Two Long-sought Diabetes Gene Found
... with endocrinologist Stefan Fajans, MD, professor emeritus at the University of Michigan, who spent decades studying one large family -- more than 360 members spanning six generations -- in which 74 people have diabetes. Most of those 74 have MODY, which can often be detected in early adolescence. In 1990, B...Corn Byproduct Shows Promise As Biodegradable Packaging Material
...octorate in food science, and Lun Shin Wei, now an emeritus professorof food science, turned the zein into thin plastic-like sheets by mixingit with palmitic or stearic acids at varying weight ratios. While the structureof the sheets changed according to the ratios, the sheets with the zein-palmiticacid mixtu...UW Smogmobile Offers Cleaner, Safer Alternative To Gas Or Electric Cars
...as or electric," explains Abe Hertzberg, professor emeritus of aeronautics and astronautics at the UW and head of the smogmobile project. "We believe a liquid nitrogen vehicle can match the performance and range of an electric car, while still being affordable and easy to maintain and operate. And ecologicall...Long-Time NIH Grantee Wins Nobel Prize In Chemistry
...ry. Boyer, who is a professor emeritus of biochemistry at the University of California, Los Angeles, received over $4.4 million in research grant support from NIH between 1948 and 1996. The vast majority of this support was from the National Insti...U.S. Scientists Honored For Lifetime Contributions In Hepatitis Research
... Vaccine Research . He is professor emeritus at Catholic Medical College in Seoul, Korea, a member of the scientific advisory board of the Albert Sabin Vaccine Institute, and an appointed member of the Lombardi Cancer Center at ...Adults Need To Increase Intake Of Folate; Some Women Should Take More
...ncy," saidcommittee chair Roy M. Pitkin, professor emeritus of obstetrics and gynecologyat University of California, Los Angeles. "They can best get folic acid fromfortified cereal grains or from a supplement." Since fortification of enriched cereal grains began, folic acid can be found inenr...New Species Of Winged Dinasaur Named For Yale Professor
...that some dinosaurs werewarm-blooded, is professor emeritus of geology and geophysics, editor of theAmerican Journal of Science, and curator emeritus of vertebrate paleontology atthe Peabody Museum of Natural History, where he is also editor emeritus...Horses Prefer Bridles That Have A Bit Missing
...less bridle has been tested by Bob Cook, professor emeritus ofsurgery at Tufts University veterinary school in Massachusetts, who has spentmore than forty years researching disorders of the equine ear, nose and throat.He says the bridle may be the biggest advance in equine technology since peoplestarted ridin...Detecting Deer: New Method For Counting Population In Urban Areas
... J. Sexton, Ph.D., Washington University professor emeritus of biology inArts and Sciences, and Missouri Department of Conservation biologists JeffBeringer and Lonnie P. Hansen employed air power, high technology and MotherNature to count the number of deer at Washington University's Tyson ResearchCenter, a 2...Common Anti-Viral Medication Prevents Severe Eye Herpes
...a day, said Chandler R. Dawson, MD, UCSF professor emeritus ofophthalmology and former director of UCSF's Francis I. Proctor Foundation forResearch in Ophthalmology, who led the study. The findings, Dawson said, are the key to preventing recurrences of aparticularly harmful form of the disease that affects th...Biologist Wins Simon Fraser University Controversy Prize For 'Silent Spring' Of The '90s
...ual $5,000 prize, established in 1993 by professor emeritus TedSterling and his wife Nora, honors and encourages work by a member of the SFUcommunity that publicly challenges conventional wisdom on issues of broad socialconcern. In his 1997 book, "Nature Wars: People vs. Pests," Winston does justthat...Fruit-Fly Mating May Produce A Game Of Evolutionary Leapfrog
... 8 issue of thejournal Science, UC Davis professor emeritus Timothy Proutand two collaborators arranged 6,200 fruit-fly matings andcharted the paternity of the 125,000 subsequent offspring.The results revealed a new factor controlling sperm success:The male's genes had to match in certain ways with thefemale'......ized the panelwith Subodh Jain, UC Davis professor emeritus of agronomy, who offers anoverview of developments in crop evolutionary sciences. "Biotechnology and thegenetic engineering revolution must acknowledge the value of both wild anddomesticated genetic resources and their evolutionary origins," he says...Gold Finds Life, Energy, Controversy In Earth
...Copernicus/Springer-Verlag, $27),Cornell Professor emeritus of astronomy Thomas Gold argues that subterraneanbugs are us -- or at least they started the whole evolutionary process, and thatthere's no looming energy shortage because oil reserves are far greater thanpredicted. In the hands of anyone other than ...Amphibian Revival: Build It And They Will Come
...rs. A team headed by Owen Sexton, Ph.D., professor emeritus of biology in Arts andSciences at Washington University, repopulated ponds at Tyson Research Centerwith egg masses of both wood frogs and spotted salamanders and carefully chartedtheir populations since 1974 for the salamanders and 1987 for the wood ...UF Researchers Show Common Compound Can Reduce Air Pollution
...s very, very expensive," saidEric Allen, professor emeritus of environmental engineering sciences andthe chair of Lee's dissertation committee. "The importance of thistechnique is that it is oriented to the control of small sources and it iseconomical." Lee, whose research was sponsored by the U.S. Ai...K-State Researchers Study Pest Resistance Management
...h entomologist; and William McGaughey, a professor emeritus ofentomology, say the strategy for this resistance plan hinges on severalassumptions, one being that the genes that make the borer resistant to the toxinare recessive. When these pests reproduce, their offspring must inherit theresistant gene from b...Endangered Species' Recovery Plans Face Comprehensive Scientific Review
...idered threatened or endangered. Gordon Orians, an emeritus UW zoology professor, with assistance from UWgraduate student John Hoekstra, designed the detailed questionnaire being usedby graduate students for the evaluation. Fish and Wildlife Service officialshelped fine-tune the document. Since September, eac...Stanford launches interdisciplinary initiative in the biological sciences
...him to kidney specialist Roy Maffly, now professor emeritus ofnephrology. Maffly, in turn, directed Robertson to an assistant professor atUniversity of California-San Francisco, Barry Brenner, who now is one of the topkidney experts in the world. Brenner had developed a technique for measuringpressure and flo...