A Sampling of Clips for
August 30, 2002
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Hope
for finding anthrax antitoxin
Newsday, Aug. 30, Pg. 48 – UCSD scientists
have discovered how toxins released by anthrax bacteria kill one
type of white blood cell, allowing the deadly microorganisms to
evade the rest of the immune system and run rampant through the
body. The findings, led by UCSD pharmacology professor
Michael Karin and published in the journal Science, could
help develop an antidote that blocks an anthrax toxin called lethal
factor.
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Related
article appeared in:
Financial Times, Aug. 30
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San
Diego Union Tribune, Aug. 30
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/fri/metro/news_1m30anthrax.html
Copley
News Service, Aug. 30
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Baby’s
‘goo-goo’ a building block of human speech
Los Angeles Times, Aug. 30, Pg. 16 – In the
babbling that precedes an infant’s first attempts to talk,
scientists are discovering crucial clues to how children master
the languages that connect humans to one another. The brain has
become specialized for language by the time an infant is 5 months
old, according to a report published in the journal Science. Elizabeth
Bates, professor of cognitive science at UCSD, argues
that an infant’s brain is quite capable of deducing the nature
and structure of its native language from the conversations around
it.
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Surfing
with BubbleCam at Scripps
Oceanspace, Aug. 29 –Grant Deane and
Dale Stokes, researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography,
are studying the millions of air bubbles bursting at the shoreline
that represent an important key to understanding a variety of
ocean phenomena. In the August 22 issue of the journal Nature,
the pair provides unprecedented insight into the characteristics
and dynamics of bubbles inside breaking waves.
http://www.oceanspace.net/story.cfm?hidTitle=15AF0D61204D4DF3A4C91038F9FACEEA
UCSD
professor receives award
San Diego Metropolitan Magazine, Aug. 30 –
UCSD electrical and computer engineering professor Neal
Bertram, a leading researcher in the field of recording physics
and micromagnetics, has won the 2003 IEEE Reynold B. Johnson Information
Storage Award for his work on the underlying physics of magnetic
storage devices.
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