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Page 5 In fruit flies, circadian rhythm controls innate immunity, rising at night and falling by day
Mimi Shirasu-Hiza, Stanford University
Page 6 Blocking a molecular pathway stops deadly pancreatic cancer in its tracks
Amy Tang, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine
Page 7 A single muscle stem cell implanted in irradiated mouse muscle tissue proliferated, giving rise to more self-renewing stem cells
Alessandra Sacco, Stanford University
Page 8 Throwing a “photoswitch” on cancer cells lights up the microenvironment and shows how tumor cells are guided toward a blood vessel
Bojana Gligorijevic, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Page 9 Crunching microarray profiles and protein pathways sorts out cancers by the numbers
Trey Ideker and Han-Yu Chuang, University of California, San Diego
Page 10 Genital tissue no foolproof barrier to sexual transmission of human immunodeficiency virus
Thomas Hope, Northwestern University Medical School
Page 11 Probing the evolutionary roots of ancient bacteria may open a new line of attack on the leading cause of death in cystic fibrosis: opportunistic infection
Lars Dietrich, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Page 12 Yeast yield secrets of old age: Eat less and process lipids well when young
Vladimir Titorenko, Concordia University, Montreal
Page 13 Seeing the unseen with super-resolution fluorescence microscopy
Bo Huang, Harvard University
Page 14 Researchers may have found a new way to slam the brakes on deadly ovarian cancer
Tulsiram Prathapam, University of California, Berkeley
Page 15 The primary cilium serves as a “cellular GPS” in wound repair and beyond
Soren Tvorup Christensen, University of Copenhagen
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