- From the Statue of Liberty to the coin in your back pocket: The secret life of copper
- Yoda and the fountain of youth? The many hats of IGF-1
- How low can you go? The promise of a new class of cholesterol lowering drugs
- Turning the white fat brown: a new approach to obesity?
- A gut feeling: bugs are critical for good health
- DNAs of our lives: The role of pharmacogenomics in modern medicine
- Roses, noses, and underarms: how one variation in our DNA influences underarm perspiration (and ear wax)
- Neanderthal man lives on in some of us: the genome of our extinct sister species has been sequenced
- From Africa to the Arctic: how the woolly mammoth adapted to the cold
- The songbird and the chicken: how a song can change a genome
- 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
- Don't put anything smaller than your elbow in your ear: the genetics of ear wax
- What you see is not what you get: DNA barcoding is helping scientists unveil nature's most hidden diversity
- Do brains have a freshness date? the effect of aging on the human brain
- Who let the dogs out? a genetic classification of dog breeds
- Microbial diversity: let's tell it how it is
- Talking about the genetics of talking: the discovery of the first "speech and language" gene
- Variations on a gene: investigating the genetic basis of iron overload
- A small fortune: small RNAs involved in the regulation of developmental timing
- Finding Fanconi: the hunt for the cause of autosomal dominant renal Fanconi syndrome
- Opening the flood gates? association of NOD2 with Crohn's disease
- Honey, I shrunk the genome: genome reduction in the leprosy bacillus
- Ready, steady, go! a two-part switch that regulates gene expression
- Fluorescent timer: the E5 mutant of the red coral protein drFP583 changes its fluorescence from green to red over time
- Cytosolic help for mitochondrial defects: a novel method for importing tRNA into mitochondria in order to suppress mutations
- The mouse that eats less but gains weight: a neuropeptide receptor, Mc3r, is shown to play a role in regulating energy stores
- Tuberous sclerosis complex in flies too? a fly homolog to TSC2, called gigas, plays a role in cell cycle regulation
- The beginning of the END: the EAST protein assembles a nucleoskeleton between chromosomes
- Mutations and blood clots: how point mutations in clotting factor genes conspire to increase the risk of thrombosis
- Viruses provide direction on the plant information superhighway: a viral movement protein helps to identify a counterpart in plants
- How Candida albicans switches phenotype - and back again: the SIR2 silencing gene has a say in Candida's colony type
- PTEN and the tumor suppressor balancing act: PTEN turns out to be the first tumor suppressor to have phosphatase activity
- The Salmonella battle plan: how Salmonella gain entry into human intestinal cells to grow and divide
- RNA surveillance: watching the defectives: detecting premature stop codons in mRNA halts the production of dangerous truncated proteins
- The compound eye of flies divulges evolutionary secrets: analysis of fly eye development may shed light on human eye disease
- The neighborhood of Alzheimer's amyloid precursor protein: new clues on Alzheimer's pathology from other proteins linked to amyloid plaque formation
- What do Lyme disease and syphilis have in common? two pathogenic spirochetes unexpectedly share an ATP synthase
- Dissecting the mechanism of our internal clock: how living organisms tune in to the time of day
- Ubiquitin links Parkinson's disease genes: a tantalizing link between two new genes
- Plant genes contribute to a sexually transmitted disease? how plant genes found their way into a human parasite
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