Troodontids are a predominantly small-bodied group of feathered theropod dinosaurs notable for their close evolutionary relationship with Avialae.Despite a diverse Asian representation with remarkable growth in recent years, the North American record of the clade remains poor, with only one controversial species--Troodon formosus--presently known f
Calcium phosphates (CaPs) have been widely used in the field of biomedical engineering as bone graft substitutes or as carriers for drug delivery applications.Recent developments have focused on combining CaPs with proteins to obtain functional biomaterials that accommodate a broader spectrum of functional requirements.Silk sericin was considered a
In the pragma-dialectical approach fallacies are defined as violations of rules for critical discussion which manifest themselves in derailments of strategic manoeuvring.These may easily escape attention because they can be very similar to sound instances of strategic manoeuvring.Strategic manoeuvring only derails into fallaciousness if it goes aga
A bacterial membrane protein ZipA that tethers FtsZ to the membrane is known to promote FtsZ assembly.In this study, the binding of ZipA to FtsZ dv1433-010 was monitored using fluorescence spectroscopy.ZipA was found to bind to FtsZ with high affinities at three different (6.0, 6.8 and 8.0) pHs, albeit the binding affinity decreased with increasing
Abstract Background In the vertebrate spinal cord, motor neurons (MN) are generated in stereotypical numbers from a pool of dedicated progenitors (pMN) whose skin of the flayed one number depends on signals that control their specification but also their proliferation and differentiation rates.Although the initial steps of pMN specification have be