Genetics and Environmental Health Week

Johns Hopkins University - Beverages with quinine increase risk of neurological complications

Johns Hopkins University - Frequency of AIDS prevention by restriction genes determined

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory - Researchers decode genome of rabbit fever pathogen

Maastricht University - Smoking cigarettes increases risk of bladder cancer substantially

Matsunami General Hospital - Hypopituitarism linked to Hashimoto thyroiditis

New York Medical College - New study distinguishes drug-induced from apoptosis-associated DNA damage

Nihon University, Tokyo - Constructs targeting transforming growth factor-beta stop neointima formation

Northern California Cancer Center - Expert review highly agrees with the diagnosis of NHLs in a cancer registry

Okayama University - Study suggests an alternative method to evaluate sunscreens protective ability

Rand Corp. - Black teens smoke earlier, but soon give up the habit

Reproductive Health - Arizona governor vetoes bill to impose waiting period on abortions

Rheumatoid Arthritis - Study of families with multiple cases of RA reveals clustering of characteristics

Robert Wood Johnson Medical School - Reduced folates might be better supplements for expectant mothers

Rocky Mt. Cancer Center, Aurora - Combined regimen is effective and minimally toxic in non-Hodgkins lymphoma

Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institiute - Apolipoprotein B-100 XbaI gene may predispose patients to gallbladder cancer

Seattle Genetics, Inc. - SGN-30 receives orphan drug designation for T-cell lymphomas

Sexual and Reproductive Health - Abortion clinic, contraceptive bills killed by Virginia clinic

Sir Charles Gairdiner Hospital - CASR gene changes may not be markers of postmenopausal osteoporosis

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital - Protein's role in retina development key to understanding devastating eye cancer

Syngenta - Agribusiness enters agreement for protein and antibody purification technology

Technical University of Munich - Several genes respond to intracellular zinc depletion in colon adenocarcinoma

Temple University, Philadelphia - The antimetastatic gene NM23 controls several functional pathways

Transgenomic Inc. - Genomics company reports 2003 financial results

U.S. National Institutes of Health - Potential type 2 diabetes-linked gene characterized in Pima Indians

Univ. of California, Davis - Macaque SHIV model could aid research on env gene, pediatric infection

Univ. of California, Los Angeles - Gene linked to disorder of elevated cholesterol

University of Birmingham - Nicotine reduces G-protein coupling to GABA_B receptor in rats

University of Bonn - Epigallocatechin-3 gallate blocks VEGF-mediated cell proliferation

University of Buenos Aires - The hypervariable region of HCV E2 evolves after selective pressure

University of Heidelberg - TorsinA is upregulated by dopaminergic toxin in mice

University of Munster - Cyclin E overexpression in some cancers means proliferation and poor prognosis

University of Munster - Risk of breast cancer may be increased by the length of the egfr CA SSR gene

University of Padua - Mutation in factor X protease responsible for defect in Factor X Padua

University of Tokyo - Familial prostate cancer in the Japanese population is linked genetically

VA Palo Alto Healthcare Systems - Lentivectors delivered through the skin regulate gene transfer

Windber Research Institute - Multiple biomarkers may be necessary to classify breast cancer

Women's & Children's Hospital, Adelaide - Modified stem cells treat the neurological symptoms of lysosomal storage disease