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(Washington University School of Medicine) A mutation that causes a childhood tumor syndrome also impairs growth hormone secretion, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St.

Louis have found.The discovery provides new insights into an old mystery, revealing why patients with neurofibromatosis type 1 are frequently shorter than their peers.

(Genomatix Software GmbH) Deep sequencing of transcripts from two human cell lines revealed so far unrecognized complexity and variability of the human transcriptome.

They found that 34 percent of the polyadenylated transcriptome mapped to so far non-annotated genomic regions.

Obviously a large number of novel gene candidates are active in the cell lines under study.

(University of California - Los Angeles) UCLA cellular neuroscientists are providing new insights into the mechanisms that underlie long-term memory -- research with the potential to treat long-term memory disorders.

(The Endocrine Society) In light of the 6.2 million Americans who don't realize they have diabetes, a panel of experts examined the current criteria for screening and diagnosing the disease and found a significant need for improvement.

Their conclusions and recommendations can be found in a new report accepted for publication in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism.

(Duke University Medical Center) Researchers at Duke University Medical Center have published a study in Science that provides compelling evidence that the nitric oxide system in cells is very broad-based and important, resembling in its essence the much-studied system of phosphorylation.

The findings may offer new insights into how cells work and the basis of many diseases.

(Helmholtz Zentrum München - German Research Center for Environmental Health) Scientists are beginning to unravel the question why people distinctly vary in size.

In cooperation with scientists of the HelmholtzZentrum München, an international genome-wide study has discovered ten new genes that influence body height and thus provides new insights into biological pathways that are important for human growth.

(Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center) Two studies that offer new insights to help adolescents and younger children improve their asthma control were conducted by researchers from Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center.

One study found that teens with asthma dramatically overestimate their ability to control the condition, while the other study found that a creative approach referred to as "unplanned planned asthma visits" resulted in young patients having fewer emergency room and hospital visits.

(Cell Press) Researchers have mapped the brain regions that process social standing and money rewards, yielding new insights that they said will aid understanding of the basis of social behaviors.

They published their findings in two papers in the April 24, 2008, issue of the journal Neuron.

A symposium at the American Society for Nutrition's annual meeting at Experimental Biology was held on April 9, 2008, in which noted scientists discussed new infant feeding studies that used methodology such as randomized clinical trials (involving breastfeeding promotion) as well as sibling pairs analysis.

These studies may offer new insights into possible associations between infant feeding and health outcomes such as obesity.

An international collaboration of scientists from Europe and the US has identified six new genes which play a role in the development of type 2 diabetes, extending the total number of genes implicated in common forms of the disease to 16.

The findings provide valuable new insights into the mechanisms responsible for the control of sugar levels in the blood and how malfunctions in this mechanism can result in type 2 diabetes.