Date : December 12, 1994 H.T. Orr, M. Chung, S. Banfi, T.J. Kwiatkowski, Jr., A. Servadio, A.L. Beaudet, A.E. McCall, L.A. Duvick, L.P.W. Ranum, H.Y. Zoghbi, "Expansion of an unstable trinucleotide CAG repeat in spinocerebellar ataxia type 1," Nature Genetics, 4:221-26, 1993. (Cited in 114 publications through October 1994) The subject of this paper, the genetic basis of the neurodegenerative disease spinocerebellar ataxia type 1

Daniel Cosgrove, a professor of biology at Pennsylvania State University, University Park, says that this paper breaks new ground in that it gives the first insights into "the biochemical basis of one of the key processes in plant-cell growth; namely, the extension of the cell walls. "We identified proteins that make cell walls grow in surface area," he adds. Plant-cell walls are composed of large units of polysaccharides (such as

Margaret A. Hamburg, health commissioner of the New York City Department of Health, became the third member of her family to be elected to IoM. Her parents, psychiatrists David A. Hamburg, currently president of the New York-based Carnegie Corporation, and Beatrix A. Hamburg, who now serves as the president of the William T. Grant Foundation, were elected to the institute in 1971 and 1979, respectively. Margaret Hamburg recalls tha

Date : December 12, 1994 Sidebar: PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY JOB STATISTICS As 1995 approaches, changing economic forces in the pharmaceutical industry are presenting its scientists with tough challenges, both professional and scientific, according to researchers, company officials, and other observers. Financial setbacks and shifting business dynamics, such as mergers and takeovers, have caused companies to drastically downsize thei

Beatrice Mintz, a senior member of the Institute for Cancer Research at the Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia, was presented with the John Scott Award during a reception on November 18 at the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia. The prize was set up in the early 1800s by John Scott, a Scottish druggist, who entrusted the administration of the award--originally $20 and an inscribed copper medal--to the city of Phila

Date : December 12, 1994 H.T. Orr, M. Chung, S. Banfi, T.J. Kwiatkowski, Jr., A. Servadio, A.L. Beaudet, A.E. McCall, L.A. Duvick, L.P.W. Ranum, H.Y. Zoghbi, "Expansion of an unstable trinucleotide CAG repeat in spinocerebellar ataxia type 1," Nature Genetics, 4:221-26, 1993. (Cited in 114 publications through October 1994) The subject of this paper, the genetic basis of the neurodegenerative disease spinocerebellar ataxia type 1

Blueprints for a Greenhouse Long plagued by logistical problems and dogged by controversy, the troubled Biosphere 2, under new management, is attempting to revitalize one of the most criticized aspects of the program--the quality of its science. Since the summer, more than a dozen geologists, biogeochemists, ecologists, and climate modelers have visited the 3.15-acre Oracle, Ariz., facility--the world's largest enclosed artificial

Adolfo J. deBold, a professor of pathology and physiology at the University of Ottawa and director of research at the University of Ottawa Heart Institute in Ontario, Canada, and Ervin G. Erdos, a professor of pharmacology and anesthesiology and director of the Peptide Research Laboratory at the University of Illinois College of Medicine, Chicago, have received the Ciba Award for Hypertension Research. Cosponsored by the Houston-bas

Adolfo J. deBold, a professor of pathology and physiology at the University of Ottawa and director of research at the University of Ottawa Heart Institute in Ontario, Canada, and Ervin G. Erdos, a professor of pharmacology and anesthesiology and director of the Peptide Research Laboratory at the University of Illinois College of Medicine, Chicago, have received the Ciba Award for Hypertension Research. Cosponsored by the Houston-bas

Blueprints for a Greenhouse Long plagued by logistical problems and dogged by controversy, the troubled Biosphere 2, under new management, is attempting to revitalize one of the most criticized aspects of the program--the quality of its science. Since the summer, more than a dozen geologists, biogeochemists, ecologists, and climate modelers have visited the 3.15-acre Oracle, Ariz., facility--the world's largest enclosed artificial

Society for Neuroscience 11 Dupont Circle, N.W.Suite 500 Washington, D.C. 20036 Phone: (202) 462-6688 Nancy Beang, executive director Carla Shatz, president 23,000 members International Society for Developmental Neuroscience University of Texas Medical Branch Galveston, Texas 77550-0652 Phone: (409) 772-3667 Fax: (409) 772-8028 E-mail: regino@beach.utmb.edu Arne Schousboe, president Regino Perez-Polo, secretary-general 1,000 m

Thomas Kirk- Former SSC Official Assumes Key Post At National Laboratory Jerome Bert Wiesner - Obituary Date: November 14, 1994, pp.25 Thomas Kirk, the former deputy director of the now-defunct superconducting supercollider (SSC) laboratory in Waxahachie, Texas, has assumed the position of associate director for high energy and nuclear physics at the United States Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, N.