A Sampling of Clips for
December 19, 2002
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Scientists
study brain changes over time
Associated Press, Dec. 18 –
Scientists have found a way to track tiny features of individual
brain cells in living mice, providing a glimpse at how brains
change over time. (Quotes UCSD School of medicine
neurobiologist Larry R. Squire).
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Oil prices
up amid industry uncertainty
Minnesota Public Radio, Marketplace,
Dec. 18 – The price of oil hit a three-month high closing
in New York with a benchmark futures price of $30.38 a barrel.
UCSD’s Mikkal Herberg
discussed the threat to oil supplies on the show Marketplace.
An attack on Iraq would deprive the market of two million barrels
a day, and the US is already losing the same amount as a result
of the oil strikes in Venezuela.
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Mechanism
combines light, heavy chains in close molecular embrace
Bioworld, Dec. 18 – Botulinum
toxin, as we know it today, is a powerful biological weapon,
because it is the most poisonous toxin known to humankind, according
to UCSD neurobiologist Mauricio Montal.
Montal is senior author of a paper in the January
2003 issue of Nature Structural Biology.
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The best understood waters
San
Diego Daily Transcript, Oceans and Earth, Dec.
18 -- Scripps Institution of Oceanography’s
senior science writer Robert Monroe’s
column covers the California Cooperative Oceanic Fisheries Investigations,
or CalCOFI, its value in tracking the history of biological
and physical conditions off the California coast and how uncertain
its future is in light of recent state budget cuts.
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