News
A collection of the very latest news items relevant to the cell migration community, selected from the CMC, news@nature.com and journals from the Nature family.
December 2007

Consortium December Update
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Cdc42 and proton efflux: A positive loop to move forward.
Cancer cell migration and chemotaxis: Cofilin to set new directions.
Race to mimic human embryonic stem cells
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'Personalized' tissues come a step closer.

Cloned monkey stem cells produced
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An approach using modified somatic cell nuclear transfer has for the first time enabled the creation of cloned primate embryos that were successfully used to make embryonic stem-cell lines.

HIV vaccine may raise risk
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A failed HIV vaccine may have enhanced the susceptibility of some clinical trial participants to the virus, raising concerns on how to handle future trials of vaccines that use similar strategies to stimulate immune responses.

The evolution of a killer
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The emergence of a deadly antibiotic-resistant tuberculosis strain could have been delayed with better tuberculosis surveillance programmes in developing countries and better tailored antibiotic treatments.
