Top Scientists Challenge Others: Join Biodiversity Year
... He and Mooney will be joined in the symposium by three other prominent scientists. Microbiologist Rita Colwell is past president of AAAS and current president of the Biotechnology Institute at the University of Maryland; President Clinton recently announced his intention to nominate her as deputy directo...Fauci: New Findings Help Explain "Rebound" Of HIV In Patients Who Discontinue Triple-Drug Therapy
...nclude a protease inhibitor and two or three other drugs, are commonly referred to as "highly active antiretroviral therapy" or HAART. Dr. Fauci's team and two other groups recently demonstrated that reservoirs of latent HIV can be found in resting CD4+ T...... as a food additive,an ingredient in some spices, three herbs --comfrey, goldenseal and saw palmetto -- and afertilizer, for their potential to cause cancer orreproductive and developmental problems. The NTP, a program headquartered at the NationalInstitute of Environmental Health Sciences,announced these......measured the temperature 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 water averaging 72 degreesFahrenheit [22°C], while its posterior end is parked in water that's 176 degreesFahrenheit [80°C]," Ca...Low Cholesterol? Reduced Sodium? What Do These Terms Really Mean?
...ons ofwhat the terms mean. This study investigated three common quantifier terms usedon food labels (reduced, low and free) in relation to four dietary components(fat, sugar, sodium and cholesterol). Subjects were shown food labels that weremodified to contain every combination of these quantifiers and die...Salve From Serpents? UD Studies May Explain Why Viper-Venom Protein Stops Tumor Spread In Mice
... aminoacids in echistatin's RGD loop, I can change three and make it work likeeristostatin." Although she suspects that eristostatin's ability to stop thespread of tumors in mice may be mediated by an integrin receptor, which cancercells have in common with white blood cells, the exact mechanisms remain am...Microsurgery Made More Accurate With Virtual Measuring Tool
...measure on the stereo-video image by controlling a three degrees of freedom (x, y, z-axes) input device. Ac...94]. To use the VTM, the human operator employs a three degree-of- freedom control device to manipulate the 3D pointer. The pointer is first placed adjacent...Urban Residents Rebut Argument That Tree Removal Enhances Safety
...- the residents viewed 40 different pictures ofthe three 16-story buildings and a courtyard in the complex,...portant that the courtyard look more natural. Of three tree densities shown, residents preferred the highest rate of22 trees per acre. Only 5 percent said...B-Vitamins Lower Homocysteine Levels In The Blood; May Reduce Vessel Damage In Stroke Patients
...niversity of Maryland. "It is remarkable thatonly three months of vitamin therapy can produce these kinds ...aminB-6 and one mg of vitamin B-12. After three months of therapy, the researchers found those who took thesupplemental B vitamins had lowered their...Study Finds Gene Is Associated With Higher Risk Of One Kind of Stroke Among African-Americans
...stem. The researchersfocused on one of the gene's three known variants, or alleles -- the one callede4. They found that in the study, blacks with a single e4 allele, inheritedfrom one parent, were twice as likely to have ICH when compared to controlgroups; they were more than eight times as likel...National Toxicology Program Meets On Transgenic Animals
...ntroductory presentations will review results from three lines of mice, p53def, Tg.AC and rasH2d. The scientists presenting will be Dr. Olden; Dr. George W. Lucier; Dr. Raymond W. Tennant; Dr. John E. French; Dr. Judson Spalding; Dr. Ronald E. Cannon; Dr. Robert Maronpot; Dr. William Eastin; Dr. John Buch...Three-Day Treatment Cures Decades-Old Case Of Malaria
...d large spleen might be caused by malaria. In only three days, using five doses of anti-malaria medicine, she was cured. Vinetz, who has a reputation for tackling difficult research problems,noted that the ancient Greek physician Hippocrates characterized quartan fevers as the mildest fevers. "He was...Sexually Active Younger Women Are At Higher Risk For Infection With Human Papillomavirus
...at the studyoutset and annually. For a maximum of three years, the women responded atsix-month intervals to questionnaires on lifestyle and sexual behavior. At thesame visits, samples of cells from the cervix and vagina were taken to ascertainwhether or not HPV was present and to determine the type, or s...Johns Hopkins Scientists Designing Compounds To Fight Malaria
... Because they are simpler, they can be made inonly three to five chemical steps, compared to 12 or more ste...inartemisinin and the new compounds, that contains three oxygenatoms. The structure, called a trioxane, contains two oxygensthat are bound together, a combin...Duke Researchers Develop First Treatment For Rare Muscle Disease
... 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 after the last injections, the...Genetics Of Obesity And Of The Response To Chronic Overfeeding
... percent body fat,and subcutaneous fat, with about three times more variance among pairs thanwithin pairs. After adjustment for the gains in fat mass, the within-pair similarity wasparticularly evident with respect to the changes in regional fat distributionand amount of abdominal visceral fat with abou...Women Younger Than 30 Need To Be Screened For Chlamydia
...dy. The study, which compared results using three screening strategies atfamily planningclinics in Baltimore, showed that screening young women under 30 at familyplanning clinics forchlamydia is the most efficient way to identify infected women. The finding is important because chlamydia is ......sium. Also speaking at the symposium will be three other internationallyrecognized scientists in rese...low fat diet. "This trait is found in about one in three adult men and one infive to six postmenopausal women," he said. "Each of these features confe...Population Growth Costs Include Global Warming Impact
... economic impacts ofglobal warming. "We calculate three ways an extra person affects the economy --he or she consumes natural resources, requires a share of capital resources suchas buildings and computers, and generates carbon emissions that contribute toglobal warming. These are societal costs beyond w......iapers 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 throughthe mass, dried it, weighed it and ran chemical tests. What Ham and former graduate students Timothy Baldwin and Jeffre...