Sept. 20, 2004
In Print Photo by Leah Gourley From Focus: Live-cell Studies Pick Up Pattern in Vesicle Traffic Many proteins, viruses, and other molecules rely on vesicles to hitch rides into and around cells. A team led by Tomas Kirchhausen shot movies of living cells to capture traffic patterns at the cell surface. Their results, published in the Sept. 3 Cell, provide the most comprehensive view to date of how these cellular taxicabs form at the cell's outer membrane and take in passengers from outside.   Publications Online BBS Bulletin Focus HMI World HSTconnector MD-PhD Newsletter MedEd News Mentations On The Brain   Related Links InteliHealth Harvard Health Publications		Headlines Women Starting Mammography on Time, but Failing to Follow Up Increased Use of CT in Past Decade Results in Decreased Costs for Hospitals Residents of States Reporting Most West Nile Virus Cases are Less Likely to Take Precautions Against Mosquitoes Lab Works A multimedia site featuring Harvard Medical research.		Spotlight Multimillion-dollar Contract Backs Biodefense Proteomics A $12.4 million, five-year contract supporting the Biodefense Proteomics Research Program has been awarded to the Harvard Institute of Proteomics. The program will be led by institute director Joshua LaBaer (above) and coprincipal investigator Leonardo Brizuela. Student Scene Photo by Jeff Cleary U.S. Marketing Seen to Erode Breastfeeding Rates in Peru Tarayn Grizzard describes most residents of Lima, Peru, where she is a lactation consultant, as completely accepting of breastfeeding, even in public. But breastfeeding rates are falling, she says, due to marketing of infant formula.

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