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__________________________________________________________________________ CHI's Seventh Annual Targeted Nanodelivery October 12-13, 2006 | Sheraton Inner Harbor Hotel | Baltimore, MD http://hum-molgen.org/promotion-Nanodelivery Nanotech Opportunities for the Pharma Industry - Combining Drugs and Imaging Agents - Reducing Toxicity - Addressing Unmet Medical Needs - Improving Success Rates - Increasing Oral Absorption with Nanoemulsions __________________________________________________________________________ INTERNATIONAL COMMUNICATION FORUM IN HUMAN MOLECULAR GENETICS HUM-MOLGEN News Alert - July 20, 2006 - http://hum-molgen.org Biotechnical requests and sources http://hum-molgen.org/biotechnology - Finding mentions of genes in MEDLINE http://hum-molgen.org/bb/Forum1/HTML/000164.html - Post request or source http://hum-molgen.org/biotechnical-request-posting 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 - Brain-Machine Interfaces - Recent Advances Nature Web Focus includes exclusive interviews and video footage of experiments, alongside papers that paved the way for these recent advances. http://hum-molgen.org/NewsGen/07-2006/msg30.html - Cold Sore Virus Can Evade The Immune System A newly identified method deployed by viruses to escape the immune system is reported. http://hum-molgen.org/NewsGen/07-2006/msg29.html - Alternative Genetic Cause Of Devastating Dementia Two groups of neuroscientists have uncovered a mutation that can cause frontotemporal dementia (FTD). http://hum-molgen.org/NewsGen/07-2006/msg28.html - Making Cancer Stem Cells Researchers show how cancer-triggering oncogenes can allow blood cells to acquire this ability and thus become leukaemia stem cells. http://hum-molgen.org/NewsGen/07-2006/msg27.html - Surprisingly, DNA Has Trouble Unwinding If you stretch the helical structure of DNA, it actually winds itself more tightly. http://hum-molgen.org/NewsGen/07-2006/msg26.html - Co-Transplantation Of Bone Marrow Stromal Cells Transduced With IL-7 Gene Enhances Immune Reconstitution After Allogeneic Bone Marrow Transplantation The use of MSC-IL-7 cells may be therapeutically useful for enhancing immune reconstitution without aggravating graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) in allo-BMT mice. http://hum-molgen.org/NewsGen/07-2006/msg25.html - Plasmid-Mediated VEGF Gene Transfer Induces Cardiomyogenesis And Reduces Myocardial Infarct Size In Sheep VEGF gene transfer could also modify the evolution of experimental myocardial infarct. http://hum-molgen.org/NewsGen/07-2006/msg24.html - A Linkage of Two JNK Isoforms With Obesity and Insulin Resistance The total activity of two isoforms of c-Jun N-terminal kinase is correlated with development of obesity and insulin resistance. http://hum-molgen.org/NewsGen/07-2006/msg23.html - Gender: Its not how you look, its how you express yourself A UCLA study finds that the same genes express differently in males and females; discovery may explain gender gap in disease risk and drug response http://hum-molgen.org/NewsGen/07-2006/msg22.html - Prion Disease Infectivity May Yield New Mouse Model for Heart Diseases Laboratory mice infected with the agent of scrapie show high levels of the scrapie agent in their heart several hundred days after being infected in the brain yielding a potential animal model to study heart amyloidosis. http://hum-molgen.org/NewsGen/07-2006/msg21.html - The Risk for Melanoma Possibly Inherited Scientists Identify an Inherited Gene That Strongly Affects Risk for the Most Common Form of Melanoma http://hum-molgen.org/NewsGen/07-2006/msg20.html - Hearing's Missing Link May Be a Protein Tied to Usher Syndrome Protocadherin-15 is a likely player in the split-second reaction in which sound is converted into electrical signals. The findings may help elucidate why some people temporarily lose their hearing after being exposed to loud noise. http://hum-molgen.org/NewsGen/07-2006/msg19.html - Dopamine drug leads to neuronal replacement: a cure for Parkinson's Disease? In preliminary results, researchers have shown that a drug, which mimics the effects of dopamine, causes new neurons to develop in the part of the brain where cells are lost in Parkinson's disease (PD). http://hum-molgen.org/NewsGen/07-2006/msg18.html - Regulation of Microglial Neurotoxicity CX3CR1 signaling pathway is implicated in three models involving neurotoxicity: systemic inflammation, Parkinson's disease, and ALS. http://hum-molgen.org/NewsGen/07-2006/msg17.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 Biomedical Positions http://hum-molgen.org/positions/ - Genetics: Laboratory Research Project Coordinator The Centre for Applied Genomics / The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5G 1L7 http://hum-molgen.org/positions/postdocs/2620.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/ 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 (1238 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) __________________________________________________________________________ CHI's Seventh Annual Targeted Nanodelivery October 12-13, 2006 Sheraton Inner Harbor Hotel | Baltimore, MD http://hum-molgen.org/promotion-Nanodelivery Nanotech Opportunities for the Pharma Industry - Combining Drugs and Imaging Agents - Increasing Oral Absorption with Nanoemulsions - Reducing Toxicity - Addressing Unmet Medical Needs - Improving Success Rates Register by July 21st and Save up to $350! 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