Nature's treasure hunt
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The Atmosphere of Pluto as Observed by New Horizons
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Observations made during the New Horizons flyby provide a detailed snapshot of the current state of Pluto's atmosphere. While the lower atmosphere (at altitudes
Political priorities
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Engineering as a New Frontier for Translational Medicine
Published in Science Translational Medicine
A large scale screen reveals genes that mediate electrotaxis in Dictyostelium discoideum
...Published in Science Signaling
Three crocodilian genomes reveal ancestral patterns of evolution among archosaurs.
...Published in Science (New York, N.Y.)
To provide context for the diversification of archosaurs--the group that includes crocodilians, dinosaurs, and birds--we generated draft genomes of three crocodilians: Alligator mississippiensis (the American alligator), Crocodylus porosus (the saltwater crocodile), and Gavialis gangeticus (the Indian gharial). We observed an exceptionally slow rat...
Fauna in decline: the community way.
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Gene repression. H3K27me and PRC2 transmit a memory of repression across generations and during development.
Published in Science (New York, N.Y.)
For proper development, cells must retain patterns of gene expression and repression through cell division. Repression via methylation of histone H3 on Lys27 (H3K27me) by Polycomb repressive complex 2 (PRC2) is conserved, but its transmission is not well understood. Our studies suggest that PRC2 represses the X chromosomes in Caenorhabditis elegans...
The intergenerational transmission of inequality: maternal disadvantage and health at birth.
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Health at birth is an important predictor of long-term outcomes, including education, income, and disability. Recent evidence suggests that maternal disadvantage leads to worse health at birth through poor health behaviors; exposure to harmful environmental factors; worse access to medical care, including family planning; and worse underlying mater...
Intestinal inhibition of the Na+/H+ exchanger 3 prevents cardiorenal damage in rats and inhibits Na+ uptake in humans.
...Published in Science Translational Medicine
The management of sodium intake is clinically important in many disease states including heart failure, kidney disease, and hypertension. Tenapanor is an inhibitor of the sodium-proton (Na(+)/H(+)) exchanger NHE3, which plays a prominent role in sodium handling in the gastrointestinal tract and kidney. When administered orally to rats, tenapanor ac...
