European scholars support development of germ line modification
...nsafe. More research is needed if society wants to proceed with IGM. No reasons have been identified for stopping research that may sooner or later lead to a safe and effective application. 2. The promotion of social life 3. The fair distribution of social wealth, including of access to medical technologies...UCSF study of ancient fly gene offers insights into male fertility
...t would take for the mature sperm in the testes to proceed through the natural cycle to death the drug would theoretically inhibit further sperm maturation. To confirm their finding regarding BOULE, the researchers are engineering a mouse model to examine whether deletion of the equivalent gene in mice whi...Drug-resistant seizures often take years to develop
...rg says that studies of epilepsy prognosis need to proceed for at least that amount of time in order to identify patients who might develop intractable seizures late in the course of the disorder. The results of this study pertain only to partial epilepsy, primarily TLE, and cannot and should not be generali...Coat-color gene mutation mimics neurodegeneration of prion diseases
...diseases suggests that both groups of diseases may proceed by a similar pathway," said Barsh. The researchers' studies also demonstrate the value of animal models of disease. "This is a reminder that model systems to study basic questions in cell biology and cell signaling can be applied to a wide variety of...Laser-pulse technique could aid drug design
...Nervous System." "Mechanism-based drug design can proceed more rationally, knowing the exact roles and timing of all the chemical players at the junctions between neurons and muscle cells or between neurons and other neurons," Hess says. The recent discovery of cocaine analogs, one application of the laser-...Researchers identify new gene mutation in glaucoma
...le that affects the nervous system, and we need to proceed very carefully with further animal and human studies before we will know whether such a treatment can become a clinical reality," said John. It may be the case, said John, that drugs that enhance the enzyme tyrosinase itself -- and not administration...Gene mutation exacerbates eye defect in inherited glaucoma
...le that affects the nervous system, and we need to proceed very carefully with further animal and human studies before we will know whether such a treatment can become a clinical reality," said John. It may be the case, said John, that drugs that enhance the enzyme tyrosinase itself -- and not administration......ended that 27 suspended gene therapy trials should proceed only if gene therapy is the only option. Similarly, Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital in London will treat X-SCID boys only if "death is otherwise inevitable". The French trial remains on hold....Without enzyme catalyst, slowest known biological reaction takes 1 trillion years
...milliseconds. But how slowly would these reactions proceed spontaneously, in the absence of enzymes - minutes, hours, days? And why even pose the question? One scientist who studies these issues is Dr. Richard Wolfenden, Alumni distinguished professor of biochemistry and biophysics and chemistry at the Uni...Public health measures can contain SARS, two modeling studies suggest
...es to make projections about how the epidemic will proceed under various circumstances. They found that the S...psitch's team also examined how the epidemic might proceed without any interventions, and found that a global pandemic could result. A related Perspective arti...DFG to establish nine new collaborative research centres
...stions. It is largely unknown how immune reactions proceed in the intestines or how immune responses can be influenced, for example, via T-cells which make up part of the immune system's defensive cells. This knowledge is of fundamental significance to the development of effective therapies. "Induction and M...University of Idaho, Utah State University team first to clone equine
...of cellular biology necessary for horse cloning to proceed may offer new insights into cancer development in ...y "false pregnancies" resulted, but both failed to proceed past four weeks. In 2001, the team began to focus on the calcium levels in the fluid surrounding the...Study finds direction of enzymes affects DNA repair
...Dr. Smerdon has shown that repair of damage cannot proceed until the DNA is unfolded. He said recently that understanding the repair of DNA in specific regions of the packaged structure in the cell nucleus is "crucial to understanding why certain DNA lesions are not repaired for long times in human cell...New center for preparation and distribution of adult stem cells
...ality cells limit the capacity of investigators to proceed with their research," said Dr. Judith Vaitukaitis, Director of NCRR. "This center, with the emphasis on quality control and standardized methods, will move this promising research forward." Adult stem cells have attracted increasing attention from r...Women are more likely to suffer recurrent miscarriages if their first child is a boy
...inst the placenta." The first pregnancy is able to proceed to full term because the pregnancy is safely established by the time the mother's immune system starts to react to the male foetus. However, it is possible that the immune systems remains activated after delivery and affects subsequent pregnancies, b...Abnormal plant shows scientists path to plant, animal development
...switches those embryonic genes off, the plants can proceed into normal adult development. Ogas and his team used microarray analysis, in which bits of DNA are placed on a microchip, to identify nine genes involved in the development pathway. They also found that a number of genes that may be important to pla...New book says Northwest salmon could face same fate as those in Northeast, England
...n habitat. But, he contends, a decision on how to proceed should come from weighing all of the options, not by waiting until there are no options left. "We could decide that we don't want to have salmon in the region, or that we just want to have enough to take school kids out to see them every year. It's ......s start spreading between people are unsure how to proceed without falling foul of patent rights. Doctors have been warning for years that another flu pandemic as deadly as the 1918 one is inevitable, and many worry it could be about to happen. After an outbreak of the H5N1 strain of bird flu in poultry, V...Pew report finds GM insects may offer benefits, but clear regulatory oversight is lacking
...ion, it is difficult for scientists to know how to proceed with research efforts and the public has little reason to trust that the risks and benefits are being appropriately weighed and measured." ......se as the interactions between parasites and hosts proceed over time." This summer, Herbers and her colleagues will conduct laboratory experiments comparing the behavior of L. minutissimus to two species of slave-making ants. Each parasite will have a chance to move into a colony of a fairly common host spec...