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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 - January 04, 2006 - http://hum-molgen.org Genetic News by T.M. D'Souza, S. Chandler, T. Dalaya, K. Markey, J. Mill, La Merie S.L, R. Nemade, D. Sharma, F.S. Zollmann http://hum-molgen.org/NewsGen - A New Approach to Anti-Inflammatory Drug Development Synergy between two inflammatory pathways may open the door to a new class of drugs. http://hum-molgen.org/NewsGen/12-2005/msg34.html - Delivering Treatment For Parkinson's Article describes a delivery method that uses human neural progenitor cells (hNPC) which are genetically engineered to produce GDNF - a molecule that increases the survival and functioning of dopamine-neurones and decreases symptoms of the disease. http://hum-molgen.org/NewsGen/12-2005/msg33.html - Promoting Spinal Cord Regeneration Retinoic acid receptor beta 2 (RARbeta2) may promote regeneration of axons in the adult rat spinal cord and improve functional recovery after spinal cord injury. http://hum-molgen.org/NewsGen/12-2005/msg32.html - How A Neurodegenerative Disease Gene Kills Neurons Motor neurons secrete a mutant protein produced from this gene, setting off a chain of events that leads to cell death. http://hum-molgen.org/NewsGen/12-2005/msg31.html - Susceptibility To SARS Infection A new study reports that individuals with particular combinations of genetic variants are less susceptible to infection by the SARS virus. http://hum-molgen.org/NewsGen/12-2005/msg30.html - Insight Into Angiogenesis An Insight article describes many of the physiological and pathophysiological processes of both angiogenesis and lymphogenesis - the growth of new lymph vessels. http://hum-molgen.org/NewsGen/12-2005/msg28.html - Pancreatic Cancer Linked to Insulin Resistance in Male Smokers Data strengthens link between diabetes and cancer. http://hum-molgen.org/NewsGen/12-2005/msg27.html - Tumor Suppressor Role for TLR4 gene TLR4 suppresses lung inflammation, which can also reduce the risk of tumor development. http://hum-molgen.org/NewsGen/12-2005/msg26.html - Human "Epigenome" Project A call by international scientists for a large scale effort to map chemical modifications to DNA. http://hum-molgen.org/NewsGen/12-2005/msg25.html - Dog Genome Published Dog's may help humans more than we ever realized! http://hum-molgen.org/NewsGen/12-2005/msg24.html - Molecule of the Year 2005 is 4E10 For being the broadest acting neutralizing antibody against HIV-1 http://hum-molgen.org/NewsGen/12-2005/msg23.html - Contact Genetic News editors WWW: http://hum-molgen.org/editors.html E-mail: news@hum-molgen.org 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 Biotechnical requests and sources http://hum-molgen.org/biotechnology - Collaboration on Hamate-Pisiform Coalition http://hum-molgen.org/bb/Forum1/HTML/000160.html Biomedical Positions http://hum-molgen.org/positions/ - Computational Genetics / Bioinformatics: PhD (1 position) University of Groningen, Groningen, 9713 AV, Netherlands http://hum-molgen.org/positions/predoctoral/0551.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 Literature http://hum-molgen.org/literature/ - Journal of RNAi and Gene Silencing Open access journal that publishes high-quality peer-reviewed articles addressing the biology and application of RNA interference and gene silencing in all systems. http://hum-molgen.org/literature/12-2005/msg02.html 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 (1253 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 __________________________________________________________________________