Wolf Prize In Medicine Awarded To Kandel, Columbia's Pioneer Of Memory Research
...edical Institute investigator who has devoted four decades to discovering whatmolecular changes take place in cells when an organism learns a new behavior,has been named to receive the 1999 Wolf Foundation Prize in Medicine. The Wolf Prize, Israel's most prestigious award, is presented each yearby th...Solid Waste Incineration May Exceed Leaded Gasoline As Source Of Lead Air Pollution In Cities
...reached a peak "from the late 1930s toearly 1960s, decades before maximum emissions from combustion of leadedgasoline," according to the article. This time frame corresponds to majorincinerator construction and operation programs in the New York area, thearticle notes. Even when the use of leaded gasoline w...Human Neural Stem Cells Advance Distant Prospect Of Reseeding Damaged Brain
...s much like those thathematologists have known for decades to reside in the bone marrow. The bonemarrow stem cell can renew itself and give rise to all the circulating blood andimmune cells. It can even repopulate an immune system wiped out by irradiationin a bone marrow transplant. In principle, re...Offshore DDT Deposit Spreading, Research Suggests
DDT and other chemicals left by decades of pesticide manufacturing may be spreading from the offshore sediments of the Palos Verdes Shelf (PVS), a University of Southern California Sea Grant study suggests. The level of DDT detectable in PVS sediments has declined steadily since production...UCSF's Elizabeth Blackburn Receives Two Major Science Awards
...velopment and life span of organisms. During two decades of research, Blackburn has determined that telomeres arecrucial for maintaining the stability and integrity of chromosomes. In 1985,she and her then PhD graduate student at UC Berkeley, Carol Greider, discoveredthe novel enzyme that creates telomere...Gene Study Shows Turtles Are Next Of Kin To Crocodiles And Alligators
...reptile genes. The study's conclusions contradict decades of research based onanatomical and fossil studies, which had firmly positioned birds as the reptilegroup most closely related to crocodiles and alligators, a group known ascrocodilians. The surprising finding will be be published in the February 12...Sandia Decontamination Foam May Be Tomorrow's Best First Response In A Chem-Bio Attack
...of mass destruction. The project draws on Sandia's decades of experience working with aqueous foamsfor blast suppression and facility security as part of its nuclear weaponsmission....Study Finds Choline Deficiency Harms Memory Center In Mammals' Brains
...in school later would be less direct andcould take decades to complete. "Developing babies get choline from their mothers during pregnancy andfrom breast milk after they are born," Zeisel said. "Other foods rich in cholineinclude eggs, meat, peanuts and dietary supplements. Breast milk contains muchmore o...Isle Royale Wolves Bounce Back
...ded for trouble. Several times during the past two decades biologists have felt thatcanine parvovirus or a perceived genetic weakness resulting from inbreeding wasplacing the wolves' survival in grave jeopardy. And when last winter's surveyturned up only 14 wolves in the park, those concerns increased. But w...All Mixed Up: How Do Hybrids Fit Into The Picture?
... Hybrids are a symbol of complexity. For several decades these mixed species havechallenged ecologists who study their role in ecological communities.Ecologists are still asking themselves the question: Are plant and animalhybrids viable contributors to ecosystems or just evolutionary blunders? TheSpecial...Study Of Children's Fillings Finds No Mercury Exposure
... a smallpercentage of people over the past several decades because mercury can havedevastating effects at higher concentrations in the body, she said. Overexposureto environmental mercury through industrial waste water, for example, causedsevere nerve damage and mental retardation among children living near ...... "A decline in human sperm counts over recent decades has been reportedbut not confirmed," officials said in the January announcement, adding that 5 to10 percent of couples who want children cannot get pregnant and 3 to 5 percentof newborns have major birth defects. "The panel will look at data...ASM Calls For Focus On Microbial Pollution Of Nation's Water Supply
...on standards and methods for waterquality that are decades old and woefully out of date. There is a critical needfor an integrated, national initiative on the microbial quality of water and onrisk assessment as related to public health. To View the Video: click here to view for 28.8k or click here t...Autoimmune Diseases May Be Triggered By Cells From Your Mother
...ause of cells from their fetuses that persistedfor decades after crossing the placenta. Many autoimmune conditions appear similar to graft versus host disease,in which cells from a transplanted organ mount an immune response against thehost. That has led some researchers to speculate that microchimer...Earliest Modern Tree Lived 360-345 Million Years Ago
...aud, Stephen E. Scheckler,and Jobst Wendt.). After decades of operating with a model of what the tree looked like based onimprints of the leaves in fossil rocks and bits of fossilized wood, last yearMeyer-Berthaud of the Laboratoire de Paléobotanique Université Montpellier inFrance and Scheckle...Sharks Get Porthole Of Opportunity
... forWCS. "The damage that has been done will take decades to undo." Looking at both basic shark biology and the commercial and recreationallandings, WCS found that large coastal sharks are being killed twice as fast asthey can reproduce. And, because sharks reproduce just every two to three yearsfo...Sandia, University Of Montana Researchers Try Training Bees To Find Buried Landmines
...ing the evidence home. The project builds on three decades of explosives-detectionwork at Sandia and 25 years of biosystems research at theUniversity of Montana. Bromenshenk and his colleagueshave shown that as bees forage for nectar and pollen, theyattract particles of dust, soil, and pollen to their fuzzy...Unprecedented View Of RNA Structure Captured
... stature has risen extraordinarily in the past two decades with discoveriesthat RNA not only carries the genetic blueprint to the ribosomes for proteinencoding, but also serves as the catalyst that carries out the reactions anddoes the major work of the ribosome. Its ability to both store geneticinformation ...Walker named a Fellow of the British Royal Society
...e many important discoveries during the past three decades atpaleontological digs in Africa with his collaborators Richard and Meave Leakey,including a famous hominid specimen known as "The Black Skull." In 1995 he andMeave Leakey discovered the skeletal remains of a previously unknown species inthe human l......tions for the last 15 years, say the authors. For decades up to 1970 France had lower animal fat consumption and serum cholesterol and only between 1970 and 1980 did French levels increase to those in Britain. Law and Wald explain that French mortality from ischaemic heart disease is nevertheless still on...