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October 12, 2004

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-	New Methods Journal Launched Nature Methods, the latest addition to the Nature family, will publish major methodological developments and provide scientists with new tools that can be applied to their research.
-	Imaging Neuronal Damage In Alzheimer's Disease Scientists use state-of-the-art imaging techniques to visualize the neuronal damage caused by amyloid plaques in Alzheimer's Disease.
-	Different Neural Strategies For Problem Solving A brain imaging study shows that word problems engage the anterior prefrontal cortex of the brain, while the same problems presented numerically engage the posterior parietal cortex of the brain.
-	Switching Senses New findings reveal that, in blind people, areas of the brain that would normally process visual information do not simply pack up and disappear; instead, they find new work processing language-related information,
-	Altered Chromosome Number As Cause Of Cancer Study identifies a role for whole chromosome losses or gains (known as aneuploidy) as a causal event in cancer.
-	Genome Sequencing To Provide Insight Into Legionnaires' Disease French researchers have sequenced the genome of two strains of the bacterium that causes Legionnaires' disease.
-	Embryonic Stem Cells Set The Pace Cells derived from human embryonic stem (ES) cells can impart a new rhythm to pig hearts.
-	MYC Flicks The Switch On Liver Cancer Tumorigenesis in mice can be reversed simply by switching off a gene.