Biosciences
1/24/2001: After the genome: Report on proteomics
1/22/2001: Embryonic stem cell research may grind to a halt
1/21/2001: How to Design a Molecule
1/17/2001: Honey, I shrunk the scientist
1/17/2001: The silence of the clones: new link between DNA replication and 'silent' chromosome architecture
1/17/2001: Maternal Genes Rule During Early Development: Possible Mechanism to Filter Deleterious Mutations
1/16/2001: Online, Self-paced Genetics Education: Section 2
1/16/2001: Decoding the genome
1/14/2001: OHSU Researchers Produce First Genetically Modified Monkey
1/14/2001: Rare gaur clone dies
1/12/2001: Genes Reveal New Clues about the First Flower
1/12/2001: Information Tools That Could Turn the Human Genome Project into Pharmaceutical Gold
1/11/2001: Good-bye to the gene?
1/11/2001: Tree oF Life?
1/4/2001: Library of Life
1/4/2001: Tree Lovers on a Crusade to Clone 'Champions'
1/4/2001: Bull Clone Is Resistant to Many Diseases, Won't Need Antibiotics
1/3/2001: Imprinted Gene Found On Human Chromosome 19; Mouse Version Involved In Nurturing Behavior
1/2/2001: Computer Generated Comparative Maps Developed At Cornell Promise To Speed Up Slow Process Of Comparing Genomes
12/30/2000 • Find out how scientists decode our DNA
12/30/2000 Computer Generates Comparative Gene Maps
12/30/2000 DNA Arrays Decipher Genome's Master Switches
12/30/2000 "Sick Kids Hospital" Researchers Discover Different Types Of Stem Cells
12/29/2000 Italians plan 'genetic park'
12/26/2000 Genetically Engineered Plants: Sold to the highest bidder?
12/26/2000 CHEMISTS DESCRIBE "ZIPPER TEETH" OF DNA MOLECULES
12/25/2000 UK votes emphatically in favour of allowing stem cell research using early human embryos
12/17/2000 Caltech Plant Geneticist Says Sequencing of Arabidopsis Genome Will Have Huge Payoffs
12/15/2000 First-Ever Complete Plant Genome Sequence Is Announced
12/14/2000 Vaccine Protects Against Ebola Virus
12/02/2000 Do Mutant Women Walk Among Us?
11/29/2000IT Firms Compete to Compute the Genome
11/29/2000Making the Brain Rewire Connections After a Stroke
11/21/2000 Yale Researchers Find Golgi Apparatus More Basic Than Thought
11/17/2000 Bird Brains Seek Smarter Mates
11/15/2000 Plumbing the Hearts and Minds of Animals
11/08//2000 Is the Concept of the Gene Obsolete?
11/03/2000 Genetic Complexity: We're Simpler Than We Thought
11/03/2000 Darwin Under Attack: Creationism in the Schools
10/30 Want to Help Simulate the Machinery of Life on Your Home Computer?
10/17 Mouse Genome Nears Completion
10/13 Scientists Impregnate Cow with Sperm from Endangered Species
10/12 Second Coming Project Plans to Clone Jesus
09/28 Prions May Play a Crucial and Previously Unsuspected Role in Evolution
09/19 Evolution of PhotoSynthesis Traced to Rhodopsin- and Chlorophyll-Based Bacteria
03/25:Celera Maps Entire Drosophila Genome

Alzheimers
1/26/2001: Revival of Old Drug in Alzheimer's Disease Battle
1/25/2001: UK watchdog recommends three Alzheimer's drugs
1/24/2001: Ginkgo May Protect Against Alzheimer’s Protein
1/12/2001: Ginkgo may be useful for Alzheimer's
1/3/2001: Manganese Exposure May Speed the Emergence of Alzheimer's
12/28/2000 Hopkins Scientists Show Enzyme Is Key to Hallmark of Alzheimer's
12/25/2000 Researchers Find Region Of Chromosome 10 Linked To Risk For Alzheimer's Disease
12/25/2000 More About the New Alzheimer's Vaccine
12/24/2000 Researchers Reveal Insidious Role of a "Serpin" in Alzheimer's Disease
12/22/2000 Researchers develop vaccine for Alzheimer's
12/21/2000 Alzheimer's Vaccine Breakthrough
12/21/2000 Alzheimer's Disease 'Can Be Reversed'
12/21/2000 Hormone Replacement Therapy 'Could Fight Dementia'
12/21/2000 Alzheimer's: A disease of the young?
12/21/2000 Scientists uncover Alzheimer's clues
12/21/2000 Alzheimer's Drug Rivastigmine (Exelon) is a Success
12/21/2000 Alzheimer's: how mice beat it
12/08/2000 Penn Researchers Find New Marker for Alzheimer's Disease
12/03/2000 Lower-IQ Children More Susceptible to Late-Onset Dementia
11/04/2000 Specific Protein Oxidized in Alzhemier's, Parkinson's
10/24 Serious Earlier Head Injuries Linked to Alzheimers

Prolongevity
1/26/2001: Cell Aging Reversed
1/25/2001: Strategies for reversing, not merely retarding, the degenerative effects of aging
1/24/2001: Why do people grow old? (Discussion of anti-aging research)
1/24/2001: Who wants to live for ever?
1/22/2001: Ordinary, non-cancerous rat cells can replicate forever, scientists discover
12/16/2000 Gene Mutation Extends Lifespan In "I'm Not Dead Yet" Fruitflies
12/15/2000 Caloric Restriction Longevity Mutation Found in Fruit Flies
1/16/2001: Scientists Issue Telomerase Caution
12/14/2000 UCSD Researchers Determine That DNA-Repair Enzyme Also Plays Critical Role In Innate Immunity
12/04/2000 TheBiology of Aging
11/30/2000Scientists Show Cloning Can Turn Back Developmental Clock and Faithfully Reproduce X-Inactivation
11/16/2000 Key Telomere Maintenance Discovery Made
11/16/2000 Un. of Wisc. Researchers MakeSerendipitous Discovery of Immortal Skin Culture
10/24 Harvard Med School Scientists: Aging May Be Linked to Brain's Hormonal Signals
10/14 Gene Discovered That Controls Life Extension Through Caloric Restriction
09/30 First Evidence Found That Maximum Lifespan of Humans Is Rising
09/02 New Synthetic Superoxide Dismutase and Catalase--the Body's Own Antioxidants--Significantly Slow Aging in Worms
06/08 On Living Forever - Interview with Dr. Michael West
06/02 Interested in Aging Slower? How About in Total Rejuvenation and Perpetual Youth? (Ponce de Leon, Move Over!)
05/11 Target for Repairing Damaged Cells Found in Telomerase Enzyme
04/29 Aging Breakthrough? Cloning Super-Juvenates Cells
04/09 Could Weird Life Hold Key to Greatly Extended Longevity?
04/04:Mitotic Errors Found to Be the Primary Cause of Aging

Neurosciences
1/25/2001: Spinal Cord Repair A Reality?
1/24/2001: Growing hope - How antidepressants work
1/22/2001: Removing a block on nerve regrowth could lead to treatments for spinal injury
1/22/2001: Serious doubts are raised about the idea that tough clumps of protein in the brain cause Alzheimer's
1/19/2001: New Brookhaven Lab Study Shows How Ritalin Works
1/19/2001: Piecing Together Alzheimer's
1/19/2001: How Every Brain Is Hardwired for Math
1/18/2001: Receptors Unleashed! Key Event in Learning and Memory May Be Receptor Delivery to Synapses
1/18/2001: Aerobic Exercise Improves Cognitive Functioning Of Older Men And Women
1/17/2001: Movies of Intact Brain Reveal How Sensory Experience Shapes Neural Connections
1/17/2001: Rewiring the brain
1/16/2001: New Link Uncovered in Nerve Cell Mechanism Thought to Power Learning and Memory
1/15/2001: Songs of humpbacks similar to ours in rhythm and length, researchers say
1/15/2001: Eye-Movement Study Shows Glimpse of How Brain Plans Movement
1/14/2001: Neuroscience:_Optical Illusions
1/11/2001: Nutrition and Your Brain: Introduction
1/7/2001: Brain: Schizophrenia: volume matters
1/6/2001: Switching on Two Genes Activates Significant Regeneration of Spinal Cord Axons
1/2/2001: Cooking up a better mental performance
12/30/2000 UI study investigates human emotion processing at level of individual brain cells
12/29/2000Researchers Identify Gene Linked to Autism
12/29/2000 Scientists Identify Molecular 'Planner' That Helps Brain Reorganize
12/28/2000 Protein Stimulates Key Link Between Nerve Cells, Suggesting Possible Target For Mental Retardation And Nerve Regeneration Therapies
12/28/2000 Stem Cells Graft In Spinal Cord, Restore Movement In Paralyzed Mice
12/28/2000 Dogs are a bunch of clever-clogs
12/28/2000 Examining childrens fabulous capacity to learn
12/28/2000 Growing hope: Prozac may stimulate neuronal growth
12/26/2000 Effective Treatment for Rapid Cycling Manic Depressive Disorder
12/26/2000 Vanderbilt Neuroscientists Identify "Oops Center" In The Brain
12/25/2000 Stem Cells Stimulated By Natural Growth Factor Reverse Damage, Restore Some Function In Adult Brain
12/19/2000 Immune Proteins Found Moonlighting in Brain
12/16/2000 Sustained Use Of Anti-Depressants Increases Cell Growth And Protects Cells In The Brain
12/10/2000 Galantamine: Shire's New Alzheimer Drug... General Memory Enhancer?
12/09/2000 All Creatures Great and Smart: Marvelous Animal Brains
12/07/2000 New Synaptic Studies Reveal New Levels of Detail
12/06/2000 Turning Blood Into Brain: Stem Cells Can Develop Into Neurons in Living Animals
12/06/2000 Manganese Exposure May Speed the Emergence of Parkinson's Disease
11/30/2000Mentally Ill Comprise Nearly 45% of the U. S. Tobacco Market amd Are Twice as Apt to Smoke
11/30/2000As Women Have Long Suspected, Men Listen with Only Half Their Brains
11/29/2000Brain Center Located That Mediates Humor?
11/17/2000 Possible Target for Retardation, Nerve Regeneration Therapies
11/17/2000 Study Indicates That Brain Wiring Is Largely Inborn
11/16/2000 The Brain Uses the Same "Display Screen" for Visualiization As It Does for Vision
11/12/2000 Replay Mechanism Crucial to Maintaining Long-Term Memories?
11/10/2000 Brain Scan Finds Four Areas Lit by Love
11/07/2000 Why Some Women Can Wrap Men Around Their Little Fingers
11/07/2000 How the Mind Changes with Age
11/06/2000 Stem Cells Grafted into Spinal Cords Restore Movement in Mice
09/23 Researchers Trace Roots of Vivid Memories
09/12 Transplanted Stem-Cell Neurons Show Promise for Regrowing Retinas and Other Brain Tissue
06/06 Musings Regarding Intelligence
05/09 Synucleins Control Neuronal Neurotransmitter Release
05/08 Nerve Growth Factor May Rejuvenate the Brain
05/04 "Brain-Foods" That Really Work
04/27 Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Seems to Be Hereditary
03/24 "Smart Drug" ABT-431 Permanently Improves Short-Term Primate Memory

Diseases
1/24/2001: Penn Researchers Unlock A Mystery Related To Acute Undifferentiated Leukemia
1/23/2001: Researchers Design New Way To Squelch Errant Enzymes
1/23/2001: Patients Undergoing Stem-Cell Transplantation Live Longer Than Those Undergoing Marrow Transplantation
1/22/2001: Atomic Structure Identified for Gene-Regulating Molecule: Broad Implications for Cancers, Autoimmunity, Developmental Disorders
1/21/2001: Cells 'seek and destroy' cancer
1/20/2001: "Smart Probe" for Breast Cancer Detects Malignant Tumors Instantly
1/19/2001: Genetic Mutation Identified That Results In Aggressive, Drug Resistant, Cancers
1/19/2001: "Trojan Horse" Vaccines Could Prevent HIV Infections
1/18/2001: UK tests cervical cancer vaccine
1/18/2001: Eating More Fish And n3 Fatty Acids Associated With Reduced Risk Of Stroke For Women
1/16/2001: New Clue for Diagnosis and Treatment of Malignant Melanoma
1/16/2001: Mouse Virus "Command Post"
1/16/2001:Synthetic Protein Thwarts HIV Attachment
1/15/2001: Is ozone responsible for the asthma epidemic in children?
1/13/2001: An engineered mouse virus leaves us one step away from the ultimate bioweapon
1/13/2001: Deadly virus fuels bio-terror fears
1/8/2001: Diabetes gene identified
1/9/2001: Spider calms the quaking heart
1/9/2001: Diabetes breakthrough could lead to treatment
1/9/2001: 'Holy grail' for diabetics draws closer
1/7/2001: Blood Glucose Level Can Predict Cardiovascular Risk
1/7/2001: Heart surgeons use robot hands
1/7/2001: Robot heart surgery set for UK
1/7/2001: Diabetes reversed in the lab
1/6/2001: Reducing Sodium Leads to Substantial Drop in Blood Pressure, Finds NHLBI Study
1/6/2001: Combination of Two Widely Used Pesticides Linked to Parkinson's Disease
1/4/2001: On the Trail of Autism, We're Getting Warmer
12/30/2000Pancreatic Cancer Vaccine Found Safe In Early Study
12/28/2000 COMMONLY USED HERBAL PRODUCT LOWERS PSA LEVEL IN MEN WITH ADVANCED PROSTATE CANCER
12/28/2000 Debilitating Lupus Disease May Have Simple Cause, New UCSF Research Shows
12/24/2000 Immunotherapy Slows Disease Progression And Lowers PSA Levels In Some Men With Prostate Cancer, UCSF Study Finds
12/24/2000 Mayo Clinic Researchers Identify Ways to Delay Lou Gehrig’s Disease
12/17/2000 Pet Theory: Do Cats Cause Schizophrenia?
12/14/2000 Vaccine Protects Against Ebola Virus
12/12/2000 Scientists to Test 'Natural' Arthritis Drugs Condroitin, Glucosamine
12/10/2000 Researchers Find a Genetic Cause of Type 1 Diabetes and Autoimmunity
12/10/2000 Diabetes Gene Therapy Draws Closer
12/07/2000 New Drug Blocks Rheumatoid Arthritis Early On, with Few Side Effects
12/06/2000 Insulin Precursor Linked with Increased Increased Stroke Risk
12/04/2000 Gene Clue to Vaccine Against Childhood Leukemia
12/03/2000 First Recombinant Fungal Vaccine Protects Against Blastomycosis
11/27/2000 Gene Therapy Cures Diabetes in Mice
11/24/2000 Like Iceland's, Tiny Tonga's Clean Genes May Provide Disease Clues
11/24/2000 Colorectal Cancer Screening Should Start at 50
11/22/2000 Medical Experts Divided on Hazards of Cellphones
11/12/2000 New Cancer Drug Is Effective Against Multi-Drug-Resistant Strains
11/11/2000 Icelandic Researchers Find a "Susceptibility Gene" for Schizophrenia
11/06/2000 Low Frequency Electromagnetic Fields Damage Murine Ovarian Follicles
11/06/2000 New Genes Implicated in Neuordegenerative Diseases
10/29 Scientists Find Evidence of a Cure for Rheumatoid Arthritis
10/27 Gene Therapy Shown to Reverse Parkinson's Disease
10/22 West Nile Virus Spreads Farther South
10/16 Electromagnetic Fields (e. g., Powerlines) Shown to Affect Human Cells
10/03 The West Nile Virus Is Spreading - Beware!
09/25 Diabetes Gene Identified
08/31 First Universal Cancer Vaccine?
08/30 Dual Drug Regimen May Ward Off Colon Cancer

General
1/19/2001: Brave New Pharmacy
1/14/2001: The key to stem cells' remarkable feats of transformation may have been revealed by a dye
1/12/2001: Physicians Present Most Comprehensive Clinical Review of St. John's Wort
1/2/2001: Sheep Thriving In Feeding Trial Of Genetically Modified Lupins
1/1/2001: Report Says Pressurized Steaming Dramatically Increases Ginseng's Potency
12/29/2000 Molecular Fingerprint Identified For Cocaine Addiction
12/28/2000 Report On Dietary Supplements Containing Ephedra Makes Urgent Call For Safety Warnings
12/27/2000 Insulin-Like Hormone Helps Prevent Heart Muscle Death, Could Lead To Gene Therapies For Diabetes, Heart Disease
11/23/2000 Contraceptive Hormone Patch
11/23/2000 Are We Prepared to Clone Our Own Tissue and Organs?
11/21/2000 Importance of Sleep to Task Performance
11/21/2000 Children Born to Mothers Who Go Hungry During Early Pregnancy Run Greater Risk of Later Heart Attack
11/21/2000 Jury Is Still Out on Soy
11/18/2000 Heavy Meals May Trigger Heart Attacks
11/09/2000 Pain Medication Breakthrough
11/04/2000 Emotional Attitude Unrelated to Heart Disease
11/04/2000 Exercise Crucial After Heart Attack
10/16 Parents Sue Psychiatrists for Promoting Ritalin
10/15 Scientists Learn to Program Human Dreams (2nd Article)
10/15 Where Candidates Stand on Sci-Tech
10/14 Paul Ehrlich's Book on Nature vs. Nurture
10/12 Short, Sharp Bouts of Exercise Good for the Heart
09/26 Transplanted Muscle Tissue Might Repair Damaged Hearts
09/22 First Experiments in Growing New Coronary Blood Vessels
04/17 Does Vitamin C Lower Blood Pressure?
03/30 Revolutionary $6 Artificial Retina

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1/8/2001: Teeth tell a strange tale of evolution
1/8/2001: Back Teeth Saved Humans
1/4/2001: Iceman keeps scientists guessing
1/3/2001: The dark ages may have really been dimmer
12/31/2000:Rock Art Discovery Reveals Egyptian Prehistory
12/29/2000 Quakes blamed for sinking cities
12/25/2000 Information Technology, 2500 B.C.
12/24/2000 Catastrophe, Mother of Evolution: Life Survived Early Bombardment
12/20/2000 Study Solves Pangea Puzzle
12/11/2000 Our Ancient and Recent African Origins
12/07/2000 Human Fossil Record Pushed Back 1.6 Million Years+
12/03/2000 Pre-Incan Lines in the Desert May Be Maps of Underground Water
11/28/2000 Surprise! The First Thanksgiving Was a Rowdy Affair!
11/20/2000 Scientists Rough Out Humanity's 50,000-Year-Old Story
11/19/2000 The Hunt For Adam and Eve
11/19/2000 Genetics and Race
11/11/2000 Another Slant on the First Europeans
11/10/2000 Tracking Down the First European Male
11/02/2000 Perfectly Preserved Ship from 450 A. D.
10/29 Sumerian "City of Graves" Unearthed
10/26 The National Institute of Science and Technology's History of Clocks
10/23 Anthropology Enters the Age of Cannibalism
10/22 New Kind of Animal Found in Greenland
10/21 Virtual Villages
10/19 Did Big Chill Cause Mass Extinction?
10/18 Shades of Jurassic Park! Bacteria Revived After 250 million years
10/17 DNA Clues to Neanderthal
10/16 Neanderthals Kept It in the Family
10/16 Thawing the Woolly Mammoth - On Safari in Siberia
10/16 Cosmic Time Capsule: Frozen Yukon Meteorite Found
10.14 620,000 B. C. Sculpture Found

10/18 Free Book: "Gravitational Physics: Exploring the Structure of Space and Time"
10/11 NASA Funds Controversial Gravity Shield

10/02 Chesapeake Bay - Yet Another Massive Impact Crater
09/29 Caltech Astronomers Interferometrically Measure Star's Distance at 1,100 Light-Years
09/24 Entangled Photons Could Promise Lightning Speed Computers
09/20 With Time Running Out at CERN, Un. of Wisc. Team Narrows Search for Higgs Boson
09/16 Gigantic Telescopes in the Works