Cut Pesticide Use In Half, Urges SFU Biologist
... "I'm hoping that one of the things this book does is jolt peopleinto thinking twice the next time they pick up a spray can or go to thegrocery store," says Winston. "If the book achieves even thatmuch, I'll consider it successful."...UF Researcher Designs Pill To Control Mosquitoes
...mentally. Unlike DDT and some other pesticides, it does not alter the environment in any way, except for poisoning the larval lunch. Mosquitoes that feed on the hormone-laced chlorella starve to death within 72 hours. "This is a natural bullet that we can use in the environment because the hormone doesn't...Researchers Discover New Genetic Risk For Alzheimer's Disease
...ermine whether the geneticvariation in APOE really does increase amyloid deposition. Studying brainspostmo...er levels of amyloid in the brain. Goate does not believe that this variation in the APOE gene issufficient to cause Alzheimer's disease on its ow...Wake Forest University Study Takes Students In Flight With The Albatross
...orest University biologist David Anderson normally does his field studies of seabirds in the wild without much company, but this time is different. Through e-mail and a World Wide Web site, students in thousands of classrooms in the United States are following the work of Anderson and his research team a......dosingle neurons have multiple receptors? And how does the brain use this vastgenetic resource to form and remember olfactory perceptions? Professor Firestein, who holds a Ph.D. in biology from the University ofCalifornia, Berkeley, and joined the Columbia faculty in 1993, is widelyacknowledged ...Family Ties To Sudden Cardiac Arrest; Study Finds Risk Goes Up 50 Percent
...account for only a small part of theclustering and does not explain the familial patterns seen in our study." Cardiac arrest occurs when the heart suddenly stops beating, due to anabnormal life-threatening heartbeat, called ventricular fibrillation. Incontrast, heart attack occurs when blockages,...UF Researchers Identify Virus That May Cause Epidemic Disease In Sea Turtles
...ted with orfound in more than 95 percent of tumors does not mean it's thecause of the tumor. But it is a s...sexualmaturity," Klein said. "So what this disease does isit affects juveniles and young adults and removes them from thepopulation so they can't go on to b...Emory University Fragile X Group Receives NIH Program Grant
...d thatfragile X syndrome occurs when the FMR1 gene does not produce the FMRP protein. That protein suppression is responsible for the symptoms of the disease, namelymental retardation, attention deficit disorder and connective tissue disorders. The scientists also learned that most affected patien...IFT Report Describes Challenges Of Food Industry Stepping Up To The P(a)lates Of Consumers
...food processingequipment that is easy to clean and does not harbor contaminants, sanitizingequipment regularly to prevent build-up of bacteria, checking equipment forcleaning adequacy with microbiological tests, filtering the air of foodprocessing areas to reduce airborne contaminants, and training person...Good Ergonomics Is Good Economics
...effort. Materials Handling Systems One group that does a somewhat better job of documenting the costs and...on that utilizes a TV camera and monitor. Not only does the TV camera provide a greatly enlarged image of the assembly work, but it enables the worker to ma...Fauci: New Findings Help Explain "Rebound" Of HIV In Patients Who Discontinue Triple-Drug Therapy
... easily detectable HIV in their blood, does the virus rapidly rebound to high levels if the drugs are discontinued? "Our new data suggest that the virus comes roaring back because of the normal stimulatory factors present in the environment of a patient's lymph node...... - how fast arethe rain clouds moving and how hard does the pitcher throw" - snapshots of Tcell counts, blood cholesterol concentrations, or the BRCA-1 polymorphism, forexample, do not tell physicians what they really need to know - how many T cellsare being destroyed and regenerated each day, what is the......r Kenneth Olden said,"A recommendation for testing does not necessarilymean a substance is a carcinogen or mutagen butoften reflects -- as in several of these cases --that substances have gone into widespread use without as much testing as, in retrospect, we wouldlike." The Interagency Committee for Chemi...Low Cholesterol? Reduced Sodium? What Do These Terms Really Mean?
...blicized, so that the misinformationof past labels does not continue to desensitize consumers to current labels. REFERENCES American Dietetic Association (1990). ADA's response to FDA's cholesterollabeling rule. Journal of the American Dietetic Association, 90, 1520. Feick L.F., Herrmann R.O. and War...Salve From Serpents? UD Studies May Explain Why Viper-Venom Protein Stops Tumor Spread In Mice
...istostatin is so selective," McLane explains. How does she compare the two proteins? First, she manipulates a gene containingthe code for echistatin to create mutations within echistatin's RGD loop. Next,she places the resulting DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) in a bacterial expressionsystem, thereby forcing...Microsurgery Made More Accurate With Virtual Measuring Tool
...ough familiarity with the magnified surgical space does develop with frequent use, and although relative sizes and distances are readily perceived, absolute measurements can still not be made reliably. Moreover, certain critical structures are often too small or fragile to be measured directly with such p...Corn Rootworm Changing Behavior, Posing New Threat To Crops
...ortedthe beetles' presence last year. The problem does not exist or is minimalwest of the Illinois River and in the southern third of Illinois. The logical conclusion is that the problem eventually will spread tothe Atlantic coast. "Given what we know about prevailing winds andstorm patterns, it's only...USGS Scientists Implicate Exotic Parasite In Wisconsin Lake Bird Deaths
...damage and a slow death. Cole does not know which of the many varieties of snail inShawano Lake carries the parasite. Also unknown is how easily the parasite canspread. Many coots migrate to Florida and other Southern states for the winter.The coot migration may enable the parasite to......ingones. Except in a few special circumstances, it does not occur in the normaladult. However, angiogenesis plays a key role in a number of diseases associatedwith new blood vessel growth such as cancer, diabetic retinopathy, maculardegeneration and arthritis. Many scientists have worked to develop method...B-Vitamins Lower Homocysteine Levels In The Blood; May Reduce Vessel Damage In Stroke Patients
...ghfunctioning thrombomodulin is made, but the cell does produce more of it," Mackosays. "We're showing that by reducing homocysteine with the vitamin B therapy,we're reducing endothelial injury. "The implication of this is that the effect of the vitamin therapy maynot be just specific to individu...