Genetics and Environmental Business Week

Ohio State University - Carbon dioxide may find new use in producing medical implants

Oragenics, Inc. - Committee votes in favor of human trial for dental caries prevention therapy

Outbreaks - Pennsylvania school district closes classes as more students fall ill

Oxford University - Climate keeps tick-borne diseases in check

QualiLife Pharmaceuticals, Inc. - Zestra female arousal fluid receives Notice of Allowance

Respiratory Disorders - Vitamin C plays important role in normal airway function, research shows

Rigel Pharmaceuticals, Inc. - R112 well tolerated in allergic rhinitis clinical trial

Seoul National University - Pluripotent human embryonic stem-cell line derived from cloned blastocyst

Sexual & Reproductive Health - Iowa bill authorizes study on stillbirth

Skin Cancer - Women's Dermatologic Society promotes skin cancer awareness and prevention

Teagasc, Dublin -  Escherichia coli O157:H7 prevalence determined in meat sold in Ireland

Technical Univ. of Munich - Using novel drugs to treat non-small cell lung cancer in the elderly is feasible

Technion-Israel Inst. of Technology - Antioxidant vitamins can be friend or foe for older women with diabetes

Tobacco Use - North Dakota law may affect debate on smoking in the workplace

U.S. Food and Drug Administration - FDA issues public health advisory on cautions for use of antidepressants

U.S. National Cancer Institute - Conjugation with geldanamycin augments Herceptin antitumor activity

U.S. National Cancer Institute - Programmed cell death 4 enhances cancer's response to chemotherapy

United Nations - Pacific islands face rapidly expanding HIV epidemic

Univ. of California, Berkeley - Engineered RNase P ribozymes could be used in gene therapy as antivirals

Univ. of Erlangen-Nurnberg - Study looks at uptake of phthalates, suspected factor in male infertility

Univ. of Texas Health Center at Tyler - Maternal pica is suspected in a case of infant lead poisoning

University of Amsterdam - Childhood abuse may predict social phobia and PTSD among adult alcoholics

University of Athens - Recombination dynamics of HIV genome determined

University of Halle-Wittenberg - Survivin knockdown reduces the clonogenic survival of sarcoma cells without p53

University of Ljubljana - In Europe, polymorphisms at COMT Val158Met are not linked to anorexia nervosa

University of North Dakota - High cost of alcoholism in pregnant women can be prevented

University of Pennsylvania - 5-Fluorouracil and interferon gene therapy diminish colon cancer metastasis

University of Rochester - THY1 correlates with tumor suppression in human ovarian cancer