1999 Fall Meeting: Press conferences and special events
...ummer's earthquake in Turkey. And don't forget the door prizes! Dress: come as you are. "Gordon Birsch restaurant and microbrewery is located at 2 Harrison Street (on the waterfront at the Embarcadero) in San Francisco. It is about a six block walk from Moscone Convention Center, with free parking under t...Media Advisory: The Geological Society of America 1999 Annual Meeting
...faxes. Scheduled media briefings will be held next door in room A208. This room willbe equipped with a raised platform for speakers and AV equipment including slideprojector, overhead projector, and screen. A mult box for audio recordings willbe available, but no special lighting for video is provided. ...New microscopy method reveals molecular map of biological surfaces
...ptor sites during biological processes,opening the door to a wide variety of biotechnology applications. The authors -- Anneliese Raab, Dirk Badt, Hansgeorg Schindler and PeterHinterdorfer from the Institute for Biophysics at the University of Lintz,Austria; Wenhai Han from Molecular Imaging Corp...Mayo Clinic study implicates fungus as cause of chronic sinusitis
...sponse to fungus. They saythis discovery opens the door to the first effective treatment for this problem,the most common chronic disease in the United States. An estimated 37 million people in the United States suffer from chronicsinusitis, an inflammation of the membranes of the nose and sinus cavity. I...Primate genus sheds light on great ape and human origins, as reported in Science
...possible affinities to fossils in Turkey opens the door to interestingdiscussions concerning the ancestry of great apes and humans," said Ward....Rescuing brain cells in stroke patients from the brink of suicide
...that precise switch is regulated, it wouldopen the door to some very interesting neuroprotective compounds to treatstroke," says Federoff, who is also director of the Medical Center's Center onAging and Developmental Biology and chief of the Division of Molecular Medicine and Gene Therapy....Statement on discovery of the gene for narcolepsy in dogs
...published in the August 6 issue of Cell, opens the door to identification of thenarcolepsy gene in humans and to development of new treatment approaches andpossibly a cure for this disabling sleep disorder. As important, this is the first time that the recently discovered familyof brain neuropept...New gene therapy found safe for treating coronary heart disease
...cle has shown the techniqueto be safe, opening the door to promising new treatments for heart disease,according to a report in today's Circulation: Journal of the American HeartAssociation. "The implications are huge. To say anything less than that is anunderstatement. This addresses a tremendo...Presence of a fertile female in the next nest can lead a bird astray, UB research finds
...mere presence of a fertile female in the nest next door can beenough to cause a male to stray, leaving his female mate unguarded, according toa paper scheduled for publication in the July issue of Auk, the journal of theAmerican Ornithologists' Union, authored by Helen C. Chuang, a doctoralcandidate at th...Study shows cognitive decline is not normal in aging
Finding opens door to prevention by showing older people with atherosclerosis ordiabetes in combination with the ApoE4 gene are at much higher risk for memoryloss, cognitive decline. (Sacramento, Calif.) -- In a study that tracked changes in cardiovascularhea...Scientists grow blood-producing stem cells outside the body
...oducingstem cells in the laboratory -- opening the door to helping cancer patientsovercome major side effects of treatment and creating greater possibilities forgenetic cures of illness. Blood stem cells are solely responsible for the ability to regrow theblood cell system after intense chemothera...Montana Hantavirus Study Looks At Why The Mouse Goes Into The House
...nutes after dark. "If you leave your deck door open, you're going to have deer mice goingin and out and your cat's not going to see them," he said. Once inside, the mice don't move around much, he found. In the winterthey may stay in one small area for three or four days. That be...Fullerene-Based Materials Clear From Tissue, Go To The Bone
... pursue methods to improveupon the clearance. "The door is now open to see how well we can encourageclearance as well as the targeting of specific tissue," Wilson says. Theirs is the first detailed study of metallofullerenes in animals,studying distribution of the material in mice and its metaboli...Researchers Engineer A Way To Improve T-Cell Receptors
...otentially other proteins. Their success opens the door to manipulating a virtually untapped portion of theimmune system to fight a variety of autoimmune and viral diseases.In a biotechnological breakthrough, the researchers showed that mutations withintwo regions of the receptor protein allowed it to be ...Understanding Molecular Self-Assembly Opens Door For New Sources Of Wood-Like Materials
...self-organization," he says. "This could open the door for producing wood-like materials from otherplant-derived molecules -- such as straw -- and save the forests," Glasser says. "This is just a dream; a vision! But understanding molecular self-assembly is akey stepping stone towards that dream." ...Dyed In The Silkworm: Researchers Develop Novel Way To Produce Colored Silk
... color! The development of thistechnique opens the door for genetic researchers to engineer silk proteins andreintroduce them into moths that can, in turn, produce genetically altered silk.This approach also has potential economic applications. Theoretically, such a protein-producing insect could be used ...Mojave Desert Is Subject Of Las Vegas Science Meeting
... and 8:30 a.m. on Friday. Registration at the door starts at 8:00 a.m. Thursday and Friday, and includes two-day registration and luncheon on Thursday for $60 per person. Information regarding the availability of seats for the Saturday field trip, an additional $10 charge, can be found...UCSD And NIH Researchers Isolate Candidates For Genetic Basis Of Human Taste
... the availability of taste receptor genesopens the door to rational food design. In addition to Drs. Zuker, Ryba and Hoon, the research team for the studyincluded Dr. Elliot Adler and Jürgen Lindemeier, Howard Hughes Medical Instituteresearchers at UCSD. The National Institute on Deafness and Other...Life Among Dead Brain Cells: Discovery Could Help Improve Memory Capacity Of Stroke Victims
...rate following a stroke,a discovery that opens the door to treating memory disorders in stroke patients. According to the study, this is the first evidence of a certain type ofbrain cell -- called a stem cell -- demonstrating plasticity and the ability toregenerate after a stroke. Regenera......indingssuggest this is so. "What really opened the door to our understanding the entire process wasidentifying another SLBP protein, SLBP2," Ingledue says. "If you compare theproteins' respective amino acid chains, you notice the only regions ofsimilarity are in the middle, roughly a third of each protein...