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Alan Alda is not only a beloved actor, producer, writer and activist, but also a skilled science communicator. Those aiming to talk effectively to the public about biotech research would do well to follow his lead.
Two small companies developing therapeutic vaccines against hypertension are blazing a trail for immune treatments that address diseases of lifestyle with massive markets. But doubts linger over the safety of eliciting an immune response to normal body constituents. Jill U. Adams investigates.
Cox and Mann describe MaxQuant, a suite of algorithms for the analysis of high-resolution mass spectrometry data. The approach achieves substantial improvements in the accuracy of mass measurements and the peptide identification rate.
During long-term culture, human embryonic stem (hES) cells may acquire chromosomal abnormalities that compromise their potential clinical utility. A study of 17 hES cell lines reveals various genomic changes, including trisomies and monosomies, an amplification at 20q11.21 and a derivative chromosome 18.