news archive genetic news - January 17, 2005

January 17, 2005

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-	Scientists Discover Key Genetic Factor in Determining HIV/AIDS Risk Individual risk of acquiring HIV and experiencing rapid disease progression is not uniform within populations
-	Researchers simulate molecular biological clock Stochastic simulation of the mammalian circadian clock.
-	Thinking small: Texas A&M team creates lab-on-a-chip On-chip manipulation of levitated femtodroplets
-	Study finds more than one-third of human genome regulated by RNA Conserved Seed Pairing, Often Flanked by Adenosines, Indicates that Thousands of Human Genes are MicroRNA Targets
-	Found: Missing sequence of the human Y chromosome Sequence may contain genes controlling stature and tumor development
-	COX-2 levels are elevated in smokers Tobacco smoke triggers the production of COX-2, a cellular protein linked to the development and progression of cancer
-	Research Identifies Promising Route for Treating Age-Related Hearing Loss Proliferation of Functional Hair Cells in Vivo in the Absence of the Retinoblastoma Protein
-	First 'atlas' of key brain genes could speed research on cancer, neurological diseases Mouse brain organization revealed through direct genome-scale TF expression analysis
-	Transistor Genetics Self-assembled carbon-nanotube-based field-effect transistors
-	Mouse brain tumors mimic those in human genetic disorder Natural history of neurofibromatosis 1-associated optic nerve glioma formation in mice
-	Humans Are A 'Privileged' Evolutionary Lineage Accelerated evolution of nervous system genes in the origin of Homo sapiens
-	Growth of common skin cancer blocked in gene-switch mice Scientists have identified genes that promote the growth and recurrence of skin cancer