Missed US nomination leaves climate post up for grabs

Up for grabs; trashing peroxisomes.

Together with the proteasome, autophagy is one of the major catabolic pathways of the cell. In response to cellular needs or environmental cues, this transport route targets specific structures for degradation into the mammalian lysosomes or the yeast and plant vacuoles. The mechanisms allowing exclusive autophagic elimination of unwanted structures are currently the object of intensive investi...

KETAMINE Nomination 1.0 BASIS OF NOMINATION

The WTO negotiations on services: The regulatory state up for grabs

Robert Howse is professor of law at University of Michigan Law School, Ann Arbor, Michigan. Elisabeth Tuerk is staff attorney at the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL), Geneva, Switzerland. SETTING THE STAGE FOR NEGOTIATIONS At present, WTO members are negotiating to further liberalize international trade in services. Services cover activities ranging from financial and telecommu...

Post-harvest and scale-up extraction of American mayapple leaves for podophyllotoxin production

Leaves of American mayapple (Podophyllum peltatum L.) are of interest to the pharmaceutical industry as an alternative source of podophyllotoxin, an aryltetralin lignan that is the precursor of widely used anticancer drugs etoposide, teniposide, and etopophos. In this study, the effects of post-harvest handling were evaluated by inflicting physical damage to leaves of mayapple to simulate rough...

US nurse who contracted Ebola leaves hospital.

One of the two US nurses who contracted Ebola virus disease while caring for a patient from west Africa in a hospital in Dallas, Texas, has been released from the high level bio-containment isolation unit at the National Institutes of Health’s Clinical Center in Bethesda, Maryland. Nina Pham, 26, of Fort Worth, Texas, became infected while taking care of Eric Thomas Duncan, a 42 year old Liberi...