FOR MORE INFORMATION - Caloric Restriction's Benefits Date: May 26, 1997 Professional Societies Gerontological Society of America 1275 K St., N.W., Suite 350 Washington, D.C. 20005 Tel: (202) 842-1275 Fax: (202) 842-1150 E-mail: geron@geron.org Web site: http://www.geron.org 7,000 members Executive Director: Carol Schutz Journals: The Gerontologist; Journal of Gerontology American Geriatics Society 770 Lexington Ave., Suite 300 New York, N.Y. 10021 (212) 308-1414 or (800) 2

Sidebar: For More Information - Caloric Restriction's Benefits Caloric restriction (CR) research has come a long way since Cornell University nutritionist Clyde McCay published a ground-breaking 1935 paper that showed that rats on calorically restricted, nutritionally sound diets lived longer than rats that were allowed to eat as much as they wanted (C.J. McCay, Journal of Nutrition, 10:63-79, 1935). Some 50 years of research since has confirmed that finding. In general, experimental animals fe

The 1,200-member, Chicago-based Council of Biology Editors, established in 1957 by a joint action of the National Science Foundation and the American Institute of Biological Sciences, provides resources for journal editors in the life sciences, offers a means for them to collaborate, and fosters "effective communication practices," according to its mission statement. The group sponsors an annual meeting (next year's gathering, s

The 1,200-member, Chicago-based Council of Biology Editors, established in 1957 by a joint action of the National Science Foundation and the American Institute of Biological Sciences, provides resources for journal editors in the life sciences, offers a means for them to collaborate, and fosters "effective communication practices," according to its mission statement. The group sponsors an annual meeting (next year's gathering, s

Some even recommend abolishing the traditional process used by science journal editors to evaluate submitted manuscripts During the past several years, the practice of peer review of article submissions--accepted unquestioningly by some authors--has come under increasingly harsh scrutiny by others. Many of these authors--joined, in some cases, by the editors of the very publications they are criticizing--are demanding change: Some

Some even recommend abolishing the traditional process used by science journal editors to evaluate submitted manuscripts During the past several years, the practice of peer review of article submissions--accepted unquestioningly by some authors--has come under increasingly harsh scrutiny by others. Many of these authors--joined, in some cases, by the editors of the very publications they are criticizing--are demanding change: Some

They strive to ward off authors who rehash findings in order to rack up lengthy lists of publishing credits In today's competitive job market, some scientists may be tempted to add heft to their c.v.'s by stretching their research a little, engaging in practices referred to by journal editors as redundant publication. Redundancy--attempts to get two or more articles out of the research for one--has always existed in some form or other, editors say. But, spurred by speculation that the pres

Researchers who stalk rare or fantastic creatures must endure the scorn of colleagues and funding agencies Physical anthropologist Grover Krantz sometimes fantasizes about flying his ultra-light aircraft over the Pacific Northwest on a warm spring day. Controls in one hand and an infrared heat detector in the other, Krantz scans the thawing ground-cover in search of the telltale heat of a rotting Bigfoot carcass. Bagging a body would be the ultimate evidence in a decades-old quest that has l

A university facility looks for tropical medicines while its epidemiology program tries to link disease and lifestyle HONOLULU -- An organism that Hawaiians call limu-make-o-hana thrives in the tide pools near the town of Hana, on the island of Maui, according to University of Hawaii chemist Richard Moore. And when Hawaiian warriors of the past, in search of a lethal poison, placed an exudate of this organism on their spear tips, they were on the right track, says Moore. Palytoxin is the exud