22 Mar 2004
Adrian Bird and Skirmantas Kriaucionis of the University of Edinburgh have discovered a novel form of the protein MeCP2. This alternate form, coined MeCP2 alpha, differs from the original only in the first 19 amino acids. Interestingly, Adrian Bird, Director of the Welcome Trust Centre for Cell Biology at Edinburgh University, found that MeCP2 alpha, is ten times more prevalent not only in the brain but also in other tissues. These findings are currently reported online in Nucleic Acids Research. Similar findings were reported yesterday in Nature Genetics online by Berge Minassian, a neurologist and scientist at Toronto s Hospital for Sick Children.
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CARY, N.C., Jan. 27, 2021 /PRNewswire/ After more than two decades of dedication to advance the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of cancer, Dr. Martin J. Murphy has retired from the Board of Directors of the CEO Roundtable on Cancer. The Board immediately elected him Director Emeritus.
Dr. Murphy was instrumental in launching the CEO Roundtable on Cancer in 2001 at the request of President George H.W. Bush who challenged him to engage action-oriented chief executives to do something more about cancer prevention, diagnosis, and treatment within your own family as well as within your corporate family.