Review of After-Dinner Declarations by Nicanor Parra (Trans. Dave Oliphant)

Review of After-Dinner Declarations by Nicanor Parra (Trans. Dave Oliphant). (Austin, TX: Host Publications, 2009)

Imagining Spanish and Latin American Poets in their Neoliberal and Post-Dictatorial Contexts

Review of: Reseña de John Burns, Contemporary Hispanic Poets: Cultural Production in the Global Digital Age (Amherst, NY: Cambria Press, 2015)

Sceloporus orcutti

Number of Pages: 2Integrative BiologyGeological Science

Poetry and Mystical Heterodoxies: Leopoldo Panero

Translation of “Leopoldo Panero: Escrito a cada instante”. By Manuel Asensi. In Cien años de poesía—72 poemas españoles del siglo XX: estructuras poéticas y pautas críticas”. Bern: Peter Lang, 200

Translation of mRNA injected into Xenopus oocytes is specifically inhibited by antisense RNA.

The bacteriophage SP6 promoter and RNA polymerase were used to synthesize sense and antisense RNAs coding for the enzymes thymidine kinase (TK) and chloramphenicol acetyl transferase (CAT). Injection of antisense CAT RNA into frog oocytes inhibited expression of sense CAT mRNA. Similarly, antisense TK RNA inhibited expression of sense TK mRNA. Antisense RNAs were stable in oocytes and had no detectable effect on either the expression of endogenous proteins or on the expression of nonhomologous RNA transcripts. CAT activity expressed from a plasmid transcribed in the oocyte nucleus was also inhibited by antisense RNA injected into the oocyte cytoplasm. The data suggest that antisense RNA will be useful in identifying the function of specific mRNA sequences during early development of the frog