UI study suggests genetics and gender affect human response to endotoxin
...rtments of Internal Medicine and Pediatrics andthe former Department of Preventive Medicine (now the UI College of PublicHealth) and the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Iowa City. The study wassupported by grants from the federal Department of Veterans Affairs, theNational Institute of Environmental Heal...Gift funds new Gene Media Forum at Syracuse University
...lan 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 fully informed public to participat...Scientists find genetic links for deadly type of breast cancer
...research team from the U-M include Seena Davies, a former U-Mundergraduate student. Collaborators from the U-M Medical School include ZhiFen Wu, M.D., research associate; Myla Strawderman, senior research associate;and Stephen P. Ethier, Ph.D, associate professor of radiation oncology....Researchers discover breast cancer gene inhibitor
...gy at OHSU's School of Medicine. Clinton and her former student, Joni Doherty, M.D., Ph.D., discovered herstatin while investigating the reasons why HER-2 acts so aggressively in tumor development. An overabundance of HER-2 is present in 25 to 30 percent of breast cancer cases and results in significantly...Gene located for rare fat disorder
... professorof internal medicine at UT Southwestern, former UT Southwestern faculty memberDr. Anne Bowcock, now at the Washington University School of Medicine in St.Louis, colleagues from UT Southwestern and researchers from the NationalInstitutes of Health (NIH), Pakistan, Turkey and the United Kingdom. Con...Scientists uncover how a colon-cancer prevention drug works
...tructor of internal medicine Dr. Keng-Mean Lin and former internalmedicine research fellow Min-Jean Yin. Gaynor is chief of hematology/oncology atUT Southwestern. This research was supported by grants from the National Institutes of Health,the Council for Tobacco Research and the Department of Veterans Affa...USGS fire research in the southeast
...at; today they occupy less than 10 percentof their former range in South Florida, with the largest intact parcels inEverglades National Park and Big Cypress National Preserve. Dr. Jim Snyder, a research biologist with the USGS Florida Caribbean ScienceCenter, is studying how fire may best be applied to...CU-Boulder professor documents controversial history of Rocky Flats
... 1991. He is a formerChicago Tribune reporter and former editor of the "Bulletin of the AtomicScientists." He began researching and documenting the history of the nucleararms race in 1990 with a research and writing grant funded by the John D. andCatherine T. MacArthur Foundation. He currently teaches gra...Stressed-out mice offer clues to depression, anxiety, anorexia
... graduate students Heather Burrows andEunju Seong, former post-doctoral fellows Tennore Ramesh and Masaharu Nakajimaand former research assistant J. Shonee Lesh. The study was funded by the National Institutes of Health and the...Pollution makes crustaceans adapt rapidly
...doctoral fellow at Cornell; and Carla E.Caceres, a former graduate student in Hairston's laboratory and now a biologistat the Illinois Natural History Survey's Center for Aquatic Ecology. AtCornell, Hairston (pronounced "HAHRS-ton") is the Frank H.T. Rhodes Professor ofEnvironmental Science. The Lake Con......le School of Forestryand EnvironmentalStudies, and former head of the United Nations Development Programme. Speth adds, "There is no greater cause than in building a new society whereequity is the reigning principle, equity among nations, equity within societies,equity between the sexes, and equity to futu...UT Southwestern researchers kill latent HIV-infected cells using immunotoxin
...Cancer Immunobiology Center; Dr. Chin-ShengChou, a former Cancer Immunobiology Center postdoctoral fellow; Dr. CynthiaMcCoig, a postdoctoral fellow and instructor of pediatrics; and Gregory VanDyke, a Medical Scientist Training Program fellow. Partial support for this research came from the Horchow ...Sea level rise behind coastal tree deaths
...berlyn Williams, a member of the research team and former assistant professorat the UF department of botany,...s, the research team consisted of Katherine Ewel,a former UF professor in the school of forest resources and conservation;Richard Stumpf, a researcher at the ...Errant nerve cells risk a clockwork death
...iswiring of neural circuitry. Tessier-Lavigne and former postdoctoral fellow Hao Wang, who is now ascientist at the Merck Research Laboratories, reported their discovery in theOctober 21, 1999, issue of Nature . The new mechanism for intermediate control of neural wiring is differentfrom, albeit compleme...Screening programs find health problems among former Hanford workers
...ce to outline the results of medical screenings of former Hanford workers will be held at 11 a.m. PST on Tue...will include representatives of those groups, plus former workers who will be available for interviews.Media unable to attend the conference can obtain inform...Tracing the evolution of sex chromosomes
...on the X today are products of this pathway, their former Y counterpartshaving long since decayed. The 19 remaining X-Y genes are still en route on theevolutionary pathway, says Dr. Page. "Before that paper, most scientists--myself included--thought of the few X-Y genesas genetic oddities, with no funda...NRC spin-off develops rapid sensors
...ed in January 1999 by Drs. Armstrong and Lafrance, former biomedical Research Officers at NRC. The company is now expanding its workforce and senior management team in order to penetrate the lucrative markets in the defence, medical and occupational health/environmental sectors....New books view storms, the stratosphere, and more
...ichael H. Glantz is a senior scientist in and the former director ofthe Environmental and Societal Impacts Group at NCAR. He has publishednine books on climate and society. Glantz's primer on La Nina will bepublished by the United Nations University in late 1999 or early 2000. A Global Perspective on Stor......the graduate school at Virginia Tech. Fisher, is a former VirginiaTech professor and technical director in Tech's Center for Power Electronic Systems. Carilion established the Biomedical Institute in observation of Carilion's centennial and"as part of our long-term commitment to the region," said company pr...Genetic information of world's most radiation-resistant organism decoded
... Department of Energy has a number of sites in its former nuclear weapons production complex that are contaminated with mixtures of highly radioactive materials and toxic chemicals. Other DOE-funded researchers have modified D. radiodurans to be able to degrade the organic chemical contaminant toluene and ...