25 August 2010LATEST HIGHLIGHTS
Sprouting information
National Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, Thailand
Comparisons of the mungbean chloroplast genome reveal evolutionary relationships and will help genetically improve crop species
Unlikely allies against infection
Institute of Medical Sciences, University of Tokyo, Japan
Intestinal bacteria help out their hosts by strengthening immune protection against other, less benevolent microbes
Stem cells on steroids
Walter and Eliza Hall Institute, Australia
Estrogen and progesterone increase mammary stem cell number and enhance their potential for outgrowth in breast tissue
Plant fungi’s jump on pathogenicity
University of Minnesota, USA
Genome study reveals horizontal gene transfer as a driver of rapid adaptation in disease-causing plant fungi
Asian genomes point the way
Seoul National University, Korea
Personalized medicine takes a step closer to reality with a new technique for analyzing genomic variation
Mountains that make the people
Fudan University, China
Culture is geographically defined by the Himalayas, and DNA fingerprinting shows that these mountains also impede gene flow
Seeing i-to-I
National Taiwan University, Taiwan, Republic of China
Different classes of blood cells use a common mechanism to undergo changes associated with maturation
The missing link
Academia Sinica, Taiwan, Republic of China
A commonly used anticancer therapeutic helps to preserve the activity of a protein that causes tumor cells to commit ‘suicide’
When the time is right
Academia Sinica, Taiwan, Republic of China
One protein acts as a gatekeeper that regulates the activation of key genes involved in blood cell maturation
Working with a silent partner
Academia Sinica, Taiwan, Republic of China
Proper functioning of a key plant enzyme depends on collaboration between a biologically active ‘catalytic’ subunit and a passive ‘regulator’ subunit
Shaping blood vessel formation
Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, China
Early development of the circulatory system is regulated by an enzyme that induces chemical modification of chromosomes
Bacterial chaperonin — a trick of the tail
University of Hong Kong, China
Discovery of a way to disrupt the structure of a key protein of the potentially pathogenic bacterium Heliobacter pylori could lead to new therapeutics
