A Sampling of Clips for 
April 18, 2002

New Gulf War illness panel begins work to redirect research
Associated Press, April 17 -- Veterans Affairs Gulf War illness advisory committee members are working to improve the health of Gulf War veterans. (Quotes UCSD professor of medicine and scientific director for the committee Beatrice Golomb).
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Muscle disease inhibited in mice
Science Magazine, April Issue – UCSD neuroscientist Paul Martin and team inhibited the muscle destruction in mice associated with Duchenne muscular dystrophy by boosting production of an enzyme on muscle fiber membranes.
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Scripps to trawl sea-microbe data
Nature, April Issue – Scripps Institution of Oceanography plans to establish the world’s first center devoted to marine bioinformatics.  (Quotes Scripps marine biology director Ron Burton and mentions the research of Scripps professor Brian Palenik).
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Popular technology changing wireless landscape
San Jose Mercury News, April 18 – Wireless fidelity, an inexpensive and popular networking standard that uses an unlicensed portion of the radio spectrum, is used for many projects including a UCSD $2.3 million National Science Foundation grant to wirelessly link Indian reservations in San Diego County with research institutions to educate remote communities.
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UCSD student returns home
San Diego Channel.com, April 12 – Feature of UCSD student Yael Schwarz, who recently returned from Israel where she participated in the education abroad program.
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