On plasma cell longevity or brevity

Context, Compositionality, and Brevity

Because of “arguments from the infinity of language”, compositionality is often seen as a ‘non-negotiable’ feature of any theory of the semantics of natural language. But there are a number of features of “ordinary language discourse” that make it seem that compositionality is not true of natural language semantics. Some of these features are lumped together under the rubric of ‘context’, and i...

The value of brevity.

On the Longevity of Spathidium Spathula without Endomixis or Conjugation.

Components of fractionated stallion seminal plasma and the effects of seminal plasma on sperm longevity

.................................................................................................................................................. 7 List of original publications ..................................................................................................................... 9 Abbreviations .......................................................................................

p53: Pro-aging or pro-longevity?

continues to surprise biologists. For nearly a decade, it was thought to be an oncogene [1, 2], only to be subsequently declared a potent tumor suppressor [3, 4]. Initially characterized as a transcriptional activator, we now know p53 is also a transcriptional repressor [5]. And just as it seemed p53 activities were confined to the nucleus, it became apparent that p53 also functioned in the cyt...