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Table of Contents . . . October 8th, 2005
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Genetics & IVF Institute, Fairfax - House of Commons report "Human Reproductive Technologies and the Law" evaluated
Innogenetics - Infectious disease diagnostics developer strengthens top management team
National Research Council of Canada - Microbes and products have potential in management of allergic asthma
Tobacco Use - Caron Foundation supports New Jersey's ban on smoking in dorms
Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center - Implications of patients paying more of their medical costs examined
Academia Sinica, Taipei - Novel assay provides quantitative measure of synaptic GABA antagonist effects
American Medical Association - Genetic factors influence propensity to bone fractures in elderly
Ariadne Genomics, Inc. - Software licensed for development of molecular interactions database
Baylor College of Medicine, Houston - Atorvastatin prevented development of cardiac hypertrophy
Blue Heron Biotechnology, Inc. - Gene synthesis company gets U.S. NIH grant for propagating difficult genes
Catholic University Sacred Heart, Rome - New findings in the area of influenza vaccines detailed
Celera Diagnostics - Diagnostics company extends collaboration with Merck in Alzheimer research
Centre Hospitalier Univ. A. Michallon, Grenoble - Postoperative radiotherapy performed after radical prostatectomy
Cepheid - Genetic-assessment company to provide aid to support Louisiana communities
Children's Hospital Oakland - Investigational meningitis vaccine immunogenic in children
Cornell University - Variant tricarboxylic acid cycle found in M. tuberculosis
Correlagen Diagnostics - Children's Hospital Boston inks molecular diagnostics collaboration
Corvinus University of Budapest - Microbiological safety of two chilled meals improved by gamma irradiation
Creighton University Medical Center, Omaha - Microarray analysis clarifies role of circulating monocytes
CytRx Corp. - Favorable clinical results reported for HIV vaccine
Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston - Zebrafish provides many advantages as a model for cancer research
Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum - Cancer because Mom and Dad smoked?
Finnish Foundation Alcohol Studies - No confounder found for alcohol and coronary heart disease risk
Foundation for Nutrition Research, Helsinki - Cow's milk allergy studied, increased duodenal IFN-gamma secretion revealed
GlycoGenesys - GCS-100 achieves primary objective in phase I trial in advanced solid tumors
Harvard School of Public Health - Many Katrina evacuees had chronic health problems and no insurance
Henry M Jackson Foundation - Outbreak of West African HIV recombinant in Uzbekistan reported
Hirosaki University School of Medicine - Larva migrans outbreak fatal to macaques in Japan safari-style zoo
Hospital Donostia, San Sebastian - Need for effective influenza vaccine in infants demonstrated
Hospital de Especialidades - Early nephropathy common in Mexican patients with type 2 diabetes
Hospital of Thoracic Diseases, Athens - Response to radiotherapy evaluated in NSCLC patients with brain metastases
Howard Hughes Medical Institute - Human Y chromosome preserves itself better than the chimp Y
Howard Hughes Medical Institute - Researchers capture egg-sperm fusion properties
Howard Hughes Medical Institute - Researchers find that the human brain is still evolving
ID Biomedical Corp. - GlaxoSmithKline to acquire biotech company
Imperial College London - Coding polymorphism in glycoprotein gene linked to type 2 diabetes
Indira Gandhi Medical College, Shimla - L. donovani is predominant pathogen in localized cutaneous leishmaniasis
Infectious Disease - Malformed prion proteins responsible for infections
Infectious Diseases - Washable computer keyboards reduce spread of infections
Innsbruck Medical University - Aspirin may downregulate inflammation and formation of homocysteine
Institute Pasteur, Paris - Studies add new findings to proteomics body of knowledge
Institute of Human Genetics Heidelberg - Carnosine protects against diabetic nephropathy
Institute of Naval Medicine, Gosport - Body composition influences relative metabolic demands of load-carriage
Javelin Pharmaceuticals - Ex-FDA division director joins pain-focused pharmaceutical company
Jikei University - Immune response to tuberculin protein in GATA-3-transgenic mice studied
Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center - Scientists study antioxidants' role in prostate cancer
Johns Hopkins University - Fluoroquinolone-resistant N. gonorrhoeae incidence increasing worldwide
Life Expectancy - Patriarchal attitudes and practices explain discrepancy in life expectancy
M.D. Anderson Cancer Center - Radiotherapy replaced formal dissection after local excision of nodal disease
Masonic Medical Research Laboratory - Study sought to determine the potential role of N588K in arrhythmias
Medical University of South Carolina - Study examined conduction disturbance in the HF-1b knockout mouse
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center - Radiation therapy potentiated effective oncolytic viral therapy
N.N. Burdenko Neurosurgical Institute, Moscow - Prognostic relevance of molecular alterations in glioblastomas evaluated
Purdue University - Purdue scientists treat cancer with RNA nanotechnology
Research Council of Norway - There is no single gene for aging
Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo - Findings advance knowledge in tamoxifen research
Rubicon Genomics - Genomics company launches TransPlex whole transcriptome amplification kit
Sahmyook University, Seoul - Antibiotic resistance test discriminates Lactobacillus spp
Technical University of Dresden - Reports advance knowledge in urology research
U.S. Centers for Disease Control & Prevention - Analysis of 18S rRNA gene distinguishes Dracunculus species
U.S. Centers for Disease Control & Prevention - Effects of environmental agents on puberty investigated
U.S. National Institutes of Health - Prothrombotic factors are common in children with stroke, porencephaly
University of Alabama, Birmingham - Data advance knowledge in endocrinology research
University of Amsterdam - Brugada syndrome is not fully explained by one single mechanism
University of Arizona - Tmod1 gene disruption compromises cardiomyocyte development in embryonic SCs
University of Bern - Research add new data to tissue engineering body of knowledge
University of Cambridge - Findings in hepatitis b therapy provide new insights
University of Florence - Researchers publish new studies and findings in the area of oncology
University of Iowa - Inhibition of HIV-1 3'ss A2 splicing necessary for viral replication
University of Massachusetts - Approaches to host cell adhesion by Lyme disease spirochete examined
University of Milan - Hepatitis C quasispecies compartmentalization has pathogenetic significance
University of North Carolina - Genome-wide RRV transcription profile parallels the profile for KSHV
University of Pennsylvania - Pharmacotherapy and pharmacogenetics of nicotine dependence reported
University of Washington - Trout troponin can sensitize mammalian cardiac myocytes to Ca2+
University of Wisconsin - Novel protocol facilitates analysis of pathogen gene expression
Vanderbilt University, Nashville - A novel system for automated cancer diagnosis introduced
Washington University, St. Louis - Recent studies add new data to cardiology research
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