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		Tick Saliva: New Target for Lyme Disease Vaccine (11.19.2009)

		High Blood Pressure During Pregnancy May Set Stage for Thyroid Problems Later (11.17.2009)

		Grants Push Grad Schools to Bring Research and Medicine Together (11.17.2009)

		Teasing Apart Brain Function, Neuron by Neuron (11.08.2009)

		Scientists Launch Effort to Sequence the DNA of 10,000 Vertebrates (11.05.2009)

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HHMI Bulletin: November 2009

	Cover Story: The Most Vulnerable Patients Problems during pregnancy burden too many newborns with lifelong disabilities. Researchers are finding clues to a safer nine months, and a brighter future.

	Taming Fear, Rising Calm A social conscience rooted in the Deep South moves Kerry Ressler, a psychiatrist and neuroscientist, to try to ease the consequences of inner city trauma.

	Membrane Awakening Researchers are taking a more holistic look at cell membranes and the proteins embedded in them—and the surprises keep coming.

	Enhancing TA Performance Instead of letting teaching assistants sink or swim, risking their failure and the ire of the undergrads, some schools are prescribing a class in how to teach before they get in front of a class.

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