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The Article Creation and Improvement Drive is a monthly collaboration to improve molecular and cellular biology articles to good or featured article status.

/History - For past winners.
/Removed - For removed nominations.
/Update how-to - For updating the collaboration of the month.

Introduction

To vote or nominate you have to be a registered user with at least one contribution that is not a vote. Any molecular and cellular biology related article may be nominated except:

A great place to start is the project worklist, which contains a list of many articles that have been identified as being of interest to the project, as well as their importance and state of completion.

How to nominate

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Add nomination

Copy and paste the following template to the bottom of the list of nominations on this page and fill it out. 

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{{MCB CoM|start=May 17, 2024|votes=1}}

; Support:
# ~~~~

; Comments:
* (put your reason for nomination) ~~~~

Under "comments" section put an explanation of what work is needed.

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Notify

After submitting the new nomination, go to the nominated article and put 

{{MCBnom}}{{to do}}

on the top of the article's talk page. (skip {{to do}} if it's already present on the articles talk page)

How to vote

Sign with "# ~~~~" on the end of the list of the article you want to vote for and then update the vote count in the template. You can vote for as many articles as you like.

How the article is selected

Article with most votes on the first day of each month in 00:00 GMT is selected as "The current MCB Article Improvement Drive article". If two articles have same number of votes, the older nominee wins.

Comment The next selection will be on Saturday, 01 June 2024 00:00:00 (UTC)

How an article is removed from the list

Articles need one vote per two weeks to stay on the list. If the current date (May 17 2024) exceeds the "stays until" date of that particular article, the article entry is removed from this page and moved to page for removed nominations.

Nominations

DNA replication

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Support
  1. tameeria 00:58, 6 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  2. Guelphie85 13:15, 11 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  3. GAThrawn22 00:49, 13 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  4. Adenosinetalk 09:59, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  5. Daniel5127 | Talk 03:01, 23 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  6. (Sedmic) 23:45, 12 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  7. — Scientizzle 00:26, 23 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  8. Philbradley 17:58, 1 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  9. Ciar 05:00, 12 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Comments
  • Nominating this article as it is about an important mechanism taught in high school and in need of some work. It has been tagged as needing expert attention, not citing its references, sections requiring cleanup, in need of translation into plainer English, and I've received a review request on my talk page. tameeria 00:58, 6 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Translation into plainer english, some additional information in sections concerning viral and archaeal DNA replication, checkpoints in DNA replication is needed - Joe # Guelphie85 13:19, 11 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Very important article - should be FA GAThrawn22 00:49, 13 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • I think this article has to be especially simple and understandable. I don't think experts in the field would search for DNA replication for answers; they'd look up polymerase, or Okazaki fragments. Adenosinetalk 09:59, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Per comments above. This article is extremely important articles about DNA. And also, needs to be FA. Daniel5127 | Talk 03:01, 23 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Absolutely needs improving and is an essential part of the school curriculum - would be great to see it taken to FA standard Ciar 05:00, 12 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Cell cycle

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Support
  1. omes 16:27, 15 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  2. — Scientizzle 19:20, 2 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  3. tameeria 16:52, 13 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  4. GAThrawn22 12:57, 15 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  5. Million_Moments 19:36, 24 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Comments
  • This is a very important subject in cell biology. The article contains some errors and should be worked on. omes 16:27, 15 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Sorry for the late vote, didn't see it until today... I agree though that the topic is important, especially in the context of cancer and drug development etc. - tameeria 16:52, 13 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Carbon fixation

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Support
  1. tameeria 18:15, 13 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Comments
  • This is an important topic (generation of biomass from CO2) covered by merely an uncategorized stub. It needs expansion and inclusion of carbon fixation mechanisms other than the Calvin cycle (e.g. in autotrophic microorganisms). A general discussion of carbon fixation capacity of the biosphere and technological methods would be informative in relation to the Greenhouse effect and strategies to remove excess CO2 from the atmosphere. tameeria 18:15, 13 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Extracellular matrix

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Support
  1. Million_Moments 19:42, 24 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  2. GAThrawn22 01:38, 4 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  3. — Scientizzle 18:53, 5 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Comments
  • The extracelluar matrix is extremly important in cell biology and cell signalling. It has major implications in cancer as well, as the ECM essential tells a cell where it is and what it should be doing. The article is a mere stub at the moment. Million_Moments 19:42, 24 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • This article could use more citations and general explanations on how/why the components are important. A figure would be very useful. There's no info on artificial matrices and their importance in science & medicine. — Scientizzle 18:53, 5 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Endosome

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Support
  1. — Scientizzle 22:45, 8 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  2. — Reo ON | +++ 12:28, 10 May 2007 (UTC) (unlike in other events-improvements, I may contribute here (easilly))[reply]
Comments
  • Endosomes are very important cellular structures. The current stub suffers from a lack of images, sources & organziation. The prose is probably a little too dense for your average reader as well. — Scientizzle 22:45, 8 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Saturated fat

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Support
  1. — Scientizzle 00:26, 23 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  2. — Nunquam Dormio 05:22, 23 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  3. — Sloth Loves Chunk 05:54, 23 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Comments
  • This article lacks any real information on the role & importance of saturated fats outside of dietary issues. It's a likely search term based on the current obesity epidemic, so it would be valuable to clean up this page. — Scientizzle 22:45, 8 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • This article desperately needs development so could benefit enormously from a month's attention. Nunquam Dormio 05:22, 23 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • There's no doubt that this article needs more work and I'm willing to do my part to get it up to snuff. -Sloth Loves Chunk 05:54, 23 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • This article presently contains too many controversial statements and should not be article of the month.—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 66.67.208.246 (talk • contribs).
    • I'm not sure our anonymous editor understands that this is a nomination for Collaboration of the Month--that is, an article to be improved from its current state by a group effort. Containing too many [uncited] "controversial statements" is one reason why this article might benefit from further attention. — Scientizzle 06:26, 26 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Kinase

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Support
  1. — Scientizzle 18:49, 5 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Comments
  • Such an important class of molecules deserves more than a couple paragraphs. Much expansion could be used in the roles kinases play in signaling and regulation of proteins and other molecules. The mechanism of phosphorylation is unclear. Non-protein kinases get minimal attention and that should be rectified. — Scientizzle 18:49, 5 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Alpha-fetoprotein (AFP)

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Support
  1. Una Smith 04:29, 12 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Comments
  • AFP has an interesting natural history and is also an important tumor marker. I think it is one of the oldest tumor markers. Its natural history makes its use as a tumor marker somewhat complex, particularly for surveilance of teratoma and other kinds of germ cell tumor in infants. Most pages about tumor markers are inadequate; I'd like to improve this page in part as a model for the others. Una Smith 04:29, 12 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Biomarker (cell)

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Support
  1. — Scientizzle 21:40, 14 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Comments
  • This stubbiest of stubs is rated at high importance...as it should be. Cellular biomarkers are important in any study of individual cell types. I see a great potential for elaboration upon the biomarkers used in staining techniques, cell sorting, and identification of stem cells or cancer cells. — Scientizzle 21:40, 14 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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