Genetics and Environmental Health Week

Huddinge Hospital - Gene profiles in mucosa identified during H. pylori infection

IAP Polio Eradication Committee - Developing country perspective on vaccine-associated paralytic polio released

Illegal Drug Use - Heroin use among Massachusetts youth jumps sharply

Institute & Poliklin Arbeits & Sozialmed - Dose-dependent risk of skin cancer with occupational exposure to UV radiation

Institute Pasteur of Lille - Childhood obesity linked to chromosome 6q22.31-q23.2 in French families

IntegraGen, SA - Scientists in France announce discovery of an autism disease gene

International Vaccine Institute, South Korea - Policymakers' views on dengue fever and need for dengue vaccines outlined

Introgen Therapeutics - Advexin Clinical Data presented at AACR

Johns Hopkins University - Spikes in blood pressure during exercise occur when cells can't "relax"

Keio University - Comparison of keratin-associated protein gene clusters reported

Lynx Therapeutics, Inc. - Genomics company announces 2003 fourth quarter and full year financial results

Mercy Health Center, Oklahoma City - Management of women at increased risk for breast cancer reviewed

Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Inc. - NCI collaboration to investigate role of ACE2 in SARS

Natl. Inst. of Public Hlth & the Envir, Bilthoven - Data augmentation helps estimate Legionella subclinical infection rate

Natl. Institute for Occupational Safety & Health - Fresh apple peel extract may have potential chemoprotective effects

Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago - Selective radiation therapy to abdomen can preserve fertility

Odense University Hospital - Reduced lipid oxidation in type 2 diabetes may be of genetic origin

PharmAthene, Inc. - IND application submitted to FDA for ToxBlox anthrax infection treatment

Providence Portland Med Center - gp100_209-2M peptide vaccine induces immune response in melanoma patients

Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham - Risk factors and recurrence of primary biliary cirrhosis

Shanghai Jiao Tong University - Novel, small peptide, GA3, has potential as drug delivery ligand

St. Jude Children's Hospital - PET scanning for pediatric oncology patients is explored

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital - Molecular analyses of leukemia patients suggest strategies for better treatments

Third Wave Technologies Inc. - Invader cystic fibrosis genotyping reagents launched

U.S. National Cancer Institute - Distinct mechanisms lead to HPRT gene mutations in leukemic cells

University of Gottingen - CD43 involved in nuclear signaling and cell proliferation via beta-catenin

University of Illinois - Researchers discover gene that causes liver cancer in animals

University of Iowa - TRAF3 required for signaling by LMP1 but not CD40 in B cells

University of Massachusetts - Extracellular signals regulate nucleocytoplasmic shuttling of signal transducers

University of North Carolina - New mouse model developed for congenital lung disease

University of Notre Dame -  Anopheles funestus gene markers identified

University of Ottawa - Prevention and genetic testing for breast cancer vary geographically

University of Oxford - Type 2 diabetes onset maps to chromosome 12p and locus on 12q24

University of South Florida - Biosensor-regulated gene therapy reduces heart attack damage in mice

Weizmann Institute of Science - Anti-NeoR6 resistance mutations suggest anti-HIV mechanisms