DOE Joint Human Genome Effort Exceeds Sequencing Goal
...ted ten-fold increase in production outputover the previous year," said Martha Krebs, the DOE's Director of the Office ofEnergy Research. "With this milestone, the JGI rises to the third positionworldwide in terms of its total contribution of human DNA sequence to publicdatabases, and signals great promise f...Monkeys Have Numerical Abilities, Two Columbia Psychologists Report
... Primate Cognition Laboratory. "In ourcurrent and previous research, we have shown that animals solved complexproblems without help from external cues." Added Ms. Brannon, "Though monkeys do not recognize the word 'two' orthe symbol '2,' they share with humans the capacity to master simple arithmetic...Plant-Based Fat Inhibits Cancer-Cell Growth By Enhancing Cells Signaling System, UB Researchers Show
...erol -- on prostate-cancer cell growth. In previous work, they identified activation of a cell-signaling pathwaycalled the sphingomyelin cycle as one of the inhibitors of cell growth. The UB researchers felt that increased levels of B-sitosterol may amplify thesignaling capability of two enzymes...Common Blood Pressure Drug May Promote Healthy Cells
...ane, proteins and DNA. These newstudies contradict previous research performed in purely chemical systems thatsuggested hydralazine was a free-radical generator and potentially harmful tocells. A healthy body reacts to free radicals by producing antioxidant enzymes,which neutralize the free radicals b...Duke Scientist Reports Advances In Gene Therapy For Heart Failure
...ing this gene delivery method feasible. In previous experiments, the researchers used a catheter similar to theones used in opening blocked arteries in people to inject the virus into thecoronary arteries, the arteries that feed the heart, in live rabbits. Using thismethod, Koch and his colleagues dem...Nuts And Oats May Build A Strong Heart
...ctrical devicecalled a defibrillator. Albert says previous studies in animals have hinted atthis link as well. Other sources of alpha-linolenic acid are unhydrogenated canola and soybean oilsused in most full-fat commercial salad dressings, flaxseed and flaxseed oil anda leafy vegetable called smooth purslan......the cell--werefound only in animals. But Coruzzi's previous research with Arabidopsis led herto believe otherwise. Several years ago, while studying the weed's metabolism, Coruzzi noted that theincorporation of nitrogen from the environment into glutamate and other relatedmolecules was regulated by light. Act...Book By Shipman Wins Phi Beta Kappa Award In Science
... a ceremony next month in Washington, D.C.. Some previous winners of the prize include Stephen Jay Gould for "WonderfulLife: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History," Linus Pauling for "Vitamin Cand the Common Cold," Edward R. Tufte for "Envisioning Information," Ernst Mayrfor "One Long Argument: Charle...Duke Study Finds More Genes May Be Affected By Toxic Cadmium
...s and animals.Twenty-two are unknown genes with no previous links to cadmium exposure. The findings, b...he age bias that theyinadvertently introduced in a previous set of experiments by exposing entireroundworm colonies for too long a time. They ended up w...Chinese And US Scientists Identify The World's Oldest Flowering Plant
...plant. The find, Sun and Dilcher say, predates the previous oldest-known flower by more than 25 million years. "We're finding, back into the Jurassic, the roots of flowering plants, which demonstrates that a line of plants related to the magnolia ... is a very early part of plant ancestry," said Dilcher, who...Study Provides Guidance For Treating Patients With Brain Aneurysms
...rming aneurysm surgery are the patient's historyof previous subarachnoid hemorrhage, and the size and location of the aneurysm. Dr. Wiebers states that the study should not cause worry among individualswithout a history of brain hemorrhage. "In general, patients with smallunruptured intracranial aneurysms an...Science Announces Top Ten Research Advances Of 1998
...sclerosis. Best Bets for Hot News in 1999: As in previous years, the Editors of Sciencepropose six up-and-coming research areas. This year their choices are: photonicband gap materials and devices, aging, millennial-scale climate change, carbonsinks and the global carbon budget, bioterrorism, and allergies....Leibniz Prize Winners 1999 - Most Highly Endowed German Promotional Prize For Ten Scientists
... educationinstitutions, the Max Planck Society and previous Leibniz Prize winners. Thescientists selected as Leibniz Prize winners 1999 are: Professor Dr. Ekkard Brinksmeier (46), Production Engineering, University ofBremen (DM 3 million) Ekkard Brinksmeier obtained his doctorate in mechanical engineering fro...AHA Issues Scientific Statement On Infective Endocarditis
...researchers at Duke UniversityMedical Center. The previous diagnostic criteria relied on tests that measuredbacteremia (high amounts of bacteria in the blood), regurgitant murmur (a heartabnormality) and blood vessel complications. The new diagnostic strategyincludes using a procedure called echocardiograph...UI Researchers Find Potential Gene Therapy For Cystic Fibrosis
...id. "Our early experiments look encouraging." In a previous cystic fibrosis-related study at the UI, a team of investigators,including Michael Welsh, M.D., professor of internal medicine and Howard HughesMedical Institute investigator, studied the use of an adenovirus in ferrying theCFTR gene into airway cell......ral fellow Dr. Robert Chapman, looked at data from previous altitudestudies, specifically, erythropoietin (EPO) concentrations in 39 collegiaterunners living at high altitudes. Those who responded to the live-high,train-low regimen showed a significantly larger increase in EPO concentrationthan the nonrespond...Major Clinical Findings By California AIDS Team: HIV Does More Than Kill Off T Cells
... humanconsumption. Based on the study findings and previous work, McCune said it appears that HIVmay disrupt T...esn't"remember" that it can successfully fight off previous enemies, and a personbecomes susceptible to a variety of infections. Second, virus infection may pr...Groundwater Remediation: New Tool Offers Improvement
...vided by traditional designapproaches. "In previous approaches where optimization has been used for remediationsystem design, cleanup goals were specified as static constraints," he says."This project will involve the direct incorporation of risk assessment into theremediation design process. The deci...Human Neural Stem Cells Advance Distant Prospect Of Reseeding Damaged Brain
... cause an immuneresponse in the human host. Though previous rodent work suggests they will not,this question remains unanswered. Several years of research still separate this study from the firstexperiments on humans. Next, Snyder's group will study the human cells in animalmodels of human diseases, i......on, which can be detected in the urine." A previous study by Leeuwenburgh also showed that a decrease in caloricintake, which can lead to a longer life span because of a reduction in thebody's rate of metabolism, also causes a similar decrease in skeletalmuscle oxidation. Leeuwenburgh recommen...