On 28th November OxTalks will move to the new Halo platform and will become 'Oxford Events' (full details are available on the Staff Gateway).
There will be an OxTalks freeze beginning on Friday 14th November. This means you will need to publish any of your known events to OxTalks by then as there will be no facility to publish or edit events in that fortnight. During the freeze, all events will be migrated to the new Oxford Events site. It will still be possible to view events on OxTalks during this time.
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The molecular scissor ADAM10 is critical for embryonic development and impacts on diseases such as cancer, Alzheimer’s and inflammation. ADAM10 functions by cleaving the extracellular regions from substrates including Notch cell-fate regulators, cadherin adhesion molecules and amyloid precursor protein. We recently proposed the ‘six scissor’ hypothesis, whereby ADAM10 is not one scissor, but six different scissors with different substrate specificities. This is dictated by ADAM10 association with one of six regulatory tetraspanin membrane proteins. In future, it may be possible to treat human diseases by targetting individual tetraspanins, avoiding the toxicity of targetting ADAM10 on every cell in the body.
