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7 October 2008LATEST HIGHLIGHTS

Fly cells retooled for flu research

University of Tokyo, Japan

Finding new therapeutic targets against H5N1 influenza infection may be accelerated by using insect cells as targets of infection


Moving towards a breast cancer vaccine

Academia Sinica, Taiwan

Carbohydrate-based compounds possess useful properties as immune system targets for therapeutics


Deciding the fate of fat

Tsinghua University, China

One gene plays an important role in controlling whether fat cells contribute to body heat or to love handles


Knees-up for arthritis gene

Center for Genomic Medicine, RIKEN, Japan

Scientists from Japan and China identify a gene linked to osteoarthritis of the knee


Unmasking a missing link

The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong

7 October 2008

Researchers propose a viable mechanism for enzyme recycling in the Golgi apparatus

HIV gets specific

International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, India

7 October 2008

New work helps explain the predominance of a particular strain of HIV among infected Indian individuals

Keeping an even temperature

Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea

24 September 2008

A signaling pathway in the brain of the fruit fly is involved in controlling ‘heat-seeking’ behavior

When two X chromosomes are not always better than one

Department of Genetic Medicine, Women's and Children's Hospital, Adelaide, Australia

24 September 2008

Researchers trace the genetic cause of a neurological disease that affects women but not men

Researchers identify killer block

Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

24 September 2008

Regulation of signaling in natural killer cells can affect their ability to battle a virus

A glimpse at the bacterial factory floor

National Institute of Immunology, India

24 September 2008

New research has revealed a novel ‘assembly line’ manufacturing process used by the tuberculosis bacterium—and a potential target for therapeutic sabotage

First things first

Academia Sinica, Taiwan

10 September 2008

A newly identified stepwise activation mechanism for DNA-damage-repair proteins ensures that the most essential response pathways are triggered first

Controlling cholesterol by controlling traffic

Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

10 September 2008

A powerful drug for reducing cholesterol works by targeted inhibition of a major absorption pathway used by cells in the liver and intestine