To Claim Growth Turf, mTOR Says SOD Off

Dentritic Growth Don't Go Says Flamingo

The demonstration that information required for the generation of neurons before glia is intrinsic to individual stem cell–derived clones poses the question of mechanism. One possibility is that there is a clock intrinsic to stem cells that determines when daughter cells will be Discussions of CNS stem cell biology often leave the specified to adopt neuronal fates and when they will impression ...

Super-SOD: superoxide dismutase chimera fights off inflammation.

IN GREEK MYTHOLOGY, the Chimera was a fearsome monster with the head of a lion, the body of a goat, and the tail of a serpent, which was slain by Bellerophon. In their paper (the current article in focus, Ref. 1, see p. L917 in this issue) on the construction of a chimeric superoxide dismutase (SOD), it appears that Gao et al. may have slain the monstrous task of constructing a therapeutically ...

Is genetic engineering ever going to take off in forage, turf and bioenergy crop breeding?

BACKGROUND Genetic engineering offers the opportunity to generate unique genetic variation that is either absent in the sexually compatible gene pool or has very low heritability. The generation of transgenic plants, coupled with breeding, has led to the production of widely used transgenic cultivars in several major cash crops, such as maize, soybean, cotton and canola. The process for regulat...

DDAH says NO to ADMA.

Endothelium-derived nitric oxide (NO) is vasoprotective, as it enhances endothelial cell survival and proliferation, inhibits the excessive proliferation of vascular smooth muscle cells, and suppresses the adhesion of platelets and inflammatory cells to the vessel wall.1 Substantial evidence from preclinical studies and human research indicates that impairment of the endothelial NO synthase (NO...

GSE says goodbye to paper!