Editorial: phys. stat. sol. (b) 246/1

Solid state and materials research news: phys. stat. sol. (RRL) 4/2007

Mimicking the agile gecko, with its uncanny ability to run up walls and across ceilings, has long been a goal of materials scientists. Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and the University of Akron have taken one sticky step in the right direction, creating synthetic “gecko tape” with four times the sticking power of the real thing. The researchers describe a process for making pol...

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Recent studies have shown that blood HbA1c levels alone may not accurately reflect serum glucose concentrations in all diabetic patients. For certain diabetic patients, there exists a glycation gap. It was reported that the glycation gap information obtained by measuring HbA1c and glycated serum protein (GSP) or glycated albumin (GA) together may improve evaluation of diabetic patients by more ...

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With 46 subunits, human mitochondrial complex I is the largest enzyme of the oxidative phosphorylation system. We have studied the assembly of complex I in cultured human cells. This will provide essential information about the nature of complex I deficiencies and will enhance our understanding of mitochondrial disease mechanisms. We have found that 143B206 rho zero cells, not containing mitoch...

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Familial dysautonomia (FD) is characterized by severe and progressive sympathetic and sensory neuron loss caused by a highly conserved germlinepointmutation of the humanELP1/IKBKAP gene. Elp1 is a subunit of the hetero-hexameric transcriptional elongator complex, but how it functions in disease-vulnerable neurons is unknown. Conditional knockout mice were generated to characterize the role of E...

Initial Decoherence of Open Quantum Systems, V. Privman, J. Stat. Phys. 110, 957-970 (2003)