BY MICHAEL GOTTESMAN, HANNAH VALANTINE, AND ROLAND OWENS
Evidence indicates that heterogeneous groups of talented individuals, with experience in managing diversity, are better equipped to tackle complex problems than are homogeneous groups.
Read about recent intramural research advances: first photoactive drug to fight Parkinson disease; possible link between gestational diabetes and early-stage kidney disease; enhancing tumor response to radiotherapy; obesity associated with lower breast-cancer risk; stopping cancer metastasis; and more.
NEWS FROM AND ABOUT THE SCIENTIFIC INTEREST GROUPS
Read about the new SIG, the Metals in Biology Scientific Interest Group; Susan Harbison’s talk for the SGHD SIG about sex differences in (fruit fly) sleep; and the SBIG/MPIG Student and Postdoc Symposium that featured research on how structural biology provides a high-resolution view deep into the molecular architecture of cells.
Rather than feeling discouraged when an experiment yields unexpected results, try to understand what happened and why, said University of Kentucky biologist Jeramiah Smith, who visited NIH to give career advice to undergraduate students interested in pursuing careers in biomedical research.
