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February 18, 2005
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Greenhouse
Gases 'Do Warm Oceans'
BBC News, Feb. 17-Scientists led by
Tim Barnett of the climate research division
at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography
say they have "compelling" evidence that ocean warming
over the past 40 years can be linked to the industrial release
of carbon dioxide. More
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News,
Feb. 18
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Feb. 18
Reuters,
Feb. 18
London
Times, Feb. 19
Financial
Times, Feb. 18
Wired,
Feb. 18
China
View, Feb. 17
Sydney
Morning Herald, Feb. 19
Turkish
Weekly, Feb. 19
Contra
Costa Times, Feb. 19
San
Diego Union-Tribune, Feb. 18
Genetic
Map Is Heralded as Medical Tool
Los Angeles Times, Feb. 18-The first
published map of human genetic differences offers a major advance
toward truly personalized medicine, from predicting who will
get what disease to finding ways of choosing the best drug for
a patient, Perlegen Sciences Inc. scientists said Thursday.
To make the map, Perlegen worked with researchers at UCSD
and UC Berkeley. More
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articles appeared in:
ABC
News, Feb. 17
Reuters,
Feb. 18
New
Scientist, Feb. 18
Stem Cell
Researchers Make
Gains in Removing Mouse Molecules
USA Today, Feb. 18-UCSD
researchers recently confirmed scientifically what biologists
knew intuitively: The stem cell lines President Bush approved
for federally funded research are contaminated by the mouse
"feeder cells" used to make them grow in the lab.
The race is now on to create and keep human embryonic stem cells
alive without help from mice. More
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articles appeared in:
CTV,
Canada, Feb. 18
Miami
Herald, Feb. 18
Kentucky
Herald, Feb. 17
Tri-Valley
Herald, Feb. 18
Monterey
Herald, Feb. 17
Seattle
Post, Feb. 17
Philadelphia
Herald, Feb. 17
Kansas
City Star, Feb. 17
San
Diego Union-Tribune, Feb. 18
North
County Times, Feb. 17
UCSD to Host CCIT 7th Annual
Trade Policy Forum
San Diego Daily Transcript, Feb. 17-The
California Council for International Trade's 7th Annual Trade
Policy Forum -- being held Feb. 23 through 25 on the UCSD
campus -- will offer a high-level forum for the discussion of
global and national trends and developments that directly affect
not only the nation, but also California's position as a globalized
"nation state." More
Fraud Fighters
San Diego Union-Tribune, Feb. 18-If
you have a credit card or a cell phone, it's almost certain
that software created by Hecht-Nielsen Neurocomputer Corp. is
safeguarding you. HNC got its start in 1986 as the Hecht-Nielsen
Neurocomputer Corp., named after Robert Hecht-Nielsen,
a professor at UCSD. More
