Fruit Flies May Shed Light On Cocaine Addiction
...he same way to "crack"cocaine as do other animals, including humans. Because humans and fruit fliesuse many similar biochemical pathways, this discovery suggests that the fliesmay help scientists unravel the molecular basis of cocaine addiction in people. It may also lay the foundation for highly specific dru......s targeting DNA replication. Many antiviral drugs, including theAIDS drug AZT and drugs against herpes simplex virus, inhibit DNA polymerase. Inaddition, this work may guide the development of better reagents for DNAsequencing--highly sought-after products in this age of the Human Genome Project. This is the l...Divorce, Insect Style: Termites Swap Mates
...al care is a well-known strategy in vertebrates -- including humans --but this is the first report of mutual mate choice in biparental insects,"Shellman-Reeve says. "The process can be contentious and violent, but it makessense. You want the best possible mate to help raise your offspring, andthat's not alw...Scientists Work To Restore Native Fish And Habitat To Great Lakes
...ooking at new ways to help restore key native fish including the lake trout, coaster brook trout and lake sturg.... "To succeed, we need a lot of different pieces, including restored habitat, control of invading species like the sea lamprey, and healthy fish from our hatche...UF Researchers Identify Virus That May Cause Epidemic Disease In Sea Turtles
...posiumin Hilton Head, S.C. Further developments -- including confirmationof the occurrence of a virtually identical virus in the tumorsof loggerhead turtles -- will be presented at the InternationalSymposium on Sea Turtle Biology in Matzalan, Mexico this March. The virus is genetically similar but not ...Emory University Fragile X Group Receives NIH Program Grant
...ogical and biochemical approaches to the syndrome, including cellculture, transgenic mice and yeast systems to ... of both establishedand newer Emory investigators, including Drs. Warren and Sherman; Ye Feng,Ph.D., assistant professor of biochemistry; Judy Fridovich-Keil, Ph...Selenium Soil Contamination: Possible New Approach Identified
...heir reactions using various x-ray beamtechniques, including x-ray absorption near edge structure (XANES), and extendedx-ray absorption fine structure spectroscopy (EXAFS). A key to their findingswas that the selenium transformation reactions take place under conditions ofoxygen-depletion such as in the sedim...Pacific Northwest Staff Win National Awards For Transferring Research To Industry
...nel of experts in the field of technologytransfer, including representatives from industry, state and local government, academia and thefederal laboratories. Pacific Northwest leads the other DOE laboratories in winning these awardswith a total of 39 since 1984....Timber Supplement From Paper And Plastic
...ite materials prepared from wood-based materials, including wastes. It is also the result of collaboration between CSIRO Forestry and Forest Products and Equinox Research and Development Pty Ltd, which follows from joint work that resulted in "Light and Easy TM Cat Litter" a product also made from o...IFT Report Describes Challenges Of Food Industry Stepping Up To The P(a)lates Of Consumers
...carbondioxide, which can spoil a variety of foods, including milk, meats, vegetables,fruit juices, sugary products, alcoholic beverages, and products containingvinegar. Modified atmosphere and aseptic packaging are useful in extending thefreshness of refrigerated products by reducing oxygen and/or incr...Garlic Prevents Hardening Of Aorta, New Study Shows
... for CardiovascularPharmacology in Mainz, Germany, including the Centre’s director, professorGustzv Belz. They measured the stiffness of the aorta in more than 200German men and women, half of whom took 300 mg or more of standardized garlicpowder in tablet form every day for two years. The subject...DT104 Advice:How To Slow Salmonella Spread
...at slowing the spread of Salmonella Typhimurium, including theantibiotic-resistant bacterium, Typhimurium DT1...ted feedand water or even from infected wildlife, including birds," said Patrick L.McDonough, a bacteriologist at the Veterinary College's Diagnostic Laboratory...Gene Therapy Enables Transplantation Without Immunosuppressive Drugs
...ions,cancers, and a number of other complications, including nerve and kidney damage.In our study, a one-time gene therapy treatment of only the donor liver made therecipient's immune system tolerant of the new organ without the need for anyfurther immunosuppression." The technique developed by the Pen...Infants, Toddlers Should Not Restrict Fat Intake, Experts Say
...rican Oil Chemists' Society. Health organizations, including the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Heart Association, and the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, have made recommendations to limit dietary fat intake for individuals more than 2 years old. The federal government's 1995 Dietary G...USGS 1999 Budget Emphasizes Clean Water, Disaster Information, Species And Habitat Research
...investigating issues of concern to every American, including nearly 2,000 local,state, regional and national organizations. Efforts range from about 45,000 water measuring stationscrucial to making flood and water-supply forecasts, to 80,000 different maps of the country, as wellas front-line earthquake and vo...Good Ergonomics Is Good Economics
...es between humans and the other system components, including hardware, software, environments, jobs, and organi...ne's technology for improving the quality of life, including health, safety, comfort, usability, and productivity. As a science we study human capabilities, limi...UF Researchers: Development Promotes Disease Among Gopher Tortoises
...nakes to birds -- and more than 300 invertebrates, including spiders, crickets and beetles. "Tortoises can act to spread seeds of plants and also to aerate the soil via their digging action," Brown said. Researchers discovered the disease is caused by the same bacteria that decimated the desert...Top Scientists Challenge Others: Join Biodiversity Year
... Advancement of Science in Philadelphia, the five including two past presidents of AAAS will introduce plans for the International Biodiversity Observation Year, to begin in 2001. "We're asking the world's best scientists to take a year or two to put their minds to this problem: How can biodiversity science...Low Cholesterol? Reduced Sodium? What Do These Terms Really Mean?
... with information about several dietarycomponents, including fat, cholesterol, sodium, sugar and others. These "Nutrition Facts" labels contain both the amount of each component andthe % Daily Value assuming a 2000 calorie per day diet. However, many consumersdo not read nutritional food labels (Feick, Herrman......394-2410, http://hfes.org . The complete article, including tables and figures, is available on request from HFES.] Computer Assisted 3D Measurements for Micro-Surgery Miriam Kim, Paul Milgram, James M. Drake, University of Toronto,Ontario, Canada Abstract A unique measuring tool, the Virtual Tape Measure...