A Sampling of Clips for
May 31, 2002
UCSD
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Laser
‘radar’ tracks quakes, climate
United
Press International, May 29 – Scripps Institution of
Oceanography geophysics professor Jean-Bernard Minster
is among the researchers using a ranging and location system based
on light instead of radio waves to monitor changes in geologic
faults and ice sheets.
More see attached file…LIDAR system
Gene
doping threatens to transform sport
Financial
Times (London), May 31 – Gene therapy, the transfer of
different genes into the bodies of patients, could be used to
improve athletic performance substantially. Experts fear
that athletes may misuse these new therapies since many scientists
believe it could be near impossible to detect gene therapy in
athletes. (Quotes UCSD director of gene therapy Theodore
Friedmann).
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Organization watch
San
Diego Daily Transcript, May 31 – UCSD researcher
and surgeon Anne M. Wallace is working under an American
Cancer Society grant at UCSD Cancer Center on a phase-one
trial of a new radiotracer for sentinel node detection in
melanoma.
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