License to Assemble: Theorizing Brand Longevity

A License to Kill

Much of our knowledge of the basal mechanism underly-44 Lincoln's Inn Fields ing programmed cell death derives from the elegant London WC2A 3PX studies of Horvitz and colleagues on developmental cell United Kingdom death in the developmentally deterministic nematode worm Caenorhabditis elegans. During development of Apoptosis is the descriptive name given to the process the hermaphrodite worm, ...

How to Assemble a Capsid

Retroviral capsids are composed of hexagonal arrays of the viral CA protein. In this issue of Cell, Ganser-Pornillos et al. (2007) provide a molecular model of the hexagonal HIV-1 CA lattice obtained from a new electron cryomicroscopic reconstruction. This study reveals the three principal stabilizing interfaces in the capsid lattice and explains how two different classes of inhibitors can bloc...

Computational Approaches to Sociological Theorizing

License to glue

License to glue eplication of DNA and cohesion of the resultant sister chromatids are two activities that must be coordinated. found that the same " licensing " process that gets DNA ready for replication is also necessary to allow loading of the cohesin complex responsible for sister chromatid cohesion. Gillespie and Hirano used the sequence of yeast cohesin-loading proteins to identify human ...

Ethics; the Main License to Do Spinal Surgeries

If we want to be honest, how many percent of our surgically treated patients are satisfied with our treatment? 50%, 70%, or 90%? How many percent of our spinal surgeries can restore normal anatomy to the patient? Is it enough to have an academic degree for carrying out spinal surgeries? Does having a gun means having the right to shoot at everyone freely? "Conflict of interest" is a term common...