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November 14, 2003

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-	Amersham Licenses Early-Stage Alzheimer's Disease PET Agents from University of Pittsburgh Strategy is to identify a lead candidate for clinical evaluation as a PET (Positron Emission Tomography) diagnostic and monitoring agent
-	Potential Multi-Biomarker Test for Alzheimer’s Ciphergen Announces Discovery of a Potential Test using SELDI ProteinChip® Technology
-	Technique May Identify Novel Disease Genes at a Faster Clip New tool to find the RNA targets of proteins involved in neurological diseases.
-	Cholesterol Lowering Gene Increases Longevity Genetic variation in a gene known for playing a key role in lipoprotein production also appears to be significantly overrepresented in centenarians.
-	Novel DNA-repair Gene Mutation Can Cause Resistance To Cancer Drugs Base Excision Repair Enzyme MED1 Mediates DNA Damage Response to Anti-Tumor Drugs and Is Associated with Mismatch Repair System Integrity
-	PubMed Search by Protein Name PubMed Search by Protein Name Available Free at Ariadne Genomics Web Site