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__________________________________________________________________________ The Drug Development Continuum: Academia - Start-ups - Big Pharma Symposium - June 14, 2008 Center for Cardiovascular Research (CCR) Charité - Universitaetsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany http://hum-molgen.org/promotion-ccr __________________________________________________________________________ INTERNATIONAL COMMUNICATION FORUM IN HUMAN MOLECULAR GENETICS HUM-MOLGEN News Alert - April 03, 2008 - http://hum-molgen.org Genetic News by T.M. D'Souza, S. Chandler, T. Dalaya, R. Kimmel, K. Markey, J. Mill, R. Nemade, F.S. Zollmann http://hum-molgen.org/NewsGen - How Synaptic Activity Protects Neurons Scientists have identified a key signalling pathway that could protect areas of the brain at risk of damage from ageing and neurodegenerative diseases. http://hum-molgen.org/NewsGen/04-2008/000013.html - A New Therapy Of Cystic Fibrosis A potential treatment for cystic fibrosis has been identified in mice. http://hum-molgen.org/NewsGen/04-2008/000012.html - The Best Of Both Worlds The creation of a combined positron emission tomography (PET) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanner is reported online. http://hum-molgen.org/NewsGen/04-2008/000011.html - Therapeutic Cloning Treats Neurodegenerative Disease Therapeutic cloning can be used to treat Parkinson's disease in mice. http://hum-molgen.org/NewsGen/04-2008/000010.html - Colorectal Cancer Risk Variants Three new variants are associated with increased risk of colorectal cancer. http://hum-molgen.org/NewsGen/04-2008/000009.html - New Genetic Risk Factors For Type 2 Diabetes At least six regions of the genome harbor variants that predispose to type 2 diabetes. http://hum-molgen.org/NewsGen/04-2008/000008.html - RNA Trojan Horses Zero In On Liver Cirrhosis Using vitamin A to target the cells that cause liver cirrhosis may improve the treatment of the disease. http://hum-molgen.org/NewsGen/04-2008/000007.html - Route To Thwarting Skin Cancer A paper has identified how the cells in epithelial tumours signal to one another in order to keep the population of rogue stem cells topped up. http://hum-molgen.org/NewsGen/04-2008/000006.html - Moving In On Drug Resistance A paper in reveals a mechanism of how antifungal drugs have the unwanted effect of boosting the fungus' arsenal of pumps used to fight them off. http://hum-molgen.org/NewsGen/04-2008/000005.html - Smoking Receptors Mirror Lung Cancer Genes A region on chromosome 15 that hosts three nicotine receptor subunit genes is associated with risk of lung cancer. http://hum-molgen.org/NewsGen/04-2008/000004.html - MicroRNA Silencing In Non-Human Primates Researchers have effectively silenced microRNAs (miRNAs) in monkeys for the first time, targeting a liver-specific miRNA and reducing blood cholesterol as a result. http://hum-molgen.org/NewsGen/04-2008/000003.html - Genetic Blindness Treatments Emphasize Immune Role A promising treatment for age-related macular degeneration - responsible for up to 50 million cases of blindness worldwide - works by a more general mechanism than had previously been thought. http://hum-molgen.org/NewsGen/04-2008/000002.html - Novel Fullerene Shows Potential For Secondary Progressive Multiple Sclerosis A water-soluble fullerene-NMDA receptor antagonist hybrid prevented disease progression in an animal model, by protecting against axonal loss and demyelination. http://hum-molgen.org/NewsGen/04-2008/000001.html - A Novel Search Engine for Disease Genes Rapidly Identifying Genes Associated with Hereditary Disease and Cancer http://hum-molgen.org/NewsGen/03-2008/000029.html - DNMT1: a direct transcriptional repressor? 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