A Sampling of Clips for
June 24, 2004
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High Taxes
Threaten Calif.'s Biotech Industry
San Diego Channel 10, June 23-Higher taxes
is one of the main reasons why
one of California's leading industries is under siege. Biotechnology
companies
are not in danger of going out of business, but are taking their
business elsewhere. In and around University of California,
San Diego lies the core of San Diego's biotechnology
industry, where researchers are developing
techniques that will change medical history.
http://www.thesandiegochannel.com/technology/3453177/detail.html
Mixing
Herbal, Prescription Drugs Dangerous Method
San Diego Channel 10, June 23-Herbal
supplements may be natural, but that doesn't necessarily mean
they're safe. Drug interactions between herbal and prescription
medicines can be extremely dangerous, according to the World
Health Organization. (Quote by Charles James
M.D., an infectious diseases specialist at University
of California, San Diego.)
http://www.thesandiegochannel.com/health/3453541/detail.html
Thoughtful
Direction
San Diego Union-Tribune, June 23-Take
a breath, look around, listen carefully
and take a sip from that cup of coffee. Ever considered how
your brain takes in
all those sights, sounds, smells, tastes and thoughts? UCSD
neuroscientist Massimo Scanziani has. In a
study published June 17 in the journal Nature, Scanziani
and colleagues found that the brain divides up the labor of
processing the tidal wave of information coming in.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20040623/news_1c23scibrief.html
Protein
Believed to Control Formation of Memory Identified
by Scripps & UCSD Scientists
Medical News Today, June 24-Scientists
at The Scripps Research Institute and the University
of California, San Diego School of Medicine have demonstrated
that the action of a protein called CBP is essential for the
stabilization of long-term memory, a discovery that may help
children with a rare but debilitating developmental disorder.
They found that when the functions of normal CBP is suppressed
in adult rodents, the animals had trouble forming long-term
memories, suggesting that CBP is required for the formation
of long-term
memory and that defects in CBP are involved in cognitive dysfunction.
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=9860#
