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October 5, 2005

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-	Who Are the Next Generation of Genetic Counselors? A Survey of Students Genetic counseling students were surveyed about their backgrounds, application process to genetic counseling programs, and career motivations and plans.
-	Factors Influencing Uptake of Genetic Testing For Colorectal Cancer Risk in an Australian Jewish Population This study reports a high acceptability of genetic testing within a community sample of 300 Australian Jewish individuals.
-	Communication Analysis of BRCA1 Genetic Counseling The findings support the use of RIAS in genetic counseling research.
-	Comparing Knowledge of Beta-Thalassemia in Samples of Italians, Italian-Americans, and Non-Italian-Americans Study determines the level of Beta-Thalassemia awareness among Italians, Italian-Americans, and other Americans.
-	Predictive Genetic Testing for Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer Study evaluates emotional functioning and illness representations in 68 unaffected women 1 year after predictive testing for BRCA1/2 mutations.
-	Buckets Of Beta Cells Researchers describe a 'reversibly immortalized' cell line that can supply large amounts of insulin-producing human beta-cells.
-	Schizophrenia: An Update and Review Findings of the research to elucidate the nature of environmental vulnerability factors involved in Schizophrenia.
-	Thursdays with Marion: The Therapist's Tale A case study with a patient who began therapy after her presymptomatic testing for Huntington disease (HD) to address her depression and anxiety.
-	Nicotine: An Addictive Pleasure Nicotine shown to induce a progressive and long-lasting increase of sensitivity in the brain reward systems.
-	Communicating Cancer The role of the Internet and other forms of mass media is explored in helping to raise awareness of cancer prevention and treatment that can shape what people know and do about cancer.
-	Development Of Immune Cells Associated With Allergy And Asthma Two papers describe how one type of immune cell associated with allergic inflammation and autoimmunity ultimately causes disease.
-	Multiple Sclerosis Genetics Two studies map genetic regions associated with susceptibility to multiple sclerosis (MS).
-	Human Protein Interactions Go Large Scale Researchers have taken an initial step towards addressing the issue of which of the 22,000 human-gene encoded proteins interact with each other.
-	Sequence Of Chromosome 18 Completed Scientists conducted a genome-wide comparison of human and other mammalian DNA, and found similarities in the levels of non-protein-coding regions among mammals.