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• EMBO announces new members for 2013

  EMBO announced that 52 outstanding researchers in the life sciences were newly elected to its membership. Forty-three of the researchers reside in Europe and neighboring countries and are accompanied by the election of nine Associate Members from Canada, China, India, Japan and the United States. Th more

• New citation indicators needed to measure research performance

  How do you compare the impact of a researcher in chemistry or physics with a molecular biologist who may be working on similar projects? Two experts support the use of citation indicators that are based on percentiles, a statistical parameter that allows for comparisons with a carefully defined grou more

• Cancer stem cells isolated from kidney tumours

  Scientists have isolated cancer stem cells that lead to the growth of Wilms’ tumours, a type of cancer typically found in the kidneys of young children. The researchers have used these cancer stem cells to test a new therapeutic approach that one day might be used to treat some of the more aggressiv more

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• Sir2 is required for Clr4 to initiate centromeric heterochromatin assembly in fission yeast

  The EMBO Journal. doi:10.1038/emboj.2013.143 Authors: Benjamin J Alper, Godwin Job, Rajesh K Yadav, Sreenath Shanker, Brandon R Lowe & Janet F Partridge more

• CRISPRs extending their reach: prokaryotic RNAi protein Cas9 recruited for gene regulation

  The EMBO Journal. doi:10.1038/emboj.2013.141 Authors: Nadja Heidrich & Jörg Vogel Nature (9 May 2013) 497, 254–257 doi:10.1038/nature12048A Cas protein from the CRISPR defence system against foreign DNA, also functions in endogenous gene regulation. Sampson et al (2013) have reve more

• Break the loop, escape the cycle|[quest]|

  The EMBO Journal. doi:10.1038/emboj.2013.137 Authors: Renée van Amerongen & Anton Berns EMBO J advance online publication, 4 June 2013; 10.1038/emboj.2013.127Increasing evidence suggests that in many cancer types only a minor proportion of cells, the so-called ‘cancer stem cells’ more

Market studies EMBO

• Suheung Capsule Co., Ltd. (008490) - Financial and Strategic SWOT Analysis Review

  Suheung Capsule Co., Ltd. (008490) - Financial and Strategic SWOT Analysis Review Summary Suheung Capsule Co., Ltd. (Suheung) is engaged in the manufacture and sale of capsule products in Korea, as well as internationally. Leveraging its world-class manufacturing facilities, the company manufactur more

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