Dangerous Chemical Combination Presents Possible Scenario For Gulf War Illnesses
...n. Co-authors of the Duke study include formerDuke researcher Kenneth R. Wilmarth, now at ENVIRON Corp. in Arlington,Va.; Kurt; Karl F. Jensen of the Environmental Protection Agency at ResearchTriangle Park, N.C.; and Frederick W. Oehme of Kansas State University. "Together, the three phases of our investigati...... dopamine levels in the synapse,"said Giros, now a researcher at INSERM in Paris. "We are now in theposition to ask questions about what role each of the components play andwhat happens when one crucial component is missing or malfunctioning."......les from the Peking Man site. Back in the lab, the researcher used state-of-the-art methods to show that the limestone from strata just above the layers containing Peking Man fossilized bones is close to 400,000 years old. Previous studies, using less advanced methods, dated the remains in the 200,000- to 300,0...Duke Researchers Find Second Gene Linked To Blood Vessel Disorder
...0,000 people. Geneticist DougMarchuk, postdoctoral researcher David Johnson, the study's lead author,and colleagues from Duke and from six other research institutions reportedthe finding in the June issue of Nature Genetics. The study was funded bythe National Institutes of Health, the American Heart Associatio...New Discovery About Genes Has Implications For Genetic Therapy
...g with doctoral student Jian Yang and postdoctoral researcher Steven Zimmerly, focused on the simple organism S...purposes, he said. Lambowitz's team, along with researcher Phillip S. Perlman, a biochemist from the Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, was supported by gr......ssor of Biology; Scott R. Smedley, a post-doctoral researcher in CIRCE; Daniel K. Youngs, professor of entomolo...ist at CIRCE; Braden Roach, a Cornell postdoctoral researcher at the time of the studies and now a staff scientist at the Ithaca-based pharmaceutical-development...Researchers Use Hydrated Lime To Reduce Toxic Selenium Emissions
...tOhio State. Fan and Suhas Mahuli, a post-doctoral researcher in chemical engineering,have studied ways to capture selenium from flue gas before itescapes into the atmosphere. The researchers found that hydratedlime, which has been shown effective in controllingsulfur dioxideemissions in flue gas, can also be u......l, such as laser detectors, are useful only if the researcher knows what to look for. "But if you start without knowing anything about what's in a single cell, you need mass spectrometry," McLafferty said. "We don't even need to know that it's a protein." Electrospray is a method for ionizing relatively big m...Study Shows Songbirds Switch From Bugs To Berries To Fuel Fall Migration
...ares the berry. A new study by a Brown University researcher suggests that many songbirdsmigrating south each autumn may switch from typical meals of insects to aberry-rich diet to store sufficient fat to fuel their grueling migration. Thestudy also shows migrating songbirds seek out fruit-laden "refueling" si...Discovery Could Help Understand Breast-Cancer Therapies
...inst breast cancer in the United States, said lead researcher BenitaKatzenellenbogen, a professor of molecular and integrative physiology. The research was published in the Aug. 16 issue of The Journal of BiologicalChemistry. The authors were Katzenellenbogen, who on Oct. 18 will receivethe 1996 Komen Scientif...New Software Provides Quick Analysis of ion-Channel Activity
...llow. With the new software programs, named QUB, a researcher can discover in minutes how long it takes for an i...n fed to the computer. The program then allows the researcher to develop accurate models of ion-channel behavior based on the experimental data. The program says...Duke's Russian Laser Making Ultraviolet Light And Gamma Rays
...cs professor who originally designed the OK-4 as a researcher in hisnative Russia. Litvinenko predicted that, within about a month, the Duke FEL lab wouldbegin trying to produce laser light of even shorter wavelengths than theOK-4's standing world record for an FEL -- 240 nanometers, or billionthsof a meter S...Fast Measurement Technique Reveals Early Steps In Protein Folding
...aidMartin Gruebele, a professor of chemistry and a researcher at the BeckmanInstitute for Advanced Science and Technology. "We are able to witnessthe early steps in protein folding that are being missed by other techniques." Understanding how proteins fold is a necessary first step toward the eventualgoal of t...ORNL Mice Helping Researchers Isolate, Identify Causes Of Cancer
...o humanleukemias," said Monica Justice, a genetics researcher in ORNL's BiologyDivision. "In addition, mouse lymphomas have genetic characteristics thatallow us to isolate the genes involved in the development of the cancer." Included in ORNL's inventory of 120,000 mice are 1,000 strains, some ofwhich were orig...ORNL Finds Common Genetic Cause For Epilepsy, Migraine
... researchers thought, says Lisa Stubbs, a genetics researcher at theDepartment of Energy's (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). Stubbs and colleagues at ORNL recently completed a study in which theyisolated, mapped and studied effects of the chromosome 8 Cacnl1a4 gene foundin mutant "tottering" mice, whi...Molecular Imposter Rebuts Long
... question decades of dogma on DNAreplication, says researcher Eric Kool of the Universityof Rochester. Kool adds that the new information may helpresearchers develop new drugs that are better able to sneak inand kill sickly cells -- including deadly cancer cells. Kool and co-workers created a ring-like mol...Team Identifies Switch For Tumor Suppressor Gene
... graduate student Deidre Nelson, and post-doctoral researcher Nancy Krucher, appears in the Feb. 14 issueof the Journal of Biological Chemistry . Cancer is a tale of cells growing out of control, and genesthat make proteins that speed up or slow down cell growth areoften pivotal in the disease. One such g...Purdue Researchers Prod Plants To Clean Up Pollution
... the way they take up toxic metals, another Purdue researcher pushes tobacco plants to clean up radioactive waste. Purdue botany Professor Mary Alice Webb uses tobacco seedlings to take up strontium, a contaminant made famous by the Chernobyl accident. Strontium 90 is one of the radioactive wastes that billowed...New Vaccine Blocks Viral Entry In Cattle, May Have Implications For Human Vaccines
...l. The College of Agricultural and Life Sciences researcher believes the vaccine holds great promise for improving cattle health. BHV-1 infections cause abortions among pregnant cows and lead to shipping fever. These problems cost the U.S. livestock industry hundreds of millions of dollars each year in vaccin...Restoring Farm Land To Natural Wetlands Key To Stemming Flood
... be sinkingin, according to University of Illinois researcher Daniel Schneider. "After the '93 floods, we saw that there was an opportunity to changethings so the damage wouldn't be so great in the future," said Schneider,a professor of urban and regional planning and professional scientist inthe Illinois Natu...