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Elsevier is pleased to announce that beginning with Volume 104 it will assume publication of the Annals of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology , the official journal of the American College of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology .

Reporting in the November issue of the Journal of Clinical Investigation senior authors Eileen Shore, PhD, Professor of Genetics and Orthopedics, and Mary Mullins, PhD, Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology, with scientists in Japan and Germany, demonstrated that the mutation that causes FOP mistakenly activates a cascade of biochemical ...

Cambridge, MA A- November 23, 2009 A- Agios Pharmaceuticals today announced that its scientists have established, for the first time, that the mutated IDH1 gene has a novel enzyme activity consistent with a cancer-causing gene, or oncogene.

Nov. 20, 2009 -- People who got last year's seasonal flu vaccine are at lower risk of H1N1 swine flu illness -- particularly severe disease, a study of U.S. military personnel shows.

Physical or emotional abuse during childhood could speed up the body's ageing process, US research suggests.

Scientists have long known that the offspring of two inbred strains tend to be superior to both their parents.

The researchers from James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Virginia and Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee report their findings in the November 2009 issue of the journal Applied and Environmental Microbiology .

Psoriasis: Th22 Cells as Milestone of Immunological Research Photo: Wikipedia. Heidrun Behrendt.

Researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham have uncovered the genetic identity of a cellular receptor for the immune system's first-response antibody, a discovery that sheds new light on infection control and immune disorders.

Scientists at Johns Hopkins and their colleagues have developed sugar-coated polymer strands that selectively kill off cells involved in triggering aggressive allergy and asthma attacks.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] -- Children who suffer physical or emotional abuse may be faced with accelerated cellular aging as adults, according to new research from Butler Hospital and Brown University.

Car fuel Bioethanol is made by the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae from sugars obtained from plant biomass.

Virginia Commonwealth University Massey Cancer Center and VCU Institute of Molecular Medicine researchers have identified a gene that may play a pivotal role in two processes that are essential for tumor development, growth and progression to metastasis.

New research funded mainly through the Wellcome Trust with additional support from the Medical Research Council shows that a new treatment route for bovine spongiform encephalopathy and its human form Creutzfeldt Jakob disease could be a step closer.

Viruses are well known for attacking humans and animals, but some viruses instead attack bacteria.

Researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham have uncovered the genetic identity of a cellular receptor for the immune system's first-response antibody, a discovery that sheds new light on infection control and immune disorders.

For the first time, scientists have successfully used a method called exome sequencing to quickly discover a previously unknown gene responsible for a mendelian disorder.

A team led by Penn State's Ross Hardison, T. Ming Chu Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, has taken a large step toward unraveling how regulatory proteins control the production of gene products during development and growth.

A new study of maize has identified thousands of diverse genes in genetically inaccessible portions of the genome.

Neuherberg, November 17, 2009. The regulating protein Srebp2 drives cholesterol formation, which prions need for their propagation, in prion-infected neuronal cells.