Category Archives: science
changes in The EMBO Journal
The EMBO Journal implements new intiatives for 2009. It will follow a transparent editorial process for a more constructive referee and author argumentation. In addition, citing primary literature is being encouraged whenever possible. References are now excluded from the character … Continue reading
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the scientist and the identifier
“Initiatives such as OpenID (http://openid.net/) and ResearcherID (http://www.researcherid.com/), if they catch on in the scientific community, promise to provide us with unique identifiers.” Philip Bourne and J. Lynn Fink wrote on the journal PLoS Computational Biology. Bourne PE, Fink JL … Continue reading
Drosophila CG6539 is orthologue of vertebrate gemin3
Mutations in the survival motor neuron (SMN1) gene cause spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), an autosomal recessive disorder characterised by degeneration of spinal cord motor neurons leading to progressive muscular weakness. SMN1 encodes an RNA-binding protein, SMN, which is complexed with … Continue reading
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WRN mini-review
In a recent issue of DNA Repair [7 (2008) 1776–1786], Julia Sidorova reviews the role of WRN in preserving DNA integrity during replication and propose that WRN can function in coordinating replication fork progression with replication stress-induced fork remodeling. She … Continue reading
