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• ASBMB Today Article
  When Taxol met tubulin
  10/21/2020
  

  In the 1981 JBC paper “Taxol-induced polymerization of purified tubulin,” which was recently designated a JBC Classic, Nirbhay Kumar reported that the cancer drug was a valuable tool for cytoskeletal inquiries involving tubulin.
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  From the journals: JLR
  10/20/2020
  

  The role of Myc and lipids in lung cancer, how accessible cholesterol contributes to spread of listeriosis and a new and improved way to study lipid rafts. Read about recent papers on these topics in the Journal of Lipid Research.
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  World Osteoporosis Day
  10/20/2020
  

  Here's a look at what osteoporosis entails and some recent findings on the subject.
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  The blueprint for life, neatly folded
  10/18/2020
  

  Bit by bit, biologists are deciphering the complex 3-D — and 4-D — architecture of the genome and learning how all the squeezed-together stuff of DNA keeps itself in order. What they find could lead to medical advances.
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  How safe is the DNA in your poop from unwanted snooping?
  10/17/2020
  

  Sewer systems can signal outbreaks of disease before they start. If you’re worried, poop is safe as long as it’s in the right hands
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  From the journals: MCP
  10/16/2020
  

  Immune signaling in early-stage COVID-19, regulating translation on the ER membrane and reversing asparagine hydroxylation. Read about papers on these topics recently published in Molecular & Cellular Proteomics.
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  Nobelists’ former postdocs discover missing link in telomerase evolution
  10/13/2020
  

  The cell-aging enzyme’s RNA is an intermediate between that of humans and lower eukaryotes, containing signature marks from both kingdoms.
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  Cellular signposts
  10/11/2020
  

  By mapping a trail of chemical reactions, Howard Hughes investigator Squire Booker shows how one group of enzymes helps us stay healthy.
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  Milk through the millennia
  10/8/2020
  

  Anthropologists and analytical chemists have used lipid residues on 5,000-year-old pottery to pin down the earliest direct chemical evidence for milk consumption in eastern Africa.
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  Charpentier and Doudna win chemistry Nobel
  10/7/2020
  

  They determined the mechanism of RNA-guided bacterial adaptive immunity by the CRISPR–Cas9 system, enabling them to harness the system for efficient genome engineering in animals and plants.