Earliest endosomes

Delivery of ligands from sorting endosomes to late endosomes occurs by maturation of sorting endosomes

After endocytosis, lysosomally targeted ligands pass through a series of endosomal compartments. The endocytic apparatus that accomplishes this passage may be considered to take one of two forms: (a) a system in which lysosomally targeted ligands pass through preexisting, long-lived early sorting endosomes and are then selectively transported to long-lived late endosomes in carrier vesicles, or...

Recycling endosomes

Heparin sustains the brain myloid plaque formation can be inhibited by an unlikely culprit, according to work by Scholefield et al. on page 97. The group finds that heparan sulfate (HS)—normally a part of the cell surface and extracellular matrix—functions in cells to slow the production of the plaque components of Alzheimer's disease. Amyloid plaques are aggregates of the amyloid ␤-peptide (A ...

The earliest knockouts.

Earth's earliest atmospheres.

Earth is the one known example of an inhabited planet and to current knowledge the likeliest site of the one known origin of life. Here we discuss the origin of Earth's atmosphere and ocean and some of the environmental conditions of the early Earth as they may relate to the origin of life. A key punctuating event in the narrative is the Moon-forming impact, partly because it made Earth for a s...

Goethe's earliest recollection.