A Sampling of Clips for
January 10, 2003
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Sardines,
anchovies flourish in cycles
MSNBC, Jan. 9 – The net of scientific
research has pulled up a fishy surprise: Anchovies and sardines
appear to take turns being plentiful across the Pacific Ocean.
If the researchers are right, anchovies will be on the ascent
for the next couple of decades. (Quotes Arthur J. Miller,
research oceanographer at Scripps Institution of Oceanography).
http://www.msnbc.com/modules/exports/ct_infobeat.asp?/news/857199.asp
Related articles appeared
in:
Newsday.com, Jan. 9
http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/nation/wire/sns
ABC News.com,
Jan. 9
http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Politics/ap20030109_1440.html
CBS News.com,
Jan. 9
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/01/09/tech/main535880.shtml
National Geographic
News, Jan. 9
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/01/0109_030109_fisheries.html
Guardian Unlimited,
Jan. 9
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,1282,-2308582,00.html
Environmental News
Network, Jan. 10
http://enn.com/news/wire-stories/2003/01/01102003/s_49324.asp
Natural
compound may slow Parkinson’s
United Press International, Health
tips, Jan. 10 – A study led by UCSD neuroscientist
Clifford Shults found that high doses of a
natural compound, coenzyme Q, can slow the progressive deterioration
of patients with Parkinson’s disease. The results are
encouraging, but the therapy still needs to be tested in a larger
trial with hundreds of patients, cautioned Shults.
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No link available online.
10 Emerging
Technologies that Will Change the World
MIT Technology Review, Feb. Issue
-- UCSD Computer Science and Engineering professors
Andrew Chien and Cal-(IT)2 director Larry
Smarr are among seven researchers singled out for leading
the way in Grid computing and peer-to-peer networking.
http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/emerging0203.asp?p=6
Immunology
blasting antibodies with lasers provides direct way of measuring
their flexibilities
Immunotherapy Weekly, Jan. 9 –
A group of scientists at the Scripps Research Institute and
UCSD’s San Diego Supercomputer Center
have used a powerful laser in combination with innovative quantum
mechanical computations to measure the flexibility of mouse
antibodies. The new technique, described in Proceedings of the
National Academy of Sciences USA, is significant because protein
flexibility is believed to play an important role in antibody-antigen
recognition. (Quotes Kim K. Baldridge, director
of Integrative Computational Sciences at the San Diego Supercomputer
Center).
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