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__________________________________________________________________________ GENETICS - UNDERSTANDING LIVING SYSTEMS XX INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF GENETICS BERLIN, GEMANY, JULY 12 - 17, 2008 A CONGRESS UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE INTERNATIONAL GENETICS FEDERATION (IGF) http://hum-molgen.org/promotion-genetics __________________________________________________________________________ INTERNATIONAL COMMUNICATION FORUM IN HUMAN MOLECULAR GENETICS HUM-MOLGEN News Alert - March 20, 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 - Gene Therapy Alleviates Neurodegenerative Disease In Mice Mice with neurodegenerative diseases have been successfully treated with gene therapy. http://hum-molgen.org/NewsGen/03-2008/000027.html - Adapting Brain And Behaviour To Match The Environment Zones in a specific brain area change size depending on whether rats experience a calm or stressful environment. http://hum-molgen.org/NewsGen/03-2008/000026.html - Finding Allele-Specific Gene Expression Scientists have developed a genome-wide technique to identify whether a person is expressing genetic information from their mother or father. http://hum-molgen.org/NewsGen/03-2008/000025.html - Oncogenic microRNA Scientists have discovered how a particular cluster of short strings of genetic material called microRNAs promotes lymphoma development. http://hum-molgen.org/NewsGen/03-2008/000024.html - Damage Limitation A key regulator of the DNA damage response is directly activated by the transcription factor FOXO3a - a protein known to regulate the cell cycle and cell death. http://hum-molgen.org/NewsGen/03-2008/000023.html - 'Lifeline' For Tumour Cells Can Be Cut Researchers studying cancers in mice have identified a protein that is crucial for tumour survival, raising the prospect that new cancer therapies might halt tumours in their tracks by targeting this molecule. http://hum-molgen.org/NewsGen/03-2008/000022.html - Fresh Detective Approach Finds New Obesity Genes By turning the conventional method of hunting for disease genes on its head, a team of geneticists has discovered three new genes linked to obesity. http://hum-molgen.org/NewsGen/03-2008/000021.html - Missing Cells To Blame In Job's Syndrome New research by immunologists on the rare immune disease called Job's syndrome shows that sufferers lack a specific type of white blood cell, leaving them open to repeated attack by certain bacterial and fungal pathogens. http://hum-molgen.org/NewsGen/03-2008/000020.html - Subverting A Metabolic Pathway For Tumour Growth Two research papers shed further light on the mechanisms underlying the switch in the way glucose is metabolized by tumour cells. http://hum-molgen.org/NewsGen/03-2008/000019.html - 'Crime Boss' Gene Controls Aggressive Breast Tumours Geneticists have identified a gene that promotes aggressive breast cancer by altering the behaviour of more than 1,000 other genes within tumour cells. http://hum-molgen.org/NewsGen/03-2008/000018.html - New Insight into the Genetics of Brain Tumor Formation Gene mutated in neural crest tumors normally helps promote apoptosis http://hum-molgen.org/NewsGen/03-2008/000017.html - Role for MicroRNAs in Limb Regeneration miRNA regulation in the model organism zebrafish impacts tissue regeneration http://hum-molgen.org/NewsGen/03-2008/000016.html - Growing old together: Yeast, worms, and people may age by similar mechanisms Genes conserved across evolutionarily diverse organisms may be important for human aging http://hum-molgen.org/NewsGen/03-2008/000015.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/ - 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July 02, 2008 http://hum-molgen.org/meetings/meetings/3496.html - 17th European Congress of Psychiatry - AEP 2009 Association of European Psychiatrists (AEP), Lisbon, Protugal 01-28-2009 http://hum-molgen.org/meetings/meetings/3502.html - 4th Annual, Public Relations & Communications Summit ExL Pharma, Heldrich Conference Center - New Brunswick, NJ July 14, 2008 - July 15, 2008 http://hum-molgen.org/meetings/meetings/3501.html - 3rd Annual Integrated Relationship Marketing and Sales for Pharma ExL Pharma, Sheraton University City - Philadelphia, PA May 5, 2008 - May 7, 2008 http://hum-molgen.org/meetings/meetings/3500.html - A Medical Affairs Leadership Conference ExL Pharma & Scientific Advantage, Bridewater Marriot - Bridgewater, NJ May 1, 2008 - May 2, 2008 http://hum-molgen.org/meetings/meetings/3499.html - 2nd Clinical Supply Forecasting Summit ExL Pharma, Loews Hotel - Philadelphia, PA April 28, 2008 - April 29, 2008 http://hum-molgen.org/meetings/meetings/3498.html - Clinical Data Disclosure Webinar ExL Pharma, Webinar April 17, 2008 http://hum-molgen.org/meetings/meetings/3497.html - 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