EDITORIAL
Discoveries: an innovative platform for publishing cutting-edge research discoveries in biology, medicine, and chemistry
Octavian Bucur, Alexandru Almasan, Barbara S. Nikolajczyk, Garth L. Nicolson, Jack Lawler, Victor E. Velculescu, Sorin Draghici, Mircea Leabu, Dorina Avram, Ilie Bucur, Enzo Calautti, George A. Calin, Subhash C. Chauhan, Mihai Ciubotaru, Stefan N. Constantinescu, Dipak Datta, Dan G. Duda, Mark T. Friedman, Paul J. Galardy, Brent T. Harris, Maite Huarte, Ahmad M. Khalil, Dario Marchetti, Liviu Movileanu, Roxana Nat, Carmelo Nucera, Aurel Popa - Wagner, Andreea L. Stancu, Shudong Zhu and Elisa A. LiehnCorresp. author's affiliation: Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA & University Hospital Aachen, Germany;
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INTERVIEW Article
Discoveries Interview : Prof. Garth L. Nicolson on cellular membrane structure
Professor Emeritus Garth L. Nicolson is the President, Chief Scientific Officer and Research Professor at the Institute for Molecular Medicine in Huntington Beach, California. He is also a Conjoint Professor at the University of Newcastle (Australia). He was formally the David Bruton Jr. Chair in Cancer Research and Professor and Chairman of the Department of Tumor Biology at the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston.
Read moreSinger and Nicolson developed Singer-Nicolson fluid-mosaic model of cellular membrane organization (1972, Science).
REVIEWS
Update of the 1972 Singer-Nicolson Fluid - Mosaic Model of Membrane Structure
Garth L. NicolsonCorresp. author's affiliation: Institute for Molecular Medicine, Huntington Beach, CA, USA
Critical physiological and pathological functions of Forkhead Box O tumor suppressors
Georgiana R. Dumitrascu and Octavian BucurCorresp. author's affiliation: Harvard Medical School and BIDMC, Boston, MA, USA
FOCUSED REVIEWS and PERSPECTIVE Articles
The Bidirectional Relationship between Metabolism and Immune Responses
Forum M. Raval and Barbara S. NikolajczykCorresp. author's affiliation: Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA
The still valid fluid mosaic model for molecular organization of biomembranes: accumulating data confirm it
Mircea LeabuCorresp. author's affiliation: Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy & Victor Babes National Institute of Pathology, Bucharest, Romania
Akt modes of stem cell regulation: more than meets the eye?
Enzo Calautti
Corresp. author's affiliation: University of Turin, Italy