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Shooting Down Addiction
By Thomas Kosten | June 1, 2011
A new breed of vaccines aims to wean users off cocaine.
Power Failure
By Megan Scudellari | May 1, 2011
Does mitochondrial dysfunction lie at the heart of common, complex diseases like cancer and autism?
Wrestling with Recurrent Infections
By Gayatri Vedantam and Glenn S. Tillotson | May 1, 2011
Clostridium difficile is evolving more robust toxicity, repeatedly attacking its victims, and driving the search for alternative therapies to fight the infection.
Best Places to Work Industry, 2011
By Hannah Waters | May 1, 2011
By forging new relationships and finding novel uses for existing technologies, this year’s top companies are employing creative ways to advance their science.
The Movement of Goods Around the Cell
By Patricia Bassereau and Bruno Goud | April 1, 2011
A biologist and a physicist collaborate on a decade-long exploration of the physical parameters of membrane traffic in eukaryotic cells.
Taking Aim at Melanoma
By Keith T. Flaherty | April 1, 2011
Understanding oncogenesis at the molecular level offers the prospect of tailoring treatments much more precisely for patients with advanced cases of this deadliest of skin cancers.
An Aspirin for your Cancer?
By Giorgio Trinchieri | April 1, 2011
Can tumors—which can originate from, and often resemble, chronically inflamed tissue—be curtailed using familiar anti-inflammatory agents, without their side effects?
Epigenetic Changes in Cancer
By Manel Esteller | March 1, 2011
The study of how covalent marks on DNA and histones are involved in the origin and spread of cancer cells is also leading to new therapeutic strategies.
Epigenetics—A Primer
By Stefan Kubicek | March 1, 2011
There are many ways that epigenetic effects regulate the activation or repression of genes. Here are a few molecular tricks cells use to read off the right genetic program.
Environmental Impact
By David Berreby | March 1, 2011
Research in behavioral epigenetics is seeking evidence
that links experience to biochemistry to gene expression
and back out again.
