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February 28, 2006

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-	Resveratrol Prolongs Lifespan in a Short-Lived Vertebrate A natural compound could become the starting molecule for the design of drugs for the prevention of human aging-related diseases
-	Detection Of DNA On Nanotubes Offers New Sensing, Sequencing Technologies Optical detection of DNA conformational polymorphism on single-walled carbon nanotubes
-	Researchers Find Molecule That May Hold Key To Learning And Memory A calcium-regulated MEF2 sumoylation switch controls postsynaptic differentiation
-	Study Suggests That Publicly Available Genome Data May Contain Small But Significant Errors Validation of S. Pombe Sequence Assembly by Microarray Hybridization
-	Probing Protein Ligand Interactions by Automated Hydrogen/Deuterium Exchange Mass Spectrometry New research from Magnet Lab, Scripps Florida gives scientists powerful tool for drug discovery
-	A One-Two Punch Against Cancer Changes in cell surface proteins during chemotherapy can be exploited to develop antibodies targeting cancer cells.