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July 20, 2006

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-	Brain-Machine Interfaces - Recent Advances Nature Web Focus includes exclusive interviews and video footage of experiments, alongside papers that paved the way for these recent advances.
-	Cold Sore Virus Can Evade The Immune System A newly identified method deployed by viruses to escape the immune system is reported.
-	Alternative Genetic Cause Of Devastating Dementia Two groups of neuroscientists have uncovered a mutation that can cause frontotemporal dementia (FTD).
-	Making Cancer Stem Cells Researchers show how cancer-triggering oncogenes can allow blood cells to acquire this ability and thus become leukaemia stem cells.
-	Surprisingly, DNA Has Trouble Unwinding If you stretch the helical structure of DNA, it actually winds itself more tightly.
-	Co-Transplantation Of Bone Marrow Stromal Cells Transduced With IL-7 Gene Enhances Immune Reconstitution After Allogeneic Bone Marrow Transplantation The use of MSC-IL-7 cells may be therapeutically useful for enhancing immune reconstitution without aggravating graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) in allo-BMT mice.
-	Plasmid-Mediated VEGF Gene Transfer Induces Cardiomyogenesis And Reduces Myocardial Infarct Size In Sheep VEGF gene transfer could also modify the evolution of experimental myocardial infarct.
-	A Linkage of Two JNK Isoforms With Obesity and Insulin Resistance The total activity of two isoforms of c-Jun N-terminal kinase is correlated with development of obesity and insulin resistance.