A Sampling of Clips for
April
19, 2002
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Technique
reveals protein life cycle
United
Press International, Health
Tips, April 19 – A team of UCSD
scientists led by Mark Ellisman
has developed a molecular-tagging technique to
chronicle the development, movement and interactions of proteins
in living cells. The results are published in the journal Science.
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AIDS
drug fares well in big trial
New
York Times,
April
19, Pg. 6 – The first of a new class of AIDS drugs has proved to
be effective in its initial large clinical trial. (Quotes UCSD
professor of pathology Douglas
D. Richman).
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Seven
San Diego researchers awarded grant
San
Diego Daily Transcript, April
19 – Seven San Diego researchers will share $201,000 in grants
from the American Lung Association of San Diego including UCSD
researchers Chantal Darquenne,
Anuradha Desai, Reid
Ikeda, Shazia M.
Jamil, Jeannie Kim
and David Kupferberg.
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U.S.
reputation suffers by failing to denounce coup in Venezuela
Cox
News Service, April
18 – The Bush administration is castigated for not denouncing
the recent coup in Venezuela. (Quotes UCSD
professor and former president Clinton Latin American adviser Richard
Feinberg).
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Go
ahead, laugh off global warming -- just learn to swim
San
Diego Daily Transcript, Commentary,
April 17 – Opinion article by Scripps
Institution of Oceanography
senior science writer Robert
Monroe on contradictory news items about global climate
change. (Quotes Scripps
researcher Jeff Severinghaus and
mentions Scripps
oceanography professor Charles
Keeling).
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