LA BioMed Medical/Research Briefs, July/August 2004
... ... ... ... ... ...In coalition with major health and business groups throughout California, LA BioMed has indicated its support for the California Stem Cell Bond Issue Initiative that recently qualified for November's ballot. The initiative will allocate money from a $3 billion bond to fund promising, California-based stem cell research. ... ...The initiative will distribute an average of...AGU journal highlights - 29 July 2004
Contents ...I. Highlights, including authors and their institutions ...II. Ordering information for science writers ...... ...I. Highlights, including authors and their institutions ......The following highlights summarize research papers in Geophysical Research...Letters (GL). The papers related to these Highlights are printed in the next paper...issue of the journal following their electronic p...Annals of internal medicine tip sheet, July 20, 2004
... ...After reviewing literature on heart patients traveling by airplane, authors discuss effects of air travel and security devices on pacemakers and implantable automatic defibrillators; preflight screening; and in-flight venous thrombosis. They make recommendations on safe air travel after heart attacks and prevention of in-flight deep venous thrombosis. ... ...Authors also present a nine-it...Story tips from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, July 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....... ...... This month's arrival at Saturn of the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft following a seven-year voyage was made possible partly by work done at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The spacecraft's instruments are powered by generators that convert...JCI Table of Contents, 15 July 2004
SUMMARIES OF PAPERS IN THIS ISSUE ...Stem Cells Get a Workout ...Female Infertility camp ...Getting to the HAART of Bone Loss ...ApoA-IV has the Guts to Fight Inflammation ...Not by Mutation Identification Alone...... ...Fat Gets Cut Away from Insulin Resistance ...Pulmonary Fibrosis Polarized by Cytokines ...Anuerysms in Allografted aorta ...IDO says Don't to Asthma ...IDO Can Do Anergy ...HCV M...National Academies advisory: July 21 meeting on S&T presidential advisory committees
The National Academies' Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy is examining barriers to selecting the most-qualified candidates for science and technology presidential appointments, and assessing the overall process of appointing scientists, engineers, and health professionals to serve on federal advisory committees. At a meeting on July 21, the study committee will hear stakeholde...AACR reschedules annual meeting for July 11-14 in Washington, D.C.
The Board of Directors of the American Association for Cancer Research has voted to reschedule the AACR 94th Annual Meeting -- cancelled in Toronto, Canada, earlier this month as a result of the SARS outbreak -- for July 11-14 in the new Washington Convention Center in Washington, DC.... ...The decision to reschedule the meeting came after a large majority of registrants, abstract presenters and...Other highlights in the July 7 JNCI
... ...One purpose of a phase I clinical trial of a new cytotoxic drug is to determine the side effects associated with increasing drug dose, i.e., determine the dose that produces the maximum effect at which the toxicity can still be tolerated. New targeted, non-cytotoxic anticancer agents, such as small-molecule kinase inhibitors, pose challenges to this paradigm because they can achieve their...JCI table of contents, 1 July 2004
This press release contains summaries of newsworthy papers to be published online on 1 July 2004, in the including: A Pregnant Pause for Unexpected Interactions; Half at the Wrong Time Creates Bad Blood; Cancer Patient, Heal Thyself; PAF-way to Bone Loss; Immunology Link May Make You Lose Your Appetite; and PPAR for the Course. Contact information is included for all authors as well as a direc...Highlights of the July Journal of the American Dietetic Association
The July 2004 issue of the Journal of the American Dietetic Association contains articles and research studies you may find of interest. Below is a summary of some of this month's articles. For more information or to receive a faxed copy of a Journal article, call Kelly Liebbe at 800-877-1600, ext. 4769 or e-mail ....... ...... According to the Centers for Diseas...The protection of human subjects in gene transfer research explored at conference in July
The protection of human subjects as research volunteers in gene transfer clinical trials is the topic of a conference July 8-10, at the Hyatt Regency Hotel, Chicago, and sponsored by Rush University Medical Center, Chicago.... ...The conference is being held in collaboration with the federal Food and Drug Administration, the Office of Human Research Protection, the University of Chicago, the Depa...Physics tip sheet #36 - July 30, 2003
1) ...J.E. Maggs, G.J. Morales ...Physical Review Letters (print issue: 18 July 2003)... ...Physicists working at UCLA have created a 30-cm diameter plasma laser. This was accomplished by applying a nonuniform magnetic field to a type of plasma region, resulting in a frequency-selective Alfven wave resonator and then injecting current into the resonator. When a current threshold is exceeded, the...Bio-X symposium will be held at the Clark Center on July 31
The Bio-X program will present an interdisciplinary initiatives symposium in the auditorium of the new James H. Clark Center on Thursday, July 31, from 1 to 5 p.m. The event, which is free and open to the public, will feature short presentations by nine Stanford researchers who have been awarded Bio-X Interdisciplinary Initiatives grants covering a wide range of interests - from image-guided radi...JCI table of contents, July 15, 2003
...... In the July 15 issue of The Journal of Clinical Investigation, Ambrose Cheung and colleagues at Dartmouth School of Medicine in New Hampshire, USA, report that salicylic acid (SAL), the major metabolite of aspirin, downregulates two Staphylococcus aureus genes key to this organism's pathogenesis....... Over 100 years have passed since S. aureus was first described as the organism responsi...Science Picksleads, feeds and story seeds (July 2003)
Looking for summer science stories? Coral to frogs to volcanoes. This monthly collection of science stories can help you cover ongoing earth and natural science research and investigations at USGS---photos and web links are provided to enhance your story.... ... ...The Nighttime Journey of Coral Larvae: For four nights starting one day after each new moon during a period of about 4 months - this...JCI table of contents, July 1 2003
...... As premature infants often have under-developed lungs, oxygen is administered following birth. One devastating side effect, however, is the development of retinopathy of prematurity (ROP), whereupon oxygen administration to the infant suppresses the expression of essential growth factors that promote the development of retinal blood vessels, resulting in blindness. In the July 1 issue of...July 4 fireworks: Why they're brighter than ever
One of the oldest forms of chemistry fireworks today burns more spectacularly than ever, brightening the sky on the Fourth of July in a kind of pyrotechnical ballet, orchestrated by modern computer programming....... fireworks burning brighter?...... In the past, the colors were produced by igniting charcoal, starches and gums, while today these have been replaced by metal fuels, explains chem...July 31 deadline approaching to apply for $500,000 in research grants from GlaxoSmithKline
GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) announced today a final call to submit applications for its Drug Discovery and Development Research Grant Program. Researchers working toward breakthroughs in HIV/AIDS drug therapies have until July 31, 2003, to apply. ...GSK will award $500,000 in research grants for innovative HIV/AIDS drug research in recognition of the need to produce new alternatives and hope in the fi...Society for Conservation Biology to hold 17th Annual Meeting in Duluth June 28-July 2
MINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL--Coastal pollution, loss of coral reefs, the struggle to maintain biodiversity these challenging natural resource issues and many others faced across the world today are strongly linked to the interactions between land and water. The management and understanding of land, freshwater, and marine systems are essential to effectively deal with these problems. These situations...Other highlights in the July 17 issue of JNCI
... ...A new study suggests that testing urine for elevated levels of a protein involved in the initiation of DNA replication may be a tool to detect bladder cancer. The results appear in the July 17 issue of the ...... The gold standard test for diagnosing bladder cancer is cystoscopy, or an examination of the bladder through a cystoscope that is inserted into the body through the urethra. How...Physics tip sheet #21 July 10, 2002
... P. R. Hobson, J. Watson... Journal of Optics A: Pure and Applied Optics (Print issue: July 2002)...... Knowledge of the distribution and dynamics of marine organisms and particles is crucial to understanding aquatic ecosystems. However, most measurement techniques disrupt the system and prevent collection of good data. Researchers have shown how to record the three dimensional structure and...Physics tip sheet #20 July 3, 2002
... S. Bohn, B. Andreotti, S. Douady, J. Munzinger, Y. Couder... Physical Review E (Print issue: June 2002)...... Despite the stunning diversity of leaf shapes from one plant variety to another, a universal formula may guide the vein patterns in all leaves. An analysis of leaf vein networks revealed simple relationships between the angles that veins form when they intersect and the thickness of...Other Highlights in the July 3 Issue of JNCI
... ...... ADT is one of two organosulfur compounds that are being studied for their ability to stimulate the production of enzymes that detoxify carcinogens. ADT has been approved in Canada and Europe for the treatm...PROVIDENCE, RI - Nearly 1,300 scientists will attend the Quadrennial Joint Annual Meetings of the American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB) and the Canadian Society of Plant Physiologists July 21 to 25, 2001 in the Rhode Island Convention Center in Providence. Abstracts and other annual meeting information can be found at ... ...Leading findings in plant research will be presented including...Presentation of Dr. Ingo Potrykus July 21 in Providence
...PROVIDENCE, RI, -- The American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB) will present the ASPB Leadership in Science Public Service Award to Dr. Ingo Potrykus July 21, 2001 at the ASPB annual meeting in Providence.... ...The award recognizes Dr. Potrykus' outstanding contributions to science and humanity through his research. Dr. Potrykus' research contributes to food security in developing nation...Tips from the Journals of the American Society for Microbiology: July 2001
ANTACIDS MAY INCREASE SUSCEPTIBILITY TO OYSTER-ASSOCIATED DISEASE...... If you pop antacids you may be more susceptible to disease from eating raw oysters, say researchers from the Food and Drug Administration's Gulf Coast Seafood Laboratory. They report their results in the July 2001 issue of the journal Applied and Environmental Microbiology.... Using a simulated gastric environment, the re...Addiction, AIDs, and ADHD to be discussed at July 11 briefing
...WHAT: A two-hour media briefing on leading edge research in brain chemistry and neuroimaging, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energys Brookhaven National Laboratory, exclusively for working journalists. Hear directly from researchers who are advancing our understanding of the neurological manifestations of addiction, AIDS, and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).... ...W...9,000-mile coastline voyage will include much-anticipated ...repatriation of sacred artifacts removed in 1899 ... ...NORTHAMPTON, Mass.--Just over a century ago, industrialist and railroad magnate Edward Harriman chartered a ship to take his family on a pleasure cruise to Alaska, one of the last remaining expanses of unexplored wilderness and open space on the North American continent. ...What...July media highlights: GEOLOGY and GSA TODAY
.BOULDER, Co. Following are highlights from the July issue of GEOLOGY and a summary of the science article from the July issue of GSA TODAY, published by the Geological Society of America. Please discuss articles of interest with the authors before publishing stories on their work, and please make reference to GEOLOGY or GSA TODAY in stories published. Contact Ann Cairns at GSA for copies of ar...Q & A with Dr. J Craig Venter, July 20th
.With the joint announcements by Celera Genomics and the Human Genome Project on the status of both efforts in sequencing .the human genome, the debates intensify around such issues as: free access vs. access for pay, patenting genes, discrimination .by employers and health insurance providers based on genetic information, and the future of gene therapy. Here is an .opportunity to participate....Journalists are invited to attend the next open session of the National Science.Board (NSB) on Thursday, July 29, and related events on Friday, July 30, at the.National Science Foundation, 4201 Wilson Blvd., Arlington, Va. In addition to.discussion of the final report of the Task Force on the Environment, the NSB is.expected to consider several awards for new National Science Foundation Scienc.... . .For years, scientists have been hunting for genes involved in different types of.lung cancer, such as pulmonary adenocarcinoma and squamous cell carcinoma. .However, smoking and other environmental factors can obscure the genetic basis.of human lung cancers, making animal models important for researchers in the.field. In the July issue of Genome Research, Giacomo Manenti, Tommaso Dragani.(......... ...This news release is also available .... ... ... ...Washington, DC - Differences in media coverage, science literacy, and the...public's trust in regulatory authorities can help explain why genetically...modified foods have met rancorous public resistance in Europe but hardly a...raised eyebrow in the U.S., according to a survey by a team of U.K. researchers....The team analyzes their...