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May 24, 2006

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-	Gaining more hen-sight into Lebers Congenital Amaurosis University of Florida scientists have delivered a gene through an eggshell to give sight to a type of chicken normally born blind.
-	Personalized Treatment Trial for Breast Cancer Trial Designed to find the most effective approach to cancer treatment with the fewest side effects for women with early-stage breast cancer.
-	In Elderly, The More Flu Vaccine The Better U.S. Study Finds Higher Dose of Flu Vaccine Improves Immune Response in the Elderly
-	Fluid Management Study in Lung Injury Shows Less Is More Study Answers Long-Debated Questions on Fluid Management in Critical Care
-	Inducible Regulation Of Runx2-Stimulated Osteogenesis Researchers describe a retroviral system to deliver the Runx2 osteoblastic transcription factor.
-	Mosaic Vectors For Efficient Vector Purification And Targeting To Vascular Endothelial Cells Adeno-associated virus (AAV) 1 has shown the most promise among the AAV vectors for the transduction of vascular endothelial cells.
-	RNAi Therapeutics: Can siRNAs Conquer SARS? Report on a new approach to coping with emerging infectious diseases, that uses small interfering (si)RNAs.
-	Regeneration Of Injured Optic Nerve A treatment applied three days after optic nerve injury greatly improves regeneration.
-	New Techniques For Chromosomal Damage Control Two articles describe tools for the detection of large-scale structural rearrangements in individual chromosomes.
-	Gene Variant Associated With Type 1 Diabetes A new gene variant associated with risk of type 1 diabetes is reported.
-	Mothballs Link Cell Death And Cancer Components of the humble mothball are carcinogens because they block cell suicide.
-	SUMO Switches Metastasis On And Off New players in the process of metastasis of cancer cells are described.
-	Immune Molecule Fuels Tumours A molecule central to chronic autoimmune diseases also promotes the incidence and growth of tumours.
-	Chromosome 1 Completes The Set Report on the finished DNA sequence of human chromosome 1.
-	Novel Antibiotic Fights Hospital Killers Team of researchers discovers a potent natural antibiotic that kills many Gram-positive bacteria.
-	A New Signal For Axon Regeneration Is Discovered Oncomodulin, released from macrophages, stimulates axon regeneration as part of the response to optic nerve injury.