Whats new! October 2004

Who let the dogs out?
a genetic classification of dog breeds
Created: October 13, 2004

Microbial diversity: let's tell it how it is
Created: March 04, 2004, Updated: March 26, 2004

Talking about the genetics of talking:
the discovery of the first "speech and language" gene
Created: November 1, 2003

Variations on a gene:
investigating the genetic basis of iron overload
Created: August 25, 2003

A small fortune:
small RNAs involved in the regulation of developmental timing
Created: June 5, 2002

Finding Fanconi:
the hunt for the cause of autosomal dominant renal Fanconi syndrome
Created: October 22, 2001

Opening the flood gates?
Association of NOD2 with Crohn's disease
Created: August 6, 2001

Honey, I shrunk the genome:
genome reduction in the leprosy bacillus
Created: April 30, 2001

Ready, steady, go!
A two-part switch that regulates gene expression
Created: March 12, 2001

Fluorescent timer:
the E5 mutant of the red coral protein drFP583 changes its fluorescence from green to red over time
Created: January 22, 2001

Cytosolic help for mitochondrial defects.
A novel method for importing tRNA into mitochondria in order to suppress mutations
Created: December 4, 2000

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

Tuberous sclerosis complex in flies too?
A fly homolog to TSC2, called gigas, plays a role in cell cycle regulation
Created: July 27, 2000

The beginning of the END:
the EAST protein assembles a nucleoskeleton between chromosomes
Created: June 16, 2000

Mutations and blood clots:
how point mutations in clotting factor genes conspire to increase the risk of thrombosis
Created: April 26, 2000

Viruses provide direction on the plant information superhighway:
a viral movement protein helps to identify a counterpart in plants
Created: December 8, 1999

How Candida albicans switches phenotype - and back again.
The SIR2 silencing gene has a say in Candida's colony type
Created: November 24, 1999

PTEN and the tumor suppressor balancing act:
PTEN turns out to be the first tumor suppressor to have phosphatase activity
Created: November 10, 1999

The Salmonella battle plan:
how Salmonella gain entry into human intestinal cells to grow and divide
Created: October 27, 1999

RNA surveillance: watching the defectives.
Detecting premature stop codons in mRNA halts the production of dangerous truncated proteins
Created: October 13, 1999

The compound eye of flies divulges evolutionary secrets:
analysis of fly eye development may shed light on human eye disease
Created: September 29, 1999

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

What do Lyme disease and syphilis have in common?
Two pathogenic spirochetes unexpectedly share an ATP synthase
Created: September 1, 1999

Dissecting the mechanism of our internal clock:
how living organisms tune in to the time of day
Created: August 18, 1999

Ubiquitin links Parkinson's disease genes:
a tantalizing link between two new genes
Created: August 4, 1999

Plant genes contribute to a sexually transmitted disease?
How plant genes found their way into a human parasite
Created: July 15, 1999

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