Kalyan Ray New Delhi, Jan 18, 2013, DHNS

Primary fund source dried up due to the economic crisis in Europe

A United Nations institute on biotechnology research has approached the Indian government for take over as its primary fund source has dried up due to the economic crisis in Europe.

International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology started as a UN Industrial Development Organisation project in 1987 and later became a full fledged UN centre in Delhi since 1994 with the objective of translating western biotechnology research into products for the developing world. An autonomous inter-governmental organisation with 61 member states, ICGEB now has three separate institutes in Delhi, Trieste and Cape Town.

In June 2012, the Italian government, which provided two-thirds of funding to the Indian component, decided to quit the Delhi centre triggering a financial crisis for the institute, which discovered malaria vaccine and dengue diagnostic kit among other research accomplishments in the last 15 years.

The Italian government requested (to ICGEB) that from 2014 all the components (Delhi, Trieste and Cape Town) be funded by the host governments exclusively while the contribution of member states will go to the extramural program that includes fellowships, courses and grants to all the member countries, ICGEB director general Francisco Baralle told Deccan Herald.

The cash-strapped institute with a sprawling campus in south Delhi has now approached the department of biotechnology under the central government with a request of taking charge of the institute.

This, in fact, will possibly be one of the first tasks cut out for the new DBT secretary K Vijayraghavan currently director of National Centre for Biological Sciences in Bangalore who is scheduled to take up his new assignment in the last week of January, sources said.

Vijayraghans predecessor in the DBT, M K Bhan, decided to set up a five-member panel to review technical and administrative issues involved in central governments taking over of an UN organisation. But the panels terms of reference are yet to be framed and is expected only after the new DBT secretary assume his charge.

While Indias contribution in ICGEB currently hovered around Rs 10 crore, it might go up to Rs 30 crore if DBT took over it as a national institute, said ICGEB director V S Chauhan.

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Jan. 17, 2013 Using only a computer, an Internet connection, and publicly accessible online resources, a team of Whitehead Institute researchers has been able to identify nearly 50 individuals who had submitted personal genetic material as participants in genomic studies.

Intent on conducting an exercise in "vulnerability research" -- a common practice in the field of information security -- the team took a multi-step approach to prove that under certain circumstances, the full names and identities of genomic research participants can be determined, even when their genetic information is held in databases in de-identified form.

"This is an important result that points out the potential for breaches of privacy in genomics studies," says Whitehead Fellow Yaniv Erlich, who led the research team. A description of the group's work is published in this week's Science magazine.

Erlich and colleagues began by analyzing unique genetic markers known as short tandem repeats on the Y chromosomes (Y-STRs) of men whose genetic material was collected by the Center for the Study of Human Polymorphisms (CEPH) and whose genomes were sequenced and made publicly available as part of the 1000 Genomes Project. Because the Y chromosome is transmitted from father to son, as are family surnames, there is a strong correlation between surnames and the DNA on the Y chromosome.

Recognizing this correlation, genealogists and genetic genealogy companies have established publicly accessible databases that house Y-STR data by surname. In a process known as "surname inference," the Erlich team was able to discover the family names of the men by submitting their Y-STRs to these databases. With surnames in hand, the team queried other information sources, including Internet record search engines, obituaries, genealogical websites, and public demographic data from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) Human Genetic Cell Repository at New Jersey's Coriell Institute, to identify nearly 50 men and women in the United States who were CEPH participants.

Previous studies have contemplated the possibility of genetic identification by matching the DNA of a single person, assuming the person's DNA were cataloged in two separate databases. This work, however, exploits data between distant paternally-related individuals. As a result, the team notes that the posting of genetic data from a single individual can reveal deep genealogical ties and lead to the identification of a distantly-related person who may have no acquaintance with the person who released that genetic data.

"We show that if, for example, your Uncle Dave submitted his DNA to a genetic genealogy database, you could be identified," says Melissa Gymrek, a member of the Erlich lab and first author of the Science paper. "In fact, even your fourth cousin Patrick, whom you've never met, could identify you if his DNA is in the database, as long as he is paternally related to you."

Aware of the sensitivity of his work, Erlich emphasizes that he has no intention of revealing the names of those identified, nor does he wish to see public sharing of genetic information curtailed.

"Our aim is to better illuminate the current status of identifiability of genetic data," he says. "More knowledge empowers participants to weigh the risks and benefits and make more informed decisions when considering whether to share their own data. We also hope that this study will eventually result in better security algorithms, better policy guidelines, and better legislation to help mitigate some of the risks described."

To that end, Erlich shared his findings with officials at the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) and NIGMS prior to publication. In response, NIGMS and NHGRI moved certain demographic information from the publicly-accessible portion the NIGMS cell repository to help reduce the risk of future breaches. In the same issue of Science in which the Erlich study appears, Judith H. Greenberg and Eric D. Green, the Directors of NIGMS and NHGRI, and colleagues author a perspective on this latest research in which they advocate for an examination of approaches to balance research participants' privacy rights with the societal benefits to be realized from the sharing of biomedical research data.

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Many Germans are afraid of genetic engineering, according to Spiegel Online, the online offshoot of the German news magazine Der Spiegel, and Harvard's George Church doesn't do much to alleviate those fears.

In an online excerpt of a Q&A published in this week's Der Spiegel, Church talks about recreating Neandertals, engineering humans to live to 120, making people resistant to viruses, and exchanging DNA with other species.

"Like no one else, molecular biologist George Church represents a guild that is prepared to try out anything that can be done, unconditionally," Spiegel Online writes.

According to the site, Church is currently developing technology in his lab that can be used to make human cells similar to those of Neandertals. Eventually, an "adventurous female human" needs to be found as a surrogate mother for the first Neandertal baby, Church is cited as saying, and, from many individuals, "a kind of Neandertal culture" could arise that could gain "political significance."

Church doesn't understand "why many people should be so profoundly upset by these kinds of technologies," since the concept of biological species is currently changing anyway. Up until now, the notion has been that people cannot exchange DNA with other biological species. "But this barrier will fall," he says.

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New Rochelle, NY, January 17, 2013Emotional exhaustion and physical and cognitive fatigue are signs of burnout, often caused by prolonged exposure to stress. Burnout can cause negative health effects including poor sleep, depression, anxiety, and cardiovascular and immune disorders. The findings of a 9-year study of burnout in middle-aged working women are reported in an article in Journal of Women's Health, a peer-reviewed publication from Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers. The article is available free on the Journal of Women's Health website at http://www.liebertpub.com/jwh.

In the article "Development of Burnout in Middle-Aged Working Women: A Longitudinal Study," authors Annika Evolahti, PhD, Daniel Hultell, PhD, and Aila Collins, PhD, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden, found that in contrast to previous research findings that showed burnout to be stable over time, they were able to cluster the women in the study into groups characterized by different developmental patterns of burnout. Some middle-aged women had high levels of burnout followed by recovery, whereas others had increasing, decreasing, or stable levels over a 9-year period. The authors explored how these patterns related to changes in work-related and other types of stress in the women's lives and individual personality factors.

"This important study expands our understanding of burnout in working women, in terms of both patterns of development and relation to various stressors and individual factors," says Susan G. Kornstein, MD, Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Women's Health, Executive Director of the Virginia Commonwealth University Institute for Women's Health, Richmond, VA, and President of the Academy of Women's Health.

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About the Journal

Journal of Women's Health, published monthly, is a core multidisciplinary journal dedicated to the diseases and conditions that hold greater risk for or are more prevalent among women, as well as diseases that present differently in women. The Journal covers the latest advances and clinical applications of new diagnostic procedures and therapeutic protocols for the prevention and management of women's healthcare issues. Tables of content and a sample issue may be viewed on the Journal of Women's Health website at http://www.liebertpub.com/jwh. Journal of Women's Health is the Official Journal of the Academy of Women's Health and the Society for Women's Health Research.

About the Academy

Academy of Women's Health (http://www.academyofwomenshealth.org) is an interdisciplinary, international association of physicians, nurses, and other health professionals who work across the broad field of women's health, providing its members with up-to-date advances and options in clinical care that will enable the best outcomes for their women patients. The Academy's focus includes the dissemination of translational research and evidence-based practices for disease prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of women across the lifespan.

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Researchers say genetic genealogy databases can be leveraged to unlock more sensitive genetic information.

By Alan Boyle, Science Editor, NBC News

Researchers have shown that it's possible to link your identity to supposedly secret genetic information about your predisposition to diseases, merely by analyzing family-tree databases and other publicly available information.

"It was quite surprising," said Yaniv Erlich, a genetic researcher at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research. "When we got the first family, I was surprised. ... It's as if you opened a box that for a long time was locked."

Erlich led the research team whose work is being published in this week's issue of the journal Science. The team's study already has led to a tightening of security measures for federally sponsored genetic databases.

The security-cracking trick relies on the availability of genetic information linked to surnames in a variety of public family-tree databases. DNA samples from males can be tested to look at dozens of genetic markers on the Y-chromosome that change only rarely from generation to generation. If the markers from two individuals with the same surname are a close match, that's a tip-off that the two are closely related, even if they don't know each other.

Tens of thousands of people (including yours truly) make that information public in hopes that someone else will match up with their results. The genealogical markers aren't linked to disease or other specific traits. But under the right circumstances, they could provide an opening for links with other, more sensitive genetic information.

How the secrets were revealed Erlich and his colleagues conducted a three-step process to see how easy it'd be to use that opening. First, they analyzed anonymous Y-chromosome data from a public database for the 1000 Genomes Project, to come up with the DNA coding for markers that are used for genealogical purposes. Then they compared those markers against entries in the two largest family-tree databases, Ysearch and the Sorenson Molecular Genealogy Foundation.

The researchers said their analysis projected a success rate of 12 percent for recovering the surnames of U.S. Caucasian males. Another 5 percent would theoretically be linked up with the wrong surnames. They said upper- to middle-class Caucasian males were easier to identify, presumably because they're more likely to participate in the family-tree databases.

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Brad Kelley/The Daily EvergreenDr. Katrina Mealey, Dr. Michael Court, and Taylor Gwinn swabs Harley for DNA at the School of Veterinary Medicine. Several years ago in a lab at WSU, Katrina Mealey discovered a genetic mutation in herding dogs that produces an alarming reaction to medication for parasites.

If you gave it to certain collies, they would go into a coma; but other dogs, it didnt affect them at all, said Mealey, a professor who runs the universitys Veterinary Clinical Pharmacology Laboratory.

Mealey published her findings in 2001, and today, she offers a test for dogs to screen for the genetic mutation.

We have owners and veterinarians from all around the world send a cheek swab that just gives us a little bit of DNA from the dog, and we can tell them whether they should avoid that drug completely or whether they should use a decreased dose, she said. Were basically saving dogs lives every day.

Mealeys work is part of a budding field of research called pharmacogenetics, often colloquially referred to as individualized medicine a subfield of pharmacology that examines how genetic variations among patients produce differing responses to drugs.

While individualized medicine is common in human health care, Mealey is one of only a handful of researchers across the globe focusing on the pharmacogenetics of animals. And now, she is part of a new team at WSU which is the first program ever created to study individualized medicine in animals.

For now, Mealey is one of only two researchers in the program. Her partner, professor Michael Court, came to WSU about four months ago, bringing with him a background in veterinary anesthesiology.

During his time as an anesthesiologist, Court gained firsthand experience observing the effects of anesthesia on dogs.

What amazed me was how different was their response to the anesthesia, he said.

Some dogs recovered much quicker than others, he said. Greyhounds, for instance, exhibited a much longer recovery period when exposed to certain types of anesthesia.

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Washington, January 20(ANI): In a mice study, Johns Hopkins researchers have found a link between elevated levels of a stress hormone in adolescence - a critical time for brain development - and genetic changes that, in young adulthood, cause severe mental illness in those predisposed to it.

The findings could have wide-reaching implications in both the prevention and treatment of schizophrenia, severe depression and other mental illnesses.

"We have discovered a mechanism for how environmental factors, such as stress hormones, can affect the brain's physiology and bring about mental illness," said study leader Akira Sawa, M.D., Ph.D., a professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

"We've shown in mice that stress in adolescence can affect the expression of a gene that codes for a key neurotransmitter related to mental function and psychiatric illness. While many genes are believed to be involved in the development of mental illness, my gut feeling is environmental factors are critically important to the process," Sawa added.

Sawa, director of the Johns Hopkins Schizophrenia Center, and his team set out to simulate social isolation associated with the difficult years of adolescents in human teens.

They found that isolating healthy mice from other mice for three weeks during the equivalent of rodent adolescence had no effect on their behavior. But, when mice known to have a genetic predisposition to characteristics of mental illness were similarly isolated, they exhibited behaviors associated with mental illness, such as hyperactivity. They also failed to swim when put in a pool, an indirect correlate of human depression.

When the isolated mice with genetic risk factors for mental illness were returned to group housing with other mice, they continued to exhibit these abnormal behaviors, a finding that suggests the effects of isolation lasted into the equivalent of adulthood.

"Genetic risk factors in these experiments were necessary, but not sufficient, to cause behaviors associated with mental illness in mice. Only the addition of the external stressor - in this case, excess cortisol related to social isolation - was enough to bring about dramatic behavior changes," Sawa said.

The investigators not only found that the "mentally ill" mice had elevated levels of cortisol, known as the stress hormone because it's secreted in higher levels during the body's fight-or-flight response. They also found that these mice had significantly lower levels of the neurotransmitter dopamine in a specific region of the brain involved in higher brain function, such as emotional control and cognition.

Changes in dopamine in the brains of patients with schizophrenia, depression and mood disorders have been suggested in clinical studies, but the mechanism for the clinical impact remains elusive.

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Melungeon DNA: Melungeon DNA explored
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Amgen Inc : New Taipei Apple Daily Fraud Alert: Taiwan High Prosecutors Office, Tainan Branch
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Dr Naresh Trehan, leading Cardio Vascular Cardio Thoracic surgeon and the chairman of Medanta hospital explains if genetics and family history play a role in the possibility of a person getting heart disease.

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SEATTLE, WA--(Marketwire - Jan 18, 2013) - Atossa Genetics, Inc. ( NASDAQ : ATOS ) announced today that Kyle Guse, chief financial officer, general counsel and secretary, will present at the NINE 2013 - Noble Financial Capital Markets' Ninth Annual Equity Conference held at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino, Hollywood, Florida, on Tuesday, January 22, at 3:00 pm Eastern Time. A webcast of the presentation will be available on Atossa's web site at http://www.atossagenetics.com.

Mr. Guse stated, "I look forward to participating in this prestigious conference and presenting the Atossa Genetics story to investors. My presentation will include a discussion of the recently announced national rollout of our ForeCYTE Breast Health Test, further commercialization of our ArgusCYTE Breast Health Test, advancement of two additional tests and of the planned clinical development of our intraductal therapeutic for treatment of pre-cancerous cellular changes as a means to potentially prevent breast cancer."

About Atossa Genetics, Inc.

Atossa Genetics, Inc. ( NASDAQ : ATOS ), The Breast Health Company, is based in Seattle, Washington, and is focused on preventing breast cancer through the commercialization of patented, FDA-cleared diagnostic medical devices and patented, laboratory developed tests (LDT) that can detect precursors to breast cancer up to eight years before mammography, and through research and development that will permit it to commercialize treatments for pre-cancerous lesions.

The National Reference Laboratory for Breast Health (NRLBH), a wholly owned subsidiary of Atossa Genetics, Inc., is a CLIA-certified high-complexity molecular diagnostic laboratory located in Seattle, WA, that provides the patented ForeCYTE Breast Health Test, a risk assessment test for women 18 to 73 years of age akin to the Pap smear, and the ArgusCYTE Breast Health Test, a blood test for recurrence in breast cancer survivors that provides a "liquid biopsy" for circulating cancer cells and a tailored treatment plan for patients and their caregivers.

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Except for the historical information contained herein, the matters set forth in this press release, including statements regarding Atossa's plans, expectations, projections, potential opportunities, goals and objectives are forward-looking statements within the meaning of the "safe harbor" provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that may cause actual results to differ materially from the anticipated or estimated future results, including the risks and uncertainties associated with the efficacy of Atossa's products and services, the market demand for and acceptance of Atossa's products and services and other risks detailed from time to time in the Atossa's final prospectus, dated November 7, 2012, filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and other filings with the SEC.All forward-looking statements are qualified in their entirety by this cautionary statement, and Atossa undertakes no obligation to revise or update any forward-looking statement to reflect events or circumstances after the issuance of this press release.

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Until the very end of 2012, industry experts were predicting that the construction of new wind turbines for generating electricity would decline by as much as 90 percent in 2013. That was because a tax credit amounting to about $1 million dollars per windmill was set to expire on Dec. 31, 2012. Wind turbine developers rushed a lot of new wind turbines into production in 2012 in order to take advantage of the credit, but had essentially no plans for new construction in 2013. Had the tax credit actually expired, more than 30,000 jobs might have been lost in the industry.

But the industry got a last-minute reprieve as part of the fiscal cliff negotiations in the final days of 2012. Part of the tax package included in the final fiscal cliff deal was an extension of the tax credit for wind turbine construction that begins in 2013, provided that construction is completed by 2014. That gives the industry some breathing room, at least for now.

Federal tax credits are sometimes used to encourage the development of new industries that may not yet be cost-effective. The wind turbine industry has been granted tax credits three times since 1990. This time around, concerns over the national debt mean that there is likely to be very little enthusiasm in Congress for extending the subsidy (amounting to over a billion dollars a year) yet again after this one expires.

Currently, wind energy accounts for 23 percent of all electricity generated from renewable resources, according to government statistics. The other renewable energy sources are hydropower (63%), wood and biomass waste (11%), geothermal (3%), and solar.Source:
http://humanbiologyblog.blogspot.com/2013/01/wind-turbine-tax-credit-is-renewed.html

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One of the defining features of humans is that the shape of our hands and fingers allows us to touch the tips of our fingers with our thumbs. As a result, we are able to pick up and manipulate very small objects – something other primates can’t do. Textbooks describe this human anatomical feature as having “opposable thumbs”. Allegedly it is a feature that has given us an evolutionary advantage.

Now researchers report that there’s another unique feature of the human hand that also confers an evolutionary advantage. According to a recent paper published in the Journal of Experimental Biology, the structural arrangement of the bones in the hand and the wrist allow us to make a very effective fist, for use as a weapon. The report demonstrates rather convincingly that when we curl the four fingers into the palm and then position the thumb over the index and second finger, the unique shape of the human fist allows the palm to buttress and support the fingers when we strike a blow. As a result, more force is transmitted by the knuckles than would be possible with the hand anatomy of other primates.

The authors of the study suggest that being able to use the fist as a weapon confers an evolutionary advantage. In other words, our hand evolved not only to be able to manipulate small objects easily, but also to fight effectively.Source:
http://humanbiologyblog.blogspot.com/2013/01/the-human-hand-makes-good-fist.html

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Is it okay for pregnant women to get a flu shot? The answer is “yes”, according to a study conducted in Norway recently. (The research was conducted in Norway because access to health care in Norway is nearly universal, and good records are kept.) The results of the study are published in the New England Journal of Medicine. 

 The researchers reviewed the outcomes of the pregnancies of over 100,000 women in Norway during 2009 and 2010, about half of whom received the flu vaccine during the second or third trimester (the other half served as the control group). As expected, vaccination during pregnancy reduced the risk of getting the flu by about 70% compared to the control group. Vaccination during pregnancy also appeared to reduce the risk of fetal death slightly, but the reduction was not statistically significant.

Pregnant women tend to suffer more complications of the flu than non-pregnant women, in part because their immune systems are partially suppressed during pregnancy. So it’s important that they understand that they can get a flu shot without harming their babies. In fact, the flu vaccine may be good for the fetus/newborn as well as good for the mother; antibodies produced by the mother can cross the placenta (protecting the fetus) and are found in the mother’s milk (protecting the newborn for up to six months).Source:
http://humanbiologyblog.blogspot.com/2013/01/pregnancy-and-flu-vaccine.html

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