Ethical guidelines needed before 'nutrigenomic' groceries come to market
...stered, by whom, and with what supports. The paper describes the pros and cons of four possible models: the consumer model, the health practitioner model, the blended model and the public health model. Justice, Equity and Access The emerging nutritional genetics market is being driven by a relatively small g...Study offers new insight into Rett Syndrome
...orted in this week's issue of the journal Science, describes how the protein in question controls gene expression in normal central nervous system cells. Researchers suspect that mutations in the protein impair its ability to regulate genes during a critical stage of brain development. "We think that this der...Cumbre Inc. and collaborator publish on a novel bacterial RNA polymerase inhibitor
... inhibitor affects nucleotide addition." The paper describes the identification and characterization of the novel "CBR703" class of inhibitors through combined efforts in biochemistry, genetics and structural modeling with contributions from both Cumbre researchers and scientists from the University of Wiscons...How many fish in the sea? Census of Marine Life launches first report
...wn, Unknown and Unknowable The first Census report describes efforts to separate the known from the unknown and...lming. Life in the "Six Ocean Realms" The report describes the known, unknown and unknowable in six ocean realms - the human edges, hidden boundaries, light an...Carnegie Mellon receives $2.5M to develop bio-molecular imaging and information discovery systems
...w branch of proteomics, location proteomics, which describes and relates the location of proteins within cells. This work should provide a more thorough understanding of cellular processes that underlie certain diseases, such as cancer and neurodegenerative diseases. Findings made using this sophisticated acqu...Fourteen Grand Challenges in Global Health announced
...n the October 17 issue of Science by Varmus et al. describes the deliberations of the international scientific board, a 20-member panel of scientists and public health experts from 13 countries, including several from the developing world, which formulated the first 14 Grand Challenges (visit: http://www.scie...Childhood brain tumors associated with rarely inherited BRCA2 gene mutations
...rnal of the National Cancer Institute. The report describes four families in which both parents carried BRCA2 mutations. The families were part of The International Fanconi Anemia Registry, a unique, prospectively collected database of approximately 1,000 patients with Fanconi anemia, a rare inherited disorde...World's largest scientific society holds regional meeting in Long Beach, Calif.
...chloroform from drinking water This presentation describes the investigation of the reduction of chloroform in water using hydrated electrons generated by an electron beam. (Stephen P. Mezyk, California State University, Long Beach, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, 562-985-4649, smezyk@csulb.edu ) ...$9.4 million NSF grant backs UCSB-led effort in bio-image informatics
...irector of UCSB's Neuroscience Research Institute, describes the problem the research aims to solve: "Biological research efforts are generating enormous quantities of data and analyzing it manually." By "manually" Feinstein means "by person" and "by eye." Research labs throughout the world are generating vas...Chronic pain: treatment, rehabilitation, and quality of life
...ports on the prevalence of pain among veterans and describes associations between pain and health-risk behavior...Stress Disorder (PTSD). The literature review also describes the relationship between pain and PTSD and explores mechanisms that may explain this relationship. D...UCR geneticist spells out consequences of genetically engineered genes escaping into wild species
...the natural hybridization process. Ellstrand then describes what impact the hybridization between crops and their wild relatives has already had (e.g., evolution of weediness/invasiveness in the hybrids, the increased risk of extinction by hybridization if the wild plants are rare). The book ends with Ellstr...University of Toronto professor turns hemp into auto parts
...issue of Macromolecular Materials and Engineering, describes a way to create a material from hemp (a member of the cannabis family) that is both strong and lightweight. "We hope to develop this technology for automotive interior parts like instrument panels, structural applications for buildings and sports equ......n Genetics (available now online). The first paper describes how breakpoint regions on human chromosome 15 contribute to chromosome rearrangements in evolution and Prader-Willi and Angelman syndromes, and identifies four new genes named NIPA1, NIPA2, CYFIPI, and GCP5 in the most unstable part of chromosome 1...New gene for rare inherited paralysis may aid other spinal cord research, too
...the journal's October issue, the U-M and Penn team describes a new gene, called NIPA1, for a form of hereditary spastic paraplegia, or HSP. HSP is the name given to a group of disorders affecting about 20,000 Americans. HSP gradually disables its victims as long nerve cells in the spinal cord degenerate and m...Researchers measure effects of flow regulation and diking on salmon habitat loss
...ations. The first part of Kukulka and Jay's study describes a new model of the tides with variable river flow. The second part of the study discusses specific changes within 40 kilometers of shallow water habitat. The computer model that was developed for the study enabled the scientists to run a 25-year his...Research shows therapeutic cloning can cure Parkinson's-like disease in mice
...nell University, and The University of Connecticut describes a novel way of producing therapeutic nerve cells that can cure mice with Parkinson's-like disease. The work, which will be published in the October issue of Nature Biotechnology (available online September 21), provides the first evidence that cloned...Fe-TAML(R) activators developed at Carnegie Mellon help cleanup paper and wood pulp manufacturing
...e chief researcher on the Fe-TAML project. Collins describes the results of the decolorization as going from 'coffee' to 'lemonade.' Fe-TAMLs (TAML stands for tetra-amido macrocyclic ligand) are synthetic catalysts made with elements found in nature. While the current study shows that the Fe-TAML activators ...UGA receives $6.7 M grant that will add knowledge in fights against cancer, Parkinson's disease
...with offices and laboratories in Athens. "Glycome" describes all the complex carbohydrates attached to proteins... enzymes responsible for their metabolism. It also describes the carbohydrate binding proteins that function by recognizing these complex carbohydrates. "This pr...Ingenium publishes biological characterization of first mouse model for kidney stones
...aches. "The Human Molecular Genetics publication describes a prime example of an INGENOtypes model: biologically well-characterized and an improvement over current models because it is the result of single base pair substitutions in the gene, which produces a phenotype closely representing a human disease st...Articles on protected area management published in BioScience
...g Priorities in Protected Areas in KwaZulu-Natal," describes a RAPPAM assessment of 110 protected areas through...ing Ecological Integrity within Protected Areas," describes a framework developed by The Nature Conservancy for measuring the effectiveness of protected areas. ...