Genetics and Environmental Business Week

Institute for Cancer Research, Sutton - 3-nitrobenzanthrone revealed as potential human cancer hazard

Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Respiratorias, Mexico City - Lung function is compromised by obesity in children

InterSystems Corp. - Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center launches biosurveillance system

Jichi Medical School, Tochigi - Microsatellite instability produces epigenetic silencing in colorectal carcinoma

Johns Hopkins University - Hot flashes are more frequent in women smokers independent of estrogen levels

Johns Hopkins University - Pap tests for HIV-infected women have high accuracy rate

Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Public Health - Attenuated enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli vaccine is immunogenic and safe

Kobe University - Type 2 diabetes risk influenced by -112A>C polymorphism

Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings - UGT1A1 gene variants test for dosing colorectal cancer therapy launched by LabCorp

Leiden University - New findings in the area of atherosclerosis described

Lilly Research Laboratories - Integromics has potential in biological research

Liver Research Center, Providence - Point mutations upstream of hepatitis B virus core gene affect DNA replication

M.D. Anderson Cancer Center - Efficacy of bladder cancer treatment depends on urine interferon concentration

Medical University of Gdansk - Adenosine receptor expression is altered in the hearts of diabetic rats

Musculoskeletal Disease Center, Loma Linda - Novel loci affecting TG, HDL, and fat mass were identified in MRL/MpJ x SJL/J inbred mice

New York University - Genome data available to the public may contain small but significant errors

Ohio State University - Na⁺/I^- symporter may be useful as an imaging reporter gene

Personnel - Eric Topol, MD, chair of Cleveland Clinic department of cardiovascular medicine, resigns

Portuguese Institute of Oncology, Oporto - Genetic profile of ovarian cancer may help define better chemotherapy treatment

Regeneron Pharmaceutical - Researchers' data advance obesity pathogenesis research

Research and Markets - Cancer vaccines account for 60.6% of projects being developed in therapeutic vaccine area

Robarts Research Institute, London - Metabolic syndrome prevalence in aboriginal Canadians finds three candidate genes

Samaritan Pharmaceuticals Inc. - Samaritan Pharmaceuticals to devote much of $40 million dollar financing to R&D

Sapporo Medical University, Hokkaido - Cytosolic overexpression of p62 might be novel marker for prostatic malignancy

Showa University, Tokyo - Researchers publish new studies and findings in the area of cancer vaccines

Sigma-Aldrich - Sigma-Aldrich launches single cell whole genome amplification kit

Stanford University - Tumor suppressing adenovirus imaged using herpes simplex virus reporter gene

U.S. VA Medical Center, North Hills - Reports advance knowledge in diabetes therapy research

Universitatsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf - Prognostic impact of cytogenetic aberrations in patients with myeloma detailed

University of Amsterdam - Cardiac conduction variability is linked to sodium channel promoter haplotype in Asian subjects

University of California, San Francisco - Apolipoprotein A-V may be a modulator of plasma triglyceride levels in Turks

University of Edinburgh - Hepatitis B virus genesis and evolution involves recombination

University of Glasgow - HER family may have multiple roles in prostate cancer

University of Hong Kong - Breast cancer becomes more aggressive with TIMP3 gene hypermethylation

University of Leipzig - Recent findings in colon cancer provide new insights

University of Manitoba - Recent findings illuminate research in apoptosis

University of Marburg - TAT-derived, covalently coupled peptide is a nano-carrier for DNA delivery to the lung

University of Munster - EGFR overexpression and mutations are associated with breast cancer progression

University of Navarra, Pamplona - AQP7 is differentially expressed in adipose tissue of lean and obese high fat consumers

University of Pennsylvania - Recombinant viral hemagglutinin esterase protein enhances neurovirulence