AUTOIMMUNE ‹ By forcing misbehaving cells to carry the blueprint for a gene that squelches autoimmune disease, investigators using mice models have demonstrated a potential alternative to delivering immunosuppresive drugs to the entire body. Michael Shaw, a postdoctoral fellow, and his mentor, Gary Fathman, professor of medicine (immunology and rheumatology), published the results of their research on a disease modeling human multiple sclerosis in the May issue of the Journal of Experimental Medicine.

GENE MAPPER ‹ Researchers led by genetics professors David Cox and Richard Myers, who co-direct the Stanford Human Genone Center, have used a technique they developed to create the most detailed map of the human genome to date, published in the May issue of the journal Genome Research. The technique is expected to help speed efforts to pinpoint disease-causing genes and, perhaps more important, to promote more efficient gene sequencing.

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