A Sampling of Clips for
December 02, 2004
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More Heterosexual
Women Getting AIDS
NBC News, San Diego, Dec. 1-When you
see a woman and child you don't normally think of AIDS. But
maybe you should since heterosexual women are the fastest-growing
group getting infected, according to reports from World AIDS
Day. (Quote by Dr. Jennifer Blanchard, an associate
physician from the UCSD HIV Program.)
http://www.nbcsandiego.com/health/3964095/detail.html
Carbon Monoxide
Tests Reveal Alarming Results
Channel 10 News, San Diego, Dec. 1-Carbon
monoxide is an invisible and odorless gas. When it builds up,
it can kill or cripple a victim who is unknowingly breathing
it. (Quote by Dr. Jake Jacoby, the head of
Hypobaric Medicine at the UCSD Medical Center.)
http://www.10news.com/investigations/3963868/detail.html
UCSD Biologists Identify
Gene in Corn Plants
Innovations Report, Dec. 2-Biologists
at the University of California, San Diego
have identified a gene that appears to have been a critical
trait in allowing the earliest plant breeders 7,000 years ago
to transform teosinte, a wild grass that grows in the Mexican
Sierra Madre, into maize, the world's third most planted crop
after rice and wheat.
http://www.innovations-report.de/html/berichte/biowissenschaften
_chemie/bericht-37147.html
UCSD Researchers
Identify New Role for Drugs in Prevention, Treatment of Atherosclerosis
Innovations Report, Dec. 2-Drugs that
work in the liver to reduce fatty triglyceride levels and improve
insulin resistance, are also effective at inhibiting the formation
of cholesterol-laden plaques that cause atherosclerosis in artery
walls, according to researchers at the UCSD
School of Medicine.
http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/medicine_health/report-37138.html
Similar article appeared
in:
Medical
News Today, Dec. 2
Federal Catalyst of Western
Water Policy Resigns
San Diego Union-Tribune, Dec. 2-Bennett
Raley, the passionate architect of federal water policy across
the West and a central figure in bringing more water to the
San Diego region, has joined the exodus from the Bush administration.
(Quote by Steve Erie, a political scientist
at UCSD.)
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/state/20041202-9999-1n2raley.html
Sequenom, UCSD Report on
Study
San Diego Union-Tribune, Dec. 2-San
Diego-based Sequenom reported that scientists from the company
and UCSD bioengineers have published the successful
use of the company's mass array system to conduct fully automated
high-throughput mutation detection in microbial genomes, specifically
the bacterium Escherichia coli-K12, or E. coli.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20041202/news_1b2calbrfs.html
