Consortium News
May 2006
Seeing the future
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Over 400 scientists attended the 'Frontiers in Live Cell Imaging' meeting sponsored by the NIGMS and the CMC. A videocast of the conference and the poster abstracts are now available online.
Cell Migration Consortium News
May 2006Nature Milestones: CANCER
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This free supplement in Nature contains specially written articles highlighting the most influential discoveries in the field over the past century.
Nature
May 2006Cell biology: The story of i
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Multicellular creatures can be battlegrounds for competing populations of cells. Claire Ainsworth learns how this way of looking at an individual is feeding into immunology and cancer biology.
Original research paper: Nature 440 730 - 733 (2006)doi:10.1038/440730a
Wanted: cancer boss
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The White House is looking for a new head for the National Cancer Institute. What kind of person does it take to run a $4.8-billion research powerhouse? Nature asked some top cancer researchers for their thoughts.
Original research paper: Nature 440 978 - 979 (2006)doi:10.1038/440978a
Animal-research reporting set for shift
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Britain could soon overhaul its regulations on how animal research is reported.
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5th April 2006