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COVER STORY - PATHOGENIC BACTERIA 8
Jos van Strijp has identified 20 small proteins that pathogenic bacteria synthesize to escape destruction by the immune system.
PUBLISHED 4
UMC Utrecht publications in ISI journals.
ANTIBIOTICS IN THE ICU 6
Preventive use reduces mortality.
WORLD ON ITS OWN 7
Th e human cell according to EMBO-member Judith Klumperman.
CARDIOVASCULAR BIOMARKERS 12
Gerard Pasterkamp may be able to discriminate patients with a 5%- and a 60%-risk of developing cardiovascular disease.
MICROARRAYS 16
Why toil in a lab for days studying one gene when you can study 25,000 all at once?
UTRECHT AND THE UNITED STATES 20
Researchers Sarah Durston and Felix Schlosser are getting the best of both worlds.
DEBATE 22
‘Ovarian aging is not a cause of vascular damage, but merely a consequence.’
UNDER THE SCOPE 25
A neuronal network caught in the act.
THE ELANA TECHNIQUE 26
Buying time for bypasses in the brain.
MARC VOOIJS 29
Research into Notch receptors earned his team
an ERC grant.
DNA VARIATION 30
How to accelerate the research process from bench to bedside.
REVOLUTION IN RADIOTHERAPY 32
Making MRI images of a tumor during radiation therapy.
FACTS & FIGURES 34
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