Picking Up the Torch

Who's picking up the bill?

Picking Up the Trail of Phylogenetic Footprints

Non-coding sequence in eukaryotes encodes functionally important signals for the regulation of gene expression. Since these elements are evolutionary conserved among related taxa due to stabilizing selection they accumulate less mutations than adjacent non-functional DNA. These conserved non-coding sequences with potential regulatory activity, are known as phylogenetic footprints. They can be d...

Picking up the tab for erythropoietin.

for interplay among these factors is likely to be most productive.29 We already know much about the environments in which multiple sclerosis is common and about relevant host factors (including those with a genetic basis). The agent(s) remains a mystery, although an infectious agent has long been suspected. More than 20 viruses have been linked with multiple sclerosis over the years, but in no ...

Picking up patterns in language

Laura Batterink is a postdoctoral fellow at Northwestern University. She earned her BA in neuroscience from Middlebury College in 2007 and her PhD in cognitive neuroscience from the University of Oregon in 2012. Her research focuses on the contribution of implicit and explicit mechanisms to language acquisition and related forms of learning. This research has implications for understanding why ...

Can states pick up the health reform torch?

10.1056/nejmp1001439 nejm.org e29(1) ton is still taking the full measure of Senator Scott Brown’s victory in Massachusetts, but among seasoned observers, the election’s potential fallout for health reform was evident even before the first votes were cast.1 The political narrative of the Brown victory is the stuff of legend: the loss of a Senate seat held by an iconic figure who devoted his hal...