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__________________________________________________________________________ Discovery on Target 2005 Target Discovery and Target Validation Strategies October 18-21, 2005 - Boston, MA http://hum-molgen.org/promotion-DoT __________________________________________________________________________ INTERNATIONAL COMMUNICATION FORUM IN HUMAN MOLECULAR GENETICS HUM-MOLGEN News Alert - September 21, 2005 - http://hum-molgen.org DIAGnostics - Clinical Research (professional requests) http://hum-molgen.org/clinical-research/ - Mevalonate Kinase Deficiency Research http://hum-molgen.org/bb/Forum2/HTML/000183.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, T. Dalaya, J. Mill, R. Nemade, D. Sharma, F.S. Zollmann http://hum-molgen.org/NewsGen - Connotea Wins Award For Publishing Innovation Connotea, a free online reference management service for scientists, developed by Nature Publishing Group, has won the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP) Award for Publishing Innovation. http://hum-molgen.org/NewsGen/09-2005/msg51.html - An Assessment of Risk Understanding in Hispanic Genetic Counseling Patients This study sought to identify if differences existed in risk comprehension and risk format understanding between genetic counseling patients of Hispanic and Caucasian ethnicity. http://hum-molgen.org/NewsGen/09-2005/msg50.html - Psychosocial Issues That Face Patients With Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease: The Role of Genetic Counseling This study identifies and explores life issues that individuals with Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease (CMT) may face. http://hum-molgen.org/NewsGen/09-2005/msg48.html - Women.s Attitudes Toward Testing for Fragile X Carrier Status: A Qualitative Analysis Findings have significant implications for genetic counseling as well as for population screening. http://hum-molgen.org/NewsGen/09-2005/msg47.html - Educating Genetic Counselors in Australia: Developing an International Perspective This paper highlights the Australian experience of genetic counselor education and the history of the profession. http://hum-molgen.org/NewsGen/09-2005/msg46.html - Smoking Delays Response To Eye Disease Treatments Response to treatment for episcleritis and scleritis is likely to be delayed by at least 4 weeks if patients are smokers. http://hum-molgen.org/NewsGen/09-2005/msg44.html - Scientists Confirm That Smoking Causes Blindness Smoking greatly increases your chance of developing age-related macular degeneration (AMD), which leads to severe and irreversible sight-loss. http://hum-molgen.org/NewsGen/09-2005/msg43.html - Nitrite Gives A Signal Paper reports that nitrite -- a common additive in foods such as hot dogs -- is a built-in signaling molecule that regulates multiple biochemical pathways. http://hum-molgen.org/NewsGen/09-2005/msg42.html - Genome Mining Reveals New Natural Products Researchers have discovered a new microbial natural product by a technique called "genome mining." http://hum-molgen.org/NewsGen/09-2005/msg41.html - A Forceful Finding About Atherosclerosis Scientists show that three proteins, which are expressed in vessel endothelial cells, are required for detecting mechanical stress on the vessel walls. http://hum-molgen.org/NewsGen/09-2005/msg40.html - An Outside-In View Of Psoriasis Researchers have found that cells in human psoriatic lesions have decreased expression of the gene JUNB. http://hum-molgen.org/NewsGen/09-2005/msg39.html - The Spiniest Aspect Of Amyloid Formation Scientists report how amyloid fibrils, protein structures found in a number of neurodegenerative disorders, can "zip up" without losing their ability to function properly. http://hum-molgen.org/NewsGen/09-2005/msg38.html - On The Origin And Size Of Infectious Prions Malformed prion proteins appear to be responsible for transmissible spongiform encephalopathies such as Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. http://hum-molgen.org/NewsGen/09-2005/msg37.html - Opposite Effects, But One Target Scientists have identified a link between two major pathways that regulate blood glucose levels. http://hum-molgen.org/NewsGen/09-2005/msg36.html - Unusual RNAs Linked To Chronic Leukemia, May Help Treat It miR-15 and miR-16 induce apoptosis by targeting BCL2. http://hum-molgen.org/NewsGen/09-2005/msg35.html - Most Embryos Produced During IVF do not Result in Live Births High rates of embryo wastage with use of assisted reproductive technology http://hum-molgen.org/NewsGen/09-2005/msg34.html - Adult Human Neural Stem Cell Therapy Successful In Treating Spinal Cord Injury Human neural stem cells differentiate and promote locomotor recovery in spinal cord-injured mice http://hum-molgen.org/NewsGen/09-2005/msg33.html - Superlattice Nanobelts Nanohelix Structure Provides New Building Block for Nanoscale Piezoelectric Devices http://hum-molgen.org/NewsGen/09-2005/msg32.html - Breakthrough In Micro-device Fabrication Combines Biology And Synthetic Chemistry Nanostructured micro-devices may be mass produced at a lower cost, and with a wider variety of shapes and compositions than ever before. http://hum-molgen.org/NewsGen/09-2005/msg31.html - Discovery May Provide Novel Method To Generate Medically Useful Proteins C-type lectin fold as an evolutionary solution for massive sequence variation. http://hum-molgen.org/NewsGen/09-2005/msg30.html - Old Drug Shows New Promise For Huntington's Disease Clioquinol down-regulates mutant huntingtin expression in vitro and mitigates pathology in a Huntington's disease mouse model. http://hum-molgen.org/NewsGen/09-2005/msg29.html - New Drug Effective For Rheumatoid Arthritis Abatacept for rheumatoid arthritis refractory to tumor necrosis factor alpha inhibition. http://hum-molgen.org/NewsGen/09-2005/msg28.html - Malaria: Sequence of Infection Revealed Study supplants earlier theories on how the malaria parasite spreads from the red blood cells it infects. http://hum-molgen.org/NewsGen/09-2005/msg27.html - Blocking Virus Entry Defensins, known to prevent viruses from entering cells, appear to do so by preventing the virus from merging to cells' outer membrane. http://hum-molgen.org/NewsGen/09-2005/msg26.html - Benefits of Digital Mammography Women with Dense Breasts, Women Younger than 50, and Those Who are Perimenopausal May Benefit from Digital Mammograms http://hum-molgen.org/NewsGen/09-2005/msg25.html - Who works together with whom? Unique Map Created of Human Protein Interactions http://hum-molgen.org/NewsGen/09-2005/msg24.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 Literature http://hum-molgen.org/literature/ - Klipp et al. 2005. Systems Biology in Practice. 1st ed. Concepts, Implementation and Application http://hum-molgen.org/literature/09-2005/msg03.html - Sipe et al. 2005. Amyloid Proteins. 1st Ed. The Beta Sheet Conformation and Disease, 2 Volumes http://hum-molgen.org/literature/09-2005/msg02.html - Schleef et al. 2005. DNA-Pharmaceuticals. 1st ed. 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