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October

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NAS Report Likely Will Stir Debate

By Ted Agres

[Published 1st October 2001]

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New Weapons Against HIV

By Ricki Lewis

[Published 1st October 2001]

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Assessing Risk

By Barry Palevitz

[Published 1st October 2001]

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Promoting 'Useful Knowledge' in the 21st Century

By Eugene Russo

[Published 1st October 2001]

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Lasker Foundation Honors Five

By Brendan Maher

[Published 1st October 2001]

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News Notes

By Myrna Watanabe

[Published 1st October 2001]

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Hair Cell Regeneration Continues to Elude Scientists

By Jennifer Fisher Wilson

[Published 1st October 2001]

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Gene Therapists Aim for Parkinson's Disease

By Douglas Steinberg

[Published 1st October 2001]

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Amygdala's Inner Workings

By Harvey Black

[Published 1st October 2001]

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The Race to Find the Tangier Disease Gene

By Brendan Maher

[Published 1st October 2001]

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Research Notes

By Hal Cohen, Jennifer Fisher Wilson

[Published 1st October 2001]

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Chromosome 21 Pan-acea?

By Heather Ettinger

[Published 1st October 2001]

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Chips in Space

By Aileen Constans

[Published 1st October 2001]

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Peptides, Made to Order

By Deborah Fitzgerald, Jennifer Guimbellot

[Published 1st October 2001]

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Exposing Gel Documentation Systems

By Sarah Goforth

[Published 1st October 2001]

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Quantifying Intermolecular Interactions

By Jeffrey Perkel

[Published 1st October 2001]

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Managing the Scientific Multitudes

By Paula Park

[Published 1st October 2001]

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Strangers in a Strange Land

By Brendan Maher

[Published 1st October 2001]

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Journey Upstream Spawns New Research Models

By A J S Rayl

[Published 1st October 2001]

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Profession Notes

By Jean Mccann

[Published 1st October 2001]

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Funding Opportunities in the Life Sciences

[Published 1st October 2001]

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Bad Blood Between the FDA and Europe

By Rocco Casagrande

[Published 1st October 2001]

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Cartoon

By Sidney Harris

[Published 1st October 2001]

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Choose Beauty

By Susan Fitzpatrick

[Published 1st October 2001]

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Gathering All Species

By Ronald Rousseau

[Published 1st October 2001]

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Cloning Ban

By Howard Olson

[Published 1st October 2001]

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Informing Congress: A Return of the OTA?

By Ted Agres

[Published 1st October 2001]

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Human Genes: How Many?

By Tom Hollon

[Published 15th October 2001]

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Lasker Ceremony: Homage Amidst Angst

By Brendan Maher

[Published 15th October 2001]

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Mapping Subtelomeres

By Ricki Lewis

[Published 15th October 2001]

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News Notes

By Brendan Maher, Hal Cohen

[Published 15th October 2001]

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Oxygen: Putting a Human Face on Science

By A J S Rayl

[Published 15th October 2001]

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In Cancer Research, Diet and Exercise Roles Strengthen

By A J S Rayl, Ricki Lewis

[Published 15th October 2001]

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Bitter-Sweet Research

By Jennifer Fisher Wilson

[Published 15th October 2001]

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A New Role for a Kinase Subunit

By Aileen Constans

[Published 15th October 2001]

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A Genomic View of Oceanic Life

By Leslie Pray

[Published 15th October 2001]

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Estrogen Replacement and Cognition: Ready for Prime Time?

By Harvey Black

[Published 15th October 2001]

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Identifying the First Sleep-Related Genes

By Jennifer Fisher Wilson

[Published 15th October 2001]

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Research Notes

By Hal Cohen

[Published 15th October 2001]

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Bench Buys

By Aileen Constans

[Published 15th October 2001]

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Card Addresses Multiple Concerns

By Wendy Gloffke

[Published 15th October 2001]

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SearchLight Increases Throughput

By Amy Adams

[Published 15th October 2001]

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Software Solutions to Proteomics Problems

By Bob Sinclair

[Published 15th October 2001]

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Spectrophotometers: An Absorbing Tale

By Gregory Smutzer

[Published 15th October 2001]

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Training for the Bioinformatics Boon

By Paula Park

[Published 15th October 2001]

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Cathy Wu at the Crossroads

By Steve Bunk

[Published 15th October 2001]

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Federal Aid Boosts Stem Cell Job Market

By Ted Agres

[Published 15th October 2001]

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Profession Notes

[Published 15th October 2001]

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Funding Opportunites in the Life Sciences

[Published 15th October 2001]

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Science is Service

By Susan Fitzpatrick

[Published 15th October 2001]

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The Science Behind Stem Cell Research

By Bert Vogelstein

[Published 15th October 2001]

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Abou Ben Adhem (may his tribe increase)

By Tv Rajan

[Published 15th October 2001]

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Plague Genome: The Evolution Of a Pathogen

By Ricki Lewis

[Published 29th October 2001]

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Algal Research

By Myrna Watanabe

[Published 29th October 2001]

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EPA Reauthorizes Bt Corn

By Barry Palevitz

[Published 29th October 2001]

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Cell Cycle Control Giants Win Nobel

By Brendan Maher

[Published 29th October 2001]

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New Adventures in Science Publishing

By Eugene Russo

[Published 29th October 2001]

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Forging Ahead on Arabidopsis

By Barry Palevitz

[Published 29th October 2001]

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News Notes

By A J S Rayl

[Published 29th October 2001]

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Pain Research Comes into Its Own

By Jennifer Fisher Wilson

[Published 29th October 2001]

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Beta Stem Cells: Searching for the Diabetic's Holy Grail

By Laura Defrancesco

[Published 29th October 2001]

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GPCRs: Researchers Disprove the Single Polypeptide Theory

By Jim Kling

[Published 29th October 2001]

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Research Notes

By Eugene Russo, Hal Cohen

[Published 29th October 2001]

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Improving Cell Death

By Ds Culp

[Published 29th October 2001]

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An Alternative to Two-Hybrid

By Aileen Constans

[Published 29th October 2001]

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Redesigning a Web Pioneer

By Laura Bonetta

[Published 29th October 2001]

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Making Every Nanoliter Count

By Deborah Fitzgerald

[Published 29th October 2001]

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In Search of Genomic Variation

By Laura Defrancesco, Jeffrey Perkel

[Published 29th October 2001]

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The Biotech Triangle

By Ted Agres

[Published 29th October 2001]

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Tiny Technology Promises Tremendous Profits

By Harvey Black

[Published 29th October 2001]

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Protecting Intellectual Property

By Peg Brickley

[Published 29th October 2001]

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Profession Notes

By Ted Agres

[Published 29th October 2001]

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Funding Opportunites in the Life Sciences

[Published 29th October 2001]

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Peer Review: Do Studies Prove Its Effectiveness?

By Ann Weller

[Published 29th October 2001]

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Cartoon

By Sidney Harris

[Published 29th October 2001]

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The Scientist at 15

By Alexander Grimwade

[Published 29th October 2001]

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Increasing the Tribe: 1

By Michael Phillips

[Published 29th October 2001]

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Sept. 11 Living Memorial

By Raymond O'connor

[Published 29th October 2001]

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Increasing the Tribe: 2

By Michael Siemens

[Published 29th October 2001]

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Translation Just in the Cytoplasm? Think Again

By Jeffrey Perkel

[Published 29th October 2001]

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Muscle profiles

By Jonathan Weitzman

[Published 1st October 2001]

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Organ development signals from the vasculature

By Tudor Toma

[Published 1st October 2001]

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Germ warfare

By Pat Hagan

[Published 1st October 2001]

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Telomerase mutations

By Jonathan Weitzman

[Published 2nd October 2001]

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Dynamic auxin efflux carriers

By David Bruce

[Published 2nd October 2001]

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pol II

By Jonathan Weitzman

[Published 3rd October 2001]

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A new mechanism for hypertension

By Tudor Toma

[Published 3rd October 2001]

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Making healthy new blood vessels

By Tudor Toma

[Published 3rd October 2001]

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Protein that affects susceptibility to anthrax

By Tudor Toma

[Published 3rd October 2001]

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Plague genome

By Jonathan Weitzman

[Published 4th October 2001]

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Cannabinoid protects injured brain

By Tudor Toma

[Published 4th October 2001]

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Fat-busting protein

By Tudor Toma

[Published 4th October 2001]

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Lack of confidence in the MMR vaccine affects immunization rates

By Zosia Kmietowicz

[Published 4th October 2001]

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Watch your language!

By Jonathan Weitzman

[Published 5th October 2001]

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is a key signal for cancer treatment

By Tudor Toma

[Published 5th October 2001]

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The ADAMTS family

By Tudor Toma

[Published 5th October 2001]

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The nitroproteome

By Jonathan Weitzman

[Published 8th October 2001]

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Close-up on breast cancer protein

By Tudor Toma

[Published 8th October 2001]

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The end of HIV-1 budding machinery

By Tudor Toma

[Published 8th October 2001]

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The Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine 2001

By David Bruce

[Published 8th October 2001]

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Chromosome replication

By Jonathan Weitzman

[Published 9th October 2001]

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Apolipoprotein locus

By Jonathan Weitzman

[Published 10th October 2001]

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Maternal tolerance

By Tudor Toma

[Published 10th October 2001]

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700,000 ORESTES

By Jonathan Weitzman

[Published 11th October 2001]

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Unisex contraceptives

By Tudor Toma

[Published 11th October 2001]

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Human Genetics Commission

By Pat Hagan

[Published 11th October 2001]

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Chromatin at centromeres

By Jonathan Weitzman

[Published 12th October 2001]

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Size matters

By Tudor Toma

[Published 12th October 2001]

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Corticotropin-releasing factor affinity switch

By Tudor Toma

[Published 12th October 2001]

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Expert claims link between CJD and BSE 'unlikely'

By Joanna Lyford

[Published 12th October 2001]

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Lymphocyte signaling

By Jonathan Weitzman

[Published 15th October 2001]

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A new immune response switch

By Tudor Toma

[Published 15th October 2001]

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High protein diet warning

By Susan Aldridge

[Published 15th October 2001]

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Patient information

By Pat Hagan

[Published 15th October 2001]

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Phosphatase in metastasis

By Jonathan Weitzman

[Published 16th October 2001]

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More protection against anthrax

By Tudor Toma

[Published 16th October 2001]

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Controlling the cell cycle clock

By Susan Aldridge

[Published 16th October 2001]

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abo

By Jonathan Weitzman

[Published 17th October 2001]

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New drug target boosts hopes for stroke therapy

By Dan Ferber

[Published 17th October 2001]

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Reopening the debate on the origins of vCJD

By Pat Hagan

[Published 17th October 2001]

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Wild olives

By Jonathan Weitzman

[Published 18th October 2001]

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Regulation of host responses by a bacterial peptide

By Tudor Toma

[Published 18th October 2001]

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$38 million glue grant to explore cell migration

By Vicki Glaser

[Published 18th October 2001]

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Fly immunity

By Jonathan Weitzman

[Published 19th October 2001]

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T cells can stop development of skin cancer

By Tudor Toma

[Published 19th October 2001]

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p53 mediates pregnancy protection against breast cancer

By Tudor Toma

[Published 19th October 2001]

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The future's bright, the future's online

By Helen Gavaghan

[Published 19th October 2001]

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Ultraviolet sensitivity

By Jonathan Weitzman

[Published 22nd October 2001]

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without a receptor

By Tudor Toma

[Published 22nd October 2001]

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Bigger, better pancreatic cells

By Tudor Toma

[Published 22nd October 2001]

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Studying disease associations

By Jonathan Weitzman

[Published 23rd October 2001]

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Programmable synthetic microenvironments for transplant cells

By Tudor Toma

[Published 23rd October 2001]

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Lucky Luke

By Jonathan Weitzman

[Published 24th October 2001]

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Eliminating research fraud

By Pat Hagan

[Published 24th October 2001]

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Pregnancy, p53 and breast cancer risk

By Vicki Glaser

[Published 24th October 2001]

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Salmonella

By Jonathan Weitzman

[Published 25th October 2001]

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Anthrax evildoers revealed

By Tudor Toma

[Published 25th October 2001]

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A comment from Genome Biology

By Gregory Petsko

[Published 25th October 2001]

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Lining-up Listeria genomes

By Jonathan Weitzman

[Published 26th October 2001]

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Fast protein translation to release memories

By Tudor Toma

[Published 26th October 2001]

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Switching on genes with GeneSwitch

By Jonathan Weitzman

[Published 29th October 2001]

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Altered cryopyrin brings fever and chills

By Tudor Toma

[Published 29th October 2001]

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Chaperones for virulent bacterial proteins

By Tudor Toma

[Published 29th October 2001]

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Dendritic defence

By Jonathan Weitzman

[Published 30th October 2001]

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Fugu genome rough draft completed

By Tudor Toma

[Published 30th October 2001]

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Insurance companies announce genetic testing halt

By Pat Hagan

[Published 30th October 2001]

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The multifunctional hairless gene

By Susan Aldridge

[Published 30th October 2001]

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Large libraries

By Jonathan Weitzman

[Published 31st October 2001]

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Vitamin heart protection role revealed

By SPIS MedWire

[Published 31st October 2001]

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Chemotactic blockbuster

By Tudor Toma

[Published 31st October 2001]