Sample publications, articles, and news releases

Climate articles

• Why Fossil Fuel Companies Can't Leave Resources Stranded
• Climate Scientists' Claims Deserve More Scrutiny from the Media

News releases: St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

• Discovery of how immune cells sense nutrients offers new therapeutic insights
• Researchers map metabolic signaling machinery for producing memory T cells
• Discovery offers potential for stripping tumors of T cell protection
• CICERO software enables detection of cancer-causing gene fusions
• Biological 'atlas' shows dual personality for immune cells that cause Type 1 diabetes
• PeCanPIE offers powerful tools for discovering inherited cancer genes
• Discovering how T cell "exhaustion" is triggered could energize cancer immunotherapy
• Enzymes that unlock stress granules, our cells’ biological ‘storm shelters,’ open pathway to treating muscle, brain disorders
• Biochemical switches identified that could be triggered to treat muscle, brain disorders
• Researchers discover key genetic trigger that compromises cancer immunotherapy
• High-resolution genomic map gives scientists unprecedented view of brain development
• 'Substantial portion' of childhood cancer survivors not concerned about their future health
• Engineered 'starter key' for brain tumor offers new model for drug testing
• ‘Lone Wolf’ Protein Offers New Pathway to Cancer Treatments
• Study reveals key inner control mechanism of cell's 'smart glue'
• St. Jude initiative boosts whooping cough vaccination rate
  
• Researchers discover that a 'muscle' cancer is not really a muscle cancer
  
• Researchers discover how enzyme 'shape-shifts' in drug-resistant leukemia
• Researchers discover fundamental pathology behind ALS
• Researchers discover an Achilles heel in a lethal leukemia
• Researchers chart pathway to 'rejuvenating' immune cells to fight cancers, viral infections
• Discovery points to drugs that would 'short-circuit' deadly leukemia
• Engineered yeast yields insight into machinery of deadly brain tumor
• Genomic analysis of key acute leukemia will likely yield new therapies
• Researchers identify a key controller of biological machinery in cell’s ‘antenna’
• Rescue protein gives doomed cells a stay of 'execution'
• St. Jude maps genome organization to link retinal development and retinoblastoma
• Researchers unlock an immunity "black box"
• Study finds significant cognitive impairment in adult survivors of childhood brain tumors
• Discovery reveals how protective immune cells protect themselves
• St. Jude researchers pinpoint key influenza-fighting immune trigger
• Scientists discover a unique mechanism for a high-risk leukemia
• St. Jude Research will guide development of new anti-influenza drugs
• New analysis points the way to earlier diagnosis of chest tumors
• New measurements reveal differences between stem cells for treating retinal degeneration
• Discovery promises new treatments to thwart colon cancer
• Detailed studies reveal how cancer-fighting protein is held in check
• Target for Potent First-Strike Influenza Drugs Identified
• St. Jude Identifies Genomic Cause of a Certain type of Leukemia Relapse
• St. Jude Study Gives New Insights into How Cells Accessorize their Proteins
• New Insight into Most Common Forebrain Malformation
• St. Jude study finds treatment with new drug might make tumor cells more sensitive to therapy
• St. Jude Study Shows How T Cell's Machinery Dials Down Autoimmunity
• Study Finds "Dancing" Hair Cells are Key to Humans' Acute Hearing
• Parasites Living Inside Cells Use Loophole to Thwart Immune System
• New Insight into the Controls on a Go-To Enzyme
• Study Finds More Effective Treatment for Pneumonia Following Influenza
• Study Shows How Defective DNA Repair Triggers Two Neurological Diseases
• Gene Therapy Corrects Sickle Cell Disease in Laboratory Study

 News releases: UC Riverside

• UC Riverside physicists create exotic electron liquid
• New UC Riverside Research Advances Spintronics Technology
• Biologists decipher a key piece of the odor-detection puzzle in flies, mosquitoes

News releases: Miguel Nicolelis laboratory

• Brain-Machine Interface Triggers Recovery for Paraplegic Patients
• Neuroprothesis Gives Rats the Ability to "Touch" Infrared Light
  
• First Brain-to-Brain Interface Allows Transmission of Tactile and Motor Information Between Rats
  

The Enrichment Record

• Explaining Enrichment Engagingly

UT Southwestern Web site

• New Advanced Imaging Research Center site

From Duke Magazine

• Sound Thinking
• Mind Over Matter
• On Gossamer Wings
• Transparent Motives
• Unraveling the Human Genome
• Root Cause
• The New Curiosity Shops
• Where the Exotic Meets the Academic
• The Paradoxical Predator
• Singing in the Brain
• Lemur Laments
• The Fire Down Below
• Putting a Patent on Research
• Probing the Avian Instrument

From the Chronicle of Higher Education

• Please Explain: Training Scientists to Be Better Communicators, May 16, 2010 (Registration required), Article also posted on Research Explainer blog
  

From DukeMed Magazine

• Allergy Action (pdf, p38)
• Brain Tumors: Beating the Odds (pdf, p34)
  
• Fighting the Man's Cancer (pdf, p 42)
• Internal Affairs (pdf, p28)
• The Long Hunt (pdf, p 31)