A Sampling of Clips for
August 27, 2002
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HIV/AIDS dementia:
High CSF viral loads presage neurological impairment
AIDS Weekly, Aug. 26 – A research team led
by UCSD professor of neurosciences Ronald J. Ellis
say that health care workers should monitor brain and spinal viral
loads in HIV patients. Ellis and coauthors found evidence
that high cerebrospinal fluid viral loads do indeed presage HIV-induced
neurodegeneration.
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World’s
coral reefs in serious decline; overfishing worsens situation
Environmental News Network, Aug. 27 – Scientists
found that the health of the world’s coral reefs are in serious
decline, with overfishing worsening a crisis situation. The results
of a five-year study are presented in a report released by the
Institute of the Environment’s Reef Check program at UCLA.
Jeremy Jackson, a professor at Scripps Institution of
Oceanography, wrote the preface to the report.
http://enn.com/news/wire-stories/2002/08/08272002/s_48269.asp
Univ.
of Wis. to open S.D. patent office
San Diego Union Tribune, Aug. 26 – In what
is believed to be a first for a U.S. university, the University
of Wisconsin is expanding outside its home turf and opening a
satellite patent licensing office in San Diego in hopes of making
deals with the region’s thriving biotechnology sector. The
university will be competing with UCSD and other local
universities seeking to turn academic research into commercial
enterprises. (Quotes Alan Paau, director of UCSD’s
technology transfer office).
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/tue/business/news_1b27patent.html
Article
also appeared in:
Copley News Service,
Aug. 26
Good
news for grunion
San Diego Union Tribune, Aug. 27 – A study
conducted by Pepperdine University biologist Karen Martin offers
evidence that Southern California grunion populations remain robust
despite increasing urbanization along the coastline. Scripps
Institution of Oceanography sponsored workshops where more
than 200 volunteers, nicknamed “grunion greeters,” were
trained.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/tue/metro/news_1m27grunion.html
