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October 10, 2012
NIH grantees win 2012 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
The 2012 Nobel Prize in chemistry has been awarded to National Institutes of Health grantees Robert J. Lefkowitz, M.D., of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Duke University Medical Center, Durham, N.C.; and Brian K. Kobilka, M.D., of the Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, Calif., for studies of protein receptors that let body cells sense and respond to outside signals.

September 27, 2012
Major cancer protein amplifies global gene expression, NIH study finds
Scientists may have discovered why a protein called MYC can provoke a variety of cancers. Like many proteins associated with cancer, MYC helps regulate cell growth. A study carried out by researchers at the National Institutes of Health and colleagues found that, unlike many other cell growth regulators, MYC does not turn genes on or off, but instead boosts the expression of genes that are already turned on.

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October 9, 2012 : University of Michigan Medical School
Breathe in, breathe out: New way of imaging lungs could improve COPD diagnosis and treatment
Kara Gavin
A new approach to lung scanning called parametric response mapping, or PRM, could improve the diagnosis and treatment of a lung disease that affects approximately 24 million Americans and is the country’s third-highest cause of death.

October 5, 2012 : GovExec.com
The NIH doctor who pioneered life-saving treatments
The Partnership for Public Service
For years, patients with severe aplastic anemia died within months of developing the rare blood disease. Dr. Neal Young has increased the survival rate to 80 percent.

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NHLBI grantees to receive Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2012

Office of the Director
October 11, 2012

Congratulations to NHLBI grantees Robert J. Lefkowitz, M.D., of Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Duke University Medical Center, and Brian K. Kobilka, M.D., of Stanford University School of Medicine, on being selected to receive the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2012 for their studies of G-protein-coupled receptors, which enable cells to sense and respond to outside signals such as adrenaline surges....
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