UCLA to host free symposium April 5 on extinctions in Earths history
UCLA will host a symposium on "Extinctions in the History of Life," bringing together internationally renowned scientists, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Friday, April 5, in UCLAs Schoenberg Auditorium (near the corner of Hilgard and Westholme Avenues).... ...Topics will include "Extinctions in Lifes Earliest History," "The Evolutionary Role of Mass Extinctions," "Causes of Mass Extinctions," "Extincti...APS awards 55 minority travel fellowships to EB 2004 (April 17-21) in Washington, DC
BETHESDA, Md. Since 1987, the American Physiological Society (APS) has awarded minority travel fellowships to its annual spring meeting, Experimental Biology. ...... This year 55 students from across the U.S. and Puerto Rico received these fellowships to facilitate their participation in EB 2004, which attracts more than 11,000 scientists annually from dozens of scientific disciplines. The pur...National Academies advisory: NAS Annual Meeting April 17-20
The National Academy of Sciences will hold its 141st annual meeting, at which new Academy members will be elected. ELECTION RESULTS will be available on April 20 at noon EDT on the Web at . Reporters can register in advance to receive the list of new members via e-mail. ...... The meeting also will feature the NAS president's annual address to members, an award ceremony, and symposia. These e...Physics tip sheet #41 - April 5, 2004
...X. Zhao et al. ...Physical Review Letters, 26 March 2004 ... ......The smallest diameter carbon nanotubes yet have been discovered by a collaboration of researchers from Japan and Germany. At 3 angstroms across, the tubes are smaller than previously believed possible from some theoretical calculations. The researchers found the nanotubes at the center of multi-walled carbon nanotubes formed i...JCI table of contents, 2 April 2004
...... Major diseases of the heart, brain, and kidney all have one thing in common: high-blood pressure as a major risk factor. Hypertension afflicts nearly 50 million people in USA, and over 1 billion worldwide. Although hypertension weighs in heavily on world health, its underlying cause for the vast majority of cases is unknown. One of the known components involved in regulating blood pres...Nanotechnology highlights from the ACS national meeting in Anaheim, Calif., March 28-April 1
EMBARGO NOTE FOR REPORTERS: EACH PAPER LISTED IN THIS TIPSHEET IS...EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE UNTIL ITS DATE AND TIME OF PRESENTATION. ... ...ANAHEIM, Calif. From stain-free clothing to scratch-resistant eyeglasses to longer lasting sunscreen lotions, nanotechnology the science and technology of the ultra small is already making an impact on our lives. Now, it's poised to make an even broader imp...Story tips from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, April 2004
To arrange for an interview with a researcher, please contact the Communications and Community Outreach staff member identified at the end of each tip....... — High-tech for first responders . . ....... First responders could minimize the risk to themselves and do their jobs more effectively if they were wearing a protective suit proposed by a team led by Oak Ridge National Laboratory. As e...Media invited to attend International Society For Heart & Lung Transplantation meeting April 21-24
The 24th Annual Meeting and Scientific Session of the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation (ISHLT) will feature presentations and debate on advances and emerging technologies in the fields of late stage heart and lung failure, thoracic transplantation, cell transplantation, and tissue engineering and related infectious disease. Held April 21-24 at the Hilton San Francisco, the...Experimental Biology 2004 meets in Washington, D.C. April 17-21
Experimental Biology 2004 will bring together more than 12,000 independent scientists, representing 32 different biological and biomedical societies from the United States and other nations. Now in its 14th year, Experimental Biology has become one of the world's largest and most significant interdisciplinary scientific meetings. Under the theme "Translating the Genome," this year's meeting...Science highlights of AAN Annual Meeting in Honolulu March 29 April 5
ST. PAUL, MN (April 14, 2003) Progress in the understanding of multiple sclerosis, the treatment of epilepsy, the progression of Alzheimers disease, the prevention of stroke, and even the neuroscience of golf were among the highlights of more than 1,300 scientific studies presented at the 55th Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Neurology, held in Honolulu, Hawaii, March 29 April 5, 2003....Genes, Brain and Behavior Symposium April 16
Prominent experts on genes, brain and behavior will discuss the impact of genomics on neuroscience in an all-day scientific symposium at the National Institutes of Health, April 16. Sponsored by seven NIH Institutes, the event is a satellite symposium of "50 Years of DNA: From Double Helix to Health," a month-long celebration of the genome, sponsored by the National Human Genome Research Institu...Science Picks--Leads, Feeds and Story Seeds (April 2003)
...If L.A.'s Saber-Tooth Cats Could Talk Long before the La Brea tar pits were a tourist attraction, when saber-tooth cats and mastodons roamed the area that is now metropolitan Los Angeles, frequent major earthquakes shook the ground. There is now strong scientific evidence, funded through a grant from the USGS, that downtown L.A. has been the site of several greater than magnitude 7 earthquak...JCI Table of Contents, April 1, 2003
... Expansion of the neointima is a problem in chronic atherosclerosis as well...as in response to acute arterial injury. Smooth muscle cells (SMCs) play a...key role in the pathologic extension of the neointima that ultimately...impinges on the vascular lumen. RAGE, the receptor for advanced glycation...end products, is upregulated at sites of vascular pathology, and its...blockage is beneficia...Physics tip sheet #34 - April 1, 2003
Physical Review Letters (Print issue: March 28, 2003)... ...Patients with sickle cell disease have mutant hemoglobin proteins that form long, stiff fibers inside red blood cells. Now, researchers propose a mathematical model to explain the persistent stability of these deadly fibers. The theory suggests that an inherent "twistiness" in the strands that make up the fibers could be the key to thei...Experimental Biology 2003 meets in San Diego April 11-15
More than 12,000 biological and biomedical researchers will gather for the Experimental Biology 2003 meeting in San Diego April 11 - 15. Now in its twelfth year, this annual meeting brings together scientists from dozens of scientific disciplines, and countries, to present the newest scientific concepts and discoveries expected to shape future medical advances. ...... The six sponsoring societie...Experimental Biology 2003 meets in San Diego April 11-15
...... ... ... ... ... ...... ... ... ...Pressroom briefings begin at 1 pm on Saturday and end at 4 pm on Monday. Press kits will be issued along with programs and abstract books upon registration. All EB releases have embargoed information, pertaining to time of pressroom presentation or scientific session, whichever comes first.... ...An area in the pressroom will be designated for news relea...April GEOLOGY and GSA TODAY media highlights
BOULDER, Colo.- The Geological Society of America's April issue of GEOLOGY contains a number of newsworthy items. Topics include new evidence supporting the cool early Earth hypothesis; the discovery of an underground magma source for a Pacific Ocean volcano near Washington state; research revealing that the Beijing area was covered by a sea within the last 80 ky -- about 30 times younger than w...Other highlights in the April 3 issue of JNCI
...A new study has identified tazarotene-induced gene 1 (TIG1) as a possible tumor suppressor gene for prostate cancer, and experimental results suggest that decreased expression of the gene may play a role in the progression of prostate cancer.... ...Chun Jing, Youqiang Ke, Ph.D., and colleagues at the University of Liverpool, United Kingdom, compared genes expressed in malignant prostate cance...Tipsheet: April journals of the American Society for Microbiology
. . .Researchers from the University of Missouri have developed a test that can differentiate between human and animal sources of fecal bacterial pollution. They report their results in the April 2001 issue of the journal Applied and Environmental Microbiology.. .The test, called ribotyping, is a DNA-based test used to identify and classify bacteria based on genetic differences. This type of t...Chemistry of life in outer space is topic of two-day symposium, April 4-5
Papers in. this symposium are only embargoed until date and time of presentation . . SAN DIEGO - A two-day symposium at the 221st national meeting of the American Chemical Society, the world's largest scientific society, will explore the current hypothesis that the chemical precursors of life originated in outer space, not on Earth as previously thought.. . The famous Miller-Urey e...Controlling greenhouse gas carbon dioxide through carbon sequestration two-day symposium, April 2-3
. In the wake of President Bush's mid-March decision not to seek mandatory reductions in carbon dioxide emissions, researchers at the American Chemical Society's 221st national meeting in San Diego will present their ideas about R&D options for fighting global warming through carbon sequestration - storing CO2 in such places as the ocean, or converting it to rocks. The scientists will discus...Global online workshop on risks of exotic forest pests will be "live" in mid-April
. Asheville, NC--Taking advantage of the international capabilities of the Internet to address a global issue, a workshop and symposium entitled "Risks of Exotic Forest Pests and their Impact on Trade" is scheduled for April 16-29, 2001. Nonnative, invasive species such as Asian longhorned beetle, gypsy moth, chestnut blight, and Dutch elm disease have all entered the United States through wood.... . . New vaccine research for flu, herpes and other infections, functional foods that promote health, and new preservatives that battle insects such as termites will be presented at the 221st national meeting of the American Chemical Society April 1-5 in San Diego, Calif.. . The ACS, the world's largest scientific society, will hold its meeting at the San Diego Convention Center, 111 West Harb...... ... ... ... ... (Washington, DC) -- E-commerce, privacy and intellectual property issues associated with information technologies and European versus American public opinion of genetically modified foods and the impact on trade will be addressed by policymakers, scientists, academicians, and industry representatives at the 25th annual American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS....Washington DC - Frogs with multiple limbs and other disfigurements have been.reported more and more often over the last several years, feeding worries that.the ecologically sensitive amphibians are bellwethers of some larger.environmental catastrophe. But now two studies in the 30 April issue of. provide the strongest evidence yet that at least some of the.frogs' bizarre deformities are the di...Cedars-Sinai Medical Tip Sheet For April 15 (A)
. .Cedars-Sinai Medical Center offers a Pediatric Headache Clinic that specializes.in diagnosing and treating the headaches of children and adolescents, especially.challenging and complicated cases. Because headaches can be caused by a host of.sources--ranging from tension and hormonal dysfunctions to meningitis and brain.tumors--an occasional headache should not be overly alarming but recurring....The latest edition of Ecology is now available. The journal includes studies on.a wide variety of topics, including:. . .Yellowstone's grizzly bears (Ursus arctos) may seem awesomely powerful to.National Park visitors, but a new study suggests they are still very threatened.as a species. Written by Craig Pease (Vermont Law School) and David Mattson (US.Geological Survey, Biological Resources...Report On Teaching About Evolution To Be Released At April 9 Public Briefing
...Evolution is one of the most important concepts in understanding key aspects of...biology. Yet teaching evolution remains controversial in many of the nation's...communities and public schools. Some teachers and administrators have said they...are reluctant to teach evolution because of pressures from interest groups to...downplay or eliminate it as part of the science curriculum. ... In a...New Recommended Intake Of Folate, Other B Vitamins, And Choline To Be Announced At April 7 Briefing
...Researchers for many years have examined the roles that folate and other B...vitamins play in preventing vascular disease, neural tube defects, and other...health problems. After a comprehensive review of the scientific evidence, a...committee of the Institute of Medicine has developed updated recommendations for...individual intake of these nutrients; its report includes recommendations on...DALLAS -- Monitoring cancer therapy and the global warming debate are...among topics that will be discussed here March 29 through April 2 at the 215th...national meeting of the American Chemical Society, the world's largest...scientific society.... Approximately 10,000 registrants are expected to gather at the Dallas Convention...Center and several major hotels. ... ... ... ... Naturally occu....FT. PIERCE, FL - Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution will host the second.International Bioerosion Workshop at its Education and Conference facility March.30 - April 3, 1998, with optional field trips before and after the meeting. The.objectives of this workshop are to (1) exchange information on bioerosion with.international experts from a variety of specialties such as microboring, reef....