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Certain Foods Linked to Long-term Weight Gain

Munching more unprocessed plant foods may help keep the middle-aged bulge away, a new study suggests. On the other hand, meat, french fries and sugar-sweetened drinks can help pack on the pounds.

Last Updated ( Saturday, 06 August 2011 08:27 )

 

MAVS Forms Functional Prion-like Aggregates to Activate and Propagate Antiviral Innate Immune Response

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l Viral infection induces the formation of MAVS aggregates that potently activate IRF3

l Recombinant MAVS protein forms self-propagating fibrils

Tradeoffs and Optimality in the Evolution of Gene Regulation

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l Phenotype fitness landscape for lac regulation in variable environments

l Maladapted lac response evolves to the predicted optimal response

A ceRNA Hypothesis: The Rosetta Stone of a Hidden RNA Language?

Here, we present a unifying hypothesis about how messenger RNAs, transcribed pseudogenes, and long noncoding RNAs “talk” to each other using microRNA response elements (MREs) as letters of a new language.

Stem cells could help blind patients to see within six weeks

By Steve Connor, Science Editor

Blind patients suffering from a type of eye disease that strikes in childhood will become the second group of people in the world to receive stem cells derived from spare IVF embryos left over from fertility treatment.

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