Researchers Pinpoint Site For Petit Mal Seizures In Brain
...to specific neurons in the thalamus, a nerve relay center in the brain. During waking hours, the thalamus continually funnels messages from all parts of the nervous system to the neocortex, the portion of the brain that processes higher functions such as language. "In a sense the thalamus is thought to be t...Tumor Suppressor Gene Located In Liver Cancer Cells
...rtle, a professor of radiation oncology and cancer center member. The lack of effective treatments also makes it a particularly deadly disease, he said. "As a consequence, knowing something about liver tumor formation or having a handle on how one could detect these tumors when they're much smaller could h...Core Spins Faster Than Earth, Scientists Find
... will yieldnew knowledge about temperatures at the center of the Earth andthe flow of planetary heat that ul...th's history as heaviermolten iron sank toward the center of the planet. As the Earthcooled and dissipated its internal heat toward the surface, somemolten ir...Asian Beetle, New In This Country, Threatens Brooklyn's Shade Trees
... damage, adult beetles emerging from the heartwood center of the trees bore an exit hole through the outer bark. After beetle emergence, mating occurs, and eggs are laid in cavities in the bark, chewed out by females and covered with a cement secretion. Eggs hatch and young larvae bore into the inner bark...Duke Primate Center Sets October Expedition To Find 'Juliet'
... in Durham. The animals will be transported to the center next May,when spring foliage is available in Durha...combinationlemur breeding facility, zoo, education center and tourist attraction. The ultimate objective of the Primate Center capture program is to builda b...Newly Discovered Gene Halts Cell Division and May Have Cancer Link
...tering was recently named the nation's best cancer center for the fourth consecutive year by U.S. News & World Report ....'Juliet' Evades Primate Center Expedition
...combination lemurbreeding facility, zoo, education center and tourist attraction. The one bright spot in th...rimates. Duke is also the only university-operated center that concentratessolely on studying and protecting prosimians such as lemurs, lorises, andtarsiers. ...Antarctic Science Season Gears Up With Searches for Meteorites, Neutrinos, and New Life Forms
...arch, 1998. This field season's cruises will center mainly on the Ross Sea, starting with a cruise embarking in early October to study Antarctica's largest and most predictable spring bloom of phytoplankton in these waters, and its role in the carbon cycle. Two subsequent cruises will track carbon ov...Researcher Discovers Key Brain Center For Speech
...signficantly relatedto the speech process if not a center for that function," says Dronkers,who conducted the work at the VA Medical Center in Martinez and publishedher results in a recent issue of the journal Nature. The insula is a common area of injury in stroke patients, Dronkers says,but not much is k...New Sensor Provides First Instant Test For Toxic E. coli Organism
... Program in its Center for Advanced Materials. The center does basic research relevant to both the needs of industry and the Department of Energy. Technically, the working part of the sensor consists of multiple copies of a single molecule which is fabricated into a thin film. This molecule has a t...'BirdSource' Website For Citizen-Science Data
...rnell University together provide an international center for training both amateurs and professionals in the ecology, evolutionary biology and conservation of birds....High Levels of Vitamin C Prove Toxic to HIV
... Sloan-Kettering was named the nations best cancer center for the fourth consecutive year by U.S. News & World Report....Scientists Urge Further Study Of Alarming Coral Reef Decline
...ntially seriousproblem. The corals are at the center of a complex food web. Whenthey die, thousands of other species are in jeopardy. People insome developing nations are dependant on the coral reefcommunities for their food or livelihoods. Corals also containtoxins that offer promise for cancer resear...Herpes-Based Gene Therapy Is Key To Promising Liver Tumor Vaccine
...Sloan-Kettering was named the nation's best cancer center by U.S. News and World Report for the fourth year in a row....Scientists Use Magnetic Field As Alternative To Space-Based Zero Gravity
...l and 30inches in diameter, with a 2-inch diameter center hole. Up to 100 embryos -each the thickness of paper clip metal--were placed one-by-one in a drop ofpure water levitated in a magnetic field created by 5 megawatts ofelectricity. The procedure worked because the water, proteins and lipids inside the...UT-Houston Awarded $2.5 Million For Scleroderma Research
...on of rheumatology and clinicalimmunogenetics, the center will conduct a wide range of investigations into t...sclerodermabreaks new ground: "The UT-Houston-led center is the first that we haveestablished in scleroderma. It brings together three talented research gro...Gene For Last Major Form Of Batten Disease Discovered
...to identify theenzyme missing in the disease. The center is a joint program of the Universityof Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ) and Rutgers University. Thescientists then compared this enzyme to known proteins and gene segments thatare described in databases available through the National Cen...UC Geologist "Flip-Flops" On Understanding Of Crinoid Life Style
...like teardrops sinking," said Meyer. "Graduallythe center of the mass sags, and they fall into this pattern ofspokes. We haven't tested that yet, but we've got a model we planto test." The followup work will be done by graduate student AndrewWebber. Meyer's research is supported by the National GeographicSo...Duke Lemurs Are Released In Madagascar
...monkey) species such as lorises and bushbabies.The center is supported by the National Science Foundation, Duke Universityand private donations.......ental cleanup on those who cause harmstands at the center of domestic environmental laws everywhere," Rather than focusing on manufacturing companies and their visibleemissions to rivers and smokestacks, the new vision for environmental reformincludes the service economy (health care, transportati...