L’influenza H1N1 del 2009
Si parla tanto di influenza e vaccini, ultimamente. Provo a farlo anche io, cercando di mettere enfasi sulle cose che raramente vengono dette in altre sedi. Parto con lo spiegare alcuni dei punti fondamentali della biologia dell’influenza, per capire (semplificando un po’). Siccome il fulcro principale di tutto il circo mediatico ruota attorno alla pericolosità del virus, mi soffermerò sui meccanismi che lo rendono pericoloso.
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Regulation of commissural axon pathfinding by slit and its Robo receptors
Annu Rev Cell Dev Biol. 2006;22:651-75. Regulation of commissural axon pathfinding by slit and its Robo receptors. Dickson BJ, Gilestro GF. Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP), A-1030 Vienna, Austria. Commissural axons grow along complex pathways toward, across, and beyond the midline of the central nervous system. Taking commissural axons in the vertebrate spinal cord [...]
A puzzle worth a Nobel Prize.
Once again, it’s Nobel Prize time. The first prize to be awarded, as expected, was for Physiology and Medicine and went to Craig Mello and Andrew Fire. Mello and Fire were awarded for their discovery of a fundamental mechanism for controlling the flow of genetic information namely what is now known as RNA interference or [...]
All In The Mind
All In The Mind is a wonderful Radio program broadcasted weekly on ABC National Radio in Australia. You can listen at the radio show live if you live in that part of the world or simply download the mp3 files and listen at them from your computer. On the website you can also find transcript [...]
