Almac Diagnostics announces pioneering genetic research on ductal carcinoma in situ
... Our novel technolo...Macho men are seen as bad choice for long-term love
... The study, published in the current edition of Personality and Individual Differences, asked over 400 British men and women to judge digitally altered pictures of male faces made to look more masculine or feminine. The participants were asked to predict personality traits including sexual behaviour and parenting ski...Gene-transcription machinery seen poised for action, held in check until needed
... The data outline a mechanism by which sets of critical genes could be prepared for...Crystal structure enables tailoring of pharmaceuticals against asthma
... Asthma attacks are caused by an acute inflammatory reaction in the airways, a r...Macrochem acquires option to license pexiganan
... "We believe this is a unique opportunity for MacroChem to broaden its product portfolio with a product that has already completed two Phase 3 clinical trials. It also fits our strategic focus and complements...A compound from olive-pomace oil gets 80 percent slowing down of HIV spread
...... , headed by Prof. Andrs Garca-Granados, senior lecturer in Organic Chemistry. Their work shows that maslinic acid a natural product extracted from dry olive-pomace oil in oil mills inhibits serin-protease, an enzyme used by...Machinery of the 'marijuana munchies'
Marijuana--or more specifically its active ingredient, tetrahydrocannabinol--has a well-documented tendency to stimulate hunger. And while scientists have traced this property to cannabinoid receptors in the brain, they have had little understanding of the neural circuitry underlying this effect.... ...Understanding this circuitry has important practical implications because blocking the cannabin...University of Chicago researchers have licensed a genetic test that determines which patients are likely to have a serious adverse reaction to irinotecan hydrochloride (Camptosar), a key component of the standard first-line treatment for advanced cancers of the colon and rectum, to Mayo Clinic....... Until now, the UGT1A1 test has only been available to patients enrolled in studies at the Univers...Institute of Medicine advisory: IOM's 35th annual meeting explores pharmaceuticals
The Institute of Medicine of the National Academies will hold its 35th annual meeting on Monday, Oct. 24. It will host a daylong public symposium to explore issues related to pharmaceuticals in the 21st century. Topics include drug safety in the United States and the developing world, how consumer drugs are priced and promoted, and the government's role in drug development.... ...The Institute...Almac Diagnostics attends pre-IDE meeting with FDA
... Based on the meeting, Almac Diagnostics plans to accelerate the development and clearance of its In Vitro Diagnostic (IVD) utilizing the 510(k) approach to regulatory submiss...Weill Cornell pharmacologist receives prestigious NIH MERIT Award
... ... ...Pharmaceutical compounds found in nation's fresh water
... ... Many pharmaceutical and pharmaceutically-active compounds (...Vaccine hope for sufferers of potentially fatal stomach bug
... The bacterium, Helicobacter pylori (Hp), lives in the stomachs of approximately half the worlds population. Dr Karen Robinson, a lecturer at the Centre of Biomolecular Sciences and co-researcher John Atherton, Professor of Gastroenterology and Head of the Wolfson Digestive Diseases Centre, lead a team of scientists that have spent the last t...A new study links a stomach microbe to asthma prevention
... The study, based on an analysis of a health survey of 7,663 adults, showed that a virulent strain of H. pylori was especially associated with being asthma-free before the age of 15. People who carry the strain were 40 percent less likely to have had asthma at an early age than those who didnt carry the strain. The study also found that the microbe was associated with protecti...Rhesus macaque genome may hold clues for human health and evolution
... The rhesus macaque genome is the product of a deliberate effort by scientists to bring...Macaque genome analysis will help find human disease genes
Cornell experts in computational biology and bioinformatics have made key contributions to the analysis of the genome of the rhesus macaque, better known as the rhesus monkey. The Cornell researchers were part of a consortium of some 200 scientists around the world whose work is reported in a special section of the April 13 issue of the journal Science.... The rhesus macaque (Macaca mulatta) is...DNA sequence of Rhesus macaque has evolutionary, medical implications
... The generation of the sequence was a collaboration of the BCM group with the Genome Sequencing Center at Washington University in St. Louis, Mo., and the J. Craig Venter Institute in Rockville, Md...LSU professors monkey around with the Rhesus Macaque genome
BATON ROUGE -- Since the 2001 launch of the Human Genome Project, which released a first draft of the entire sequence of human DNA, many researchers have dedicated themselves to creating a library of comprehensive, species-specific genetic sequence "maps" available for study. Scientists at LSU recently took part in the International Rhesus Macaque Sequence and Analysis Consortium, which success...Third primate genome, the rhesus macaque, helps illuminate what makes us human
This release is also available in <a href="http://www.eurekalert.org/staticrel_r.php?view=aafttpg040607sp...">Spanish ......... ... ), providing perspective into how humans are genetically different from our primate relatives. In addition to benefiting human health research in areas...Almac Diagnostics announces pioneering genetic research on colorectal pre-malignancies
... "Our novel technology has bee...Mutation in HNF4A associated with an increase in birthweight and macrosomia
... Macrosomia (birthweight more than 4000g) is associated with complications for both mothers and...Clinical trial for diabetic macular edema
... The READ 2 Study will test the long-term safety and effectiveness of intraocular injections of ranibizumab in patients with diabetic macular edema (DME), a condition characterized by swelling of the retina due to leaking of fluid from blood vessels within the macula. DME is the leading cause of vision loss among working-ag...New synthetic self-assembling macromolecules mimic nature
... ) at Virginia Tech report such a development in the online issue for the Journal of the American Chemical Society, in the article, "Aggregation of Rod-Coil Block Copolymers Containing Rigid Polyampholyte Blocks in Aqueou...Ingredient in Big Macs and sodas can stabilize
... Because gold nanoparticles have a high surfa...Early Europeans unable to stomach milk
... In a study, published in the journal 'PNAS', the team shows that the gene that controls our ability to digest milk was missing from Neolithic skeletons dating to between 5840 and 5000 BC. However, through exposure to milk, lactose tolerance evolved extremely rapidly, in evolutionary terms. Today, it is present in over ninety per cent of the population of northern Europe and is also found in...A first glimpse of the influenza replication machine
In 1918, 50 million people died during a worldwide influenza pandemic caused by mutation of a bird-specific strain of the influenza virus. Recently H5N1, another highly infectious avian strain has caused outbreaks of bird flu around the world. There is great concern that this virus might also mutate to allow human-to-human transmission and cause another catastrophic pandemic. Specific mutations...Prehistoric origins of stomach ulcers uncovered
... The international research collaboration was led by scientists from the University of Cambridge, the Max Planck Institute in Berlin,...Salmonella survives better in stomach due to altered DNA
... By comparing the DNA of Salmonella serovar Typhimurium DT104 with the known DNA...JDRF forms partnership with MacroGenics
... Through this new partnership, JDRF is providing up to $2 million in funding for the "Protg" trial: a multinational Phase II/III clinical trial of a proprietary MacroGenics compound that has shown promise in...Gene linked to aggressive 'wet' age-related macular degeneration
... ... Last year, Josephine Hoh, as...Faculty of 1,000 biology launch Pharmacology & Drug Discovery Faculty
... "Making use of the essential advances outside your own specialist subject area can mean the difference between success and failure. Faculty of 1...Disappearing nest egg: Researcher studying declining numbers of macaws
COLLEGE STATION, Sept. 5, 2006 -- One of the most colorful birds in the world may have a less-than-colorful future.... Macaws, the largest members of the parrot family, have seen their numbers decline in recent decades, and that trend is continuing today.... Dr. Don Brightsmith, a bird specialist at Texas A&M University's Schubot Exotic Bird Center, part of the College of Veterinary Medicine &...New gene linked to macular degeneration risk
... ... This test, which is str...Bacteria increase risk of lower stomach cancer, decreases risk of upper
... which is known to cause ulcers, has also been associated with certain types of gastric cancer, but the strength of association var...Harvesting machine driving mesquite-to-ethanol potential
Knocking down mesquite hasn't been a problem in the past....Picking it up and getting it off the land has, said a Texas Agricultural...Experiment Station researcher. ... That will change with a new mesquite harvester for use in...wood-to-ethanol production, said Dr. Jim Ansley, Experiment Station...rangeland ecologist. ... The only one of these machines in existence was demonstrated at the...Springer author Alan Hastings wins Robert H. MacArthur Award
The Ecological Society of America (ESA) has given the Robert H. MacArthur Award to Alan Hastings for outstanding ecological achievement. He is distinguished for the breadth, quality, and impact of his scientific articles, many of which have become classics. Publishing over 170 peer-reviewed papers on topics ranging from metapopulation theory to conservation biology, Hastings's research has laun...Deep sea explorer and marine conservationist wins MacArthur Fellowship
(Fort Pierce, Florida, September 19, 2006) Dr. Edith Widder, President & Senior Scientist of the Ocean Research & Conservation Association (www.oceanrecon.org), has been named a MacArthur Fellow for 2006. She will receive $500,000 in "no strings attached" support over the next five years under the terms of the award from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. The foundation's criter...Field Museum receives $5 million grant from John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
... "With this grant, the MacArthur Foundation is supporting both an important Chicago cultural institution and a global conservation leader," said MacArthur President Jonathan Fanton. "Known locally for its pu...Biologists probe the machinery of cellular protein factories
... Harry Noller, the Sinsheimer Professor of Molecular Biology at the University of California, Santa Cruz, has been studying the ribosome for more than 30 years. His main goal is to understand how the ribosome works and...Variation in 3 genes influences risk of age-related macular degeneration
BOSTON (Aug. 29, 2006) -- Researchers in Boston have discovered a new common, noncoding variant in the Complement Factor H (CFH) gene that is associated with age-related macular degeneration (AMD), the leading cause of irreversible visual impairment and blindness among persons aged 60 and older. Their analyses, for the first time, combine this new variant with all previously reported variants to...