'Juliet' Evades Primate Center Expedition
...ity, and Primate Center scientistsurgently seek to establish a captive breeding colony of the animals beforethey go extinct from hunting and habitat destruction. In fact, said Glander, the expedition dramatically showed how much pressurethe endangered animals are under. "Although we saw groups of animals on ...Northwestern Scientists Discover How Herpes Simplex Virus Infects Cells
... highlyprevalent in humans, in part because it can establish latent infections innerve cells and persist indefinitely with periodic reactivation of thevirus. Consequences of viral replication include cold sores and feverblisters, similar lesions on the genitalia, corneal destruction,encephalitis and severe dis...Duke's Russian Laser Making Ultraviolet Light And Gamma Rays
...eters, or billionthsof a meter Scientists hope to establish a new FEL record of 193 nanometers, which wouldbe deep in the ultraviolet. "Our goal in the next half year would beto cover more or less all of the ultraviolet range, and then go to the extremeultraviolet and X-ray ranges," he said. "I think we can...Ozone 'Chat Room' Provides Real-Time Air-Quality Research
... "The beauty of the OTAG operation is that we can establish a virtual community of interacting people without having to be at a specific place," Husar says. "This is a dream come true for an environmental engineer -- to express your viewpoints and research and participate in something that has substantial me...Gene Shears In Cutting Edge Anti-Aids Trial
...the HIV-infected twin. The trial seeks first to establish that the ribozyme is safe and hasno side-effects on the patients, and secondly to find out how long the CD4+cells protected by the anti-HIV ribozyme survive in the body. The research team hopes that the Gene Shears ribozyme will not only protectwhit...Female Adolescents Need Calcium During 'Window Of Opportunity'
...Board's Dietary Reference Intake Committee to help establish the new calcium requirements. Weaver is a member of the committee's panel that is looking at bone-related maturity and the related nutritional requirements. "This paper provides the model for setting the nutritional guidelines," Weaver says. In 1989 ...Roadsides Benefit From Waste, UF Researchers Say
...oal is to make roadsides a friendly environment to establish grass and at the same time get rid of waste products in an environmentally friendly way," said turfgrass researcher Grady Miller, of UF's Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences. Miller and his colleagues were charged by the Florida Department of...UT-Houston Awarded $2.5 Million For Scleroderma Research
... Arthritis and Musculoskeletaland Skin Diseases to establish a Specialized Center of Research (SCOR) inscleroderma, a chronic, often fatal connective tissue disease. Headquartered inthe UT-Houston Medical School division of rheumatology and clinicalimmunogenetics, the center will conduct a wide range of inves...Chesapeake Bay Sediment : Home To Pfiesteria-Like Microbes
...s working with other state and Federal agencies to establish the linkages betweenthese factors and find the cause of the fish lesion/fish kill situation that occurred in the Chesapeake Bay during the summer. As the nation's largest earth and biological science and civilian mapping agency, the USGS works in co...Purdue Researchers Track Oil Spill's Effects On Sea Otters
...can College of Veterinary Pathologists. "Trying to establish whether the lack of population recovery is a direct result of the spill or not is difficult," Snyder says. He says there are estimates that up to 15 percent of the almost 11 million gallons of crude oil spilled by the tanker may still be in the envir...Penn State Erie's Sea Grant To Focus On Ecology, Economic Development
... in much the sameway that Land Grants were used to establish research inagriculture and mining. While most Sea Grant awards have gone tocoastal states, all of the other states bordering the Great Lakeshave received Sea Grants in the past. Pennsylvania now joinsOhio, New York and Michigan in research on Lake ...Careful Honeybee Breeding Combats Tracheal Mite Pests
...er class in bee breeding to encourage beekeepersto establish their own breeding programs. Cobey warned that bee breedingrequires patience and a long term commitment because results aren’talways immediately visible. The California State Beekeepers Association sponsored the work, alongwith the Califo...USGS 1999 Budget Emphasizes Clean Water, Disaster Information, Species And Habitat Research
...itizenacross our country, using their expertise to establish solid baseline information that will benefitgenerations of Americans. From identifying water quality threats associated with abandoned minelands to determining the cause of bird die-offs in the Salton Sea, from understanding majorecosystems such as t...New Sensor Adds Precision To Search For Dangerous Gases
...After 16 years at SFU, Miremadi left on Jan. 30 to establish a sensor technology centre in Denver, Colorado.......rs; the control enzyme hadlittle if any effect. To establish whether these effects were related to theability of PEX to interfere with tumor-induced angiogenesis, blood vessel countswere determined in cross sections of tumors treated with or without PEX. Theenzyme fragment produced a highly significant decreas...3-D Structure of Human Tumor-Suppressor Protein Produced
... it difficult to make the measurements weneeded to establish the structure.” Tsai and his research team are continuing their research on the p16 protein. “We now know the structure of the p16 protein alone,” saidTsai. “Next, we’d like to know how p16 interacts with its targetmolecule...Growth Factors Shown To Increase Vitamin C In The Immune System
...hat was taken up by the immune cells. "Our results establish a role for the growth factors in stimulatingthe uptake of vitamin C in host defense cells, connecting increased vitaminC uptake with activation of immune function," said Dr. Golde. Although many claims have been made for the positive effects of vitam...Yale Announces New Biotech Firm
...hich was formed in1982, has helped Yale scientists establish eight public and more than 35private spin-off companies that remain in business today and employ morethan 750 people. About 25 of those companies are located in greater NewHaven, in addition to the four new firms now seeking laboratory space.The mar...Fat Is Back, Healthy Diets Need Fat
...-As the U.S. Department of Agriculture begins to establish new dietary guidelines for the year 2000, a new University of Michigan study suggests low fat diets aren't always the most healthy. "Fat is back,'' said Adam Drewnowski , director of the Human Nutrition Program at the U-M School of Public Health ...Renowned Breast Cancer Experts Present Latest Findings At UCSF Cancer Center Symposium
... National Cancer Institute (NCI)-funded project to establish a computerizedpopulation-based mammography registry for San Francisco that will be linked toother registries and used to develop a better understanding of mammographypractices and outcomes. Laura Esserman, MD, MBA, director of the Breast Care Center ...