Southern Pine Beetle Reaching Outbreak Levels In North Florida
...nditions, Meeker said. Florida has been laying the foundation for a pine beetle attack over thelast few decades, with planted acreage of loblolly pine twice what it was30 years ago and at a higher level than in 1949, when Florida's firstforest inventory was conducted, Foltz and Meeker said. That means plenty of...World's Experts Plan Global Locator Service For Environmental Information
...nters, or published on the Internet. This lays the foundation for a virtual library of environmental data and information that will be easily accessible on global networks. "An information locator service is useful wherever people communicate, but there is a special urgency to the worldwide sharing o...High Levels of Vitamin C Prove Toxic to HIV
...immune cells. The laboratory research provides the foundation to begin to understand the relationship among vitamin C, HIV infection, and cell metabolism, and may lead to new therapeutic targets to counter the AIDS virus, he added. Vitamin C is essential to the human body and is necessary for normal function of...Newly Discovered Human Protein Provides Important Target For Cancer Therapy
...s." In fact, say Meyerson and Counter, the foundation for an anti-telomerasedrug may already exist. The three known catalytic subunits of telomerase (fromhumans, yeast, and a protozoan, respectively) belong to the same general familyof molecules as the reverse transcriptase enzyme produced by the HIV v...Gene Locus Found For Essential Tremor Disorder
...ET gene," says Dr. Higgins. "This findinglays the foundation for future research aimed at identifying the cause of ET. And it may eventually further our understanding of why people shake and benefitindividuals with tremor through better diagnosis and treatment." The discovery of a genetic susceptibility locus ...Whitaker Awards $6.8 Million For Biomedical Engineering Education
...ernship programs at colleges and universities. The foundation also supports research to lower medical costs and underwrites the development of teaching materials....Biodiversity Worth $2.9 Trillion
...ents such as this," Pimentel said, "can serve as a foundation to develop strategies and policies to preserve biological diversity and maintain ecosystem integrity. All these services to humanity are possible only because our planet is such a diverse place. Every species that's lost diminishes that vast resour...UF Researchers Investigate Phenomenon Of Seizure-Alert Dogs
... from the Able Trust, a private, Tallahassee-based foundation that helps people with disabilities find employment, Reep and his colleagues, Paul Davenport, also an associate professor of physiological sciences, canine information specialist/trainer Deb Dalziel and neurologist Basim Uthman will study not just an...New Molecular Switch Is The Key That Unlocks DNA Repair
...stand the true function, we are provided with a foundation to target the process as a whole.” Dr. Fishel and his colleagues report their results in the December 26 issue of the journal Cell . According to Dr. Fishel, a mismatch of the DNA nucleotides, or building blocks, may...Burroughs Wellcome Fund Continues Support Of EurekAlert!
... Durham, North Carolina, is an independent private foundation established to advance the medical sciences by supporting research and other scientific and educational activities. EurekAlert! offers secured online access for science, medical, health, and technology reporters to pre-publication versions of article......tion detectionand monitoring will serve as a solid foundation for the remote sensing elementsof the Agriculture and Food Processing Initiative. ABCD Center The Agri-Business Commercialization and Development Center, formed in 1994 andlocated in Richland, specializes in transferring Pacific Northwest-develope...Fruit Flies May Shed Light On Cocaine Addiction
...f cocaine addiction in people. It may also lay the foundation for highly specific drugs to treat cocaineaddiction. The research, performed by Dr. Jay Hirsh and Colleen McClung of the Universityof Virginia in Charlottesville, grew out of the group's long-term geneticstudies on brain receptors and neurotransmitt...IFT Foundation Receives Grant For Graduate Nutrition Fellowships
...e of infants and young children. As a result, the foundation has a variety of partnerships with non-profit organizations to deliver education, support, and care programs to parents and children as well as to support medical education and research programs. The Gerber Foundation's commitment to infants and chi...USGS 1999 Budget Emphasizes Clean Water, Disaster Information, Species And Habitat Research
...nagers. "Impartial scientific information is the foundation for effective policymaking," said Dr. ThomasCasadevall, acting USGS director. "As the Nation's primary natural science agency, the USGS iscommitted to responding to America's critical scientific, health, and economic concerns, such asthe quality of t...Low Cholesterol? Reduced Sodium? What Do These Terms Really Mean?
...imates ofmany of the dietary components had little foundation in logic. It seems peculiarthat any consumer could think that one serving of a soup labeled "fat free"could have 30% of the entire daily recommended amount of fat. Though this wasthe extreme case for "fat free," there were several instances of unbeli......ist, andchemist Yoav Eichen. Wires are the foundation of any circuit because they link circuitcomponents to each other and to the outside world. The Technion team constructedtheir prototype nanowire between two gold electrodes separated by a narrow gapof 12 microns, about one-tenth the width of a human ...Study Links Viruses And Vascular Diseases
...ory, vascular damage caused by a virus could lay a foundation for thebuild-up of plaque. Though it has its supporters, this theory has always suffered a credibilityproblem -- there has never been any direct evidence that viruses can injure humanvessels. Now, thanks to a surprising discovery at Washington Univer...UPMC Researchers Report On Gene Therapy Advances
...edthus far in the clinical trial, which provides a foundation for similartreatments of RA and related joint disorders. "We are very encouraged by these results and are eager to begin the next phaseof the study," commented principal investigator Chris Evans, Ph.D., Henry J.Mankin Professor of Orthopaedic Surg...Human Genome Researchers Receive Biotech Award
...build evenbetter genetic maps. This work laid the foundation for a critical component ofthe Human Genome Project. Dr. Lander provided the tools for the use of molecular markers in mappingdisease genes. He developed statistical methods to allow the analysis of largedata sets of genetic information. Dr. Lander ......mental postulates of genetic chemistry andlaid the foundation for the solution of the genetic code. Dr. Yanofsky also determined the chemical structure of the six genes encodingthe enzymes for protein biosynthesis and identified the precise chemicalinteractions between the regulatory proteins and nucleic acid s...