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2011 Press Book

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New host defensive weapon discovered in bacterial arms 
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Pascale Cossart, Pasteur Institute and Howard Hughes Medical Institute
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Page 3 Researchers find a “druggable” chink in the molecular armor of Ras, the most commonly mutated oncogene protein in humans 
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Guowei Fang, Genentech Inc.
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Page 4 Aging human bodies and aging human oocytes run on different clocks along different pathways 
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Coleen T. Murphy, Princeton University
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Page 5 New fluorescent imaging system sorts out the microbiome living in the human mouth 
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Alex Valm, Marine Biological Laboratory
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Page 6 Could obesity be a ciliopathy, a disorder caused by tiny microtubule bundles that protrude from every cell in the hypothalamus? 
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Nicolas F. Berbari, University of Alabama at Birmingham
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Page 7 A devastating “founder effect” genetic disorder identified in Quebec is traced to defective mitochondria in cerebellar neurons 
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Peter S. McPherson, Neurological Institute, McGill University
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Page 8 A hormone that dilates blood vessels during pregnancy opens an indirect pathway for treating polycystic kidney 
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Heather Ward, University of New Mexico
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Page 9 How viruses rewire their hosts to generate organelle platforms for replication—and why that might be their undoing 
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Nihal Altan-Bonnet, Rutgers University
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Page 10 A cellular automaton model predicts how stem cells in a population of hair follicles regenerate 
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Cheng Ming Chuong, University of Southern California
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