Walker named a Fellow of the British Royal Society
...this year. Walker is one of the world's foremost experts on the evolution of primates andhumans. His research involves searching for primate and human fossils in rocksdated from about 30 million to 1 million years ago and conducting laboratoryanalyses of the fossils to extract as much environmental and be...Top Experts To Address Top Food Safety Concerns At IFT Meeting
...s 1999 AnnualMeeting. American and Canadian experts on food microbiology and policy willconvene for "Listeria monocytogenes: Scientific and Regulatory Issues from aNational and International Perspective" (Symposium 57, July 27, 9 AM) to discussthe pathogen's characteristics, impact of regulatory polic...Undiscovered Biological Diversity: A Symposium On Bioprospecting
...Portland StateUniversity, have gathered a panel of experts who will speak on microbialdiversity, the search for novel natural products, and the intimate relationshipbetween natural resource preservation and bioprospecting. Bioprospectors explore organisms for naturally occurring molecules thatcan imp......scribed ashuman drugs? Several of the world's top experts on antibiotic resistance will answer thesequestions, delve deeply into the roots of this health crisis, and examineupcoming opportunities to salvage these important drugs to treat disease inhumans and animals. 10 am: Antibiotic Resistance,...Surface water not always the answer to Bangladesh arsenic pollution problem
...uifers. However, not until 1993 did health experts realize that the sedimentsfound throughout the country contain high levels of natural arsenic that leachinto ground water. In a paper delivered Thursday at the American Geophysical Union meetingin Boston, postdoctoral fellow Mohammed Riajul I...Dehydration makes exercise-induced asthma worse, study by UB researchers finds
...Asthma is a major health problem in the U.S., with experts placing theincidence among children as high as 40 percent. Cerny said 80 - 90 percent ofasthma sufferers experience exercise-induced bronchospasm, and that about 10percent of elite athletes have the condition. In their current study, UB r...Stanford launches interdisciplinary initiative in the biological sciences
...co, Barry Brenner, who now is one of the topkidney experts in the world. Brenner had developed a technique for measuringpressure and flow rates in the capillaries that flow into the part of the kidneywhere the blood is filtered, but he didn't know how to interpret his data. Robertson and his graduate student...USGS assesses nation's biological resources at century end
...Almost 200 federal, academic, and non-governmental experts providedbaseline information of value to scientists, policy makers, resourcemanagers and the public. The 1,000-page scientifically peer-reviewedreport, written in non-technical language, details both the issuesaffecting biological resources and the ...Protein essential for making steroids turns out to be a "molten globule"
...enlisting help from Baldwin, James and other UCSF experts inprotein spectroscopy to study how the StAR protein is folded into its finalshape. Most proteins are not active in this incompletely folded state, but Boseconcluded that StAR does its work of ushering cholesterol into the mitochondriawhen it is part...Salamanders may one day monitor degradation in small streams
...fish and bugs are absent." While wildlife experts monitor streams for acidity, temperature andpollutants directly, these factors say little about how environmentaldegradation affects animal populations. Because these salamanders are lungless,breathing through their skin and the linings of their mout...New process converts municipal waste into commodities and fuel
...fecting most major crops. An independent panel of experts chose the winners as demonstrating practical aswell as innovative ways to significantly reduce pollution at its sources. Thepanel is selected by the American Chemical Society, the world's largestscientific society, as part of its participation in th...Fathers pass infertility to sons
... is then implanted in the mother. While fertility experts had strongly suspected that the AZFc deletion couldbe inherited in such cases, that suspicion had not been clinically confirmeduntil now. The finding raises thorny ethical questions about assistedreproduction techniques. "I think this finding is goin......d biotechnology debate from a different angle than experts usuallyapproach issues involving new technologies. That is, popular arguments againstGM foods don't use the typical, pragmatic logic of risks and benefits. Instead,some of the European public objects to food biotechnology on moral and ethicalgrounds,...ONR report details potential biological effects of underwater noise
...nderwater noise. Compiled by 37 of the world's top experts in underwateracoustics and the biology of hearing, the report addresses the topics ocean(physical) acoustics, non-hearing physiological effects of sound, hearing,behavior, and monitoring and mitigation of noise effects. The Proceedings include a re...Plant pathologists to discuss anti-crop bioterrorism and food security, August 1999
...nt pathologists, military intelligence andcriminal experts to discuss anti-crop bioterrorism will be held during the jointAmerican Phytopathological Society (APS) and Canadian Phytopathogical Society(CPS) Annual Meeting in Montreal, Canada. This session will feature speakersfrom federal agencies, universitie...Heatstroke killed four football players during 1998, expert urges precautions
...g blocking and tackling. Mueller and other experts strongly recommend pre-practice physicalexaminations for boys -- and the small number of girls -- who want to playfootball. Such exams sometimes reveal hidden conditions that make heavy exertionhazardous. Parents should make sure their children are i...Growth factor may determine who grows new blood vessels that protect against heart attacks
...e severity of heart attacks, or even prevent them, experts say. A team of Israeli researchers has identified a possible explanation for thisphenomenon. They found that the ability to grow the new vessels in the heartstrongly correlates with how much vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) aperson produces......k, findings that suggest oil's presence. Forensics experts and crime labs analyze "trace evidence" -- single fibers,threads, blood samples, human hair. Automobile identification based on a paintfleck from a hit-and-run accident is routine now. In the field of art preservation and authentication, museums suc......s supported by other leading medical and nutrition experts who advocatethe benefits of agricultural biotechnology in light of a September 1999 ConsumerReports article reaffirming the safety of biotech foods. While the articlerefers to one question from a survey commissioned by IFIC, it left out otherimporta......raditional medicines. Sixty of the world'sleading experts on freshwater turtles reached that conclusion at a specialgathering in Nevada this month. The phenomenon described as a "turtle survival crisis" was the most urgenttopic at a prestigious international conference held in Laughlin, Nevada, August13...