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Forest Biotechnology Obstructed By Anti-Biotech Groups
The potential of forest biotechnology to help address significant social and environmental issues is being "strangled at birth" by the rigid opposition of some groups and regulations that effectively preclude even the testing of genetically modified trees, scientists argue in a new report.
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Binge Drinking In Childhood And Adolescence, Germany
German adolescents are top at boozing! In the current edition of Deutsches Arzteblatt International (Dtsch Arztebl Int 2009; 106 (19): 323 - 8), Martin Stolle et al. of the German Center for Addiction Research in Childhood and Adolescence in Hamburg report that the main change has been the increase in the number of intoxicated girls. In their article, the authors present motivating short-term interventions to counteract secondary problems.
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GENEART Supports The UK HIV Vaccine Consortium (UK HVC) In Developing A DNA Vaccine Candidate Against HIV
GENEART AG, global leader in gene synthesis and specialist in the field of Synthetic Biology, announces being awarded a contract for the design and production of two DNA vaccine candidates against HIV by the UK HVC. The genes (blueprints for virus proteins), optimized and customized by GENEART, are to be used as basis for clinical studies.
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Study Suggests Smoking May Worsen MS

A new study has revealed a possible link between smoking and more rapid progression of disability in multiple sclerosis (MS). The journal Archives of Neurology yesterday reported the results of a Boston study that examined 1465 people with MS over three years. The study, carried out at the Harvard Medical School, divided participants into three groups: those who had never smoked, ex-smokers and current smokers. The results showed that people with MS who already smoked had significantly increased disability at the beginning of the study and were more likely to have primary progressive MS. Furthermore, the study found that current smokers were more than twice as likely to progress from relapsing remitting MS to secondary progressive MS in the time that the study was being conducted. MRI scans also revealed that the number of lesions increased in the group of participants that smoked compared with the non-smoking group of participants. Dr Susan Kohlhaas, Research Communications Officer at the MS Society said: "The study suggests that cigarette smoke may influence progression of MS, but other environmental factors that may be linked to MS are not considered in this study. These will need to be looked at in more detail before firm conclusions can be drawn about the role of smoking in MS." For a breakdown of study results, see Research News. Multiple Sclerosis Society


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