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__________________________________________________________________________ Advances in Functional Genomics Conference & Exhibition San Francisco, CA - 25-26 April 2006 => http://hum-molgen.org/promotion-FG __________________________________________________________________________ INTERNATIONAL COMMUNICATION FORUM IN HUMAN MOLECULAR GENETICS HUM-MOLGEN News Alert - March 29, 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 - Challenging the Strategy of Maternal Age-Based Prenatal Genetic Counseling Article discusses the effect of current knowledge on the strategy of Maternal Age-Based Prenatal Genetic Counseling. http://hum-molgen.org/NewsGen/03-2006/msg50.html - Stretch Marks Are Never Good Stretch marks are not only unsightly, but women with this disorder, appear to be at increased risk for pelvic prolapse. http://hum-molgen.org/NewsGen/03-2006/msg49.html - Getting Streptavidin To Go It Alone Research describes a popular system for protein labelling and modification to reduce the risk of unwanted cross-reactions. http://hum-molgen.org/NewsGen/03-2006/msg48.html - A New Way To Spotlight Cells In Live Animals Stanford University scientists have modified a popular strategy for imaging studies in live animals. http://hum-molgen.org/NewsGen/03-2006/msg47.html - Flu Killers Researchers identify a key molecule required for surviving flu infections. http://hum-molgen.org/NewsGen/03-2006/msg46.html - Genetic Variants Associated With Common Skin Disorders Mutations in a gene called filaggrin are associated with elevated risks of atopic disease. http://hum-molgen.org/NewsGen/03-2006/msg45.html - Generating Egg-Like Cells From Pig Fetal Skin Stem cells isolated from the skin of pig fetuses are capable of giving rise to egg-like cells. http://hum-molgen.org/NewsGen/03-2006/msg44.html - The RNAi Revolution Marches On Scientists have taken an important step towards a new class of drug treatment that harnesses the RNA interference pathway. http://hum-molgen.org/NewsGen/03-2006/msg43.html - Early Sign Of Alzheimer's Scientists reveal what could be one of the earliest molecular seeds of Alzheimer's disease. http://hum-molgen.org/NewsGen/03-2006/msg42.html - Down's Syndrome Scientists make an important step towards determining how a 1.5-fold increase in gene dosage on chromosome 21 triggers the various developmental problems associated with Down's syndrome. http://hum-molgen.org/NewsGen/03-2006/msg41.html - Alzheimer's Protein Player Exposed Researchers reveal how an enzyme called Pin1 plays a part in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease. http://hum-molgen.org/NewsGen/03-2006/msg40.html - 'Accelerated Evolution' Converts RNA Enzyme To DNA Enzyme In Vitro This "evolutionary conversion" provides a modern-day snapshot of how life as we understand it may have first evolved out of the earliest primordial mix of RNA-like molecules http://hum-molgen.org/NewsGen/03-2006/msg39.html - Study Analyzes Gene Therapy For Patients At High Risk For Amputation TALISMAN (Therapeutic Angiogenesis Leg Ischemia Study for the Management of Arteriopathy and Non-healing ulcers) presented at ACC.06 http://hum-molgen.org/NewsGen/03-2006/msg38.html - Minor Mutations in Avian Flu Virus Increase Chances of Human Infection Few Adaptations Are Needed to Transform It into a Potential Pandemic Virus http://hum-molgen.org/NewsGen/03-2006/msg37.html - New View Of Asthma's Cause Previously Unrecognized Immune Cell May Provide A Better Target For Therapy http://hum-molgen.org/NewsGen/03-2006/msg36.html - Support for a New Theory on the Etiology of Multiple Sclerosis A reduction in the net positive charge on myelin basic protein reduces oligodendrocyte membrane adhesion and exposes an immunodominant epitope in the protein to proteases. http://hum-molgen.org/NewsGen/03-2006/msg35.html - A tale of a tail: to condense or not to condense....Ac is the question. It has long been known that acetylation of core histone tails is fundamental in the organisation of a transcriptionally permissive chromatin structure. New work shows how this small modification has macromolecular effects. http://hum-molgen.org/NewsGen/03-2006/msg34.html - FDA and the Critical Path Institute Announce Predictive Safety Testing Consortium Consortium Will Share Tests to Understand Safety of Potential New Drugs Earlier http://hum-molgen.org/NewsGen/03-2006/msg33.html - Defective Immune System Response to Smallpox Vaccine Detailed in New Study People with Eczema May Benefit From Finding http://hum-molgen.org/NewsGen/03-2006/msg32.html - Speeding Neuro-communications Electrical impulses foster myelination of brain cells, speeding communications. http://hum-molgen.org/NewsGen/03-2006/msg31.html - New Diagnostic: A Unique Molecular Profile for Lung Cancer microRNAS are a new class of diagnostic and prognostic tools to help predict tumor aggressiveness for lung cancer. http://hum-molgen.org/NewsGen/03-2006/msg30.html - A Boost for Customized Drugs: Antidepressant Response Depends On Genetics Different versions of the serotonin 2A receptor gene are found to influence antidepressant response. http://hum-molgen.org/NewsGen/03-2006/msg29.html - Allelic Variation in Gene Expression is Common in the Human Genome Analysis of allelic expression in human white blood cells highlights a high degree of variability and suggests that imprinting may be more common than is traditionally believed http://hum-molgen.org/NewsGen/03-2006/msg28.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/ - 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 Biotechnical requests and sources http://hum-molgen.org/biotechnology 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 (1284 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) __________________________________________________________________________ Advances in Functional Genomics Conference & Exhibition San Francisco, CA - 25-26 April 2006 => http://hum-molgen.org/promotion-FG __________________________________________________________________________