Genetics and Environmental Law Weekly

Novo Nordisk - Increasing BMI is strongly related to the CHD risk factors systolic blood pressure and HDL

Osmangazi University, Eskisehir - Findings in angiology provide new insights

Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Baton Rouge - Cardiovascular disease risk is improved in some men on low-fat and low-saturated-fat diets

Peter MacCallum Cancer Center, Melbourne - Effector function mediated by gene-engineered T cells

Public Health - Report highlights slowing rate of improvement in Americans' health after significant gains in 1990s

Public Health Foundation, Port Angeles - Online discussion group trains public health .practitioners in outbreak investigation

Queensland Institute of Medical Research - No association found between Alu insertion polymorphism and endometriosis

Quest Diagnostics - Diagnostics company announces gene-based assay to ID cancers of unknown primary origin

Rush University Medical Center, Chicago - Research in diagnostics provides new insights

SIGA Technologies, Inc. - U.S. FDA accepts investigational new drug application for smallpox drug, grants fast-track status

Schering-Plough Corporation - Nasonex shown effective and safe for treatment of nasal polyps

Shinshu University, Nagano - Spicy food intake and use of unboiled well water are risk factors of esophageal cancer

Stanford University School of Medicine - Advances in radiotherapy show benefit for elderly patients with leukemia and non-Hodgkin lymphoma

State Serum Institute - Emerging resistance in foodborne pathogens increase burdens of illness and outbreaks

Tehran University of Medical Science - Researchers detail new studies and findings in the area of Diabetes Therapy

Tokyo Institute of Technology - Researchers describe findings in DNA Vaccines studies

U.S. National Center for Genome Resources - Collaboration receives $3 million grant to obtain DNA sequence of Phytophthora capsici genome

Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre - Glutaric acid administration impairs energy metabolism in midbrain and skeletal muscle

University Clinic of Dusseldorf - Herpes simplex virus type-1 amplicons linked to vaccine generation in lymphoblastic leukemia

University of California, Davis - Nutritional genomics may benefit public and personal health

University of California, Los Angeles - Retroviral suicide gene therapy achieves long-term survival in glioma

University of Leicester - Linkage study suggests chromosome 2 locus is associated with atherosclerosis

University of Lodz - Polymorphisms of the BRCA2 gene associated with breast cancer

University of Maryland - Recent findings in gynecology provide new insights

University of Mediterranee, Marseille - Data predicts reduction in cardiovascular disease risk with the low-fat diet

University of North Carolina - Interplay occurs in IFN-gamma-inducible MHC-II gene expression

University of Regensburg - RANTES gene variations predict cardiac mortality in diabetes hemodialysis patients

University of Sydney - Hypoxia regulatory module of CYP2J2 gene is characterized

University of Ulsan, Seoul - Researchers' data advance diagnostics research

University of Utah - Altered cardiac efficiency and substrate metabolism are seen in obese mouse hearts

VA Greater Los Angles Healthcare Systems - Vegetable with high cyclo (His-pro) improved insulin sensitivity and body weight control

Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville - Genetic variants may predict virologic failure and/or emergence of drug-resistant HIV

Washington University, St. Louis - Wolfram gene deficiency in pancreatic islet beta cells linked to diabetes

Yale University - GATA-1 and Oct-1 are required for expression of hemoglobin-stabilizing gene