Peter Scott recently characterised the research excellence framework (REF) as "a monster, a Minotaur that must be appeased by bloody sacrifices".
Not for him the baggy jeans and oversize sports jersey uniform of the street – his style is personal, recently characterised by a bucket of a Vivienne Westwood hat and some sparkling sneakers that are his concession to bling.
For us, the type of free access to scientific information represented by the open access movement is a key component of building development from the bottom up (an approach recently characterised by Rajiv Shah, administrator of the US Agency for International Development, as "open source development").
Alan Blinder and Ricardo Reis of Princeton University recently characterised this approach as "minimal strategic constraints...maximal tactical flexibility...and not much in the way of explanation".Though this broad strategy is likely to be emulated by any successor, there may be tinkering at the margins.
Pharrell's unique talent of producer, songwriter, musician, rapper and singer has put him in the spotlight of the music industry, but his open and sunny disposition, together with his personal style, recently characterised by a bucket of a Vivienne Westwood hat and some sparkling sneakers, has gained him huge popularity.
We have recently characterised this interaction in the Bacillus system and established a τ5 DnaB6 stoichiometry.
Clear cell papillary renal cell carcinoma is a recently characterised low grade neoplasm which has not yet been documented to have metastasised.
Thymocyte expressed molecule involved in selection 1 (ThemiSwissProtProt accession number Q8BGW0) is the recently characterised founder member of a novel family of proteins.
These two gene products are, together with Acetyl-CoA/Propionyl-CoA carboxylase, diagnostic for a CO2 fixation pathway recently characterised in hyperthermophilic Crenarchaeota and suggested for marine crenarchaeota [35].
This epiblast stage in ES cells, recently characterised by the (reversible) transition of cells from a Rex1+Oct4+ ESC phenotype to a Rex1-Oct4+ epiblast-like state [47], may be analogous to embryo derived pluripotent epiblast stem cells that are dependent on Activin and FGF signalling [48].
First of all the discovery of the TCR-αβ on a subpopulation of CD123+ HLA-DR+ BDCA-2+ cells confronted us with two main questions: did we really find a new population expressing the TCR and not activated, blastic T cells similar to the recently characterised CD4+ Th-APC [31]?
