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Health Sciences Redevelopment Plans Include New Research Space  

Health Sciences Redevelopment Plans Include New Research Space
Emory trustees have authorized the next stage of planning and design for redevelopment and innovation in the health sciences center. Key components include a new research facility on Haygood Drive and new research space in midtown, with a focus on cancer, heart disease, pediatrics and neurodegenerative conditions. Read more . . .

 
       
       
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CancerQuest Website Features Interviews with Winship Cancer Institute Researchers  

CancerQuest Website Features Interviews with Winship Cancer Institute Researchers
After his wife's experience with cancer in 2002, Emory biologist and Winship Cancer Institute faculty member Gregg Orloff launched the educational website CancerQuest. The site is rich with 3D graphics and videos and includes many interviews with Emory researchers. Read more . . .

 
       
       
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Protein Could Provide Innate Defense Against HIV  

Protein Could Provide Innate Defense Against HIV
Scientists have found a protein called CAML that is capable of preventing the HIV-1 virus from invading human cells. Now they must learn how to stop the HIV-1 virus from blocking CAML with its own counteracting protein, Vpu. Read more . .

 
       
       
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Science Coalition Features Emory-GeoVax Biotech Success Story
  Science Coalition Features Emory-GeoVax Biotech Success Story
The Science Coalition's national Newsline features the success story of university-based HIV vaccine research at Emory leading to new technologies and economic development, with the creation of biotech company GeoVax. Another Science Coalition story quotes President Jim Wagner on the importance of federal research funding.
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Intrabody Mops Up Mutant Huntington's Protein in Mice   "Intrabody" Mops Up Mutant Huntington's Protein in Mice
A new tool designed to mop up clumps of mutant brain protein in Huntington's disease was found to improve symptoms in mice. Scientists hope the virus they engineered against aggregated protein could one day help both human Huntington's patients and those with Alzheimer's or Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. Read more . . .
 
       
       
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