A Sampling of Clips for 
June 21, 2005

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7 Ways to Save a Brain
MSNBC, June 21-Current Alzheimer's treatments don't slow the underlying disease process. Researchers are now testing an array of new therapies intended to do just that. (Refers to research by Dr. Mark Tuszynski at UCSD.) More

Stem Cell Funds Launch a Scientific Gold Rush
Contra Costa Times, June 21-When the Bush administration imposed strict limits on government funding for human embryonic stem cell research in 2001, it sparked fear of a "brain drain" of researchers fleeing the country in search of a better climate for their work. Then came Proposition 71, California's successful ballot initiative to fund stem cell research to the tune of $3 billion over the next decade. Now stem cell jobs are being offered at most of the California universities, including UCSD. More

Deep Brown Sea
Voice of San Diego, June 21-Beachgoers know of it as a "red tide," but at La Jolla Shores on Monday, a concentration of non-toxic, single-celled organisms tinted the crowded waters a deep brown. (Quote by Peter Franks, a professor at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.) More

Daily Buzz
Voice of San Diego, June 21-A professor of geophysics at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography has been elected a fellow of the Royal Society, the United Kingdom's national academy of science, and UCSD-TV science producer Rich Wargo has won a documentary award for the program, "In the Shadow of White Mountain." More