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news archive genetic news - February 17, 2003

 
  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.

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