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May 19, 2003

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-	Food For Thought: Obesity, Diabetes May Be All In The Head Researchers have homed in on a brain mechanism that reduces food intake and affects the availability of blood glucose.
-	Polymer Scientists Become DNA Detectives A report in the June issue may offer a new fast and simple method for identifying SNPs and detecting them in individuals.
-	Knockout Rats Join Mice In The Lab Paper describes the first ever “knockout” lab rats, allowing researchers to study the effect of specific gene defects on rat physiology.
-	Foxy Duo Make Sugary Signals Two molecules, FOXO1 and PGC-1a, interact directly to turn on genes that stimulate insulin-dependent glucose production.
-	Bone Bonanza An Insight in this week's Nature presents a collection of articles that explore key elements of skeletal biology.
-	Cause Of SARS Confirmed The identity of the agent that causes severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) has been confirmed.
-	Young 'Old' Mice Offer Clue To Premature Ageing Mice engineered to grow old before their time may help researchers understand premature ageing syndromes.