Subject: An artist designs a disease -- and its drug

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Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 13:02:35 -0400

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Designing a disease -- and its drug

An artist creates a drug called Havidol. Say the drug's name out loud, and you get her point

By Melinda Wenner

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Felix Bronner: biologist and painter

A professor emeritus known for his work with calcium takes time to execute nearly 1,000 paintings

By Anne Harding

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A Nobelist's QVC debut

Between "Bracelet Showcase" and "Now You're Cooking," Ferid Murad spent 40 minutes hawking his book, then sold 15,000 copies in seven days

By Kerry Grens

New clues to why we see red

Mice engineered to express a human photopigment gene show trichromatic vision, a process that may replicate the evolution of primate sensory systems

By Melissa Lee Phillips

From buckets of banana mash

Genizon CSO Tim Keith's cautious but rigorous approach has made it possible for companies to separate real data from noise

By Karen Hopkin

Hot paper in proteomics

Networking E. coli

By David Secko

Vitamin B12 synthesis exposed

Researchers observe an unusual enzyme and mechanism of action in the final steps of making B12

By Andrea Gawrylewski

Time-lapse proteomics

Isotope labeling and mass spectrometry unite to track proteome dynamics

By Chandra Shekhar

Redox-regulated immunity

Protein disulfide isomerase plays a major role in peptide loading of MHC class 1 molecules

By The Scientist Staff

Anti-malaria genes give mosquitoes an edge

Transgenic mosquitoes resistant to malaria infection outcompete normal mosquitoes when feeding on infected blood

By Melissa Lee Phillips

'Looming crisis' from NIH budget

Four years of flat funding causing major shifts in US biomedical research, university officials and senior scientists warn Congress

By Ted Agres

An ecologic menage a trois

A three-way symbiosis (virus in a fungus in a plant) was discovered in a tropical panic grass

By The Scientist staff

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