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Nucleosomes get peeled and rewrapped

arly endosomes may help to create their own short-range tracks, according to a report from Stéphane Gasman, Yannis Kalaidzidis, and Marino Zerial (Max Planck Institute, Dresden, Germany). The results also suggest parallels between membrane trafficking, signaling, and regulation of the cytoskeleton. Trafficking of early endosomes requires the small GTPase RhoD. Zerial’s group identified the firs...

Protein names precisely peeled off free text

MOTIVATION Automatically identifying protein names from the scientific literature is a pre-requisite for the increasing demand in data-mining this wealth of information. Existing approaches are based on dictionaries, rules and machine-learning. Here, we introduced a novel system that combines a pre-processing dictionary- and rule-based filtering step with several separately trained support vect...

Robotically Assisted Endoscopic Ovarian Transposition

BACKGROUND Ovarian transposition is the anatomical relocation of the ovaries from the pelvis to the abdomen. Transposition is beneficial in women who are to undergo pelvic radiation, because it allows maintenance of ovarian function and preservation of assisted reproductive capacity. METHODS The da Vinci surgical system (Intuitive Surgical, Mountainview, CA, USA) was used to perform an endosc...

Hepatic Hydatid Cyst Operated Robotically

Based on a case operated in our clinic the paper discusses the various applications of robotic surgery in the surgical treatment of the hepatic hydatid cyst. We present the case of a 29year-old patient who presented to our clinic with chronic abdominal pain (8 months) localized in the right upper quadrant, without irradiation and showing no other accompanying phenomena. The patient was hospital...

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