Congress briefs: International congress on ecosystem health
...n Population" Summary: Dean Cliver, a food-safety expert from the UC Davis School ofVeterinary Medicine, will discuss the health threats posed by the use of animalmanure as fertilizer in vegetable crop production. Animal manure can be thehost for such disease-causing agents as the potentially fatal E. col......olve this problem," says Whitlow Au, abioacoustics expert at the University of Hawaii in Manoa. Gerstein is alreadyworking on a high-frequency sonic beacon that could be attached to boat motorsin order to warn manatees away.......aring the research challenge to slopesreserved for expert skiers, called it the "black diamond of DNA biochemistry." In the latest experiment, however, Goodman and his colleagues succeeded inelucidating this protein complex, which has been designated umuD'2C. Itconsists of two slightly modified molecules o...Botanical evidence indicates "Shroud of Turin" originated in Jerusalem area before 8th century
...Whanger in 1995.They were joined by Israeli pollen expert Uri Baruch in 1998. Frei's Shroudbotanical collections were acquired in 1994 by the Council for Study of theShroud of Turin (CSST) and became the resource for this study which analyzed 313pollen grains. The burial cloth known today as the S...A few gut parasites could do you the world of good
...ter a couple of months. Balfour Sartor, an expert on inflammatory bowel disease at theUniversity of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, is intrigued by Weinstock'sexperiment. "It's an appealing way of using something that's of fairly lowtoxicity to treat a set of diseases that for now we don't have a cur...Smog impacts: Hurtling through airways, tiny particles may do more damage than previously assumed
...eviously assumed. "Smog kills," says air-pollution expert Anthony S. Wexler, a professor ofmechanical engineering at UD, "perhaps partly because pollutant particles are sodeeply deposited in our airways." A study by Ramesh Sarangapani and Wexler, expected to appear in the next Journal of Aerosol Science, r...Trouble for the world's turtles
...ier, presidentof Conservation International and an expert on turtles. "Turtles are apparently at comparable risk as the world's declining amphibiansyet they have not received the same level of attention," said Dr. JeffreyLovich, spokesperson for the researchers, co-organizer of the workshop, and ascie...New DNA vaccine could fight fish disease
...ers of theresearch. But Curt Endresen, a fisheries expert at the University of Bergen inNorway, doubts if such a vaccine would be acceptable in Europe. "You are addingsomething to the fish, and that would not be popular." The problem stems from the way DNA vaccines work. Unlike most vaccines,which c...Mosquito fish may be wiping out amphibians
...stake," he adds. However, mosquito control expert Chris Curtis of the London School ofHygiene and Tropical Medicine cautions that alternative methods of mosquitocontrols, such as insecticide spraying, may be just as environmentally damaging."We have to be careful about downgrading what is a pretty u......ens, a neuroscientist at the Salk Institute and an expert in thebiological underpinnings of memory, said Tsien's work helps answer a hotlydebated question in memory research. Many scientists argue that memories arecreated when two neurons form a strong connection, called long-term potentiationor LTP. Others...UD News: Gene-repair pioneer, Eric Kmiec, brings his lab to the University of Delaware
...e Prof. CindyCarson, an internationally recognized expert in bone development who first toldhim about UD during a National Institutes of Health (NIH) event. The Carsons'national reputation and their ongoing study of embryonic and tumor-celldevelopment, which Kmiec describes as "among the best anywhere," wer...Gift funds new Gene Media Forum at Syracuse University
...um's president and co-director is Alan McGowan, an expert in sciencecommunication and former president of the Scientists Institute for PublicInformation (SIPI). Another aim of the Gene Media Forum, says McGowan, is tomake sure that issues arising from genetic research are fully debated. "We wantto ensure a ...Experts take aim at Montezuma's revenge at conference organized by UM school of medicine
...cancer risk posed by smoking," says Dr. Mobley, an expert inHelicobacter. He says for these reasons, it is very important for people withstomach ulcers to get an accurate diagnosis and prompt treatment withantibiotics. It could save their lives. The conference will also include workshops on genetics, diag...USGS issues wildlife health alert: Chytrid fungus infection
...rk by Dr. Joyce Longcore, a world-renowned chytrid expert at the University of Maine. In addition, USGS researchers will continue to work closely with researchers from the Colorado Division of Wildlife to monitor further die-offs. Secretary of the Interior Bruce Babbitt calls these recent die-offs of bor...Genetic variants linked to higher risk of high blood pressure in African Americans
...uthanthiran, M.D., a co-author of the study and an expert on TGF-beta 1,followed its earlier finding that blacks with kidney failure produced more ofthis growth factor than did whites with kidney failure. "So we wanted to lookat TGF-beta 1 in hypertension," August says. Researchers say that the amount of ......hat vanish when thehormone is replaced, a Canadian expert has found. Her findings are a convincingdemonstration that oestrogen has a beneficial effect on cognitive circuits inthe female brain. Previous studies have suggested that mental ability is linked tooestrogen exposure in the womb (New Scienti...Stem cells may be powerful gene shuttle
...ntally remodel the tissue itself," said Kunkel, an expert onthe molecular basis and treatment of muscular dy... and their therapeuticpotential, said Mulligan, an expert in the development of gene transfertechnology and leader of the gene therapy efforts at Harvard. "T......s expected toreach six billion and Yale population expert Fred Meyerson says that unlessaction is taken, projected future population growth will lead to increasedpressure on scarce resources such as land and water. "The two most important environmental challenges in the next century are likelyto be climate...... goesis a huge technical task, said remote sensing expert Craig Dobson, an associateresearch scientist in U-M's College of Engineering. Part of the measurementproblem is that the carbon question isn't limited to easily quantifiable thingslike smokestacks and cars. The Earth's living systems themselves bre...