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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...

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...

“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...

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...

“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...