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NIGMS Director’s Featured Research Advances

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


This page last reviewed on February 12, 2013