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September 5, 2005

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-	Cancer Drug Target Chk1 May Also Be Source Of Drug Resistance New findings suggest balancing Chk1 activity will produce less toxic cancer drugs.
-	Pinpointing The Cause Of A Neurodegenerative Disorder The AXH Domain of Ataxin-1 Mediates Neurodegeneration through Its Interaction with Gfi-1/Senseless Proteins.
-	Unexpected Features Of Anthrax Toxin May Lead To New Types Of Therapies Receptor-specific requirements for anthrax toxin delivery into cells
-	Studies Find Possible Drug Targets For Improving Vascular Health Akt1/protein kinase Balpha is critical for ischemic and VEGF-mediated angiogenesis.
-	Scientists Find That Protein Controls Aging By Controlling Insulin Suppression of Aging in Mice by the Hormone Klotho.
-	A Step Closer To A Malaria Vaccine Structure of AMA1 from Plasmodium falciparum reveals a clustering of polymorphisms that surround a conserved hydrophobic pocket.
-	Improving The Potential Of Cancer Vaccines Toll-like receptor 8-mediated reversal of CD4+ regulatory T cell function
-	A double punch for female survival Achieving equality between the sexes can be a challenge even for single cells.
-	Public collections of DNA and RNA sequence reach 100 gigabases The world's three leading public repositories for DNA and RNA sequence information have reached 100 gigabases [100,000,000,000 bases; the 'letters' of the genetic code] of sequence.