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Path of Mustard Immunity Traced, Found Similar to that of Vertebrates
Working in a member of the mustard family, Arabidopsis thaliana, researchers led by Jen Sheen (above) have identified an entire immune pathway from threat detection to deployment of defenses. The path shares elements with the innate immune system in vertebrates. "The big message," said collaborator Fred Ausubel, "is the evolutionary conservation of innate immunity."
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Headlines
MGH Researchers Unravel Structure of a Key Protein Involved in Tumor Angiogenesis and Metastasis
Eating Tomatoes and Tomato Sauce May Reduce Risk of Prostate Cancer
Does Long-term Heavy Marijuana Use Produce Toxic Effects on the Brain?
Unexpected Immune Pathway Linked to Rheumatoid Arthritis
Upcoming
Public Health Seminar:
The Prevention of Colon Cancer
Edward Giovannucci, HMS and HSPH
Wednesday, March 20
12:30-1:30 p.m.
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Spotlight
 Biomedical Science Career Conference Draws International Student Audience
More than 700 underrepresented minority students from high school through graduate school gathered in Boston in early March for the sixth biennial Biomedical Science Careers Program, founded by Joan Reede (standing, third from right). A keynote speaker was Shirley Ann Jackson, president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, the first African-American woman to lead a national research university.
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Student Scene
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Toward Globalizing Medical School
The 10/90 gap illustrates a major imbalance in health research funding, so called because only 10 percent of global health spending goes toward diseases that account for 90 percent of the global disease burden. Closing that gap, says Vatsal Doshi, should be a goal not only of international institutions like the World Health Organization but of individual research institutions like HMS.
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