Featured articles
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January 2007
The long and winding road
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High-throughput behavioral screening of mouse mutants identifies a mutation in
-tubulin that may cause a neurodevelopmental disorder in humans.Original research paper: Cell 128, 45-57 (2007)
It's a gas, gas, gas
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Drosophila detect carbon dioxide with two receptors from the taste receptor family of genes.
Original research paper: Nature 445, 86-90 (2006)
The shape of things to come
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Variations in pain sensitivity associate with different secondary structures of an enzyme mRNA.
Original research paper: Science 314, 1930-1933 (2006)
Hurts so good
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Different mutations in the same sodium channel gene may cause excessive pain or the inability to sense pain.
Original research paper: Nature 444, 894-898 (2006)