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Don't put anything smaller than your elbow in your ear
the genetics of ear wax
Laura Dean.
Created: October 11, 2006
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Will malaria soon be a thing of the past?
the potential of recombinant protein vaccines to control one of the world's most deadly diseases
Tyler Beck.
Created: June 26, 2006
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What you see is not what you get
DNA barcoding is helping scientists unveil nature's most hidden diversity
Marcia Triunfol.
Created: August 01, 2005
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Do brains have a freshness date?
the effect of aging on the human brain
Victoria Sutton.
Created: January 12, 2005
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Who let the dogs out?
a genetic classification of dog breeds
Laura Dean.
Created: October 13, 2004
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Microbial diversity: let's tell it how it is
Jo McEntyre.
Created: March 04, 2004, Updated: March 26, 2004
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Talking about the genetics of talking:
the discovery of the first "speech and language" gene
Laura Dean.
Created: November 1, 2003
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Variations on a gene:
investigating the genetic basis of iron overload
Laura Dean.
Created: August 25, 2003
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A small fortune:
small RNAs involved in the regulation of developmental timing
Created: June 5, 2002
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Finding Fanconi:
the hunt for the cause of autosomal dominant renal Fanconi syndrome
Created: October 22, 2001
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Opening the flood gates?
association of NOD2 with Crohn's disease
Created: August 6, 2001
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Honey, I shrunk the genome:
genome reduction in the leprosy bacillus
Created: April 30, 2001
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Ready, steady, go!
a two-part switch that regulates gene expression
Created: March 12, 2001
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Fluorescent timer:
the E5 mutant of the red coral protein drFP583 changes its fluorescence from green to red over time
Created: January 22, 2001
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Cytosolic help for mitochondrial defects:
a novel method for importing tRNA into mitochondria in order to suppress mutations
Created: December 4, 2000
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The mouse that eats less but gains weight:
a neuropeptide receptor, Mc3r, is shown to play a role in regulating energy stores
Created: November 6, 2000
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Tuberous sclerosis complex in flies too?
a fly homolog to TSC2, called gigas, plays a role in cell cycle regulation
Created: July 27, 2000
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The beginning of the END:
the EAST protein assembles a nucleoskeleton between chromosomes
Created: June 16, 2000
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Mutations and blood clots:
how point mutations in clotting factor genes conspire to increase the risk of thrombosis
Laura Dean.
Created: April 26, 2000
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Viruses provide direction on the plant information superhighway:
a viral movement protein helps to identify a counterpart in plants
Created: December 8, 1999
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How Candida albicans switches phenotype - and back again:
the SIR2 silencing gene has a say in Candida's colony type
Created: November 24, 1999
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PTEN and the tumor suppressor balancing act:
PTEN turns out to be the first tumor suppressor to have phosphatase activity
Created: November 10, 1999
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The Salmonella battle plan:
how Salmonella gain entry into human intestinal cells to grow and divide
Created: October 27, 1999
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RNA surveillance: watching the defectives:
detecting premature stop codons in mRNA halts the production of dangerous truncated proteins
Created: October 13, 1999
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The compound eye of flies divulges evolutionary secrets:
analysis of fly eye development may shed light on human eye disease
Created: September 29, 1999
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The neighborhood of Alzheimer's amyloid precursor protein:
new clues on Alzheimer's pathology from other proteins linked to amyloid plaque formation
Created: September 15, 1999
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What do Lyme disease and syphilis have in common?
two pathogenic spirochetes unexpectedly share an ATP synthase
Created: September 1, 1999
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Dissecting the mechanism of our internal clock:
how living organisms tune in to the time of day
Created: August 18, 1999
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Ubiquitin links Parkinson's disease genes:
a tantalizing link between two new genes
Created: August 4, 1999