Genetics and Environmental Law Weekly

Hospital Clinic de Barcelona - Transcriptional networks controlling beta cell function identified

IARC, Lyon - Hormonal contraceptive use appears to reduce epithelial ovarian neoplasia risk

Institut Gustave-Roussy - Nasopharyngeal carcinomas and Epstein-Barr virus reviewed

Institute of Child Health, London - Early proximal tubular dysfunction found in Lowe syndrome

Institute of Endocrinology, Prague - HLA antigen expression in autoimmune endocrinopathies predicts clinical course

Institute of Medical Research, Zagreb - BMD depends on bone and body size

Introgen Therapeutics, Inc. - Clinical safety, efficacy data of Advexin featured at scientific meeting

Japanese Foundation for Cancer Research - The Niban gene is a candidate marker for renal cancer formation

Johns Hopkins University - DNA vaccines target nucleocapsid protein of SARS coronavirus

Johns Hopkins University - Lead levels not as safe as previously thought

Kaohsiung Medical University - Men with vitamin D receptor polymorphisms are at risk for prostate cancer

Karolinska Institute - Genetic vaccine promising against chronic hepatitis C

Korea University, Seoul - Pro-inflammatory cytokines not risk factors in older Korean women

Kyowa Hakko Kogyo Co., Ltd - Cytochrome P450 isoforms involved in oxatomide metabolism identified

Leiden University - AFLP accurately identifies Candida colonization in children undergoing SCT

Leiden University - CMV viral load can guide clinical management of transplant recipients

Los Alamos National Laboratory - Model for disease outbreaks in realistic urban networks developed

Medco Health Solutions, Inc. - Brand medications preferred over generics for serious conditions, survey shows

Mitsubishi Kagaku Bio Clinical Lab., Tokyo - Adenoviruses D and E diagnosed by phylogeny-based classification method

Nanosphere, Inc. - Company announces genetic-detection advance in nature biotechnology

National Inst. Agrobiological Sciences, Tsukuba - PE-CAM-1 and SSEA-1 embryonic stem cells differentiate into epiblast cells

Pharmaceutical Drugs - Ann Arbor company closing in on production of eggs that carry drug ingredients

SemBioSys Genetics Inc. - Biotechnology companies to co-develop DHA-rich safflower oil

Senesco Technologies, Inc. - Enzyme linked to inflammation reduced in mouse study

Texas A&M University - Human cytomegalovirus large terminase subunit pUL56 characterized

Toyama Medical & Pharmaceutical University - Myc-associated zinc finger protein activates murine RAG-2 promoter

Univ. Louis Pasteur Strasbourg - Impaired IL-18 release activated with protein I/II

Univ. Medical Center, Rotterdam - Split-signal FISH detect chromosome aberrations in acute lymphoblastic leukemia

University of Alberta, Edmonton - Multiple viral genes contribute to HIV-associated neuropathy

University of Illinois - Forkhead box transcription factor is essential to liver cancer formation

University of Kiel - Maternal IgG appears phenotypically in offspring as non-genetic inheritance

University of Leeds - Novel PMS2 pseudogenes conceal the true genomics of pediatric cancer

University of Paris 12 - Cellular compartmentalization is a trait of hepatitis C virus-host interactions

University of Saarland - Provirus sequence differences allow assigning HERV transcripts to proviral loci

Wayne State University - XPC protein plays key role in cell cycle regulation during cisplatin treatment