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‘Reflect’
‘Reflect’, winner of Elsevier’s Grand Challenge 2009, will be piloted on the research articles in the November 12 issue of Cell. The ‘Reflect’ tool identifies the proteins, genes and small molecules mentioned in the Cell articles, and generates pop-up windows containing relevant contextual information, with additional links, about those entities. Cell Press invites you to test this new functionality andshareyour thoughts.
The cover story of Issue 215/1 is a landmark review by Dr. Russell Wallis and colleagues summarising the pioneering achievements of this team of scientists in resolving the structure of the multimolecular recognition complexes of the classical and the lectin pathway activation routes of complement. This work has provided a novel perspective of the interactions, similarities and functional differences in the organisation of these key components of the innate and the adaptive immune response and provides a comprehensive new understanding of the structure/function equilibrium that is responsible for the cognitive processes that regulate the activation of the potent humoral immune response mediated through complement activation.