A Sampling of Clips for
January 11, 2005
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California Stem Cell Program
on Fast Track
New York Times, Jan. 11-- The chairman
of California's new $3 billion stem cell research institute
wants to award its first grants in less than five months, even
though the institute has no staff, headquarters or review procedures
-- a timetable that some board members fear is too ambitious.
(Quote by Dr. Leon Thal, a professor of neurosciences
at UCSD.) More
Macular
Degeneration Patients
Benefit from Self-Management Training
Innovations-Report, Jan. 11-- A 12-hour
self-management program for individuals with advanced age-related
macular degeneration leads to lasting improvements in mood and
function, especially in depressed patients, and decreases the
development of clinical depression in AMD patients over time,
according to a UCSD Shiley Eye Center study
published in the January 2005 Archives of Ophthalmology. (Quotes
by Stuart I. Brown, director of UCSD's
Shiley Eye Center and Barbara Brody, clinical
professor of ophthalmology.) More
Discovery by UCSD Astronomers
Poses a Cosmic
Puzzle: Can a 'Distant' Quasar Lie Within a Nearby Galaxy?
Innovations-Report, Jan. 11--An international
team of astronomers has discovered within the heart of a nearby
spiral galaxy a quasar whose light spectrum indicates that it
is billions of light years away. The finding poses a cosmic
puzzle: How could a galaxy 300 million light years away contain
a stellar object several billion light years away? (Quotes by
Geoffrey Burbidge, and E. Margaret
Burbidge, professors of physics and astronomers at
UCSD. Mentions Vesa Junkkarinen,
a research physicist at UCSD.) More
Need a Body
Boost? Local Experts
Separate Metabolism Fact from Fiction
San Diego Union-Tribune, Jan. 11--
There are a few things you can do that may help kick-start your
metabolism out of winter hibernation and put it in high gear
for the new year. (Quote by Cheryl Rock, professor
of nutrition at UCSD School of Medicine.) More
