Did SARS come from bats?
| October 24, 2005
Wild bats, rather than civet cats, may have been the source of the coronavirus behind the deadly SARS outbreak in 2003.
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Sexual communication in tears
| October 24, 2005
For mice, getting teary-eyed conveys more than just sentiment.
Interdisciplinary Research
October 10, 2005
These papers were selected from multiple disciplines from the Faculty of 1000, a Web-based literature awareness tool http://www.facultyof1000.com.A.J. Dupuy et al., "Mammalian mutagenesis using a highly mobile somatic Sleeping Beauty transposon system," Nature, 436:221–6, July 14, 2005.This paper describes a modification of the Sleeping Beauty fish transposon which allows it to be used for efficient mutagenesis screens in mice. The authors provide proof-of-principle for the usefulness of t
Nanotubes link immune cells
| October 10, 2005
Nature has once again beaten nanotechnology to the punch.
Embryonic stem lines unstable
| September 26, 2005
Human embryonic stem cells appear to accrue genomic changes that could make them unusable therapeutically when cultured at length.
HCV replicates with help from microRNA
| September 26, 2005
California researchers have found a previously unrecognized role for microRNAs: aiding and abeting hepatitis C virus in the liver.
Is telomerase moonlighting?
| September 26, 2005
The debate continues as to whether telomerase's only function is to promote telomere extension.
Insects may have complex immunity
| September 12, 2005
Insect immunity may display hitherto unsuspected molecular complexity.
Interdisciplinary Research
September 12, 2005
These papers were selected from multiple disciplines from the Faculty of 1000, a Web-based literature awareness tool http://www.facultyof1000.com.J. Lu et al., "MicroRNA expression profiles classify human cancers," Nature, 435:834–8, June 9, 2005.This article makes the surprising discovery that microRNA-expression profiles can be better predictors of cancer outcome than mRNA profiles. This conclusion is based on the use of a novel, bead-based flow-cytometry approach to examine the expressi
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