American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac -- Aug. 8, 2007
...ent Explosive discovery on genetically engineered tobacco plant Fast, accurate sensor to detect food spoila...ASE Explosive discovery on genetically engineered tobacco plant Environmental Science & Technology Tobacco may be bad for human health, but a new study re...Does the desire to consume alcohol and tobacco come from our genetic makeup?
... can influence the genetic factors for alcohol and tobacco use. In an attempt to find the genomic determinants underlying alcohol and tobacco use, researchers examined 120 families (approximately 900 individuals). The researchers identified a...Smokeless tobacco more effective than cigarettes for delivering dangerous carcinogens into the body
...t may not be inhaled into the lungs, but smokeless tobacco exposes users to some of the same potent carcinoge...esota Cancer Center report that users of smokeless tobacco are exposed to higher amounts of tobacco-specific nitrosamines -- molecules that are known to be car...Defects in critical gene lead to accelerated lung tumor growth
... lung cancer, squamous is strongly associated with tobacco use and is the most common worldwide. Mice genetically engineered to have defects in the LKB1 gene in the lung develop cancer at a much faster rate than those with defects in other tumor suppressors commonly mutated in lung cancer. These mice devel...Insulin grown in plants relieves diabetes in mice; UCF study holds promise for humans
...enry Daniells research team genetically engineered tobacco plants with the insulin gene and then administered...id. He has since proposed using lettuce instead of tobacco to produce the insulin because that crop can be produced cheaply and avoids the negative stigma asso...Gene variations directly link inflammation to an increased risk for lung cancer
...se is important in modulating the damage caused by tobacco smoke. Their study, published in the July 1 issue of Cancer Research, a publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, is the first to pinpoint the mechanism by which damage to the lung might trigger an overzealous inflammatory respon...Children of smokers have more than 5 times higher levels of a nicotine toxin
...y 40% of under-fives are believed to be exposed to tobacco smoke at home, and smoke may be responsible for up to 6,000 deaths per year in young children. The authors say: Babies and children are routinely exposed to cigarette smoking by their carers in their homes, without the legislative protection avail...Rutgers: GM/GMO/Biotech crop containment strategy
...e basic life process in plants. Our work with a tobacco plant model is breathing new life into an approach...b and Maliga acknowledge that different strains of tobacco may produce plastid-carrying pollen at different frequencies, possibly accounting for some of the di...Cigarette smoke alters DNA in sperm, genetic damage could pass to offspring
... per day, the equivalent based on blood levels of tobacco by-products of an average human smoker, according to research previously published by one of the study's co-authors. Yauk and her colleagues found that the rate of Ms6-hm mutations in the smoking mice were 1.4 times higher than that of non-smoking...Blood test may help signal tumor's remission, return in throat cancer patients
...that 7,550 Americans will die from it. Alcohol and tobacco use are the most important risk factors for head and neck cancers, with tobacco use accounting for 85 percent of the cases. Just last month, other NIH-supported doctors reported th...For many insects, winter survival is in the genes
..., the walnut husk maggot, the apple maggot and the tobacco hornworm. Collectively, these species cause millions of dollars of damage annually. Hsp70 was active while all of the insects were in diapause. When Denlinger's team knocked out the Hsp70 gene that makes the heat-shock protein, the insects were u...Iowa State scientists demonstrate first use of nanotechnology to enter plant cells
...ogy to introduce DNA and chemicals to Arabidopsis, tobacco and corn plants. "The most tremendous advantage is that you can deliver several things into a plant cell at the same time and release them whenever you want," Torney said. "Until now, you were at natures mercy when you delivered a gene into a ce...100 percent of pregnant women have at least one kind of pesticide in their placenta
... medical history, anthropometric information, age, tobacco habits, lifestyle and diet during pregnancy, among...low. Moreover, daily exercise and the avoidance of tobacco (which could also be a source of inadvertent exposure) are very important habits which help to contr...Book explores history, causes of allergy and asthma epidemic
...sk of exposure to dust mites and mold, second-hand tobacco smoke and other indoor allergens," he says. Mitman well appreciates this exquisite irony. However, real relief from the allergy/asthma conundrum can come only from a sea change in our approach to the problem, he says. "Allergies are not things, l...University of Arizona neurobiologist John Hildebrand elected to the National Academy of Sciences
...oneered the use of the hawkmoth Manduca sexta, the tobacco hornworm moth, as a model organism for studying the organization of insects' sense of smell. Adult moths have a wingspan of about four inches and relatively large brains, making them much easier to study than smaller insects. By increasing understa...Study confirms the risk of exposure to secondhand tobacco smoke outdoors
...ousands of Americans die each year from secondhand tobacco smoke, according to a 2006 report by the U.S. Surg...little research has been done on exposure to toxic tobacco fumes outdoors. Now, Stanford University researchers have conducted the first in-depth study on ho...ACS News Service Weekly PressPac -- April 25, 2007
...ts including banana, potato, lettuce, carrot, and tobacco to produce HBV vaccines. They explain why banana appears to be the ideal production and delivery vehicle for HBV vaccine, and the further research and development needed to exploit bananas in the global battle against HBV. ARTICLE #4 FOR IMMEDIATE...Penn leads $4 million grant to study gene-environment interactions in lung cancer
...e awarded from Pennsylvanias share of the national tobacco settlement for 2006-2007. The award, which was announced by Governor Rendell last month, will fund the establishment of a Center for Gene-Environment Interactions in Lung Cancer directed by Steve Whitehead, PhD, Professor of Pharmacology. The stud...FSU researcher's award will fund study into cardiovascular grafts
...r regenerating blood vessels damaged by secondhand tobacco smoke has received a fellowship award that could provide as much as $450,000 over five years for her to pursue new scientific approaches. Feng Zhao, a postdoctoral researcher in the Florida A&M University-Florida State University College of Enginee......ntrol patients with benign diseases and history of tobacco or alcohol use. The test detected two patients with cancer or precancer before the disease was clinically evident. Furthermore, the study detected few false positives among the control group. However, they were only able to detect elevated levels of...