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Alcohol's effects on gene expression in the central nervous system

...me genes," explained William J. McBride, symposium organizer and professor of neurobiology at the Indiana University School of Medicine. "The reason that different cells can appear and work so differently with the same genes ?giving us, for example, unique eyes, skin, or hair ?is that only some genes are used ...

Scientists discover that three overlapping signals in embryo help get the backbone right

...res. What clinched their experiment was taking the organizer from one embryo - in their experiments, a newt - a...ment but injecting noggin instead of implanting an organizer from another embryo. They also discovered xnr3, and other researchers isolated three more factors - ...

Investigating 'brain shrinkage' in alcoholics

...tal activities," explained Clive Harper, symposium organizer and professor of neuropathology at the University of Sydney and Royal Prince Alfred Hospital. "The cortex is filled with nerve cells, also called neurons, that connect by single long fibres to different cortical regions and other neurons deep inside ...

CHAVI announces international search for genes affecting HIV response

...patients," said Amalio Telenti, M.D., Ph.D., a key organizer of the collaboration. Telenti is professor of medical virology and co-director of the Institute of Microbiology at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. EuroCHAVI aims to quickly identify common genes -- wherever they are in the human genome -- t...

Researchers seek to solve mystery of natural HIV control

...) at Massachusetts General Hospital and an initial organizer of the Elite Controller Collaborative Study. Walker discussed the project in a media briefing today at the 16th International AIDS Conference in Toronto. Most people infected with HIV cannot control replication of the virus with their immune sys...

Flavanols in cocoa may offer benefits to the brain

...riety of ways not previously known,?said symposium organizer Harold H. Schmitz, Ph.D., chief science officer at Mars, Incorporated, which helped sponsor today’s symposium and has supported research on cocoa flavanols for more than 15 years. “The findings raise the possibility that products utilizing this coco...