September 6, 1997
News of the Week:
Exotic Needle Found in Particle Haystack
Physicists have uncovered evidence of a rare particle known as an exotic meson.
Ted Barnes
Suh-Urk Chung
Sources:
Physics Division
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
P.O. Box 2008
Oak Ridge, TN 37831-6275
Brookhaven National Laboratory
P.O. Box 5000
Upton, NY 11973-5000
Dead whales tell tales of sea ice decline
Whaling records indicate a dramatic loss during the 1950s of sea ice surrounding Antarctica.
William K. de la Mare
Sources:
Australian Antarctic Division
Department of the Environment, Sport and Territories
Channel Highway
Kingston, Tasmania 7050
Australia
Unraveling a fish killer's toxic ways
Two of the potent toxins produced by the fish-killing Pfiesteria piscicida from estuaries along the Atlantic coast have been isolated.
Daniel G. Baden
JoAnn M. Burkholder
A child's susceptibility to cavities may reflect lead exposure in the womb and through breast milk.
William H. Bowen
Martin E.J. Curzon
K. Jack Toumba New findings from the SOHO spacecraft show that the sun's interior has several intriguing zones of gas that move at different speeds.
Craig DeForest
Douglas Gough
Philip H. Scherrer
Jesper Schou Trapping tiny particles electrostatically A tiny device acting like a pair of pincers traps palladium atom clusters only nanometers in diameter.
Cees Dekker
Paul L. McEuen Polluted blood fails to deliver infection To travel from the gut to the brain, the infectious agents that cause mad cow disease and related illnesses must follow a specific set of steps.
Adriano Aguzzi New tools for muscular dystrophy research A novel analysis technique finds that more transplanted healthy muscle cells survive in muscular dystrophy patients than previously thought.
Helen M. Blau
R. Mark Grady
Louis M. Kunkel
Sources:
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
Marine and Freshwater Biomedical Sciences Center
4600 Rickenbacker Causeway
Miami, FL 33149
Department of Botany
North Carolina State University
Raleigh, NC 27695
Website: http://www2.ncsu.edu/unity/lockers/project/aquatic_botany
Caries: Legacy of mom's lead exposure?
Sources:
Department of Dental Research
School of Medicine and Dentistry
University of Rochester
601 Elmwood Avenue
P.O. Box 705
Rochester, NY 14642
Leeds Dental Institute
Department of Child Dental Health
Clarendon Way
Leeds LS2 9LU
United Kingdom
Leeds Dental Institute
Department of Child Dental Health
Clarendon Way
Leeds LS2 9LU
United Kingdom
Spacecraft probes beneath sun's surface
Sources:
Stanford University
HEPL Annex B208
Stanford, CA 94305-4085
Institute of Astronomy
University of Cambridge
Trinity Lane
Cambridge CB2 1TN
England
Stanford University
HEPL, Annex B211
Stanford, CA 94305-4085
Stanford University
HEPL Annex A201
Stanford, CA 94305-4085
Sources:
Department of Applied Physics and DIMES
Delft University of Technology
Lorentzweg 1
CJ Delft
The Netherlands
E-mail: dekker@qt.tn.tudelft.nl
Website: http://qt.tn.tudelft.nl/
Department of Physics
University of California, Berkeley
366 LeConte Hall
Berkeley, CA 94720
Website: http://physics1.berkeley.edu/research/mceuen/
Sources:
Institute of Neuropathology
Department of Pathology
University of Zurich
Schmelzbergstrasse 12
CH-8091 Zurich
Switzerland
Sources:
Department of Molecular Pharmacology
Stanford University School of Medicine
Stanford, CA 94305
Department of Pediatrics
Washington University School of Medicine
St. Louis, MO 63110
Division of Genetics
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Children's Hospital
300 Longwood Avenue
Boston, MA 02115
Research Notes:
Behavior
Danger decrees get confidence boost
When mental health clinicians report high confidence in their assessments, their accuracy in estimating patients' risks of becoming violent goes up dramatically.
Dale E. McNiel
Sources:
Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute
401 Parnassus Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94143-0984
Women mop up after heart attacks
Married women who survive a heart attack quickly return to a full load of household activities that may undermine their recovery.
James C. Coyne
Jerry Suls
Sources:
Department of Family Practice
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
Department of Psychology
University of Iowa
E11 Seashore Hall
Iowa City, IA 52242
Biomedicine
New drugs help angioplasty patients
The drugs abciximab and probucol helps keep arteries open after balloon angioplasty.
Peter Ganz
Peter Libby
A. Michael Lincoff Antibiotic resistance falls in Finland A Finnish effort to limit bacterial resistance bears fruit.
Helena Seppala
Sources:
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Francis Street
Boston, MA 02115
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Francis Street
Boston, MA 02115
Department of Cardiology
Cleveland Clinic Foundation
Cleveland, OH 44195
Sources:
Antimicrobial Research Laboratory
National Public Health Institute
P.O. Box 57
20521 Turku
Finland
Articles:
Thermoelectrics may offer new ways to refrigerate and generate power
Sources:Scientists have renewed their interest in materials that change temperature with the application of electric current.
Hylan B. Lyon
Marlow Industries, Inc.
10451 Vista Park Road
Dallas, TX 75238-1645
Website: http://www.marlow.com
Glen A. Slack
Department of Physics
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Troy, NY 12180
Terry M. Tritt
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Clemson University
102-A Kinard Laboratory
Box 341911
Clemson, SC 29634-1911
Cronin B. Vining
ZT Services, Inc.
2203 Johns Circle
Auburn, AL 36830-7113
Website: http://www.zts.com
How Proteins Take Shape
Guardians give a new twist to protein folding X-ray images provide insights into how molecules called chaperones help proteins fold into the correct shape.
Arthur L. Horwich
Paul B. Sigler
Sources:
Department of Genetics
Yale University School of Medicine
Boyer Center for Molecular Medicine
295 Congress Avenue
New Haven, CT 06510
Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry
Yale University
260 Whitney Avenue
New Haven, CT 06510
Proton-Go-Round
Whence does the proton get its spin? A proton's constituent quarks contribute only about 30 percent of the particle's spin, leaving open the question of how the remainder arises.
Timothy E. Chupp
Emlyn W. Hughes
Sources:
Department of Physics
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
Department of Physics
California Institute of Technology
Pasadena, CA 91125
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