Vascular endothelial growth factor B controls endothelial fatty acid uptake Nature advance online publication 14 March 2010. doi:10.1038/nature08945 Authors: Carolina E. Hagberg, Annelie Falkevall…
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Newsweek’s Howard Fineman has some stellar advice for President Obama in his recent column: stop governing for the press. Though Fineman makes the right diagnosis for Obama’s ailment — his “journalistic” style — his assessment of its consequences is facile and ignores the intricacies of electoral politics. Fineman insists that it is not really important to cater to the journalistic establishment, as the public’s dismal perception of the news media as an institution — Gallup …
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On Sunday’s syndicated Chris Matthews Show, as the panel discussed whether President Obama would move to the center for the 2010 elections, after the BBC’s Katty Kay argued that he may need to please the Democratic party base for this year’s elections, Time magazine columnist Joe Klein referred to the conservative base of the Republican party as “maniacs” as he claimed that the GOP base is more dominated by conservatives than the Democratic base is by liberals. Klein: But there’s a big difference here between the Democratic and Republican parties. In the Republican party, the base is the right ..read more
Phosphorylation of histone H3T6 by PKCβI controls demethylation at histone H3K4 Nature advance online publication 14 March 2010. doi:10.1038/nature08839 Authors: Eric Metzger, Axel Imhof, Dharmeshkumar Patel, Philip Kahl, Katrin Hoffmeyer, Nicolaus Friedrichs, Judith M. M?ller, Holger Greschik, Jutta Kirfel, Sujuan Ji, Natalia Kunowska, Christian Beisenherz-Huss, Thomas G?nther, Reinhard Buettner & Roland Sch?le Demethylation at distinct lysine residues in histone H3 by lysine-specific demethylase 1 (LSD1) causes either gene repression or activation. As a component of co-repressor complexes, LSD1 contributes to target gene repression by removing mono- and dimethyl…
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It’s incredible what you can learn from television these days. On Saturday, Brent Frazier of Nashville’s CBS affiliate reported on a local Coffee Party. He made no mention of the attendance, but at about 2:06 of the video says: The Coffee Party, …
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The dynamic genome of Hydra Nature advance online publication 14 March 2010. doi:10.1038/nature08830 Authors: Jarrod A. Chapman, Ewen F. Kirkness, Oleg Simakov, Steven E. Hampson, Therese Mitros, Thomas Weinmaier, Thomas Rattei, Prakash G. Balasubramanian, Jon Borman, Dana Busam, Kathryn Disbennett, Cynthia Pfannkoch, Nadezhda Sumin, Granger G. Sutton, Lakshmi Devi Viswanathan, Brian Walenz, David M. Goodstein, Uffe Hellsten, Takeshi Kawashima, Simon E. Prochnik, Nicholas H. Putnam, Shengquiang Shu, Bruce Blumberg, Catherine E. Dana, Lydia Gee, Dennis F. Kibler, Lee Law, Dirk Lindgens, Daniel E. Martinez, Jisong Peng, Philip A. Wigge, Bianca Bertulat, Corina Guder, Yukio Nakamura, Suat Ozbek, Hiroshi Watanabe, ..read more
Molecular basis of infrared detection by snakes Nature advance online publication 14 March 2010. doi:10.1038/nature08943 Authors: Elena O. Gracheva, Nicolas T. Ingolia, Yvonne M. Kelly, Julio F. Cordero-Morales, Gunther Hollopeter, Alexander T. Chesler, Elda E. S?nchez, John C. Perez, Jonathan S. Weissman & David Julius
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ABC’s Cokie Roberts, who last December asserted that a “lot of people are going to like a whole lot once they see what’s in” ObamaCare, during today’s Roundtable discussion on ABC’s This Week defended the “substance” of the health care bill Democrats in the House are being pressured to vote for, …
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Back in September, Tom Friedman, speaking of China, proclaimed that “there is only one thing worse than one-party autocracy, and that is one-party democracy, which is what we have in America today.” That prompted Jonah Goldberg to call Friedman a “liberal fascist,” drawing an example from his seminal book, Liberal Fascism , to demonstrate how Friedman’s fawning over the Chi-Coms “is exactly the argument that was made by American fans of Mussolini in the 1920s.” But far from being abashed, Friedman is apparently so enamored of his formulation that he has repeated it virtually verbatim. The Times columnist suffered ..read more
