Haem can bind to and inhibit mammalian calcium-dependent Slo1 BK channels
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Electrophysiological and structural evidence shows that that haem directly regulates cloned human Slo1 channels and wild-type BK channels in rat brain. The regulation of the BK channel identifies a previously unknown role of haem as an acute signaling molecule.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 2003
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Dolly's legacy
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The progress in mammalian cloning, since cloning Dolly the sheep, and its implications on human biology are discussed. Despite unresolved ethical issues, human reproductive cloning is found to be an eventual certainty.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 2007
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English elm is a 2,000-year-old Roman clone
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Outbreak of Dutch elm disease in the 1970s had the greatest impact on the English elm by killing more than 25 million trees. The English elm was used for vine training by the Romans corresponding to the Atinian elm.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 2004
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