Genetics and Environmental Business Week

IRD, Santiago - Cross-protection explains single influenza illness peaks in temperate climates

Indiana University - Rate of mutation is 10 times that of previous estimates

Innsbruck University - Vasculogenesis is the primary growth mechanism of infantile hemangioma

Introgen Therapeutics, Inc. - Advexin cancer therapy highlighted in CancerWise online publication

Johns Hopkins Medical Institute - UltraSensitive AMPLICOR HIV-1 MONITOR v1.5 more sensitive than v1.0 near cutoff

Johns Hopkins University - Doctors concerned over biased experts in asbestos lawsuits

Johns Hopkins University - Performance of the Celera Diagnostics ViroSeq HIV-1 Genotyping System reviewed

Kanazawa University, Ishikawa - LDL-apheresis may be necessary to treat refractory hypercholesterolemia

Kyoto University - Ascidians model the need for Mesp during heart development

Lead Exposure - Health Department to test Grand Island children for lead poisoning

McGill University, Montreal - A novel mouse model will better depict carcinoembryonic antigen-based therapy

Medical College of Georgia - HPV vaccine targets women age 24-45

Minneapolis Heart Institute Foundation - Prevalence of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy studied in older Native Americans

Nagoya City University - Complement receptor-related gene tumor vaccine induces antitumor activity

National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Rome - Viral protein drives lymphocyte recruitment in hepatitis C transgenic mice

Natl Inst Cholera & Enteric Diseases, Calcutta - Genes encoding toxins of diverse S. flexneri isolates identified

New York University - Repression of germ cell differentiation parallels germ line SC maintenance

Norwegian University of Science & Technology - Gene expression-based classification model devised

OCEAC, Oaounde - Genetic stability seen in natural clones of Trypanosoma brucei

OpGen, Inc. - Geospiza wins grant to integrate optical mapping with DNA sequence assembly

Scott & White Memorial Hospital - TGF-beta expression may not have prognostic significance in pancreatic cancer

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital - Outcome for acute lymphoblastic leukemia linked to gene expression patterns

Statens Serum Institute, Copenhagen - Epitopes that improve specificity of M. tuberculosis assay identified

Tokyo Medical and Dental University - Metastatic non-small-cell lung cancers overexpress the SKP2 gene

U.S. Centers for Disease Control & Prevention - Reassortment and evolution of current human influenza viruses reviewed

U.S. Edward Hines Jr Vet. Administration Hospital - Sensitive RT-PCR detects influenza A virus and amantadine-resistant isolates

U.S. National Cancer Institute - Tumor suppressor RASSF1 regulates tubulin polymerization, genomic stability

U.S. National Institutes of Health - Cdk1 (Cdc2)/cyclin A prevents Orc1 binding to chromatin during mitosis

U.S. National Institutes of Health - Human embryonic stem cell lines bear unique gene sets

U.S. National Institutes of Health - Irradiation of tumors promotes vaccine-mediated T-cell killing

U.S. World Health Organization - p53 mutations common in HPV type 38-positive non-melanoma skin cancers

University of Amsterdam - IL-8 gene promoter polymorphism associated with risk of AIDS-related KS

University of Brasilia - Human papillomavirus type 16 most prevalent variant in area of Central Brazil

University of Brescia - Small interfering RNA urokinase silencing halts hepatocellular carcinoma

University of Colorado - Poly I:C and B:9-23 peptide-induced autoimmune diabetes differentiated

University of Minnesota - Function of CHO1 motor protein elucidated

University of Minnesota - Profiling detects genes critical to vascular remodeling after heart failure

University of North Carolina - Cell type-specific responses to chemotherapy determined

University of Pretoria - Founder mutation in Afrikaner families associated with BRCA1 mutations

University of Sheffield - PCR detects genetic abnormalities in lung cancer and respiratory patients