NewsBlog: [Entry posted at 24th January 2008 05:03 PM GMT] If you thought that all it took to kick-start a signaling pathway was a ligand binding to a receptor, think again. How and when that binding occurs, it turns out, is what determines what happens inside the cell.
In a study published online in Cell today, Sherry LaPorte of Stanford University and colleagues describe the structure of the Interleukin-4 and Interleukin-13 (IL-4/13) cytokines and the complete set of... Click to continue
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NewsBlog: [Entry posted at 14th January 2008 10:03 PM GMT] PhD students and postdocs who get training in responsible conduct in research (RCR) don't absorb the lessons, especially when they've seen others break the rules before, according to a recent report in the journal Accountability in Research: Policies & Quality Assurance. Main message: Getting rules in ethics classes is useless if the scientific community doesn't obey the rules, too.
The... Click to continue
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NewsBlog: [Entry posted at 9th January 2008 08:17 PM GMT] Drug companies should stop using a classic toxicity test, lethal dose 50 (LD50), to inform clinical trials, according to authors in an upcoming journal of Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology report.
Mouse data of a drug's LD50, the dose of a drug that kills... Click to continue
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