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__________________________________________________________________________ RNAi Europe 2005 Conference & Exhibition 28-29 September 2005, Amsterdam http://hum-molgen.org/promotion-RNAi __________________________________________________________________________ INTERNATIONAL COMMUNICATION FORUM IN HUMAN MOLECULAR GENETICS HUM-MOLGEN News Alert - August 24, 2005 - http://hum-molgen.org Genetic News by T.M. D'Souza, T. Dalaya, J. Mill, R. Nemade, D. Sharma, F.S. Zollmann http://hum-molgen.org/NewsGen - Neurons That Know The Odds Study reports that neurons in a part of the brain called the posterior cingulate cortex represent the riskiness of choices in monkeys. http://hum-molgen.org/NewsGen/08-2005/msg41.html - New Treatment Against SARS Effective In Monkeys Small interfering RNAs, short RNA sequences that can inhibit gene expression, are effective against infection with the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) virus in monkeys. http://hum-molgen.org/NewsGen/08-2005/msg38.html - Study Of Lymph Vessels Makes A Leap Scientists present tadpoles of the African clawed frog Xenopus laevis as a model for investigating the development of lymph vessels. http://hum-molgen.org/NewsGen/08-2005/msg37.html - Avoiding New Food Allergens Discussions on the steps taken to detect new food allergens from genetically modified plants and the limitations of these safeguard measures. http://hum-molgen.org/NewsGen/08-2005/msg35.html - Passport For Emigrating Immune Cells Two reports suggest exit of immune cells from peripheral tissues does not passively occur but requires the expression of a specialized receptor called CCR7. http://hum-molgen.org/NewsGen/08-2005/msg34.html - Unwinding Fanconi Anemia Five studies provide insight into the mechanism underlying the chromosomal instability that characterizes the disease Fanconi anemia. http://hum-molgen.org/NewsGen/08-2005/msg32.html - Seeing Cathepsin The activity of cathepsins, cysteine proteases involved in a number of stages of tumor development, is visualized in a cellular model of a tumor microenvironment. http://hum-molgen.org/NewsGen/08-2005/msg31.html - Viewing Receptor Clusters In A Heart Beat Researchers report the use of a high-resolution imaging technique to visualize heart cell receptor clusters for the first time. http://hum-molgen.org/NewsGen/08-2005/msg30.html - Antibiotic Assembly Line Scientists have turned bacteria into miniature factories for producing novel types of antimicrobial compounds at unprecedented rates. http://hum-molgen.org/NewsGen/08-2005/msg29.html - Nature INSIGHT Review Article: The Challenges Of Hepatitis C Combinations of multiple drugs will be required for the successful treatment of hepatitis C virus (HCV). http://hum-molgen.org/NewsGen/08-2005/msg28.html - Hair And Telomere Scientists describe how activating the protein in skin cells results in rapid hair growth. http://hum-molgen.org/NewsGen/08-2005/msg27.html - A Newly Discovered Pathway To Haemoglobin Production A study provides a new link between two fundamental processes - haem production and the formation of iron-sulphur clusters on proteins. http://hum-molgen.org/NewsGen/08-2005/msg25.html - A Rewarding View On Orexin Cells Activation of neurons that contain the neurotransmitter orexin in the lateral hypothalamus is proportionally linked to food- and drug-seeking behaviours in rats. http://hum-molgen.org/NewsGen/08-2005/msg24.html - Boosting The BCG Vaccine To Beat Tuberculosis Increased vaccine efficacy against tuberculosis of recombinant Mycobacterium bovis bacille Calmette-Guerin mutants that secrete listeriolysin. http://hum-molgen.org/NewsGen/08-2005/msg23.html - Scientists crack 40-year-old DNA puzzle and point to 'hot soup' at the origin of life A new theory that explains why the language of our genes is more complex than it needs to be also suggests that the primordial soup where life began on earth was hot and not cold, as many scientists believe. http://hum-molgen.org/NewsGen/08-2005/msg22.html - A Powerful New Tool for Decoding Gene Functions in Mammals and Man Efficient Transposition of the piggyBac (PB) Transposon in Mammalian Cells and Mice. http://hum-molgen.org/NewsGen/08-2005/msg21.html - Researchers Find BRCA1 Tumor Suppression Nullified By Cyclin D1 The results reaffirm cyclin D1 as a candidate target for molecular therapeutic control of breast tumor development. http://hum-molgen.org/NewsGen/08-2005/msg20.html - Scientists zero in on drugs' sweet spots Enhancing the anticancer properties of cardiac glycosides by neoglycorandomization. http://hum-molgen.org/NewsGen/08-2005/msg19.html - Micro RNAs Play Role In Egg Making Evidence that miRNAs are involved in oogenesis http://hum-molgen.org/NewsGen/08-2005/msg18.html - Scientists Discover Genetic Pathway Responsible For Breast Cancer Cell Growth Location analysis of estrogen receptor {alpha} target promoters reveals that FOXA1 defines a domain of the estrogen response. http://hum-molgen.org/NewsGen/08-2005/msg17.html - Link Between Alcohol and Certain Cancers Acetaldehyde, a suspected carcinogen formed as the body metabolizes alcohol, can react with polyamines to trigger DNA damage. http://hum-molgen.org/NewsGen/08-2005/msg16.html - New evidence that the dopamine transporter gene may be involved in the aetiology of ADHD Association found with a single-nucleotide polymorphism in the 3'untranslated-region of DAT1 http://hum-molgen.org/NewsGen/08-2005/msg15.html - Contact Genetic News editors WWW: http://hum-molgen.org/NewsGen/editors.html E-mail: news@hum-molgen.org Biomedical Positions http://hum-molgen.org/positions/ - Call for Assistant News Editors To further strengthen our news section we are currently looking for: Assistant Editors for the HUM-MOLGEN News section http://hum-molgen.org/NewsGen/04-2003/msg01.html - Write a position announcement http://hum-molgen.org/flyer/positions.pdf 1) Set up account: http://hum-molgen.de/cgi-bin/positions.pl?register 2) Post position(s): http://hum-molgen.de/cgi-bin/positions.pl?login DIAGnostics - Clinical Research (professional requests) http://hum-molgen.org/clinical-research/ - Post diagnostic request / call for collaboration http://hum-molgen.org/diagnostic-posting or contact admin@hum-molgen.org Literature http://hum-molgen.org/literature/ - 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