It is suggested that the recognition of new business opportunities often involves pattern recognition--the cognitive process through which individuals identify meaningful patterns in complex arrays of ...

The innate immune system contributes to the earliest phase of the host defense against foreign organisms and has both soluble and cellular pattern recognition receptors for microbial products. Two ...

It is now clear that the functions of inhibitor of apoptosis proteins (IAPs) are not restricted to the inhibition of apoptosis. Some family members, such as X-linked IAP (XIAP), cellular IAP1 (cIAP1) ...