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• Gene that Determines Major Sensitivity to Bitter Taste
  Gene to distinguish a wide class of bitter tastes found
  
• Genetic Basis of Pain Response
  A common genetic variant influences individual responses and adaptation to pain and other stressful stimuli
  
• Adult Stem Cell: Possible New Indicator of Heart Disease Risk
  Endothelial progenitor cells may help the body repair damage to blood vessels
  

• Alzheimer’s Disease Peptide Acts At A Distance
  Beta amyloid peptide outside cells, rather than within neurons, may be the type that is detrimental in Alzheimer's disease.
  
• Japanese Scientists Identify Protein Involved In Stomach Ulcers
  A receptor on stomach cells for a toxin produced by the bacterium Helicobacter pylori mediates the signals that lead to ulceration in mice
  
• Colon Cancer Cell Migration
  Adenomatous polyposis coli (APC) gene is clearly linked to the migration of colon cancer cells.
  
• New Lead For Diabetic Drugs
  A G-protein-coupled receptor, GPR40, abundantly expressed in the pancreas, functions as a receptor for long-chain FFAs, which amplify glucose-stimulated insulin secretion from pancreatic b cells.
  

• Another way to silence genes with small RNAs
  A short form of RNA can turn off a targeted gene much the way naturally occurring microRNAs do
  
• Using RNA Interference to Tune Gene Activity in Stem Cells
  New Method for the Study and Treatment of Disease
  

• Component Guide For Fueling Human Heart
  Researchers have completed the most comprehensive attempt yet to catalog the protein content of human heart mitochondria.
  
• Vitamin B1 Deters Diabetic Complications
  A widely available derivative of vitamin B1 prevents the progression of diabetic complications such as retinal damage.
  
• Intelligence And Brain Activity
  People who score high on intelligence tests also activate a distinct set of brain regions during demanding mental tasks.
  
• Wrong Protein Implicated In Autoimmunity?
  The real culprit in autoimmune inflammation is interleukin-23, and not interleukin-12.
  
• HIV No Match For Microbicides
  First concrete evidence that microbicides can prevent virus attachment and entry into the vagina or rectum.
  
• Following The Trail To Death
  A protein known as TRAIL may be important in preventing the development of dangerous immune cells that have the ability to attack other healthy cells.
  
• To Fix DNA, You Need A Molecular Crowbar
  DNA-repair enzyme Rad54 remodels chromatin and pushes repressive nucleosome structures out of the way
  
• RNA Interference Humbles Hepatitis
  RNAi can successfully prevent liver injury and death in a mouse model of hepatitis.
  
• Rhythm Of Life
  Mutation in the structural protein ankyrin-B basis for life-threatening cardiac disease.
  

• Genetics Congress - Financial Assistance
  The International Genetics Federation in conjunction with the Congress organizers has established a fund to assist delegates needing financial assistance in order to attend the 2003 Genetics Congress.
  
• Caltech, Italian Scientists Find Human Longevity Marker
  Even though Jeanne Louise Calment died in 1997 at the age of 122, we envy her longevity. Better, perhaps, to envy her mother's lineage, suggest scientists.
  

• Study finds no link between taking folic acid and having twins
  New results from a study involving almost a quarter of a million women in China show that taking folic does not increase a woman's chances of giving birth to twins.
  
• The US National Library of Medicine "Profiles In Science" Web Site
  Papers of Nobel Laureate, Linus Pauling, Added to "Profiles In Science" Web Site
  

• Genetic "Signature" Linked to Severe Lupus Symptoms
  Gene expression profiling reveals an interferon expression signature in a subset of lupus patients
  

• Working out what genes do - systemic RNAi in mammalian cells
  Working out what genes do - systemic RNAi in mammalian cells
  

• Reining In Transcription
  Direct association of a protein phosphatase with a histone deacetylase represses the activity of the transcription factor CREB.
  
• DNA Damage Limitation
  Further insights into understanding the activation of the protein kinase gene (ATM), mutated in a hereditary disease.
  

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