In this review, Madhuri Bhuvanagiri, Andreas Kulozik and colleagues discuss diverse aspects of NMD, the nonsense-mediated mRNA decay pathway: a crucial RNA quality control process which holds exciting promise in explaining the phenotypic variability of many genetic diseases and offering perspectives for the development of novel therapeutic strategies.
In this paper, Muria Barbarroja and colleagues have explored whether differences in inflammatory and insulin signalling pathways in visceral adipose tissue might account for the metabolic differences exhibited by morbidly obese individuals who are either insulin-resistant or, paradoxically, insulin-sensitive. Read the
Commentary on this paper by Marie-Soleil Gauthier and Neil B. Ruderman.
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