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HHMI Bulletin Aug 2010 Lawrence Goldstein	Hear from the author of "Stem Cells for Dummies" The author, an investigator at the University of California, San Diego, is reaching out beyond policymakers in an unorthodox way. He's co-written Stem Cells for Dummies.
HHMI Bulletin Aug 2010	Joaquin Espinosa's fresh look at p53 Even though it was discovered more than 25 years ago, and many more tumor suppressor genes have been found since, p53 remains the big one. It's mutated in about 50 percent of tumors.
HHMI Bulletin Aug 2010 Cathy Shufro	Nancy Moreno's Saddlebred Horses Likely Suspect is a show horse whose owner, Nancy Moreno is a biologist at Baylor College of Medicine. Moreno directs an HHMI-funded program that creates partnerships between elementary school teachers and early career researchers.
HHMI Bulletin Aug 2010 Brian Vastag	Targeting Machupo Virus A supportive mentor and a Gilliam fellow find a new drug target against a virus that strikes hardest in poor, rural regions.
HHMI Bulletin Aug 2010 John Fleischman	Death Be Not Programmed The ordered chain of events that is cell necrosis can be blocked to curtail the effects of some crippling diseases.
HHMI Bulletin Aug 2010 Marc Wortman	When Lean Isn't Good Enough Even someone slim may be hiding signs of type 2 diabetes.
HHMI Bulletin Aug 2010	Kurt Schmoke Succeeds Hanna Gray as HHMI Trustees Chairman Schmoke, 60, is an attorney who has dedicated much of his life to public service at all levels of government, including three terms as mayor of Baltimore.
HHMI Bulletin Aug 2010	Bishai Named Director of K-RITH A prominent tuberculosis researcher and doctor will become the first permanent director of the KwaZulu-Natal Research Institute for Tuberculosis and HIV.
HHMI Bulletin Aug 2010 Janelle Weaver	Scientists Identify a Gene That Drives Fruit Fly's Thirst Kristin Scott, an HHMI early career scientist at the University of California, Berkeley, has uncovered a gene, called pickpocket 28 (ppk28), that regulates fruit flies' ability to detect water and how much time they spend drinking.
HHMI Bulletin Aug 2010 Sarah C.P. Williams	Switching Plants' Reproductive Methods The shipments of seeds that farms rely on at the beginning of each growing season could soon be a relic of the past. Scientists have discovered how to coax plants to clone themselves by altering their reproductive methods.
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