Safety of isoflavones in dietary supplements targeted by Illinois initiative
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- A multidisciplinary team of scientists at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is embarking on a comprehensive five-year study of the effects of soy isoflavones found in dietary supplements on various body tissues.... ...At the heart of the project is the safety of phytoestrogens -- estrogen-like ...compounds in plants that are generally thought to have driven the an...Latest findings on PCBs to be subject of June workshop at Illinois
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Some 200 scientists from around the world will gather June 13-15 at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to discuss their latest findings on the health effects of exposure to PCBs (polychlorinated biphenyls) -- long-lasting chemicals manufactured and widely used before being banned or restricted since the late 1970s.... ...The talks at the will be review...Keck Foundation grant launches interdisciplinary brain research at Illinois
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- A pioneering interdisciplinary research initiative that will combine neuroscience, chemistry and materials science in an effort to find new treatments for brain diseases and damage is being launched at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a $1.2 million grant from the W.M. Keck Foundation.... ...The grant supports a project called Neural Repair in the Microcircui...Illinois study seeking biomarkers of canine diabetes, other diseases
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Even as the genetic blueprint for Shadow the poodle was being completed in Maryland, researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign had been engaged in a long-term study that they hope will add functional gene information to the dog genome as well as benefit both canine and human health.... ...The still-in-progress Illinois study, in which researchers are measuri...Illinois professor wins Nobel Prize
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Paul C. Lauterbur, a pioneer in the development of magnetic resonance imaging and a faculty member at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, has been awarded the 2003 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. He shares the prize with Sir Peter Mansfield of the University of Nottingham in England. Mansfield was a research associate in the department of physics at Illinois...Michigan, Connecticut and Illinois chemists receive award for drug to combat antibiotic resistance
A team of chemists from Pfizer Inc. and Abbott Laboratories was honored June 17 by the world's largest scientific society for discovering and developing a potent drug to fight antibiotic-resistant bacteria. They received one of two 2003 Industrial Innovation Awards at the American Chemical Society's Northeast regional meeting in Saratoga Springs, N.Y.... ...The new drug, called linezolid (Zyvox&r...Key sensory proteins unveiled in mosquito genome found by Illinois entomologist
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- While studying tiny pieces of a genomic DNA sequence from the African malaria mosquito Anopheles gambiae on Christmas Eve 1999, entomologist Hugh Robertson of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign found several possible olfactory receptors similar to those others had found in Drosophila fruit flies....... His discovery led to a comprehensive collaborative effort, the r...Illinois lands research center for advanced water purification
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has received a ...grant from the National Science Foundation to create a science and technology ...center to develop advanced materials and technologies for water purification. The ...grant will provide $4 million in funding for each of five years, with the ...possibility of a five-year renewal....... "The world is heading toward...Small research big on Illinois campus
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. Through the wonders of modern technology, the world is said to have gotten smaller. Correspondingly, the world of research has grown more minute, a realm where scientists and engineers now routinely work on a scale ranging from the size of small atoms to that of large molecules. ... Working at the nanoscale (a nanometer is one billionth of a meter) scientists may develop chemic...University of Illinois at Chicago expert tinkers with evolution to create human 'Built-to-Last'
. . . . . . . If humans were designed to live beyond age 100 and remain free of many of the diseases and disorders associated with aging, we might have looked like short, stout elves. . . This conclusion may be drawn from illustrations that accompany the article, If Humans Were Built to Last, by UIC Professor S. Jay Olshansky and his colleagues in the March 2001 issue of the magazine S...Bt corn variety found to be safe to Illinois butterfly
. CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- A Bt corn variety grown widely in East Central Illinois in 1999 had no adverse effect on black swallowtail caterpillars that thrive in weeds alongside cornfields, according to both field and laboratory studies at the University of Illinois. . The study -- published online Tuesday (June 6) by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science -- differs sharply from a May 19...Illinois waterways, waterfowl detailed in new book
.CHAMPAIGN, Ill. Illinois wetlands, waterways and waterfowl have come together in a 672-page book and companion field guide that blend history, biological research, conservation management and a wealth of color photographs and facts..The book, "Waterfowl of Illinois: Status and Management," documents and builds upon a century of research along the Mississippi and Illinois rivers and in the sta...Greater Prairie Chicken Appears On Comeback Trail In Illinois
.CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - Booming mating calls rocked the Illinois prairie in the.mid-1800s, announcing that colorful greater prairie chickens were near and.abundant. As pioneers moved west, the birds were hunted for food. They fell to.predators, their habitats shrank, and, scientists say, even the birds' declining.genetic diversity brought their near extinction.. .In the Friday (Nov. 27) issue of the...Planned Burning In Forests A Boon To Several Species Of Birds In Illinois
.CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Intentional burning in oak savannas is helping many.bird populations, such as the red-headed woodpecker, based on preliminary.findings of a three-year study in Illinois. . "In the Midwest, the conservation status of birds associated with.savannas and open woodlands has not been promising," said Jeffrey D..Brawn, a scientist with the Illinois Natural History Survey and a profe...