Ten Years of Progress For Superfund Basic Research Program
...ons and can lead to cancer. Brian Kinkle,assistant professor of biological sciences, says Sphingomonasshows gre...ally occurringorganisms. Environmental engineering professor Paul Bishop is using otherSphingomonas strains to degrade another common pollutant, azodyes. "The dy...Eating After Exertion May Be A Key To Speeding Body's Recovery
...rincipal investigator Donald K. Layman, a U. of I. professor of nutrition.Tryptophan levels in the blood help regulate the release of serotonin inthe brain, causing lethargy and fatigue. "The oat-based cereal allowed us to increase the denominator in theratio," Layman said. "Raising the level of large neutral...Fund Aims To Repay Developing Nations For Valuable Genes
...tion to the problem. Pamela Ronald ,an assistant professor of plant pathology, has initiated a novel mechanismthat pools university and industry resources to compensate nations for valuablegenetic material. It is the first known attempt by a major research universityto formally redress perceived inequities r......ruit flies. It was conducted by UC Davisstatistics professor Hans-GeorgeMüller and entomology professor JamesCarey and will appear in the March 18 issue of the Proceedings of theNational Academy of Scienc...New Study Shows Steps Leading To Colon Cancer
...ts and ourselves," said Dr. Mark Peifer, assistant professor of biology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. "We have found that this protein, called 'armadillo' in insects and 'beta-catenin' in humans, goes into the cell nucleus and helps regulate gene expression or, in other words, turns genes...Erodible plastic microspheres could be effective oral drug delivery system
...ng on drugs and uses. Mathiowitz is an associate professor of medical science and engineering inthe Brown University School of Medicine. Other scientists on the Brown teamwere Jules Jacob, Yong Jong, Gerardo Carino, Donald Chickering, Camilla Santosand four undergraduates. Funding support for the research ca...Overweight Cats Risk Disease And Premature Death, Cornell Study Finds
...g time," said Janet M. Scarlett, D.V.M., associate professor of epidemiology in Cornell's College of Veterinary Medicine. "Too much extra weight is not healthy for the cats, but being very thin can be a problem, too." Scarlett was a collaborator, along with veterinary nutritionist Susan Donoghue, in the landm...Herpes-Based Gene Therapy Is Key To Promising Liver Tumor Vaccine
...ivision of Molecular Medicine and Gene Therapy and professor in the Department of Neurology; Michael Brownlee, M.D., of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine ; and Sloan-Kettering physicians Howard Karpoff, Michael D'Angelica, and Sarah Blair. "We have been searching for a vaccine against liver cancer becau......pal investigator, Dr. Michael G. Katze (kates), UW professor of microbiology and associate director of the UW's Regional Primate Research Center. The UW's Office of Technology Transfer has negotiated a patent-based licensing agreement with RiboGene, Inc., a privately-held biotechnology company in Haywa...Project Shows Native Bacteria Can Destroy Widespread Pollutant In Groundwater
...ith him on the project are: Mark Goltz, associate professor at the Air Force Institute of Technology, graduate... Moffett Field in Mountain View, Calif., headed by professor of civil engineering Paul Roberts, Stanford researchers determined that feeding native bacteria with...Biosensor Is A Model For Widespread Testing Of Chemicals, Molecules
...ar Whitaker Fellow grant. Hellinga is an assistant professor ofbiochemistry at the medical center. Working with him on the study were graduatestudents Jonathan Marvin and Ethan Corcoran, undergraduate student NeilHattangadi, and technical assistants Jian Zhang and Sheryl Gere. The idea of exploiting pro...Method Eases Making Amino Acids Critical In Medicinal Chemistry
...or chemicalsynthesis," said Peter Beak, a U. of I. professor of chemistry. "Wehave demonstrated that our methodology will produce both enantiomers ofthree types of aryl amino acids more efficiently and more conveniently thanconventional techniques." Amino acids like many organic molecules exhibit ...Restoring Farm Land To Natural Wetlands Key To Stemming Flood
...ldn't be so great in the future," said Schneider,a professor of urban and regional planning and professional scientist inthe Illinois Natural History Survey's Center for Aquatic Ecology. Schneiderserves on a state-appointed advisory committee charged with recommendingeffective means of addressing flooding prob...Teens Shop "Healthy", But Trust Label Claims Too Much
...raduate and her adviser Dr. Cheryl L. Achterberg, professor of nutrition and director of the Penn State Nutrition Center, found that a "health reason" was the second most common category of factors reported for food item selection by the 90 adolescent shoppers included in their study. Health came in second...Children With AD/HD Have Significant Functional Disabilities Related to Attention Deficit
...sented the results. Lock is UB clinical assistant professor of pediatrics and associate medical director of the Robert Warner Rehabilitation Center at Children's Hospital of Buffalo. Lock said the results could have significant impact now because, as of this month, children diagnosed with attention defi...Researchers Find Production Point Of Key Protein In Fragile X Syndrome
...he fragile X protein, said Greenough,who also is a professor of psychiatry and of cell and structural biology. "The function of the fragile X protein, and the reason that peoplewho could not make the protein exhibit developmental delay, has not beenknown," he said. "This finding points to a mechanism of actio......es from their breeding colonies, says Dee Boersma, professor of zoology at the University of Washington and one of the world's leading authorities on temperate-zone penguins. Indeed, her latest research shows that birds from the Punta Tombo penguin reserve in southern Argentina sometimes travel more than 300...Duke researchers find existing drugs can stop fungus that attacks AIDS patients
... In addition to Heitman, who is an assistant professor of genetics andpharmacology, and Perfect, the research team included Audrey Odom, ScottMuir, Eric Lim and Dena Toffaletti. Their findings build on an earlier paper, published in the January 1997issue of Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, in...Munching Microbes Make A Meal Out Of Toxic Substances
... petroleum compounds," says Loring Nies, assistant professor of environmental engineering at Purdue. "But using them for that purpose has not been widely implemented because few on-site engineers have the knowledge or experience." One of Nies' projects involves studying microbes that eat pentachlorophenol, a c...Scientists Use Magnetic Field As Alternative To Space-Based Zero Gravity
..." said study director James M. Valles, anassociate professor of physics. "Because the embryos contain the samem...e co-leaders of the research. Mowry is anassistant professor in the Department of Molecular Biology, Cell Biology andBiochemistry....