Fibers with gills help cells grow

Sales principles to help grow lab revenues-Part I.

Can International Patent Protection Help a Developing Country Grow?

International patent protection was a key issue at the multilateral trade talks sponsored by the World Trade Organization in Cancun in September 2003. Indeed, since the organization was founded almost ten years ago, the international protection of intellectual property rights (IPR) has been a bone of contention between developing and industrialized countries.At that time, developing countries d...

Sales principles to help grow lab revenues--Part II.

In the May 2012 issue of Medical Laboratory Observer; I had the honor to provide readers with the first four of nine sales principles for field representatives who have the responsibility of selling laboratory services to physician offices, hospitals, and other healthcare organizations. Principle # 1 was "Strategy is the foundation." Principle # 2 was "Reps must first be sold themselves." Princ...

Grow with the flow

The vascular tissues of plants are organized as strands of aligned cells in all the main organs. They differentiate from narrow, interconnected provascular cells, which are visible in the early leaf primordia of Arabidopsis thaliana in the top left panel. Plant hormones in the auxin class can induce the formation of additional vascular strands. Because auxins are produced in young leaves and th...

With HMGB1's help, cells dine in

Unwrapping new histones W iedemann et al. have discovered two novel kinds of histones, the protein spools for DNA. DNA strands usually coil around four histones— H2A, H2B, H3, and H4. But in certain situations, cells install alternatives. For example, CENP-A, a variant of H3, replaces conventional H3 at centromeres. Researchers haven’t identifi ed a new version of the H3 histone for 20 years, b...