i.e., a cell with the ability to transmit electrical signals in the form of action potentials, it is quite easy to classify related cells that do not fulfill these criteria as glia. The first ...

Using modern portfolio theory, investors can build portfolios that maximize return for a given level of risk or minimize risk for a desired level of return. Since its introduction by Henry ...

Berlin, February 28, 2025. The Virchow Foundation announced the appointment of Professor Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Christoph Markschies as its new Foundation President, effective March 1, 2025.

SPO11-mediated DNA cleavage therefore represents a high-stakes gamble for a cell: double-strand breaks (DSBs) are a potentially catastrophic type of genome damage if not properly repaired ...

It feels like the Splinter Cell remake has been on its way for a ... The first game is very linear, with Chaos Theory being the first to switch things up with a more open structure.

Plate tectonics is geology’s Theory of Everything. The realisation in the 1960s that Earth’s crust is made of fragments called plates—and that these plates can grow, shrink and move around ...

Such observations might seem ho-hum today, but they were unprecedented at the time. Robert Hooke had coined the word “cell”—short for cellula, or “small compartment” in Latin—in the mid-17th century, ...

The activities at the Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology (MTC) are focused on research and teaching in the subjects of infection biology, cell and tumor biology and immunology. The ...

Hepatitis B virus (HBV) is an important but difficult to study human pathogen. Most basics of the hepadnaviral life-cycle were unraveled using duck HBV (DHBV) as a model although DHBV has a capsid ...

coli infections and sends letters to other stem cell companies reminding them to follow the rules. How a dinner-table conversation between two biologists led to the formulation of the theory that ...