Cattle Diets Could Control E. Coli Danger
...James B. Russell, aUSDA microbiologist and faculty member of the Cornell Section of Microbiology. "When people eat foods contaminated with acid-resistant "E. coli" -- includingpathogenic strains like O157:H7 -- the chance of getting sick increases." "E. coli "is a normal bacterium in the gastrointestinal ...New Evidence From Dinosaur Footsteps Show Massive Herds Once Roamed Northern Alaska
...essions made by a carnivorous dinosaur, possibly a member of the tyrannosaur family. "The most surprising thing was finding four-toed tracks suggestive of armored or horneddinosaurs," said Gangloff. "We also found tracks that showed the pebbly texture of the animal's skin,which are extremely rare." Mos...Hutch Researcher Wins 'Nobel Prize Of Applied Research'
...finally gettingrecognition for it," says Miller, a member of the divisions of Basic Science andMolecular Medicine at the Hutchinson Center and an affiliate professor ofpathology at the University of Washington. "What's new is offering a kit you canuse off the shelf," he says. The Retro-X System includes ret...French Researchers Breed Flightless Ladybirds As Pest-Killers
...lightlessladybirds," says Ludovic Guide, who was a member of the team. Flightless mutants occur naturally in various ladybird species, but theytend to have deformed wings and are generally unfit, so they are little use inpest control. Ferran's mutants, however, seem just as healthy as their flyingc...Paradoxical Gene Suppresses Tumors Yet Makes Them Grow
... proliferation in diverse tumor types. Van Dyke, a member of the UNCCenter for Molecular Biology and Biochemistry and of the LinebergerComprehensive Cancer Center, says her Carolina laboratory is extending studiesto other tumors, including glioma, a more common brain tumor. Her laboratoryalready has create...Anti-Microbial Agent Kills Influenza Virus
...or various anti-microbial applications. Bakeris a member of the Novavax scientific advisory board, but has no significantfinancial interest in the company....Team Solves X-ray Structure Of Powerful Enzyme
...bacterial cells to produce large quantities of one member of the enzyme familyexactly as it is found in its natural state. The large, accurate quantities wererequired for collaborator James Hurley of the NIH to determine thethree-dimensional X-ray crystal structure of the enzyme. The technique entailsgrowin...Living With Biodiversity:What You Can REALLY Do
...mption will be discussed. Panelists PeterHoffman, member of the Chefs Collaborative 2000 and chef/owner of the SavoyRestaurant, Merry Camhi, staff scientist, National Audubon Society's LivingOceans Program, and Betsy Lydon, Program Director, Mothers & Others for aLivable Planet, and consumer representative...Jurassic Beetle: CSIRO Entomologist Discovers Living Fossil
...was puzzled, then I realised it was an ommatid, a member of a family of beetles which dates back to the Jurassic," he recounts. The beetle, a fresh candidate for the honour of oldest living Australian, is even more ancient than the super-continent Gondwana. Its cousins are found in South America, No...Fetuses Destined For Abortion May Be Used To Test Gene Therapy
...s inherited the disorder. At least one RAC member is deeply troubled by Anderson's proposal.Louise Markert, a paediatric immunologist at Duke University Medical Center inDurham, North Carolina, says: "Is it morally right to experiment on the fetuswhen it can give no consent and there is no way for i...New "Gene Map" Doubles Number Of Genes
...search Strategy, Merck & Company, Inc. and current member of the National Human Genome Research Institute Advisory Council. "Everyone involved in GeneMap'98 is to be congratulated." Among NCBI's key partners in the creation of GeneMap'98 are: the Sanger Centre, Cambridge UK; the Whitehead Institute, Cambri...Vaccine Technology Takes Center Stage In Rochester
...David Smith and PorterAnderson and current faculty member Richard Insel. In the early1980s, many large companies had turned away from vaccine researchfor a host of reasons, but Smith felt the work was so promisingthat he left the University and founded his own firm, PraxisBiologics Inc., to commercialize th...Fewer Songbirds May Be Result Of Forest Fragmentation Across The American South, New Study Suggests
...r. Geoffrey Hill, an avian consultant and afaculty member at Auburn, and Eric Soehren of the Natural Heritage Section ofthe State of Alabama's Natural Lands Division. The work was funded as part ofthe Legacy Resource Management Program of the U.S. Department of Defense. There has been both scientifi......e brain's reward pathways. Phillips is a member of the Society for Neuroscience, an organization ofmore than 27,000 basic scientists and clinicians who study the brain and nervoussystem....New Contaminant Invades Arctic Air
...60s to control the lake's population of alewife, a member of the herringfamily, that had become a public health nuisance. The two-year study measured the concentrations of PCBs in the salmon andestimated the efficiency with which the fish retain PCBs as a result of theirnatural diet of smaller fish such as ...UNC-CH 'Groucho' Research Offers Insights Into How Embryo, Cancer Cells Communicate
... the twotop scientific journals. Besides Peifer, a member of the LinebergerComprehensive Cancer Center, authors are graduate students Robert A. Cavallo,Rachel T. Cox and Gordon A. Polevoy, all in UNC-CH's Curriculum in Genetics andMolecular Biology. Other authors are Melissa M. Moline and Dr. Amy Bejsovec o...USGS Issues Wildlife Health Alert: Associates Virus With Salamander Die-Offs
...gina, Saskatchewan, in Canada. Salamanders are a member of the group Amphibia, a word which means "double life" and which refers to the ability of amphibians to live both on land and in water. Amphibians, which have been on Earth for some 350 million years are among the most ancient land-dwelling vertebra...... theUniversity of Washington. Greenberg is also a member of Targeted Genetics'Scientific Advisory Board. The Hutchinson Center has exclusively licensed thistechnology to Targeted Genetics. "Adoptive immunotherapy represents a potentially powerful tool in the treatmentof infectious disease and cancer," say...Cedars-Sinai Scientist Finds Malignancy Gene In Tumor Cells
...nced "Lou-bee-mo-va"), a native of Russia who is a member ofDr. Keith Black's neurosurgical research team. Once the newly-found gene hasbeen completely sequenced, a process that could be completed in three months,work will begin on genetically engineering a method of blocking the gene'sexpression. Herei......ecies. Purdue's School of Veterinary Medicine is a member of the institute. Working with Critser on the studies were: Karen Gunasena, Patty Villines and Beth Critser of the Advanced Fertility Institute; Jonathan Lakey of the Cryobiology Research Institute; and Mitchell Bush of the Smithsonian Institute...