Wildlife Dying At The Doorsteps Of World's National Parks, Study Says
... demography andloss of genetic diversity. But the authors warn that conservation measures thatfocus only on maintaining or bolstering populations within protected areas areunlikely to prevent extinctions....Discovery Of Plant-Like Metabolic Pathway In Common Parasites Supplies New Targets For Therapy
...rld's experts in theshikimate pathway." Additional authors of the paper include co-first authors Fiona Roberts, M.D.,and Craig Roberts, M.D., who were research fellows in McLeod's laboratory andare...Pediatric Anesthesiologists Risk Halothane-Related Liver Injury
...developed liver injury." The study's other authors were Robert S. Greenberg, M.D., and Jackie LeeMartin Jr., M.D., of Hopkins; and Mohammed Bourdi, Ph.D., and Lance Pohl,Pharm.D., Ph.D., of the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute. --JHMI-- Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions' news releases are a...New Strategy Discerns Early Stages Of HIV Infection, Paving Way For Targeted Study And Therapy
...ment by Drs.Janssen and Busch [the lead and senior authors of the paper]. It should beheralded as a major breakthrough in HIV care." "We anticipate that coming out of the 12th World AIDS conference there willcontinue to be a very strong recommendation for early comprehensive treatmentfor people who have rece...Tiny Molecular Channels Key To Protecting Heart During Attack
...y more than 50 percent." The study's other authors were Toshiaki Sato, M.D., Ph.D., and BrianO'Rourke, Ph.D., of Hopkins; and Yongge Liu, Ph.D., of Otsuka AmericaPharmaceutical Inc., Rockville, Md. --JHMI-- Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions' news releases are available on aPRE-EMBARGOED basis on Eu...Novel Liver Steroid Slows Brain Tumor Growth
...s mimic those of tumors. The study's other authors were Allen K. Sills Jr., M.D.; Betty M. Tyler;Darin S. Epstein; Eric P. Sipos, M.D.; John D. Davis, M.D.; Mark Donowitz, M.D.;and John Laterra, M.D., Ph.D., of Hopkins; Simon Pitchford of Molecular DevicesCorp., Sunnyvale, Calif.; Francis H. Gannon o...Minuscule Ocean Plants Help Stabilize Earth's Atmosphere, Climate
...hytoplankton in ways that arehard to forecast, the authors wrote. For instance, the extra carbon diox... the atmosphere;that is, a positive feedback," the authors warned. But they also stressed "suchan analysis is greatly oversimplified, perhaps even naive." ...UNC-CH Researchers Develop Promising Heart Research Tool
...the AmericanJournal of Physiology. Besides Cascio, authors are Christopher J. Hyatt,graduate assistant in biomedical engineering; and Drs. John J. LeMasters,professor of cell biology and anatomy; Barbara J. Muller-Borer, researchassociate in medicine; and Timothy A. Johnson, research associate professor ofbi...Deliberate Self Harm Is An Overlooked Tragedy In The Developing World
...important cause of death in many rural areas. The authors believe that medical management of acute self poisoning is currently poor and that the introduction of better management protocols would reduce mortality. Contact: Dr Michael Eddleston, Research Fellow, Centre for Tropical Medicine, Nuffield Departme...Depression A Risk Factor For Coronary Artery Disease In Men
...as a riskfactor for CAD. The study's other authors were Lucy A. Mead, Sc.M.; Patricia P. Chang,M.D.; Lisa Cooper-Patrick, M.D., M.P.H.; Nae-Yuh Wang, M.S.; and Michael J.Klag, M.D., M.P.H. All faculty members of The Johns Hopkins University schoolsof Medicine or Public Health, they work together in ...Clever Chemistry Protects Beetle Babies
...ofessor of Chemistry at Cornell who is one of six authors of the Science article. "This beetle pupa does the same thing, creating hundreds of deterrent compoundsfrom three simple precursors," Meinwald adds. "Then it skips the screeningprocess in the laboratory and goes straight to the field where the ...Combining Angiostatin With Radiation Enhances Anti-Cancer Effects Of Each
...gical next step," advised Weichselbaum. Additional authors of the paper include Helena Mauceri, Nader Hanna, MichaelBeckett, David Gorski, Mary-Jane Staba, Kerri Stellato, Kevin Bigelow and RuthHeimann from the University of Chicago; Stephen Gately and Gerald Soff fromNorthwestern; and Mohanraj Dhanabal, Vik...First Reproducible Cloning Of Mammals From Adult Cells Reported In Nature
...rcent and of full term mice at 2 to 3 percent. The authors note this workclearly confirms that mammals can be reproducibly cloned from adult cells. This nuclear transfer technique provides a ready model for researchers.Specifically, scientists can use cloned mice to evaluate the molecularmechanismsthat regu...Fetal Growth Rate Affects Risk Of Heart Disease
...the Uppsala Hospital, Sweden during 1915-1919, the authors show that among men, the risk of death from ischaemic heart disease declines as birth weight increases (the heavier the baby the less likely he is to die from heart disease in later life). They suggest that it is in fact the rate at which the fetus ...Marine Snail Toxin Targeted At African Toad Eggs Reveals Novel Impact On The Regulation Of Serotonin
...s are regulated in humans, according to one of the authors of the study, David Julius, PhD, an associate professor of cellular and molecular pharmacologyat UCSF. And as serotonin plays a key role in regulating nerve cell behavior,understanding the way in which it functions paves the way for designing newdru...Putting Down Your Roots: How Plants Know To Do It
... for Gravitropism in Arabidopsisthaliana," and the authors are: Dr. Christian Luschnig, Postdoctoral Associate, Whitehead Institute forBiomedical Research Dr. Roberto A. Gaxiola, Postdoctoral Associate, Whitehead Institute forBiomedical Research Ms. Paula Grisafi, Technical Associate, Whitehead Institute f...Gene Patterns Can Predict When--But Not Whether--Alzheimer's Will Strike
...der todetermine the true cases of Alzheimer's. The authors then looked forrelationships between the incidence of the disease and the presence or absenceof the different variants of APOE. In that half of the population predisposed for Alzheimer's, those whoinherited two E4 alleles (one from each parent...... of cell and developmentbiology and one of the key authors in the 1996 zebrafish issue, studiesdorsoventral p...g abdominal regions of the embryo. Mullins andlead authors Vu H. Nguyen and Bettina Schmid, both of whom are doctoral studentsin Mullins' lab, postulate that t...A New Gene For Mental Retardation
...he cases remain unidentified. In thisarticle, the authors demonstrate the strong association of a 12 bp mutationin the coding portion of a newly described X-chromosome gene with X-linkedmental retardation in several independent populations. Overall, thismutation was found in 7 percent of all institutionaliz......tdifferences in 5-HTT expression and function. The authors investigatedwhether 5-HTTLPR is associated with psychosis by genotyping 50 schizophrenicor schizoaffective patients at 5-HTTLPR and conducting double-blind BriefPsychiatric Rating Scale (BPRS) ratings while the patients wereneuroleptic-free. Patients...