December 6, 1997
News of the Week:
Estrogen's Emerging Manly Alter Ego
Studies with mutant mice show how a male's fertility depends on estrogen, thereby suggesting ways that some pollutants might trigger reproductive problems.
Kenneth S. Korach
Patricia Saling
Richard M. Sharpe
Shanna H. Swan
Sources:
Receptor Biology Section
Laboratory of Reproductive and Developmental Toxicology
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
National Institutes of Health
Research Triangle Park, NC 27709-2233
Duke University Medical Center
P.O. Box 3648
Durham, NC 27710
Medical Research Council
Reproductive Biology Unit
37 Chalmers Street
Edinburgh EH3 9EW
United Kingdom
Reproductive Epidemiology Section
California Department of Health Services
5900 Hollis Street, Suite E
Emeryville, CA 94608-2008
Herpesvirus linked to multiple sclerosis
The virus that causes roseola, a typically mild childhood disease, shows up in some adults with multiple sclerosis.
Steven Jacobson
Tracking a black-hole eruption
An array of radio telescopes in England has tracked the latest explosion of a compact source, suspected to be a black hole.
Thomas W.B. Muxlow
A paint that changes color in response to corrosion can signal potential problems.
Gerald S. Frankel
William M. Mullins
Generating sound waves inside specially shaped cavities can produce energy densities and peak pressures much higher than any previously achieved.
Timothy S. Lucas
Gregory W. Swift
Sources:
Viral Immunology Section
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
National Institutes of Health
Building 10, Room 5B-16
9000 Rockville Pike
Bethesda, MD 20892
Sources:
University of Manchester
Nuffield Radio Astronomy Laboratories
Jodrell Bank
Cheshire, SK11 9DL
England
Sources:
Fontana Corrosion Center
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Ohio State University
477 Watts Hall
2041 College Road
Columbus, OH 43210-1179
Technical Management Concepts
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base
Dayton, OH 45433
Sources:
MacroSonix Corporation
1570 Parham Road
Richmond, VA 23228
Phone: (804) 262-3700
E-mail: MacroSonix@aol.com
Mail Stop K764
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Los Alamos, NM 87545
Brain chemical may aid mouse mothering
Mice lacking the neurotransmitter norepinephrine fail to care for their young.
Richard D. Palmiter
Steven A. Thomas
Excess crimes by mentally retarded on own
Mentally retarded men and women living in the community commit proportionally more crimes of all types than do people with no mental disorder.
Anne G. Crocker
Sheilagh Hodgins
Seedless wonders for winter markets
Plants can be genetically engineered to provide more marketable off-season vegetables.
Angelo Spena
Dwight T. Tomes
Sources:
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Department of Biochemistry
University of Washington
Seattle, WA 98195
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Department of Biochemistry
University of Washington
Seattle, WA 98195
Sources:
Universite de Montreal
Centre de Recherche Philippe Pinel de Montreal
10 905 est Boul
Henri-Bourassa
Montreal (Quebec) H1C 1H1
Canada
Universite de Montreal
Centre de Recherche Philippe Pinel de Montreal
10 905 est Boul
Henri-Bourassa
Montreal (Quebec) H1C 1H1
Canada
Social, Genetic, and Developmental Psychiatry Research Centre
Institute of Psychiatry
De Crespigny Park
London SE5 8AF
England
Sources:
Faculty of Science
University of Verona
37134 Verona
Italy
Pioneer Hi-bred
7300 NW 62nd Avenue
P.O. Box 1004
Johnston, IA 50306
Research Notes:
Astronomy
Mars mapping postponed
A damaged solar panel will delay until March 1999 the start of a mission to map the surface composition and atmosphere of the Red Planet.
Glenn E. Cunningham
Two more moons for Uranus
Using a large telescope usually reserved for viewing more distant reaches of the universe, astronomers have discovered two additional moons of Uranus.
Joseph A. Burns
Brett J. Gladman Biomedicine
HIV not eradicated by drug cocktail
Even the most potent triple drug course doesn't completely eliminate the AIDS virus.
Anthony S. Fauci
Diana Finzi
Some needle sticks worse than others
The risk of getting HIV by a needle stick contaminated with infected blood rises with depth of wound, amount of blood, and other factors.
Denise M. Cardo Biology
Biological clocks fly into view
The fruit fly has timekeeping mechanisms distributed throughout its body.
Steve A. Kay
Resolving the magnetoreception puzzle
Researchers have discovered the mechanism by which trout sense Earth's magnetic field.
Michael M. Walker Science and Society
Redressing an environmental injustice
The federal government is buying out a residential Superfund site in Pensacola, Fla., which had been subjected to a disproportionate share of the region's industrial pollution.
Ken Lucas
Resolving the magnetoreception puzzle
Researchers have discovered the mechanism by which trout sense Earth's magnetic field.
Michael M. Walker
Industry's R&D funding up, feds' down
Overall research funding in the United States has been climbing faster than inflation for the past 3 years, despite a drop in government expenditure.
Steven Payson Technology
Protons as memory aids
Mobile protons trapped in a silicon dioxide layer serve as the basis of a memory device that retains data even after the power is turned off.
Daniel M. Fleetwood
Against the wall
Researchers have detected the layering of atoms of a liquid metal in contact with a solid wall.
J. Friso van der Veen
Record fusion power
The Joint European Torus set a world record of 13 megawatts for peak power generated in a nuclear fusion reactor.
Tom Elsworth
Sources:
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
California Institute of Technology
4800 Oak Grove Drive
Pasadena, CA 91109
Sources:
Cornell University
328 Space Sciences Building
Ithaca, NY 14853
Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics
University of Toronto
McLennan Labs, 60 St. George Street
Toronto, Ontario M5S 3H8
Canada
Sources:
Laboratory of Immunoregulation
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, MD 20892
Department of Medicine
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Baltimore, MD 21205
Sources:
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
1600 Clifton Road
Mail Stop E-68
Atlanta, GA 30333
Sources:
Department of Cell Biology
National Science Foundation Center for Biological Timing
The Scripps Research Institute
10550 North Torrey Pines Road
La Jolla, CA 92037
Sources:
Experimental Biology Research Group
School of Biological Sciences
University of Auckland
Private Bag 92019, Auckland
New Zealand
Sources:
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Region 4
Atlanta Federal Center
61 Forsyth Street, S.W.
Atlanta, GA 30303-3104
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Region 4
Atlanta Federal Center
61 Forsyth Street, S.W.
Atlanta, GA 30303-3104
Sources:
Experimental Biology Research Group
School of Biological Sciences
University of Auckland
Private Bag 92019, Auckland
New Zealand
Sources:
National Science Foundation
Division of Science Resources Studies
4201 Wilson Boulevard, Suite 965
Arlington, VA 22230
Sources:
Sandia National Laboratories
P.O. Box 5800, Department 1332
Albuquerque, NM 87185-1083
Sources:
University of Amsterdam
Van der Waals-Zeeman Institute
Valckenierstraat 65
1018 XE Amsterdam
Netherlands
Sources:
Public Relations Group
JET Joint Undertaking
Abingdon OX14 3EA
United Kingdom
Articles:
Floating Frogs
Magnets help living organisms defy gravity Research with frogs and their embryos suggests that magnetic levitation could serve as a substitute for low gravity in experiments on development.
Simon Foner
Andre Geim
James M. Valles Jr.
Hibernating animals may hold clues to novel stroke treatments Scientists examine how squirrel brains endure the rigors of hibernation to gain clues for salvaging brain tissue after a stroke.
Kelly L. Drew
Kai U. Frerichs
John M. Hallenbeck
Margaret E. Rice
Larry C.H. Wang
Sources:
Francis Bitter Magnet Laboratory
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
170 Albany Street, Building NW14
Cambridge, MA 02139
University of Nijmegen
Toernooiveld
6525 ED Nijmegen
Netherlands
Department of Physics
Brown University
Providence, RI 02912
E-mail: valles@physics.brown.edu
Website: http://www.brown.edu/Administration/News_Bureau/1996-97/96-126.html
Sources:
Institute of Arctic Biology
University of Alaska Fairbanks
Fairbanks, AK 99775
Stroke Branch
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
National Institutes of Health
Building 36, Room 4A03
36 Convent Drive
Mail Stop Code 4128
Bethesda, MD 20892
Stroke Branch
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
National Institutes of Health
Building 36, Room 4A03
36 Convent Drive
Mail Stop Code 4128
Bethesda, MD 20892
Departments of Physiology and Neurosurgery
New York University Medical Center
New York, NY 10016
Department of Biological Sciences
University of Alberta
Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2E9
Canada
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