Succinate comes up ROSes

ICRP comes up trumps.

Commentary Truncated Prorenin Comes Up . . . Short

In the present issue of Hypertension, Xu et al1 report on a pivotal set of experiments that test the contribution of a key component to the action of the putative “intracellular reninangiotensin system” (RAS; iRAS) in its normal physiological setting. In contrast to the classic circulating RAS, the iRAS has been proposed to be wholly contained within cells, where it produces angiotensin peptide...

Free groups and roses

Consider the 2n symbols x1, . . . , xn, x−1 1 , . . . , x −1 n . Collect these into a set G. There is a map from G to itself which interchanges xi and x−1 i . This map is denoted by the usual inversion symbol g 7→ g−1. Thus x−1 i is unambiguous and (x −1 i ) −1 = xi. The empty word will be denoted by 1. A word is defined to be a finite ordered list of elements of G, depicted as exemplified by x...

Sarajevo Roses and Commemorative Plaques

Scent evolution in Chinese roses.

The phenolic methyl ether 3,5-dimethoxytoluene (DMT) is a major scent compound of many modern rose varieties, and its fragrance participates in the characteristic "tea scent" that gave their name to Tea and Hybrid Tea roses. Among wild roses, phenolic methyl ether (PME) biosynthesis is restricted to Chinese rose species, but the progenitors of modern roses included both European and Chinese spe...