Published April, 2008
By Novartis Foundation, Gregory R. Bock, Jamie A. Goode and Novartis
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The past decade has seen mounting global concern regarding viral outbreaks such as SARS, avian influenza and West Nile virus. In 2004 and 2005, reports of bird-to-human, and possible human-to-human, transmissions of the H5N1 influenza viruses raised fears that these viruses could cause a pandemic on the scale of the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918.

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Published March, 2008
By Novartis Foundation, Derek J. Chadwick, Jamie A. Goode and Novartis Founda
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The heat shock, or cell stress, response was first identified in the polytene chromosomes of Drosophila. This was later related to the appearance of novel proteins within stressed cells, and the key signal stimulating this appearance was identified as the presence of unfolded proteins within the cell.

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Published February, 2008
By Novartis Foundation, Derek J. Chadwick, Jamie A. Goode and Novartis Founda
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Ltd (John Wiley & Sons Inc)
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The recent identification of susceptibility genes for schizophrenia, depression and learning and memory dysfunction suggest that psychiatric disorders may be influenced by a small number of genes with multiple actions.

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Published October, 2007
By Novartis Foundation, Derek J. Chadwick, Jamie A. Goode and Novartis Founda
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Ltd (John Wiley & Sons Inc)
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Featuring contributions from many of the leading laboratories of mitochondrial biology worldwide, Novartis Foundation Symposium 287, Mitochondrial Biology: New Perspectives provides a timely summary of the current state-of-the-art in mitochondrial research.

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