New mouse model to visualize tumor growth

April 17, 2013

Ned Sharpless and colleagues have developed a mouse model that makes it possible to visualize tumor growth by means of a “knocked-in” p16 gene linked to a luciferase reporter. This work is described in a paper in the January 17, 2013, issue of Cell. Ned was interviewed about the study … Read more

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Praveen Sethupathy is Co-Senior Author of a paper highlighted by the journal Hepatology.

April 17, 2013

Title of the paper is “MicroRNA-27b is a regulatory hub in lipid metabolism and is altered in dyslipidemia,” published in the February 2013 issue. Praveen Sethupathy is Co-Senior Author of a paper entititled “MicroRNA-27b is a regulatory hub in lipid metabolism and is altered in dyslipidemia,” which is being highlighted … Read more

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“We screen newborns, don’t we: realizing the promise of public health genomics”

April 17, 2013

“By expanding the field’s focus from common to rare diseases, it may be possible to realize the promise of public health genomics by identifying those millions of individuals who unknowingly carry mutations that confer a dramatic predisposition to preventable diseases.” Jim Evans, Jonathan Berg, and Terry Magnuson are authors, along … Read more

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Mauro Calabrese, a postdoctoral fellow in Terry Magnuson’s lab, is first-author of an article in Cell

March 7, 2013

Paper titled “Site-Specific Silencing of Regulatory Elements as a Mechanism of X Inactivation.” Mauro Calabrese, a postdoctoral fellow in Terry Magnuson’s lab, is first-author of an article in Cell entitled “Site-Specific Silencing of Regulatory Elements as a Mechanism of X Inactivation.” Coauthors with current or previous Department of Genetics affiliations … Read more

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Bob Duronio has been named as a AAAS Fellow for 2012.

March 7, 2013

“In October 2012, the AAAS Council elected 701 members as Fellows of AAAS. These individuals will be recognized for their contributions to science and technology at the Fellows Forum to be held on 16 February 2013 during the AAAS Annual Meeting in Boston, Massachusetts. The new Fellows will receive a … Read more

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