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.
February 2008
Consortium February Update
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Bright ideas for measuring local concentration and aggregation in living cells.
Migration analysis: A modified phagokinetic track method.Genome studies: Genetics by numbers
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Genomewide association studies are starting to turn up increasingly reliable disease markers. Monya Baker investigates where we are now and what comes next.
Organ transplants without rejection
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Three independent teams have performed organ transplants using new techniques that prevent rejection by training the immune system to recognize the new organ as its own.
International genome project launched
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A three-year international project aiming to sequence the entire genomes of 1,000 people has been launched.
Chronic-pain treatment without side effects
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A compound coming from the benzodiazepines class of drugs was found to treat chronic pain in mice without the usual side effects of sedation, addiction or tolerance development.