Second Breast Cancer Gene Located
...t to piece together,"said Gordon McVie, scientific director of the Cancer Research Campaign inthe United Kingd...e breast cancergenes," said Dr. O. Michael Colvin, director of the cancer center. "We look forward to helping put this discovery to use as we developbetter ther...Duke Researchers Discover Candidate Susceptibility Gene For Autoimmune Disease
...tis,"said Haynes, chairman of medicine at Duke and director of the Duke UniversityArthritis Center. "It also provides important new information aboutthe types of genes that can cause arthritis." In addition to using the animal model to understand the autoimmune response,Blackshear will continue studies to d...Children Become Gorillas In VR Zoo
...orgiaTech's College of Computing andan associate director of the school's <AHREF="http://www.cc.gatech.e...led by Hodges and Wineman, associate professor and director of thedoctoral program in the College ofArchitecture -- used photographs, videos, contour maps,archi...Transgenic Rice Plants Resist Insects, Drought And Salt Damage
...evastating." According to Gary Toenniessen, deputy director for agricultural sciences at the Rockefeller Foundation, Wu and his colleagues "have made a significant contribution toward meeting world food requirements by demonstrating that biotechnology can be used to enhance the rice plant's ability to defend ...International Research Team Clones New Skin Cancer Gene
...en Bale, M.D., senior author of the Cell paper and director of the Cancer Genetics Program at the Yale Cancer Center. The discovery paves the way for novel approaches to preventing and treating basal cell carcinoma, according to David J. Leffell, M.D., associate professor of dermatology at the Yale School of ...Hawaiian Whales Show 'No Overt Response' To Sounds Of ATOC Simulation
...esearch Program is headed by Christopher W. Clark, director of the Cornell Bioacoustics Research Program. The Hawaiian ATOC simulation used an underwater speaker about one-tenth the size and one-hundredth the power of the ATOC sound source to test effects of sound on nearby whales in relatively shallow w...Nitric Oxide May Hold Key To First Treatment For Deadly Form Of Malaria, Duke Scientists Report
...nc., Research Triangle Park, N.C. Joseph DeAngelo, director of research at Apex, also collaborated on theproject. This is the second recent discovery Stamler has made in NO research. Earlierthis year, he found that an NO compound, combined with hemoglobin, is amajor regulator of gas exchange, as w...Ocean Sediments Contain Record of Past Vegetation Fires in Africa
...re land ecosystems," says Connie Sancetta, program director in NSF's marine geology and geophysics program, which funded Verardo's research along with NSF's climate dynamics program. The burning of trees and grasses on land produces charred particles, or charcoal. Charcoal may then be transported lon...Nitric Oxide Found To Control Cells By Turning On Genes; Suggests New Role In Health And Disease
...nc., Research Triangle Park, N.C. Joseph DeAngelo, director of research at Apex, also collaborated on theproject. This is the second recent discovery Stamler has made in NO research. Earlierthis year, he found that an NO compound, combined with hemoglobin, is amajor regulator of gas exchange, as w...Environmental Reform: The Next Generation Project
... Corp. in Houston; Elizabeth Dowdeswell, executive director of the United Nations Environmental Programme in N...cut Department of Transportation; and Bruce Guile, director of the Program Office at the National Academy of Engineering. Professors from Carnegie Mellon, the ...Major Plant Genome Research Project Underway
... species, according to Mary Clutter, NSF assistant director for biological sciences, and will lead to the crea...from seed to flower and fruit," says Martha Krebs, director of DOE's office of energy research. Applications of the genetic information learned could be used t...Component In Soy Products May Be Substitute For Estrogen Treatment
...gesignificantly." In Belgium, John W. Erdman Jr., director of the U. of I. Division of NutritionalSciences, reported Potter's bone-density findings; Potter presented herfindings on changes in cholesterol levels. The research was supported bythe Illinois Soybean Program Operating Board and Protein Technologie...Green Glow: Not Only For Halloween
...ked in the center," explains Kamal Shukla, program director in NSF's division of molecular and cellular biosciences, which funded the research. "The green color results from the collapse of one turn of the coil to form a ring of three amino acids." The researchers chose to study the modified GFP because it ...Six-Year Drilling Project to Uncover One Million Years of Earth History
...rate within Earth's mantle," says Leonard Johnson, director of NSF's continental dynamics program, which funded the grant. "A mantle plume or hot spot is thought to have produced the string of volcanoes that make up the Hawaiian Islands chain." Adds Don DePaolo, a geologist at UC Berkeley, "This proj...Changing Continental Runoff Patterns Could Change Ocean Circulation
..., Dr. Eric J. Barron, professor of geosciences and director of Penn State's Earth System Science Center, and William H. Peterson, Earth System Science Center, are using a supercomputer-based General Circulation Model to look at the effects of continental runoff on ocean circulation patterns in the early E...Scientists Trek to Africa for Biosphere-Atmosphere Chemistry Study
...idants in the tropics," says Cliff Jacobs, program director in NSF's division of atmospheric sciences, which funds NCAR and EXPRESSO. "The central Africa region is one of several areas in the world that play an influential role in global chemistry cycles. EXPRESSO will help define the degree of influence ce...Impact of Meteorites, Drop in Sea Level Caused Mass Extinctions 65 Million Years Ago
...ssues in paleontology," says Chris Maples, program director in NSF's division of earth sciences. "This work by Marshall and Ward is important because it may result in more agreement among proponents of different end-Cretaceous extinction scenarios." However, the scientists -- paleontologist Charles M...Duke's Russian Laser Making Ultraviolet Light And Gamma Rays
...ahead," added John Madey, the Duke FELLaboratory's director and the free-electron laser's inventor. Madey said one almost immediate use of the 193-nanometer OK-4 ultravioletlight at Duke may be in experimental laser eye surgery. Conventional excimer lasers currently used in such surgery also operateat 193 n...No Such Luck: Nitrogen From Air Pollution Unlikely to Moderate Global Warming
...es composition in grasslands," says Scott Collins, director of the National Science Foundation's Long-Term Ecological Research Program, which funded the research. The two researchers spent 12 years studying the effects of experimentally added nitrogen in 162 plots in three Minnesota grasslands. "We a...