The significance of establishing a center for legal studies through an endowment from one so
prominent in the publishing field provided Justice Brennan with an opportunity to comment …

While most microbes play an important role in nature, certain potentially harmful microbes
can contaminate food and water, and cause a plethora of infectious diseases in both animals …

The pivotal point of vertebrate sex determination is the development of the gonad into a
testis or ovary, which governs phenotypic sex through the production of hormones. The …

The last decade has seen a revolution in the area of sol–gel-derived materials since the
demonstration that these materials can be used to encapsulate biological species such as …

DNA sequence information underpins genetic research, enabling discoveries of important
biological or medical benefit. Sequencing projects have traditionally used long (400–800 …

Background Guidelines for triaging patients for cardiac catheterization recommend a risk
assessment and noninvasive testing. We determined patterns of noninvasive testing and the …

Wnt genes comprise a large family of secreted polypeptides that are expressed in spatially
and tissue-restricted patterns during vertebrate embryonic development 1 . Mutational …

… In this trenchant book, Brennan argues that democracy should be judged by its results—and …
Given this grim picture, Brennan argues that a new system of government—epistocracy, the …

We systematically generated large-scale data sets to improve genome annotation for the
nematode Caenorhabditis elegans, a key model organism. These data sets include …

Puma encodes a BH3-only protein that is induced by the p53 tumor suppressor and other
apoptotic stimuli. To assess its physiological role in apoptosis, we generated Puma knockout …