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In a published January 5, 2011 in Science Translational Medicine, Anna Mandinova and Sam Lee, both researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital and associate members of the Ó³»­´«Ã½, describe the obstacles and promise of developing small compounds that target the p53 pathway, the most common pathway involved in cancer. I asked them both to discuss the challenges of finding p53-targeted molecules and the approaches they are currently working on.

Here at the Ó³»­´«Ã½Minded Blog, we polled the Ó³»­´«Ã½ community for their best holiday-themed scientific imagery — and we got some wonderful responses. We posted a few at the end of 2010, and here's one more!

This stunning picture is a false-colored microscopic image of human liver cells grown with mouse fibroblasts in vitro. The cellular model is useful for identifying changes in liver cells when treated with drugs. In this image, a blue stain marks the liver cell DNA, and green stains the cells' endoplasmic reticulum.

This past Sunday, January 2, 2011 The Boston Globe ran a on the Ó³»­´«Ã½ written by Carolyn Johnson. For those unfamiliar with our organization, this is a good primer on what Carolyn describes as “a major research hub…with the goal of leveraging mind-boggling amounts of information to understand and abolish some of humanity’s most complicated and seemingly intractable diseases: diabetes, cancer, schizophrenia."