Genetics and Environmental Business Week

Medco Health Solutions, Inc. - Research reveals metabolic syndrome is becoming nation's costliest concerns

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York - Patients do not recognize importance of elevated SBP or status of BP control

Merck & Co. Inc. - Assessment tool effectively identifies at-risk Latinas

Monash University, Victoria - Homopeptide repeat-containing proteins studied, distribution and role clarified

Nanjing Medical University - Polymorphism in COX-2 gene linked to higher risk of lung cancer among Chinese

Nankai University, Tianjin - New findings in the area of enzymology described

National Cheng Kung University, Tainan - South Taiwan exhibited increased frequency of bulbomembranous adenocarcinoma

National Chung Hsing University, Taichung - Researchers detail new studies and findings in the area of SARS

National Health Research Institutes, Taipei - Loci linked to pre-diabetic phenotypes found

Netherlands Natl Inst Publ Hlth & Envir, Bilthoven - Noroviruses detected in sewage and surface waters in the Netherlands

New York University - Active vaccine prevents mice from developing brain diseases

Nihon University - Calcium gluconate jelly effective for relief of acid burn pain

Novartis Institute for Biomedical Research - Mice with a conditional mutant BMP type II receptor allele model human disease

Paul Ehrlich Institute, Langen - Replication-competent retroviral vectors host long-term transgene expression

Pochon CHA University, Kyonggi Do - New data illuminates research in breast cancer

Polish Academy of Sciences - Antibodies against Helicobacter pylori produced in egg yolks

Pontificia Catholic University of Chile - T cell activation studied, necessary receptor binding kinetics clarified

Second Military University, Shanghai - Small interfering RNA cuts hepatitis G production in cell cultures

Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Ctr., Baltimore - Drug design must account for prostate cancer cell progress to refractory state

Tm Bioscience - U.S. FDA clears cystic fibrosis DNA test for diagnostic use in the U.S.

U.S. National Institutes of Health - Studies describe new findings in virology research

Univ. of California, Berkeley - Proteomics probes acid mine drainage

Univ. of California, Riverside - Chemist part of team identifying new areas of gene regulation

Univ. of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio - Nucleotide polymorphism linked to type 2 diabetes in Mexican Americans

Univ. of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston - Ultrasound-induced cavitation sends drugs and genes into cancer cells

University of British Columbia - New findings in diabetes pathogenesis described

University of British Columbia, Vancouver - Clusterin inhibition enhances prostate cancer's response to primary therapy

University of California Los Angeles - Recent findings in cardioprotection described

University of Chile, Santiago -  Trypanosoma cruzi calreticulin gene shuts down angiogenesis

University of Groningen - mRNA expression/gene mapping identifies genes that control HSC function

University of Leipzig - Trypsinogen gene conversion can cause chronic pancreatitis

University of Liege - Corticosteroid adversely affects HSV-tk/ganciclovir suicide gene therapy

University of Michigan - Factor V Leiden analyzed, role in thrombosis and atherosclerosis clarified

University of Nebraska - Researchers' data advance virology research

University of Pennsylvania - CREB-binding protein studied, hippocampal effects of truncation clarified

University of Pennsylvania - Most African American women at risk for BRCA1/2 mutations wouldn't be tested

University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine - Reports advance knowledge in oncology research

University of Tokyo - PLZF promotes MSC osteoblastic differentiation as CBFA1 upstream regulator

University of Toronto - Glucocerebrosidase gene mutations associated with Parkinson disease