Scientists Find New Clues About Fatal Childhood Disease, Ataxia Telangiectasia
...s into avariety of disorders. "This comes as great news for families with A-T children who have been waitingfor a treatment, because scientists will be able to screen for drugs that affectATM's activity. Researchers will also have a much better tool for figuring outhow the ATM protein, missing in kids wi...Evidence For Earliest Maritime-Based Societies In The Americas Reported In Science Magazine
This news release is also available in Spanish. Click here Spanish version. Washington D.C. - By unearthing ancient fragments of sea shells, cutting tools,and the bones of butchered seabirds, researchers have found what appears to bethe oldest evidence of m...Hutchinson Center Director Wins 'America's Nobel'
... TV stations please note : To support weekend TV news coverage of the LaskerAwards, b-roll of the event will be fed via satellite on Friday, Sept. 25.Transmission time and coordinates will be distributed as soon as they becomeavailable. The Lasker Awards to coincide with local cancer rally/candlelight v......n to Ryan's, as well as an editorial and a special news report. Forcopies, please email scipak@aaas.org, ...r Article #26: Special News Report by the Science news staff in Washington,DC. Contact: Heather Singmaster at (202) 326-6414. Order Article #0: "A Rev...University Of Texas Southwestern Researchers Develop New Test For Kidney Function
... to spendless time in the clinic. That's good news for 13-year-old kidney patient Elizabeth Callender, whohas spent the majority of her young life in a hospital. She suffered from focalsegmental glomerular sclerosis, a degenerative kidney disease that necessitateda kidney transplant when she was 4 y...Antioxidant Action Of Vitamin E Significantly Reduces Heart Disease In Mice
...r the Advancement ofScience, and to the electronic news services SciNews-MedNews and Quadnet....Fossil Evidence Of Worms Over One Billion Years Old Reported In Science
...t of an arms-race style of Darwinianevolution." A news conference will be held on Wednesday, September 30 at 2 p.m. at theStratigraphischen Saal des Museums fr Geologie und Palontologie at theUniversity of Tbingen, Sigwartstr. 10, 1. Stock, 72074 Tbingen. For moreinformation contact Michael Seifert, Pres...New "Gene Map" Doubles Number Of Genes
...ce of the human genome, which has been much in the news recently. The U.S. government, working with institutions in other nations of the world, has accelerated efforts to produce a 'working draft' of the genomic sequence by the year 2001 and a highly accurate and comprehensive 'finished product' by 2003. ...Researchers Discover Tumor-Supressor Gene That May Indicate Susceptibility ToLung And Colon Cancer
...ientist Training Program. To automatically receive news releases from UT Southwestern via e-mail, send amessage to UTSWNEWS-REQUEST@listserv.swmed.edu. Leave the subject line blank and in thetext box, type: SUB UTSWNEWS...Lake George Water Is Death On Zebra Mussel Larvae
... Lake GeorgeThe recent discovery will come as good news for Lake George residents, tourists,and business p...million eggs a year."That's the bad news. The good news is that 98 per cent of these die even in themost mussel-friendly waters," Nierzwicki-Bauer said. Zeb...AAAS Annual Meeting And Science Innovation Exposition
...uary 26 is the Forum for School Science. The last news briefing will be held on Monday, January 25. The ...loor of the Anaheim Hilton Hotel. It will include news briefings, a workroom equipped with Internet access and computers, and private interview rooms. News...Aluminium Study Puts Drinking Water In The Clear
...rden of aluminium over a lifetime.However the good news is that a related study on food shows that even what weget from food is well within the safe limits determined by the World HealthOrganisation," Dr. Stauber says. A technique normally used for measuring trace minerals in environmental samples,was ada...Nation's Leading Biomedical Researchers Present Breakthroughs in Liver Disease
....m. Further information on the meeting, including news releases and abstracthighlight summaries, will be distributed to the media and are also availableupon request....Brain Study Sheds Light On The 'Phantom Limbs' Of Amputees
...ation problems. And, coming on the heels of other news that adults,even people in their 60s and 70s, grow new brain cells, the report adds to thegrowing awareness that the adult brain is far more responsive and adaptable thanhad been believed. Jones and Pons studied the brains from eight monkeys in which...Environmental Factors Contribute To High Blood Pressure In African-American Males
...putthis population at even greater risk. The good news is that innovative andcomprehensiveapproaches to the management and treatment of hypertension can have asignificant impact oncontrolling high blood pressure. "Use of an intervention team kept the men from having to use a hospitalemergencydepartm...Fall Meeting: Preliminary Press Conference Schedule
...ning statement by one scientist, outlining what is news and providing somebackground. A panel will be on hand to help respond to media questions, butpanelists will not each make formal statements. We hope to provide maximum timefor journalists to put questions to the scientists. Food! To make the Press R...Genetic Uniqueness Threatens Florida Manatee's Future
...ways, there stillis hope for the sea cow. "The bad news for the Florida manatee is that they're on their o...light to survive and persist in Florida. "The good news is that we know about it before it's too late."...Discovery Of New Large, Predatory Dinosaur Reported In Science
This news release is also available in French. ... understand evolution in a fragmenting world." A news conference will take place on Thursday, November 12 at 1 p.m. at theNational Geographic Society, 160...Vitamin E Prevents Early Plaque Formation
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