End Of World Population Growth Projected For 21st Century
...stantively discussed in the Project's new, revised edition of "TheFuture Population of the World: What Can We Assume Today?" (ed. W. Lutz),just off press. "The biggest factor affecting population growth is the continuingdecline of fertility in most world regions," says Project Leader WolfgangLutz. Lutz sa......er. The study is published in the April 14 edition of Virology (vol. 230, no. 2, pp. 217-227, Academic Press) and funded by the National Institutes of Health. Co-authors are Drs. Marcus J. Korth, Norina M. Tang, Seng-Lai Tan, Deborah A. Hopkins, Stephen J. Polyak and David R. Gretch, all of the Unive...Subtle Biotic Changes Have Big Environmental Impact
...searchers from UW-Madison in this week's (July 11) edition of the journal Science, is the first to show that only slight rearrangement of an intact ecosystem's food web can directly influence the atmosphere. The discovery is important because it demonstrates that single, seemingly subtle changes in ecos...How Dry Is The Tropical Free Troposphere? Implications For Global Warming Theory
...or in the atmosphereof the GCM's. In the June 1997 edition of the Bulletin of theAmerican Meteorological Society , Dr.Roy Spencer of NASA/Marshall SpaceFlight Center and the GlobalHydrology and Climate Center , and Dr. William Braswell of Nichols ResearchCorporation. have shown that the low humidity of...CTC Visualizations Help Ecologists See The Forest And The Trees
Ithaca, N.Y.--- Visitors to this week's edition of ScienceOnline willfind a unique new feature, Science's first peer-reviewed article writtenexclusively as a publication for the World Wide Web. Co-authors DouglasDeutschman (San Diego State University), Simon Levin (Princeton University),Catherine ...Pharmaceuticals Manufactured In Insect Larvae
...nd Cost-Effective Products," in the July 24, 1997, edition of the journal Entomophaga, the publication of the International Organization for Biological Control of Noxious Animals and Plants. In addition to pharmaceuticals, the researchers said that the technologies involved could be used for other purposes,...... or bypass surgery. As reported in the February edition of Nature Biotechnology, scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Physiological and Clinical Research in Bad Nauheim/Germany have recently developed a non-invasive method to supply the diseased heart with vessel growth promoting fact...No Ode To Joy From Food Scientists Over New Edition
CHICAGO--The new edition of Joy of Cooking did not put smiles on the faces ...nce was betrayed by a longtime friend when the new edition ofJoy of Cooking by Irma S. Rombauer and Marion Rombauer Becker was published byPlume in December 19...Two Environmental Articles: Deformed Frogs & Dioxin In Old Soil
...Jolla, Calif. In a new report in the April 14 Web edition of EnvironmentalScience & Technology, La Clair and...ir, the Lancaster group reports in the April 28Web edition of Environmental Science & Technology that the PCDD/Fs were indeedpresent in the U. K. in the late 1......ociated with termites, he reports in the May 1 Web edition of the Journal ofAgricultural and Food Chemistry, a peer-reviewed journal of the AmericanChemical Society, the world's largest scientific society. A termite nest is a closed system which protects the termites in a microclimatethat is controlled and d...When To Pick A Peck Of Pungent Peppers? When The Peck's At Its Peak
... harvested,according to a report in the May 20 Web edition of the Journal of Agricultural &Food Chemistry, published by the American Chemical Society, the world's largestscientific society. And waiting too long may be as bad as picking them toosoon, the researcher says, since the peak of flavor is short-liv...After The Wine Is Made, The Rest Of The Grape May Be Good For You
...ordingto a new chemical report in the June 4th Web edition of the Journal of Agricultural & Food Chemistry, publishedby the American Chemical Society, the world's largest scientific society. Grape pomace, the residue remaining when grapes are processed for wine-making,may also be a rich source of these anti......or the geneticdisorder, is reported in the June 12 edition of Science. "This is not only an important step forward in our understanding ofdisorders that affect both hearing and vision, but it will provide furtherinsight into the physiology of vision and hearing," said Janos Sumegi, D.Sc.,M.D., Ph.D.,...Edible Lily Plant Yields A Natural Pesticide
... University.Theirresults appear in the June 13 Web edition of the Journal of NaturalProducts, ajoint publication of the American Chemical Society and the American Society ofPharmacognosy. Monde's group was struck by the fact that bulb lesions were limited to theoutermost scales, which suggested a "dynamic re...Largest Generation Of Adolescents Faces Reproductive Health Risks
...98 issue of Studies in Family Planning -- aspecial edition devoted to adolescents -- explores the social, economic,biological, and demographic events that affect adolescents in the developingworld. Nine of the ten articles, written by demographers, sociologists,economists, and public health specialists, stem...Gene Discovery Provides Insights Into Epilepsy
...ery of the novel gene, reported in the August 1998 edition of thejournal Nature Genetics, shows that calcium channels are important ininitiating epilepsy. This research will make it possible to discern more aboutrole of calcium channels in the brain, Campbell said. It also suggests newtherapeutic possibili...Common Anti-Viral Medication Prevents Severe Eye Herpes
...e eye disease. The study, published in the July 30 edition of the New England Journal ofMedicine, shows that acyclovir is particularly effective in preventingrecurrences of a serious strain of the eye disease, called stromal keratitis,which can lead to scarring of the cornea with vision loss and blindness. ...Biologist Wins Simon Fraser University Controversy Prize For 'Silent Spring' Of The '90s
...ress ($24.95US). An excerpt appears in the July 16 edition of Simon Fraser News, availableon the Web at http://www.sfu.ca/mediapr/sfnews/1998/july16/opinion1 .......ent. The research is being published in the August edition of the Archivesof Internal Medicine. "This research should have a major impact," said M. Brian Fennerty, M.D.,associate professor of medicine in OHSU's Division of Gastroenterology and leadauthor of the article. "A shorter drug regimen is less expens...