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.
August 2008
Consortium August Update
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The migration clutch: A kinetic model for actin-integrin dynamics.
Axon growth and guidance: Actin and microtubules at work.Mouse miRNA library to open
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Biologists launch knockout resource.
Blood test can monitor cancer spread
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A new device that detects even a few tumour cells circulating in the blood of lung cancer patients may make future monitoring of the disease as simple as taking a blood sample.
Spinal cord revealed in free gene map
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The Allen Institute for Brain Science has released the first data from its ambitious project of charting the expression patterns of over 18,500 genes throughout the spinal cord of juvenile and adult mice.
African mutation may increase HIV infection
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A genetic mutation that allows African people to resist a form of malaria may also render them more vulnerable to HIV infection.