Restoring cancer's death sentence

Endocytosing the death sentence

A series of recent studies have suggested that endocytosis of the mannose-6-phosphate receptor (MPR)* might play a critical role in delivering the death signal to cells targeted for destruction by the immune system (for review see Barry and Bleackley, 2002). These studies have raised a number of controversial issues regarding the trafficking of proteins from the plasma membrane of the target ce...

Hypotheticals, psychiatric testimony, and the death sentence.

"Doctor ... do you have an opinion within reasonable psychiatric certainty whether or not there is a probability that the defendant. . . will commit criminal acts of violence that would constitute a continuing threat to society?" "Yes, he most certainly would." "Would you state whether or not that would be true regardless where he is?" "It wouldn't matter whether he was in the penitentiary or w...

Natural killer cells commute death sentence

Sphingolipid imbalance can take out an eye Y onamine et al. report that the relative amounts of two sphingolipids control the breakdown of light-sensing proteins and determine whether eye cells survive. Sphingolipids aren’t just building blocks of membranes. Some of the molecules, such as sphingosine 1 phosphate (S1P) and dihydrosphingosine 1 phosphate (DHS1P), take part in signaling pathways t...

Restoring an Elided Entry Word in a Sentence for Encyclopedia QA System

This paper presents a hybrid model for restoring an elided entry word for encyclopedia QA system. In Korean encyclopedia, an entry word is frequently omitted in a sentence. If the QA system uses a sentence without an entry word, it cannot provide a right answer. For resolving this problem, we combine a rule-based approach with Maximum Entropy model to use the merit of each approach. A rule-base...

Torture continues for death-sentence medics in Libya.