Takeda Chemical Industries and Beth Israel Deaconess announce research agreement
OSAKA, JAPAN & BOSTON, MA. Takeda Chemical Industries, LTD, and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) announced today they have signed a research agreement to investigate the molecular basis of diabetes and obesity and to develop new therapies for these metabolic diseases, which are among the fastest growing and most serious health problems today. ...The three-year agreement, which totals...Site of US Open at Bethpage is reducing pesticide use
BETHPAGE, N.Y. -- Forget the sand traps and the water hazards. The real battle on Long Island's Bethpage State Park golf course, the site of this year's U.S. Open June 13-16, is making the putting greens free from fungal diseases, cutworms and weevils ---- and safe from the pesticides used to combat them....... Turf scientists at Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y., and the Bethpage greenskeeper...UCSF's Elizabeth Blackburn Receives Two Major Science Awards
.Elizabeth Blackburn, Ph.D., chair of the Department of Microbiology and Immunology.at the University of California San Francisco, has been named 1999 California.Scientist of the Year and is the recipient of the 1998 Passano Award, two high.honors in science.. .Blackburn received the honors for her pioneering studies on telomeres, segments.of DNA that bind both ends of chromosomes, the gene-bear...