Each month, the NIGMS Director selects a recently published finding from an NIGMS-funded scientist to feature on the Institute’s home page. These selections are archived below.
February 2013
Direct Conversion of Fibroblasts to Neurons by Reprogramming PTB-Regulated MicroRNA Circuits
Cell January 17, 2013
NIGMS-Funded Investigator: Xiang-Dong Fu, UC San Diego
January 2013
An Interdomain Energetic Tug-of-War Creates the Allosterically Active State in Hsp70 Molecular Chaperones
Cell December 7, 2012
NIGMS-Funded Investigator: Lila Gierasch, University of Massachusetts
December 2012
Practical and Innate Carbon-Hydrogen Functionalization of Heterocycles
Nature November 28, 2012 [Epub ahead of print]
NIGMS-Funded Investigator: Phil Baran, The Scripps Research Institute
November 2012
The TEL Patch of Telomere Protein TPP1 Mediates Telomerase Recruitment and Processivity
Nature October 24, 2012 [Epub ahead of print]
NIGMS-Funded Investigators: Thomas Cech and Leslie Leinward, University of Colorado at Boulder