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Mertk Gene Plays Key Role in Myelin Repair, Mouse Study Finds 4.9 A gene called Mertk has important roles in the repair of myelin, the fatty substance that surrounds and protects neurons and that is lost in multiple sclerosis (MS). The findings were published in  MS is caused by the immune system attacking the myelin sheath and the resultant loss of myelin (termed demyelination). An overarching goal of MS research is to find ways to repair or replace the myelin that has been d...

Credit: David Griffin A study reported in the journal Current Biology on April 1 has both good news and bad news for the future of African elephants. While about 18 million square kilometers of Africa--an area bigger than the whole of Russia--still has suitable habitat for elephants, the actual range of African elephants has shrunk to just 17%of what it could be due to human pressure and the killing of elephants for ivory. "We looked at every square kilometer of the continent," says lead autho...

San Francisco Chronicle/Hearst Newspapers/Getty Images When the University of California system canceled its bundled journal subscription deal with publisher Elsevier and walked away from contract negotiations in 2019, it wasn’t clear whether the two parties would ever be able to get back on the same page. The UC system wanted to save money and stop supporting the production of research that is inaccessible to the public. Elsevier offered to combine the costs of accessing paywalled content an...

Share The Powell Library at the University of California, Los Angeles, is one of many in the 10-campus system involved in the new publishing deal. Wolterk/iStock California universities and Elsevier make up, ink big open-access deal Mar. 16, 2021 , 11:00 AM Two years after a high-profile falling out, the University of California (UC) system and the academic publishing giant Elsevier have patched up differences and agreed on what will be the largest deal for open-access publishing in sch...

Print The University of California is declaring victory in its long battle with the world’s largest publisher of scientific, technical and professional journals. UC announced Tuesday a new four-year deal with Netherlands-based Elsevier that will make all research published by UC authors in some 2,500 Elsevier journals subject to the open-access publishing model. That’s a model in which researchers pay a fee to publish their papers in the journals, but the papers are made available to reade...

The agreement will double the number of articles covered by UC’s open access agreements Ben Alkaly/UCLA March 16, 2021 After more than two years of negotiations, the University of California has reached an open-access agreement with Elsevier, the world’s largest academic publisher. The new four-year deal will go into effect on April 1, restoring UCLA’s direct online access to Elsevier journals. At the same time, the agreement accomplishes the university’s two goals for all publisher agr...

Loading video... VIDEO: These videos show a white blood cell creating a protrusion to reach out to a foreign body. view more  Credit: Julien Husson, LadHyX, CNRS, École Polytechnique, Institut Polytec Like a well-trained soldier, a white blood cell uses specialized abilities to identify and ultimately destroy dangerous intruders, including creating a protrusion to effectively reach out, lock-on, probe, and possibly attack its prey. Researchers reporting March 16 in Biophysical Journal ...

Four-year agreement supports University of California's transition to Open Access Test and learn approach will implement UC's pioneering shared funding model at unprecedented scale ?LONDON, UK / ACCESSWIRE

The University of California today (March 16) announced a pioneering open access agreement with the world’s largest scientific publisher, Elsevier, making significantly more of the University’s research available to people worldwide — immediately and at no cost. The deal will put more UC research into the hands of individuals across the globe at a time when international collaboration to fight COVID-19 has illuminated the value of open access to scientific findings. The agreement is the ...

Loading video... Credit: Marie Bannier-Hélaouët, Hubrecht Institute Stem-cell-derived organoids that swell up with tears could shed light on the biology of crying and dry-eye disease, suggests a study publishing March 16 in the journal Cell Stem Cell. Although regenerative therapies using human tear-gland organoids will not be possible anytime soon, these researchers have demonstrated that the organoids can engraft, integrate, and produce mature tear products upon transplantation into mouse ...