are highly diverse in topology, physical characteristics, and location. This diversity necessitates multiple pathways for their effective membrane insertion. Guna et al. found that a widely conserved protein complex is responsible for inserting a subset of membrane proteins into the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) membrane (see the Perspective by Fry ...

180 Wrapped Tubes

The 180 models collected in this paper are produced by sampling and wrapping point sets on tubes. The surfaces are represented as triangulated 2-manifolds and available as stlfiles from the author’s web site at www.cs.duke.edu/ edels. Each tube is obtained by thickening a circle or a smooth torus knot, and for some we use the degrees of freedom in the thickening process to encode meaningful inf...