Genetics and Environmental Business Week

Indira Gandhi Center Atom Research, Tamil Nadu - HPRT mutant frequency increased at higher rate in smokers than in nonsmokers

Institut Pasteur - Reports add new data to malaria vaccines research

Institute of Food Technologists - Avoiding some food no proven assurance against cancer

Iowa State University - Utility of polyanhydride microspheres for protein delivery evaluated

Karolinska Institute - Antisense peptide nucleic acids end Staphylococcus aureus gene expression

King Fahd Natl. Ctr. for Children's Cancer, Riyadh - Aberrant hypermethylation associates with gene silencing in Burkitt lymphoma

Kyoto University - Researchers' data advance diabetes therapy research

Legal Issues - Checks on the way for families of sick nuclear weapons workers

Leiden University - Increased PAI-1 expression correlated with worse survival, relapse

Louisiana State University - Presenilin-I may direct glial-specific gene expression

McGill University, Montreal - Matrix-embedded marrow stromal cells provide long-term protein expression

Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee - Lifestyle behaviors associated with lower risk of metabolic syndrome identified

Meningitis - UNC-Chapel Hill warned of suspected meningitis case

Meningococcemia - WHO sending experts to probe cases of suspected meningococcemia

Mitsubishi Kagaku Institute of Life Sciences - Studies describe new findings in cardiology research

Mount Desert Island Biological Lab - New comparative toxicogenomics database unveiled

New York University - Protein modifications amend adenovirus-induced toxicity

Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo - Distribution of Neisseria serogroups and genotypes reported

Ohio State University - Loss of ERalpha signaling induces epigenetic silencing of downstream targets

Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute - African horsesickness virus serotyping conducted

Pennsylvania State University - Hepatitis B virus reverse transcriptase requires heat shock protein to function

Purdue Pharma Discovery Research - P2X₃ /P2X_2/3 receptor antagonist reverses inflammatory hyperalgesia

SEQUENOM, Inc. - Genetics technology analysis company reports on MassARRAy system placements

Slovak Academy of Sciences - 6-Hydroxydopamine effect on Na+/Ca²⁺ exchanger gene expression studied

St. Jude Children's Hospital, Memphis - Gene expression profiling can identify pediatric AML risk groups

State University of New York, Stony Brook - ospC diversity in Borrelia burgdorferi explored

Technion - Israel Institute of Technology - Genetic therapeutic targets identified in substantia nigra pars compacta

U.S. Centers for Disease Control & Prevention - Findings advance knowledge in immunology research

U.S. National Institute on Drug Abuse - New findings in the area of neuroscience described

U.S. National Institutes of Health - Effects of diesel exhaust particles on pulmonary mutagen activation determined

U.S. National Institutes of Health - Intact signaling by TGF-beta not required for termination of liver regeneration

Univ. of California, Los Angeles - Aminoglycosides correct the phenotype of ataxiatelangiectsia cells

Univ. of California, San Francisco - Tobacco industry tries to cast doubt on link between smoking, cancer gene

University Medical Center Ljubljana - The FOXL2 gene may play a role in female infertility

University Mediterranee, Marseille - Glutamine-rich region of HIV-1 Tat is involved in T-cell apoptosis

University of Bristol - Recent studies add new data to proteomics research

University of Colorado - Beta-cell autoimmunity not increased in twins of type 1 diabetic patients

deCODE genetics - Positive results announced from clinical trial of arterial inflammation drug