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Stories announcing
new developments in research related to the biosciences or health
generally draw the most public attention because their impact
on individual members of the public is most likely to be personal.
At Berkeley Lab this past year, researchers helped decipher
the genomes of the Japanese pufferfish and the sea squirt. What
is learned from the study of these two genomes should help in
finding new human genes and understanding how they're regulated.
Other Berkeley researchers identified a new protein that appears
to play a significant role in controlling triglyceride levels
in the blood, a major risk factor in heart disease. In another
development which carries implications for gene therapy and
infection-fighting drugs, scientists identified the mechanism
by which some viruses infect the cells of other organisms. Last
but not least, researchers solved the delicate crystal structure
of a protein that allows water to move in and out of a cell
but blocks everything else. |
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