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August 23, 2005

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-	Boosting The BCG Vaccine To Beat Tuberculosis Increased vaccine efficacy against tuberculosis of recombinant Mycobacterium bovis bacille Calmette-Guerin mutants that secrete listeriolysin.
-	Scientists crack 40-year-old DNA puzzle and point to ‘hot soup’ at the origin of life A new theory that explains why the language of our genes is more complex than it needs to be also suggests that the primordial soup where life began on earth was hot and not cold, as many scientists believe.
-	A Powerful New Tool for Decoding Gene Functions in Mammals and Man Efficient Transposition of the piggyBac (PB) Transposon in Mammalian Cells and Mice.
-	Researchers Find BRCA1 Tumor Suppression Nullified By Cyclin D1 The results reaffirm cyclin D1 as a candidate target for molecular therapeutic control of breast tumor development.
-	Scientists zero in on drugs' sweet spots Enhancing the anticancer properties of cardiac glycosides by neoglycorandomization.
-	Micro RNAs Play Role In Egg Making Evidence that miRNAs are involved in oogenesis
-	Scientists Discover Genetic Pathway Responsible For Breast Cancer Cell Growth Location analysis of estrogen receptor {alpha} target promoters reveals that FOXA1 defines a domain of the estrogen response.