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February 22, 2005

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-	Mothers' Exposure To Air Pollutants Linked To Chromosome Damage In Babies A new study of 60 newborns in New York City reveals that exposure of expectant mothers to combustion-related urban air pollution may alter the structure of babies' chromosomes while in the womb.
-	Genotype Browser Whole-genome patterns of common DNA variation in three human populations
-	Test Could Improve Detection Of Prion Disease In Humans A highly sensitive post-mortem test could help scientists more accurately determine if a person died of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD).
-	Advances In Uterine Leiomyoma Research: 2nd NIH International Congress This conference will bring together researchers to foster an exchange of scientific information among members of the uterine leiomyoma (fibroids) research and health care communities.
-	Reducing The Pain Of Stem Cell Therapy Paper reports that stem cell transplantation treatment can also worsen a problem suffered by some spinal cord injury patients.
-	Helping Stem Cells Maintain Their Humanity Report of a new technique for human embryonic stem cell (hESC) culture that reduces the use of animal-derived compounds, making them potentially safer and more reliable for biomedical applications.
-	Uncovering the Details of a Viral Secret Weapon Data from the rigorous analysis of a variety of viral genomes may provide important new insights into the mechanisms of viral pathogenesis.
-	Hair Growth Restores Hearing A gene therapy approach to replace lost hair cells in the inner ear can improve hearing in deaf mammals.
-	New Insights Into Muscle Growth Regulation Research identifies a way to regulate muscle growth in a way that should minimise the chance of unwelcome side effects, unlike current therapies.
-	Leptin Regulates Bone Remodelling New research into bone structure and function shows how the hormone leptin plays a vital role in these processes, and could help our understanding of osteoporosis
-	Researcher links schizophrenia, gene mutations Altered genes cause receptors to become highly sensitive to their own dopamine, leading to psychosis
-	Separating Chromosomes Improves Genetic Test Results Conversion analysis for mutation detection in MLH1 and MSH2 in patients with colorectal cancer
-	Researchers Identify Enzyme That Activates Cancer Cell Growth And Invasion PAR1 Is a Matrix Metalloprotease-1 Receptor that Promotes Invasion and Tumorigenesis of Breast Cancer Cells
-	The Very Unexpected Life And Death Of A Leukemic Cell In vivo measurements document the dynamic cellular kinetics of chronic lymphocytic leukemia B cells
-	Gene therapy for Parkinson's disease moves forward in animals Continuous low-level glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor delivery provides neuroprotection and induces behavioral recovery in a primate model
-	Research Identifies Proteins Crucial To Construction Of Brain's Information Superhighway Thrombospondins Are Astrocyte-Secreted Proteins that Promote CNS Synaptogenesis
-	Asthma Gene Clusters Identified Findings Could Lead To New Treatment Based On Individual Genetic Profiles