Duke Geologists Explore Alternative Way To Measure Ice Age Sea Bottom Temperatures
...tensified in the past 3.2 million years, which the authors suggest is due to greater influence of bottom currents of colder waters flowing from the south polar region. The ostracod calcium-magnesium records also show changes in bottom temperatures that are consistent with the geological record of glacial cyc...Duke Researchers Discover Candidate Susceptibility Gene For Autoimmune Disease
...nd Ester Carballo of Blackshear'slab were the lead authors of the paper. Blackshear also is a professor ofbiochemistry and medicine at Duke medical center. To date, doctors have not identified any specific genes for autoimmunediseases such as rheumatoid arthritis, although many researchers believethere may......opods" and published in the national journal. The authors are Eisner, the Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of Biology; Scott R. Smedley, a post-doctoral researcher in CIRCE; Daniel K. Youngs, professor of entomology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison; Maria Eisner, research support specialist at CIRCE; ...Cornell Researchers Precisely Date Wood From Ancient Tomb In Turkey
...ide links with rulers from Assyria and Syria," the authors write, "the new fixed dendrochronology provides important evidence towards the resolution of a century of debate over Assyrian and Mesopotamian chronology." To visualize such chronologies, one need only visit the Malcolm and Carolyn Wiener Laboratory...Genetic Alterations Linked To Cancer In Some Blood Samples
...cent of patients with small cell lung cancer. The authors speculate that the higher presence of alterations may be indicative of the high propensity of this cancer to spread. In addition to Sidransky, other participants in the Hopkins study include Drs. Homaira Nawroz and Wayne Koch from the Department of O...Low-Protein Diet May Reverse Kidney Disease
...of dialysis for others. The current study's other authors were Sylvia Hill, B.S. and Elizabeth A. Tomalis, M.P.H....Discovery Could Help Understand Breast-Cancer Therapies
...6 issue of The Journal of BiologicalChemistry. The authors were Katzenellenbogen, who on Oct. 18 will receivethe 1996 Komen Scientific Distinction Award from the Susan G. Komen BreastCancer Foundation in Dallas; her husband, John Katzenellenbogen, professorof chemistry; Kirk Ekena, postdoctoral researcher; a...Researchers Find Genetic Clues To Intestinal Disease
...urgery than patients 40 years and older. The other authors of the reports are Joseph M. Polito II, Renee C. Rees, Barton Childs, Albert I. Mendeloff, Mary L. Harris, Arron Z. Tokayer, Shirley A. Quaskey, and E. David Mellitis. Individuals who want to participate in the Crohn's disease family studies at Johns...Animal Studies Indicate Aging Brain Responsive To Estrogen
...g might be alleviated by replacing estrogens. The authors of the study, Phillippa Henderson, Christina Williams and GillianEinstein, prepared their findings for presentation Friday (Nov. 15) at theSociety for Neuroscience meeting. Henderson is a medical student at the Duke University Medical Center; Willia...Selenium Supplements Can Reduce Cancer Rates
...y of Arizona School of Medicine. The other primary authors are Cornell biostatisticians Bruce W. Turnbull and Elizabeth Slate, professor and assistant professor, respectively, in the School of Operations Research and Industrial Engineering, and David S. Alberts, M.D., of the College of Medicine, Arizona Canc...Bigger Biology Tackled Through Keyboards
...ast." Computational biology is at that point, the authors agree. Dazzling newhigh-speed computational technology, enormous and growing sets of data,and more sophisticated approaches to problem solving are now converging. Promising advances in computational techniques allow researchers to beginto account fo...The CIA Would Like To Know What Scientists Are Seeing Over The Rainbow
...changes related to the progression of disease, the authors report that spectral karyotyping may be valuable in comparing genomes from different species to determine how genetic composition evolved over hundreds of thousands of years. Although Dorothy did eventually return to Kansas, the full-color wizardr...Stronger Evidence That Global Climate Change Can Reduce The Variety Of Life
...s determined from the chemistry of the shells, the authors were able toestablish a statistical correspondence between diversity and climatechanges that were caused by cycles of the Earth's orbit relative to thesun. The astronomical or orbital theory of climate holds that changes inthe seasonal and geographi...New Study Shows Steps Leading To Colon Cancer
... issue of the journal Cell. Besides Peifer, UNC-CH authors are doctoral students Robert Cavallo and Joseph Loureiro. Other authors include Drs. Marc van de Wetering and Hans Clevers of University Hospital in Utrecht, Netherlands, a...Herpes-Based Gene Therapy Is Key To Promising Liver Tumor Vaccine
...an-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. Other authors includeHoward Federoff, M.D./Ph.D., chief of the University ofRochester's Division of Molecular Medicine and Gene Therapy andprofessor in the Department of Neurology; Michael Brownlee, M.D.,of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine; and Sloan-Ketter...Herpes-Based Gene Therapy Is Key To Promising Liver Tumor Vaccine
..., at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. Other authors include Howard Federoff, M.D./Ph.D., chief of the University of Rochester's Division of Molecular Medicine and Gene Therapy and professor in the Department of Neurology; Michael Brownlee, M.D., of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine ; and Sloan-...Houseflies May Transmit Ulcer Bug
...r pylori is unknown,"says Peter Grbel, one of the authors of the study. "Since viable bacteriahave been shown to be excreted in feces from infected individuals andhouseflies habitually develop and feed on excrement, we hypothesizedthat flies ingest and harbor H. pylori and in turn contaminate the humanen......of the green oak leaf roller moth that the British authors notedin their unpublished data. It could, for instance, be only a partof a very long cycle of rise and fall, or it could, in fact, bepart of an extinction curve....Newly Discovered Human Protein Provides Important Target For Cancer Therapy
... move muchfaster." Dr. Weinberg, principal authors Drs. Matthew Meyerson and ChristopherCounter, and their colleagues from the Whitehead Institute, the MassachusettsInstitute of Technology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Merck ResearchLaboratories, and McMaster University in Ontario, Canada, describ......fection in livestock orhumans. In their paper, the authors note several positive features of their system. Forexample, levels of the novel VSV would be expected to decline as HIV declines,since the VSV only targets andmultiples in HIV-infected cells. Moreover, resistance to the novel VSV wouldnot be expect...