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22 Oct 01	Finding Fanconi
	The hunt for the cause of autosomal dominant renal Fanconi syndrome.
6 Aug 01	Opening the flood gates?
	Association of NOD2 with Crohn's disease.
30 April 01	Honey, I shrunk the genome
	Genome reduction in the leprosy bacillus
12 Mar 01	Ready, steady, go!
	A two-part switch that regulates gene expression.
22 Jan 01	Fluorescent timer.
	The E5 mutant of the red coral protein drFP583 changes its fluorescence from green to red over time.
4 Dec 00	Cytosolic help for mitochondrial defects.
	A novel method for importing tRNA into mitochondria in order to supress mutations.
6 Nov 00	The mouse that eats less but gains weight
	A neuropeptide receptor, Mc3r, is shown to play a role in regulating energy stores.
27 July 00	Tuberous Sclerosis Complex in flies too?
	A fly homolog to TSC2, called gigas, plays a role in cell cycle regulation.
16 June 00	The beginning of the END
	The EAST protein assembles a nucleoskeleton between chromosomes.
26 April 00	Mutations and blood clots
	How point mutations in clotting factor genes conspire to increase the risk of thrombosis.
8 Dec 99	Viruses provide direction on the plant information superhighway
	A viral movement protein helps to identify a counterpart in plants.
24 Nov 99	How Candida albicans switches phenotype - and back again
	The SIR2 silencing gene has a say in Candida's colony type.
10 Nov 99	PTEN and the tumor suppressor balancing act
	PTEN turns out to be the first tumor suppressor to have phosphatase activity.
27 Oct 99	The Salmonella battle plan
	How Salmonella gain entry into human intestinal cells to grow and divide
13 Oct 99	RNA surveillance: watching the defectives
	Detecting premature stop codons in mRNA halts the production of dangerous truncated proteins
29 Sept 99	The compound eye of flies divulges evolutionary secrets
	Analysis of fly eye development may shed light on human eye disease
15 Sept 99	The neigborhood of Alzheimer's amyloid precursor protein
	New clues on Alzheimer's pathology from other proteins linked to amyloid plaque formation.
1 Sept 99	What do Lyme disease and syphilis have in common?
	Two pathogenic spirochetes unexpectedly share an ATP synthase.
18 Aug 99	Dissecting the mechanism of our internal clock.
	How living organisms tune in to the time of day.
4 Aug 99	Ubiquitin links Parkinson's disease genes
	A tantilizing link between two new genes.
15 July 99	Plant genes contribute to a sexually transmitted disease?
	How plant genes found their way into a human parasite.

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