Recognition Memory: Can You Teach an Old Dogma New Tricks?

Cell cycle: Flies teach an old dogma new tricks

E2F transcription factors are thought to influence the G1-S cell-cycle transition by controlling expression of genes required for growth and DNA synthesis. But emerging evidence suggests E2F complexes can control the cell cycle independently of transcription by directly regulating DNA replication origin usage during S phase.

Can You Teach Old Dragons New Tricks? FDI and Innovation Activity in Chinese State-owned Enterprises

Can You Teach Old Dragons New Tricks? FDI and Innovation Activity in Chinese State-Owned Enterprises We investigate whether inward FDI, either at the firm or industry level, has any impact on product innovation by Chinese State owned enterprises (SOEs). We use a comprehensive firm level panel data set of Chinese SOEs covering the period 1999 to 2003. Our results show that foreign capital partic...

New Tricks for an Old Dogma: How Estradiol Mediates Masculinization and Defeminization of Sexual Behavior

Intra-articular Injections for Osteoarthritis: From Bench to Bedside, can we Teach Old Drugs New Tricks?

The two articles in this month’s press of The Journal of Arthritis, one by Ekinci et al. titled ‘A New Treatment Option in Osteoarthritis: Prolotherapy Injections’ and the other by Senatorov et al. titled ‘Clinical Outcome of Hylan G-F 20 Injections in Shoulder and Hip Osteoarthritis: A Retrospective Review’ raise several important points surrounding the topic of intra-articular injections [1,2...

Can You Teach an Old Dog New Tricks? How Older Adults Perceive Embodied Agents

In this experiment we investigate how older adults perceive an embodied agent as compared to younger people in the context of an information giving task. Our results show that older adults found the agent less friendly and likeable than the younger participants in our experiment, and that they had a strong preference for a human presenter. However, the older adults were relatively positive on s...