Prelude Maintenance of robust wildlife communities is valued by many Americans as a central aspect of national pride and cultural heritage. What is less recognized is the role healthy ecosystems play in the health and sustenance of human populations. When wildlife or a piece of a wildlife system directly benefits human well-being it is referred to as an ecosystem service. Decline in bee populations worldwide is putting humankind at risk of damaging it’s most imperative ecosystem service: animal…
Substance addiction continues to be an epidemic across the nation. Hundreds of pregnant women and new mothers have been accursed of child abuse and other crimes when they or their newborns have tested positive for control substances. (Pro publica) Substances such as nicotine, marijuana, alcohol opiates, cocaine and methadone pose serious risks health risks to the developing fetus. Currently in the United States, 18 states consider substance abuse during pregnancy child abuse under civil child…
Ubiquitin-conjugating partners of CHIP: In section 3, after " fate of substrates": E2’s are the family of enzymes, having highly conserved ubiquitin conjugating domains. These enzymes, in combination with E3s, play an important role in determining the fate of substrate proteins by selecting a lysine residue on which ubiquitin moiety must be added. In section 3, after Murata, et al. 2003: An in vitro study has shown that CHIP, with the aid of UbcH5 and UbcH6, two other E2s, can efficiently…