UW professor's climate change theory leads to NASA mission
...erosols are of particular interest to Charlson, an emeritus professor ofatmospheric sciences and chemistry, because even on a clear day they are presentin the skies in and downwind from industrial regions of the Northern Hemisphere.They are about the same size as the wavelength of the light they reflect, whic...Consume less trans fat, more vitamin B6 and B12, studies suggest
...sium, B6 and B12, says Fred A. Kummerow, professor emeritus of food chemistry at the University of Illinois. But it's not that simple: "People can't easily lower their trans fatty acids intake, because they can't tell how much they are getting by looking at labels," Kummerow said. "Some products in Canada ...UCSF School of Medicine receives $3.8 Million grant for biomedical research
...aid Lloyd H. (Holly) Smith, Jr., MD, UCSFprofessor emeritus and associate dean of the School of Medicine. "Even though the NIH budget has risen remarkably in the last several yearsunder the leadership of Harold Varmus and others, the funds that had beenavailable from clinical care dollars are no longer there...Unique international conference to focus on effectiveness, safety of medicinal herbs
...ab said. Dr. Varro Tyler, professor and dean emeritus of pharmacy at Purdue University, will give the keynote address, "Herbal Medicine: From the Past to the Future," at 8:15 a.m. March 2. Other participants will include Drs. K.H. Lee, director of the Natural Products Laboratory at the UNC-CH School of ...Pioneering evolutionist Ledyard Stebbins dies at age 94
...was extremely centered," said Mel Greene, UC Davis emeritus professor of genetics. "Hiswhole life was evolution and evolutionary botany." Ayala said, "He was very intense anddedicated. Working in the field, he would pay no attention to the proper time of eating or anythingelse." In addition to his research ac...Tube worms in deep sea discovered to have record long life spans
...ong with Frederick M. Williams, associateprofessor emeritus of biology, and Charles Fisher, professor of biology. "The hot hydrothermal vents are a much more vigorous, variable, andephemeral environment than the cold hydrocarbon seeps," Fisher says. Boththe seeps and vents are regions on the ocean floor wher...Symposium focuses on implications of 'The New Microbiology'
...he American Society for Microbiology and professor emeritus at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, will speak on antibiotic resistance in "Superbugs and Superdrugs." Among the participants, Rita Colwell, Ph.D., Sc.D., director of the National Science Foundation, will talk about "Microbial Ecology a...Cholesterol levels not necessarily indicative of cardiac health
...rocardiogram]," said Fred A. Kummerow, a professor emeritus of food chemistry at the University of Illinois. "Have a cardiologist check you out. You cannot depend on your cholesterol level to indicate heart disease. You cannot depend on your HDL-LDL ratio." Kummerow and colleagues from the UI and Carle Fou...University of Colorado salmon study spawns new insight into human brain aging
...nd Alzheimer's disease. Richard Jones, a professor emeritus in the environmental, population and organismic biology department, said the study is the first ever to identify deposits of a peptide known as beta amyloid in the brains of an aging, wild vertebrate population under natural conditions. Sticky depos...Researchers develop tastier low-fat cheddar
...ttery notes," says Howard Morris, Ph.D., professor emeritus of food science and nutrition at the university and one of the lead researchers for the study. "From our experience we picked the three cultures that we believed would synergistically work together, and whose metabolic functions would generate the de...Putting a price tag on paradise
...ord are Nobel laureate Kenneth J. Arrow, professor emeritus of economics; Paul R. Ehrlich, professor of biological sciences; and David Starrett, former chair of the Economics Department. The authors also are affiliated with the Beijer Institute of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. "The world's ecosystem...Trans-pacific air pollution is worse than was suspected,says new study
... amounts," said Thomas Cahill, a UC Davisprofessor emeritus of physics and atmospheric science and aninternational authority on the atmospheric transport ofpollutants. "That is very important for several reasons. First, thenorthern Pacific Ocean is one of the last really clean areasof the Northern Hemisphere....Rickets making comeback among breastfed infants, especially blacks, N.C. doctors find
...k," said Dr. Henry N. Kirkman Jr., Kenan professor emeritus of pediatrics at UNC-CH and an expert on the illness. "The only cases of rickets I treated between 1965 and about 1990 were inherited ones. Then, to my surprise, nutritional rickets began showing up in our clinic in the early 1990s." Kirkman checked...UNC-Duke Scientists develop interactive learning tool simulating nerve function
...e from her husband John W. Moore, Ph.D., professor emeritus in the department of neurobiology at Duke University Medical Center. At Duke about fifteen years ago, Moore and Michael L. Hines, Ph.D. (now at Yale) began writing NEURON, a research tool used today by computational neuroscientists worldwide to mode...Research paves the way for faster, better, cheaper DNA detection method
... Mirkin developed with Robert Letsinger, professor emeritus of chemistry, and Andrew Taton, postdoctoral associate, is 100 times more sensitive than conventional methods, with the ability to detect as few as 60 molecules of DNA without the need for target amplification using methods such as PCR. In addition, ...Purdue center to lead national research in dietary supplements
...t that Varro Tyler, Purdue distinguished professor emeritus of pharmacognosy, will serve as senior advisor to our team," Weaver said. "He is one of the leading experts worldwide on dietary supplements and the senior author of the only American textbook on natural drugs." Weaver, a distinguished professor and ...UCSD bioengineer to receive President's National Medal of Science
...s highest scientific honor. Fung, a professor emeritus of bioengineering at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) Jacobs School of Engineering, will be recognized at an awards dinner scheduled for December 1 in Washington, D.C. In announcing the 12 Medal of Science honorees for ...UC Davis science newstips Feb 01
...Chronic Acceleration Research Unit under professor emeritus Arthur Smith. Website: http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/station/science/life/centrifuge.html . Media contacts: Charles Fuller, Exercise Science, 530-752-1555, cafuller@ucdavis.edu , Andy Fell, News Service, 530-752-4533, ahfell@ucdavis.edu . 'JUNK' DN...Medicine made to match genetic profile
...sceptible people," explains Weber, a U-M professor emeritus of pharmacology. "Genetic diversity is a major contributor to variations in human drug response." A pioneer in the field of pharmacogenetics, Weber devoted his career to studying how small genetic mutations called polymorphisms can lead to big diff......h associates, and Dr. Peter B. Kaufman, professor emeritus of plant physiology and plant biotechnology at the University of Michigan analyzed the amount of InsP3 present in specialized cells at the base of maize and oat stems. Those cells are in the pulvinus, a specialized region of a plant stem which cause...