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NYAS China Conference reveals latest advances in biomedical sciences

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  • Infectious Diseases:
    David Perlin, president and scientific director of the Public Health Research Institute in Newark, New Jersey, explained how popular fears of low-impact diseases like smallpox, plague, and anthrax are distracting attention and funding from diseases like tuberculosis and HIV-AIDS, which continue to have devastating effects around the world.
  • Genomic Medicine:
    Zhu Chen, vice president of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and an expert in leukemia research, discussed his lab's efforts to develop a new method of attacking the disease. Rather than using chemotherapy to kill disease-causing cells, he is developing an innovative method that employs the tools of systems biology to identify and target critical components of the cellular regulatory networks that cause cancer.
  • Neuroscience:
    Bruce Lahn of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at the University of Chicago and Sun Yat-sen University wove together evidence from anthropology, genetics, and neurobiology to argue that two specific genes might have had a role in accelerating the rapid growth of the human brain through evolution.
  • Aging and Hormones:
    tienne-mile Baulieu, past president of the French Academy of Sciences and inventor of RU486 ("the morning-after pill"), focused attention on why an aging population will become an increasingly important public health concern this century, and described evidence suggesting that hormone therapy could help mitigate conditions like memory loss, hypertension, and decreased sense of well-being that are common in this group.

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    Contact: Jennifer Tang
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    212-838-0230
    New York Academy of Sciences
    31-Jan-2006


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