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Yale Scientific Magazine<br />
VOL. 90 ISSUE NO. 5<br />
CONTENTS<br />
DECEMBER 2017<br />
NEWS 6<br />
FEATURES 25<br />
ON THE COVER<br />
12<br />
15<br />
GUIDE TO THE<br />
GALAXY<br />
The Milky Way Galaxy has long been<br />
studied as a model for other galaxies<br />
in the universe. However, Yale professor<br />
Marla Geha is part of a collaboration<br />
exploring just how different the<br />
Milky Way might actually be<br />
DEMYSTIFYING THE<br />
GENES BEHIND<br />
BREAST CANCER<br />
Researchers at Yale University have<br />
developed a new way to study<br />
proteins, which led to discovering<br />
the function of BRCA1 breast cancer<br />
genes and its interaction with other<br />
genes in the role of tumor expression<br />
18 FIGHTING<br />
PARKINSON’S<br />
Yale scientists found two potential<br />
enymes to target via cell therapy to<br />
tret the common variety of Parkinson’s<br />
disease with Gaucher disease.<br />
These two enzymes regulate the pathology<br />
of the specific lipids that accumulate<br />
due to Gaucher disease<br />
BIRD BRAINS<br />
20<br />
New disovery in skull and brain development<br />
in skull and brain development<br />
has implications for greater<br />
understanding of evoloution of reptiles<br />
and birds<br />
22 MACROPHAGE<br />
MESSENGERS<br />
The communiction between nervous,<br />
immune and metabloic systems<br />
changes as people age. A team led<br />
by Christina Carmell and Vishwa Deep<br />
Dixit of the Yale School of Medicine<br />
disovered a subset of microphages<br />
that could open the door to new strategies<br />
to keep people healthier longer<br />
More articles available online at www.yalescientific.org<br />
December 2017<br />
Yale Scientific Magazine<br />
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