Register now for the 2000 AAAS Annual Meeting
...reporters, public information officers, journalism professors and their students. Proof of credentials will be required upon registration. Media may register online at <a href="http://www.aaas.org/communications/am2000rf.htm"> http://www.aaas.org/communications/am2000rf.htm . Reporters - Accept...Chemical probe reveals ultrafast movements of DNA proteins
... Catherine Murphy and Mark Berg, both associate professors of chemistry and biochemistry, and Eric Brauns, a graduate student -- shined an ultrafast burst of light onto the probe to detect movements in the DNA that lasted only trillionths of a secon...Bees wearing reflectors help scientists track insects training flights
...n the study were Susan Fahrbach and Gene Robinson, professors in the entomology department and neuroscience program. The scientists were interested in what orientation flights might tell them about how bees learn to navigate -- a highly demanding ability for a creature with a brain the size of a grass seed. Th...UT Southwestern to study effect of low-carbohydrate diet on kidney-stone formation and bone loss
.... Shalini Reddy and Chia-Ying Wang, both assistant professors of internal medicine, hope to complete the first phase of a two-phase study by the end of November. They decided to examine the high-protein, low-carbohydrate diet after meeting with Dr. Charles Pak, director of the Center for Mineral Metabolism and...DFG approves 14 new research training units
...raining Units since 1990. Under the supervision of professors who have attained special levels of proficiency in research and teaching, groups of 15 to 20 doctoral candidates work in co-ordinated research programmes that are usually of an interdisciplinary nature. Currently, around ten percent of all doctoral c......swirling around them. These half-dozen UC Berkeley professors in the Department of Integrative Biology comprise the largest and most diverse group in the country studying how animals -- including humans -- move. What has emerged from the comparative biomechanics group at UC Berkeley and from their associates ar...Purdue researchers clean up petroleum spills with plants
... and Banks met on the job when they both worked as professors at Kansas State University. Banks was working on an EPA project and needed help looking at soil characteristics. A friend told her to call Schwab, and their collaboration began. They'll continue to focus on clean up of petroleum products, in part be...ASPP publishes major plant biology textbook
...hanan, Wilhelm Gruissem, and Russell L. Jones, all professors at the University of California at Berkeley while the book was under development, this project fills a void in the literature for upper-level undergraduate and graduate courses. The 1400-page textbook includes over 1,100 full-color original drawings...New treatment makes fruit juices safer
...Maurice Marshall, Ph.D., and Murat Balaban, Ph.D., professors at the University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences. Tasters could not tell the difference between fresh-squeezed orange juice and carbon dioxide-treated juice, Marshall says. An added benefit of the carbon dioxide treatment i...Improvement in controlling agricultural runoff still needed to prevent ecological disasters
... concerned. Andrea Dietrich and Daniel Gallagher, professors of civil and environmental engineering at Virginia Tech, presented their findings regarding "Agricultural copper: Transport and toxicity in runoff from tomato fields to estuaries" at the 220th national meeting of the American Chemical Society in Wash...Brown engineering and neuroscience group wins grant for brain study
... of a human hair, six Brown University professors plan to explore the function of the human brain un...gous to a camera. The research unites professors who bring various perspectives to the research: James Anderson, professor of cognitive a...Defense Department awards Stanford nearly $5.3 million for a 'revolutionary' biosciences project
...ol of Medicine. The other nine project members are professors from such diverse departments as electrical engineering, chemistry, genetics - and even aeronautics and astronautics. "We have an opportunity to look at cellular regulation in a broader context than has been done in the past," notes McAdams, "because...Drug overuse may make yeast infections harder to treat
...ratory experiments by U of T at Mississauga botany professors Linda Kohn and James Anderson and grad student Leah Cowen show that cells repeatedly exposed to azole drugs - the most commonly used and prescribed anti-fungal treatments for yeast infections - develop resistance to that drug. "It was assumed that wh...Brown researchers use wildcards to develop better way to sequence DNA
Two Brown computer science professors are working on a method to sequence DNA that they believe will be faster and more efficient than the technique currently used by mappers of the human genome. Franco Preparata and Eliezer Upfal are attempting to make ...LabNotes -- Research highlights from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
...its flexible architecture will allow students and professors to tailor it to specific courses or research and teaching needs. The toolkit was designed to enable collaborative scientific research at EMSL, a Department of Energy user facility managed by Pacific Northwest National Laboratory....Five Rutgers professors named fellows of national science association
NEW BRUNSWICK/PISCATAWAY, N.J. -- Five Rutgers professors are among the 251 scientists the American Associat...tgers is gratified by the personal recognition our professors have achieved in this prestigious selection process and by the role these faculty play in educating ...DFG establishes 23 new graduiertenkollegs (university graduate training programmes)
...ary programme of research and studies organized by professors particularly distinguished in teaching and research. These programmes are acquiring an increasingly international character. At present, around ten per cent of all doctoral students in Germany are working for their doctorates in Graduiertenkollegs. T...New N.C. ferry-linked water monitoring begins generating useful data for analysis
...the nation. Drs. Hans Paerl and Joseph S. Ramus, professors at the UNC-CH and Duke marine laboratories in Morehead City and Beaufort, respectively, and project co-directors, will expand their monitoring to the Swan Quarter-Ocracoke and Cedar Island-Ocracoke ferries next spring. "So far the system has been wo...Translating the human genome into protein function: structural genomics research at Columbia
...son. Columbia faculty involved in the research are professors Barry Honig, Eric Gouaux, Arthur Palmer and Burkhard Rost in biochemistry and molecular biophysics; John Hunt and Liang Tong in biological sciences; Andrew Laine in biomedical engineering; Peter Allen in computer science; and Ann E. McDermott in chem......okazu Kawagishi, Ph.D., and Kimio Sugiyama, Ph.D., professors at Shizuoka University in Shizuoka, Japan. "Besides offering taste and nutrition, avocados seem to improve liver health," says Kawagishi. "People should eat more of them." Five compounds appear to be active in reducing liver damage. Each wa...