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February 17, 2003

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-	Component Guide For Fueling Human Heart Researchers have completed the most comprehensive attempt yet to catalog the protein content of human heart mitochondria.
-	Vitamin B1 Deters Diabetic Complications A widely available derivative of vitamin B1 prevents the progression of diabetic complications such as retinal damage.
-	Intelligence And Brain Activity People who score high on intelligence tests also activate a distinct set of brain regions during demanding mental tasks.
-	Wrong Protein Implicated In Autoimmunity? The real culprit in autoimmune inflammation is interleukin-23, and not interleukin-12.
-	HIV No Match For Microbicides First concrete evidence that microbicides can prevent virus attachment and entry into the vagina or rectum.
-	Following The Trail To Death A protein known as TRAIL may be important in preventing the development of dangerous immune cells that have the ability to attack other healthy cells.
-	To Fix DNA, You Need A Molecular Crowbar DNA-repair enzyme Rad54 remodels chromatin and pushes repressive nucleosome structures out of the way
-	RNA Interference Humbles Hepatitis RNAi can successfully prevent liver injury and death in a mouse model of hepatitis.
-	Rhythm Of Life Mutation in the structural protein ankyrin-B basis for life-threatening cardiac disease.