Articles written about the Malik lab
- Eurek Alert Jan 24, 2008
- Ivanhoe - Winter Park,FL,USA
Jan 3, 2008
Sawyer worked with colleague and senior author Harmit Singh Malik, Ph.D. and co-author Michael Emerman, Ph.D of the Center’s Human Biology division. ...
- FHCRC, Dec 24, 2007
- Science Daily, Dec 21, 2007
A cluster of antiviral genes in humans has likely battled retroviral invasions for millions of years. New research by Sara Sawyer, Ph.D., a postdoctoral research fellow in the Basic Sciences Division at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, now finds that in addition to the previously identified TRIM5 gene that can defend against retroviruses like HIV, a related gene right next door, called TRIM22, may have participated in antiviral defense.
- Medical News Today, Dec 20, 2007
- The New Yorker, Dec 3, 2007
Why are evolutionary biologists bringing back extinct deadly viruses?
- American Museum of Natural History features Hutch research
The American Museum of Natural History in New York has created an interactive exhibit dedicated to the work of Drs. Michael Emerman, Harmit Malik and Shari Kaiser, published recently in Science, in which they reconstructed an ancient retrovirus. They found that human resistance to this retrovirus, which infected chimps millions of years ago, may be responsible for our vulnerablity to HIV today.
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- Seattle PI, June 22, 2007
- Science June 21, 2007
- FHCRC Center News, May 4, 2006
- Breaking News, Eurekalert Jan 9, 2006
- FHCRC Center News, Aug 18, 2005
- Science, July 1, 2005
- Quest winter, 2005 feature
- FHCRC Center News, Aug 5, 2004
- FHCRC Center News, July 29, 2004
- FHCRC Center News, Feb 5, 2004
- FHCRC Center News, May 1, 2003
