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__________________________________________________________________________ DRUG DISCOVERY TECHNOLOGY EUROPE 2006 Conference & Exhibition 13-16 March 2006 - London, UK http://hum-molgen.org/promotion-DDT __________________________________________________________________________ INTERNATIONAL COMMUNICATION FORUM IN HUMAN MOLECULAR GENETICS HUM-MOLGEN News Alert - November 30, 2005 - http://hum-molgen.org DIAGnostics - Clinical Research (professional requests) http://hum-molgen.org/clinical-research/ - Testing for BRCA1 and 2 (University of Colombo, Sri Lanka) http://hum-molgen.org/bb/Forum2/HTML/000185.html - Post diagnostic request / call for collaboration http://hum-molgen.org/diagnostic-posting or contact admin@hum-molgen.org Genetic News by T.M. D'Souza, S. Chandler, T. Dalaya, K. Markey, J. Mill, R. Nemade, D. Sharma, F.S. Zollmann http://hum-molgen.org/NewsGen - World Community Grid Targets AIDS in Giant Research Effort Second project will help determine effective AIDS therapies http://hum-molgen.org/NewsGen/11-2005/msg62.html - 9/11 Panel Makes Recommendations for DNA-Based Identification After Mass Disasters Team Effort Identified 850 World Trade Center Victims http://hum-molgen.org/NewsGen/11-2005/msg61.html - Earliest Animals Had Human-like Genes Species evolve at very different rates, and the evolutionary line that produced humans seems to be among the slowest. http://hum-molgen.org/NewsGen/11-2005/msg60.html - Alzheimer's Vaccine Reviewed A controversial vaccine that was the subject of a halted trial to prevent cognitive decline in Alzheimer's patients could have the potential to be reformulated to eliminate its toxicity while retaining the benefits. http://hum-molgen.org/NewsGen/11-2005/msg59.html - A Silent Killer Scientists suggest a mechanism that may selectively silence the electrical activity of dopamine producing neurons. http://hum-molgen.org/NewsGen/11-2005/msg58.html - Remote-Controlled Gene Delivery Synthetic gene-delivery system has great implications for the development of targeted gene therapy based on non-viral systems. http://hum-molgen.org/NewsGen/11-2005/msg57.html - Visualizing Suppression Of Autoimmune Disease Scientists have devised a way to view how autoimmunity is averted. http://hum-molgen.org/NewsGen/11-2005/msg56.html - Perfect Fit For Immune Recognition Mice lacking a particular enzyme exhibit abnormal immune responses, resulting from a less than perfect fit of protein bits displayed to immune cells. http://hum-molgen.org/NewsGen/11-2005/msg55.html - Activating Smoothened Scientists report on the protein target of a small molecule known to induce stem cell differentiation. http://hum-molgen.org/NewsGen/11-2005/msg54.html - Polycystic Kidney Disease Unravelled New results unravel how two mutated genes operate in causing abnormal cell proliferation in autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD). http://hum-molgen.org/NewsGen/11-2005/msg53.html - DISC1, Neuronal Development And Schizophrenia A change in the function of a protein in the cerebral cortex may contribute to the subtle neuronal defects observed in the brains of patients with schizophrenia. http://hum-molgen.org/NewsGen/11-2005/msg52.html - siRNA-Based Microbicide Stops Herpes Scientists have developed a microbicide that protects mice against the lethal genital herpesvirus (HSV-2). http://hum-molgen.org/NewsGen/11-2005/msg51.html - Molecular Diagnosis Of Human Cancer Type By Gene Expression Profiles And Independent Component Analysis Scientists have devised a novel pattern recognition procedure based on independent component analysis (ICA). http://hum-molgen.org/NewsGen/11-2005/msg50.html - Analysis Of Four Neuroligin Genes As Candidates For Autism Researchers conclude that neuroligin mutations most probably represent rare causes of autism. http://hum-molgen.org/NewsGen/11-2005/msg49.html - Mutation Analysis Of The WFS1 Gene In Seven Danish Wolfram Syndrome Families; Four New Mutations Identified Four new mutations have been identified in the WFS1 gene associated with autosomal recessive (AR) wolfram syndrome (WS). http://hum-molgen.org/NewsGen/11-2005/msg48.html - The Phenotype Of Second And Third Toe Syndactyly Maps To Chromosome 3p21.31 The authors propose to group the type I syndactyly condition into four subtypes, which are all autosomal dominantly inherited. http://hum-molgen.org/NewsGen/11-2005/msg47.html - Novel And De Novo Mutations Of The IRF6 Gene Detected In Patients With Van Der Woude Or Popliteal Pterygium Syndrome Scientists report 10 mutations in Van der Woude (VWS) and popliteal pterygium syndrome (PPS) genes. http://hum-molgen.org/NewsGen/11-2005/msg46.html - Mutation Spectrum Leading To An Attenuated Phenotype In Dystrophinopathies Study characterizes mRNA changes associated with five novel point mutations giving rise to a Becker muscular dystrophy (BMD) phenotype. http://hum-molgen.org/NewsGen/11-2005/msg45.html - Engineered Zinc Finger Proteins make the Heart Beat Stronger The use of an engineered zinc finger transcriptional repressor offers a new avenue of attack for congestive heart failure patients http://hum-molgen.org/NewsGen/11-2005/msg43.html - Promising pancreatic cancer data from a genetically engineered vaccine Non-patient specific GVAX data for pancreatic cancer points to impressive efficacy using GM-CSF mediated T cell activation http://hum-molgen.org/NewsGen/11-2005/msg42.html - Contact Genetic News editors WWW: http://hum-molgen.org/editors.html E-mail: news@hum-molgen.org Biomedical Positions http://hum-molgen.org/positions/ - Cell and Molecular Biology / Anatomy: post-doctoral fellow Toronto Western Research Institute, Toronto, Canada http://hum-molgen.org/positions/postdocs/2604.html - Genetics: post-doctoral fellow Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa http://hum-molgen.org/positions/postdocs/2605.html - Microbiology / Virology: Post-doctoral research position available to study antiviral immune response in the lung mucosa Institut Pasteur / Inserm E336, Paris, France http://hum-molgen.org/positions/postdocs/2606.html - 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 Biotechnical requests and sources http://hum-molgen.org/biotechnology - Investors in Therapeutic biopharma manufacture in Kerala, India http://hum-molgen.org/bb/Forum1/HTML/000157.html - Call for Collaboration / Business outscourcing (Pune, India) http://hum-molgen.org/bb/Forum1/HTML/000158.html Literature http://hum-molgen.org/literature/ Events in bioscience and medicine http://hum-molgen.org/meetings/ - Post event (free) http://hum-molgen.de/cgi-bin/meetings.pl?login Registry of Biomedical Companies (1243 active entries) http://hum-molgen.org/companies/ Mailing List Administration (Join or leave the list) http://hum-molgen.org/subscribe-na/ Feedback contact admin@hum-molgen.org Advertise at HUM-MOLGEN http://hum-molgen.org/flyer/advertise.pdf contact FS Zollmann (dialogue@hum-molgen.org) __________________________________________________________________________ DRUG DISCOVERY TECHNOLOGY EUROPE 2006 Conference & Exhibition 13-16 March 2006 - London, UK http://hum-molgen.org/promotion-DDT __________________________________________________________________________