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February 14, 2004

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-	Protein ID Mapping Service Available Ariadne Genomics, Inc., today announced the availability of Protein ID Mapping, enabling biology researchers from academia and pharmaceutical industry to map protein IDs from one database source or microarray platform to another.
-	Researchers Identify New Cause of Insulin Resistance Researchers have tracked the cause of insulin resistance in the offspring of patients with type 2 diabetes to abnormalities in their mitochondria.
-	MIT team discovers memory mechanism MIT neuroscientists have discovered a new brain mechanism controlling the formation of lasting memories.
-	Human Embryonic Stem Cells May Promise Medical Advances For the first time, researchers have reported the development of versatile "pluripotent" human embryonic stem cells, potentially capable of becoming any cell in the body, from a cloned human blastocyst.
-	Yeast's Variety Show New research into a family of cell wall proteins shows how yeast can present a variety of "faces" to its environment.