http://www.generef.com/ Genetic Engineering News en-us Sat, 13 Mar 2010 13:35:01 PST kcowing@spaceref.com (Keith Cowing) mkboucher@spaceref.com (Marc Boucher) Copyright 2009, SpaceRef Interactive Inc. http://www.generef.com/images/generef.sm.jpg http://www.generef.com/ 100 25 Genetic Engineering News - GeneRef http://generef.com/newsstory.rss.html?pid=77153 http://generef.com/newsstory.rss.html?pid=77153 By studying the hydra, a member of an ancient group of sea creatures that is still flourishing, scientists at UC Santa Barbara have made a discovery in understanding the origins of human vision. The finding is published in this week's issue of the Procee Fri, 12 Mar 2010 09:17:22 PDT http://generef.com/newsstory.rss.html?pid=77152 http://generef.com/newsstory.rss.html?pid=77152 New findings that shed light on how genetic damage to muscle cell proteins can lead to the development of the rare muscle-wasting disease, nemaline myopathy, are reported today, March 15, in the Biochemical Journal. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 09:17:21 PDT http://generef.com/newsstory.rss.html?pid=77143 http://generef.com/newsstory.rss.html?pid=77143 Scientists headed by ICREA researcher Marco Milán, at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona), reveal a surprising new function of Notch protein that contrasts with the one known to date. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 06:17:18 PDT http://generef.com/newsstory.rss.html?pid=77139 http://generef.com/newsstory.rss.html?pid=77139 Helicobacter pylori, a bacterium found in about 50 percent of humans worldwide, can cause stomach ulcers and, in extreme cases, gastric cancer. In an article for F1000 Medicine Reports, Seiji Shiota and Yoshio Yamaoka discuss the possible eradication of H Fri, 12 Mar 2010 04:17:13 PDT http://generef.com/newsstory.rss.html?pid=77137 http://generef.com/newsstory.rss.html?pid=77137 A study by Norwegian and French researchers hopes to provide new understanding of how blood cells adjust gene expression in response to various clinical, biochemical and pathological conditions. The Norwegian Woman and Cancer postgenome study, published M Thu, 11 Mar 2010 17:18:02 PDT http://generef.com/newsstory.rss.html?pid=77131 http://generef.com/newsstory.rss.html?pid=77131 Meet asteroid 1999 RQ36, a chunk of rock and dust about 1,900 feet in diameter that could tell us how the solar system was born, and perhaps, shed light on how life began. It also might hit us someday. Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:17:21 PDT http://generef.com/newsstory.rss.html?pid=77128 http://generef.com/newsstory.rss.html?pid=77128 The Board of Directors of the American Association of Anatomists has approved a set of guidelines to govern programs accepting the donation of bodies for education and biomedical research. The guidelines cover the minimum requirements that should be met b Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:17:21 PDT http://generef.com/newsstory.rss.html?pid=77115 http://generef.com/newsstory.rss.html?pid=77115 Alterations in our response to the taste or smell of food may be another culprit responsible for Type 2 diabetes, according to scientists at Duke University Medical Center who have identified the specific mechanism in human specimens and in mice. Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:17:20 PDT http://generef.com/newsstory.rss.html?pid=77116 http://generef.com/newsstory.rss.html?pid=77116 Van Andel Research Institute (VARI) researchers have developed a new method to better study the cells that line and protect the prostate in relation to the development of cancer. Using the model, they found that normal cells and cancer cells depend on dif Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:17:20 PDT http://generef.com/newsstory.rss.html?pid=77102 http://generef.com/newsstory.rss.html?pid=77102 When cells move about in the body, they follow a complex pattern similar to that which amoebae and bacteria use when searching for food, a team of Vanderbilt researchers have found. Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:17:03 PDT http://generef.com/newsstory.rss.html?pid=77097 http://generef.com/newsstory.rss.html?pid=77097 Dr. Joel Hirsch and Prof. Bernard Attali of Tel Aviv University are investigating the cause and effects of Sudden Cardiac Arrest syndrome. This team is hot on the trail of understanding how a multi-gene syndrome, one of the causes for SCA, operates inside Thu, 11 Mar 2010 09:18:14 PDT http://generef.com/newsstory.rss.html?pid=77098 http://generef.com/newsstory.rss.html?pid=77098 Repair proteins appear to efficiently scan the genome for errors by jumping like fleas between DNA molecules, sliding along the strands, and perhaps pausing at suspicious spots, say researchers at the University of Pittsburgh, the University of Essex and Thu, 11 Mar 2010 09:18:14 PDT http://generef.com/newsstory.rss.html?pid=77096 http://generef.com/newsstory.rss.html?pid=77096 During weight loss, bones are being remodeled -- breaking down old bone and forming new bone -- at an accelerated rate. As a result, bone density is reduced, causing increased fragility. In a new study, University of Missouri researchers found that weight Thu, 11 Mar 2010 09:17:17 PDT http://generef.com/newsstory.rss.html?pid=77089 http://generef.com/newsstory.rss.html?pid=77089 Scrutinizing a single molecule for more than a few milliseconds used to require effectively "stapling" it down, inhibiting its normal behavior. Now, using a technique recently developed in their lab, Stanford chemists have for the first time confined a pr Thu, 11 Mar 2010 07:17:19 PDT http://generef.com/newsstory.rss.html?pid=77090 http://generef.com/newsstory.rss.html?pid=77090 Diet and aerobic exercise are highly effective for the treatment of type 2 diabetes, but not for obese subjects that have developed the disease when very young. A study at the IRB Barcelona and Trinity College in Dublin demonstrates that obese subjects be Thu, 11 Mar 2010 07:17:19 PDT http://generef.com/newsstory.rss.html?pid=77081 http://generef.com/newsstory.rss.html?pid=77081 Scientists may have uncovered a mechanism for resistance to paclitaxel in ovarian cancer, microRNA-31, suggesting a possible therapeutic target for overcoming chemotherapy resistance. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:17:18 PDT http://generef.com/newsstory.rss.html?pid=77069 http://generef.com/newsstory.rss.html?pid=77069 Baylor College of Medicine's Dr. James Lupski came to the end of a personal quest earlier this year when the Baylor Human Genome Sequencing Center sequenced his complete genome and identified the gene involved in his own form of Charcot-Marie-Tooth syndr Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:18:16 PDT http://generef.com/newsstory.rss.html?pid=77065 http://generef.com/newsstory.rss.html?pid=77065 The Board of Directors of the American Association of Anatomists (AAA) has approved a set of guidelines to govern programs accepting the donation of bodies for education and biomedical research. The guidelines cover the minimum requirements that should be Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:17:19 PDT http://generef.com/newsstory.rss.html?pid=77058 http://generef.com/newsstory.rss.html?pid=77058 Discovery of an antibiotic's capacity to improve cell function in laboratory tests is providing movement disorder researchers with leads to more desirable molecules with potentially similar traits, according to University of Alabama scientists co-authori Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:17:18 PDT http://generef.com/newsstory.rss.html?pid=77059 http://generef.com/newsstory.rss.html?pid=77059 To grow larger, solid tumors require a network of blood vessels to nourish them. Chemotherapy exploits these vessels to deliver toxic drugs, but is inefficient if the drugs cannot pass quickly enough from the bloodstream into the tumor. A new study in Dis Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:17:18 PDT