Life-Saving Dr. Mueller Selected To Get Top Sports Medicine Award
...400-meter runnerand hurdler for the German Olympic team in 1928. After coming to the UnitedStates in 1952, the physician was named director of the University of KentuckyRehabilitation Center. Note: Mueller can be reached at (919) 962-5171.......m condos beneath the eastern Pacific Ocean, Cary's team used aspecially designed device featuring a titani...perature every 2minutes, for up to three days. The team also measured the temperature at tubeopenings. "The worm's gills, sticking out of the tube, are in w...New Dinosaur Finds In Antarctica Paint Fuller Picture Of Past Ecosystem
A team of Argentinean and U.S. scientists has found fossi...ontributedto the extinction of the dinosaurs). The team that found the fossils is headed by Sergio Marenssi ofthe Instituto Antartico Argentino and Judd Cas...Study Finds Gene Is Associated With Higher Risk Of One Kind of Stroke Among African-Americans
...racerebral bleeds,"Alberts said. The Duke team conducted genetic analysis on 124 patients (63 males and61 females between the ages of 30 and 88) who suffered from ICH due tohypertension, amyloid angiopathy (blockages in small brain vessels) or as aresult of clot-busting therapy for a heart attack...Research Finds Alligator Problems Also Evident In Less Polluted Lakes
...F Professor of Zoology Lou Guillette. A research team led by Guillette made headlines in 1993 when they ...hobee, Florida's biggest lake, showed the research team many of the same problems it had seen before: lower testosterone levels and small penis size in mal......tific and industrial applications. Schwartz and a team of four undergraduate and graduate students are co...-scale cleanup efforts at Hanford. Schwartz andhis team of student researchers are supporting the project by conducting experiments to explore thefundamenta...Washington University Licenses Its New Antibacterial Technology
...out their businessundisturbed. Hultgren's team has identified the major components along the pilusassembly line. They include a protein that chaperones pilus subunits to theouter bacterial membrane and another that extrudes them to the cell surface. Theresearchers also have identified compounds t...At Life's Most Sensitive Stage, Embryos Cope With Stress
...y to be 1 percent or less. Brawleyand her research team studied Fucus, a brown seaweed that lives around theworld. In laboratory experiments, they showed that Fucus waits to release itsgametes when the water is calm and salinity is high - two conditions likely tostrongly increase the success rate of exter...Sexually Active Younger Women Are At Higher Risk For Infection With Human Papillomavirus
... state university in New Brunswick, N.J.,the study team enrolled 608 young women. Their average age was 20 years, and theethnic distribution was 57 percent white, 13 percent Hispanic, 12 percent black and 18 percent other. Twenty-six percent were diagnosed with HPV infection at the beginning of thestudy....Johns Hopkins Scientists Designing Compounds To Fight Malaria
... derivatives. The research is being conducted by a team of scientists led byGary H. Posner, Scowe Professor of Chemistry in The Johns HopkinsUniversity School of Arts and Sciences, Theresa A. Shapiro, apharmacologist and associate professor in the School of Medicine,graduate students Jared N. Cumming and ...Summary Of USGS Presentations And Activities, AAAS, 1998
...g Government. The USGS scientist led aninteragency team that developed an online taxonomic name database for theidentification of biota. * evening - Ray Herrmann, a USGS physical scientist, will be inductedinto AAAS "Fellowship". Herrmann's specialty is watershed research; he hasbeen instrumental in t...Duke Researchers Develop First Treatment For Rare Muscle Disease
...on theirbacks can't right themselves. The team of researchers used three test groups of birds. Two birds wereinjected with a high dose of purified human GAA, two with a low dose of GAA, andtwo were injected with salt solution. Each bird received seven injections over a16-day period. Two days afte......those that are not, Dr. Heber-Katz andher research team are collecting valuable information about the genes involvedin regeneration. Thus far, they have identified seven chromosomal regions andisolated several gene products that differ between healers and non-healers. They also have found that, as the h...Scientists Sift Through Trash In Search Of Perfect Landfill
.... At the start of a six-year study, Ham's research team loaded up mesh sacks fullof fresh all-American garbage, from soiled diapers to lima beans, and loweredthem 10 feet into three landfills across the country. Then they dug them upagain - after one year, after 2.5 years and after six years - and sorted ...When To Reproduce? It's All In The Timing
...versity of Mainemarine biologist, leads a research team which has used that truth, along withthe results o...n as they carry outphotosynthesis. Brawley and her team reasoned that when water is being churnedby waves or tidal currents, the plants are constantly recei...Females' Siren Song Initiates Courtship Duets In African Frogs, Columbia Biologists Find
...search of the source. The research team was not certain that duetting was what brought maleand female frogs together until they recorded the female rapping song and playedit to male frogs in a fiberglass tank. The males again responded with an answertrill and tried to swim toward the soun...Molecular Mechanochemistry: An Emerging Discipline At The Nexus Of Biology And Physics
...t attack and stroke," explains Davies. Hisresearch team has exposed endothelial cells in culture to fluid conditions muchlike vessel-branch vortices to better understand how cells respond to thesecircumstances. The aim of these investigations is to develop interventionaldrugs, gene-therapies, and better b...... each other and to the outside world. The Technion team constructedtheir prototype nanowire between two go... In electrical tests of the nanowire, the Technion team discovered apotentially useful property. Under certain conditions, sending current throughthe wire t...Leftover Fetal Cells May Affect Development Of Scleroderma
...ith co-author Diana W. Bianchi, M.D., Dr. Nelson's team used asensitive assay known as polymerase chain reaction (PCR) to look for a specificsnippet of the male chromosomein blood samples taken from these women. Women who had had sons rather thandaughters were chosen for study simply for technical reason...Biologists Map First Gene For Age-Related Hearing Loss In Mice
Cincinnati -- A team of scientists from the University ofCincinnati, th...the Ahl gene was onChromosome 10, but the research team then did an additional threeyears of work to confirm their results. This part of the researchinvolve...