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	Research News from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute

	 

	Inheriting a Tendency to Brain Infection

	 

	Some infectious diseases might run in families because susceptibility to
them is inherited.

	 

	Although researchers generally agree that an individual's genetic makeup
contributes in subtle ways to susceptibility to infectious disease, new findings
from French researchers support the controversial idea that an error in a single
gene is enough to dramatically alter an individual's susceptibility to certain
infections.

	 

	Research published in the September 29, 2006, issue of Science.

	Published in advance online.

	 

	Jean-Laurent Casanova, M.D., Ph.D., HHMI international scholar 

	  Hospital Necker for Sick Children

	  

	 

	For the full story, go to http://www.hhmi.org/news/casanova20060927.html

	 

	
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	Solved: the Mystery of Flesh-Eating Bacteria's Relentless Attack

	 

	An HHMI international research scholar in Israel has discovered one
reason why so-called "flesh-eating" bacteria are so hard to stop.

	 

	Emanuel Hanski, a microbiologist at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and
colleagues have found that the success of Group A Streptococcus is due in part
to a protein that blocks the immune system's distress calls. 

	 

	Research published in the October 4, 2006, issue of EMBO Journal.

	Published in advance online.

	 

	Emanuel Hanski, Ph.D., HHMI international scholar 

	  Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School

	  

	 

	For the full story, go to http://www.hhmi.org/news/hanski20060927.html

	 

	 

	 

	 

	 

	 

	 

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