Nature Medicine - CURRENT ISSUE : August 2008, Volume 14 No 8
- Regenerative sports medicine
- Comparing classifiers of lung cancer
- M. tuberculosis resists intraphagosomal acid
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A sporting chance
Report by Cassandra WillyardThis month, athletes will gather in Beijing to compete for the gold. Some will win, some will lose and some will undoubtedly get injured. What advances in biomedical research might help get injured athletes back on the field faster than ever?
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Capturing cancer stem cells
Community cornerCD133 has often been used as a marker of cancer stem cells, but a recent paper calls this premise into question. What does the community think about this finding?
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Foxa2 and bile acid homeostasis
Article by Bochkis et al.The transcription factor Foxa2, a key regulator of glucose metabolism, is also crucial for bile acid homestasis in the liver and is misregulated in human cholestatic diseases.
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Size matters
Letter by Shankar et al.Amyloid-beta aggregates in the brains of people with Alzheimer's disease. How large to these aggregates need to be in order to cause the memory deficits that characterize the disease?
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Two-hit wonder
Letter by Li et al.Polycystic kidney disease can be caused by germline mutations in PC2 followed by a second 'hit' in the normal allele. But TNF-alpha can also be the second hit, and disease progression in mice can be blocked by anti-TNF-alpha treatment.