January 1998 Archives
30 January 1998
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Inspired by Sputnik
Tomorrow marks the 40th anniversary of the launch of Explorer 1, the first U.S. satellite to orbit the Earth. The 9-kilogram satellite was the U.S. response to the Soviet Union's...
30 January 1998
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No Rejection of Incognito Organs
Researchers have devised a way to trick the rat immune system into ignoring--and therefore, not rejecting--transplanted organs. The new technique, described in next month's Nature Medicine, could someday be used...
30 January 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Space Station Deal Lauded, Lamented
WASHINGTON, D.C.--It took 4 years to hammer out an agreement for how 16 nations will build and operate the international space station, so most participants at the signing ceremony here...
30 January 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
First Cellulose Gene Found
An international team of scientists has identified and cloned the first gene known to control the production of cellulose--the most abundant organic compound on Earth. Cellulose fibers wrap around cells...
29 January 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
The Hard Heart of a White Dwarf
Physicists have created a strange type of matter thought to exist in the heart of dense stars called white dwarfs. By confining a million beryllium ions in an electromagnetic trap,...
29 January 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Gore Promises 'Historic' Boost to Cancer Research
WASHINGTON, D.C.--Casting a spotlight on science, Vice President Al Gore went coast to coast today to unveil plans to boost federal R&D funding in 1999. Here at the Executive Office...
29 January 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Miniature Medicine Balls
Blood vessels, like highways and byways that reach most addresses, run through almost all the body's tissues. The problem for physicians is that drugs in this transportation network travel nearly...
29 January 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
First Baldness Gene Discovered
Scientists have identified a genetic mutation that causes a rare form of baldness. The finding, reported in tomorrow's issue of Science, indicates that the affected gene regulates hair growth, and...
28 January 1998
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Hopkins's Genetic Database to Close
Buffeted by the shifting winds of human genome research, government officials have decided to close an 8-year-old collection of human gene maps maintained by Johns Hopkins University. The database has...
28 January 1998
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Cell Anchor Shapes Memories
A protein famous for anchoring cells and helping them communicate is also crucial to the short-term memory of fruit flies. This surprising finding, reported in tomorrow's issue of Nature, suggests...
28 January 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Tippling Gene Turns on Plants
Scientists have found a way to switch on a plant's genes by letting it soak up some booze. The intoxicating approach, described in next month's Nature Biotechnology, might eventually be...
28 January 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Severed Nerves Found in Multiple Sclerosis
The clumsiness, blurred vision, and other symptoms of multiple sclerosis have long been blamed on the loss of fatty insulation around nerve fibers. Now scientists report that many of these...
27 January 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
That Blinking Sun
The sun is covered in thousands of tiny hot spots, according to new observations from the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) satellite. These hot spots, as will be reported in...
27 January 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Reform Shatters 'Iron Rice Bowl'
BEIJING--As many as half of the 49,000 researchers in the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) could lose their jobs under a plan to modernize operations and cut costs. The changes...
27 January 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Hubble's New Captain
WASHINGTON, D.C.--The Hubble Space Telescope's operator will have a new director in September. NASA and the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, which runs the Baltimore-based Space Telescope Science...
27 January 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Prion Brain Disorder Lying Dormant?
LONDON--Although the outbreak in the United Kingdom of a rare, fatal degenerative condition called variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD)--the human equivalent of "mad cow disease"--appears to have subsided, it may not...
26 January 1998
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Kamikaze Vaccine
Scientists have turned a deadly bacterium into a suicide bomber of sorts that can drop a load of therapeutic genes into human cells, then harmlessly self-destruct. This method, described in...
26 January 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Inflammation From Cellular Garbage Strike
Mutant mice that can't stop scratching themselves have led scientists to a gene--whimsically dubbed Itch--that helps control inflammation. The discovery, reported in next month's Nature Genetics, offers a surprising glimpse...
26 January 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Putting the Squeeze on Elephantiasis
A dreaded tropical disease marked by grossly swollen limbs may someday become a historical footnote. Pharmaceutical giant SmithKline Beecham and the World Health Organization (WHO) today announced a joint $1...
23 January 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Gene Clock Reset for First Animals
Animals may have sprung from the tree of life more than 300 million years later than a recent estimate suggests. According to a new analysis in the current issue of...
23 January 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Indian Scientists Claim Lab Corruption
NEW DELHI--A union of scientists has accused India's main civilian scientific agency of widespread corruption and mismanagement. The All India CSIR Scientific Workers Association (SWA), which represents some 5000 Indian...
23 January 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Earth's Nomadic Poles May Sway the Seas
The slow rise and fall of sea levels over tens of millions of years may be due in part to meanderings of Earth's spin axis, according to a provocative study...
22 January 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
No Ban for Animal Transplants
BETHESDA, MARYLAND--The transplantation of animal cells or organs into humans is getting a cautious go-ahead from U.S. health officials. At a meeting here today to help the government develop guidelines...
22 January 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Chemists Create Enzyme Mimic
Scientists have created a molecule that mimics the look and behavior of a natural enzyme, a workhorse protein that speeds up chemical reactions in living things. The achievement, described in...
22 January 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Behold the Big Baud Fly
The common fly is a miracle of miniaturization, a tiny flying machine capable of split-second zigzags--and of outmaneuvering most humans. Now a group of scientists has peered at the pilot's...
22 January 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
New Way to Gauge Prostate Cancer Risk
For many male baby boomers, the fates of rock star Frank Zappa and '60s guru Timothy Leary warned of a dangerous killer: prostate cancer, the most common cancer to strike...
21 January 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Labour Flatlines U.K. Science Spending
When the Labour Party won last May's general election, it pledged to stick to the tough spending plans of its Tory predecessor--including a flat budget for science spending. Last week,...
21 January 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Transistor With a Heart of Gold
A new design for a superconducting transistor could revive the dream of circuits that would operate without electrical resistance. Such circuits might run much faster than conventional electronics and fit...
21 January 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
NEAR Spacecraft to Flash by Earth
After having successfully reconnoitered its first asteroid last year, NASA's Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous spacecraft, or NEAR, will flash into view late Thursday night and early Friday morning across much...
21 January 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
How HIV Stays Undercover
Most people infected with HIV are able to mount a considerable immune response against the virus. Yet somehow, HIV eludes detection and eventually begins to kill immune cells. Scientists now...
20 January 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Gore Backs New Neutron Source
WASHINGTON, D.C.--Vice President Al Gore plans to visit Oak Ridge National Laboratory in his home state of Tennessee on Wednesday to announce the Administration's support for a $1.3 billion science...
20 January 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
New MS Treatment for Mice
Uric acid appears to be a wonder drug in mice: It wards off a disease that resembles multiple sclerosis (MS), an autoimmune disorder in people, and allows partially paralyzed mice...
20 January 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Scientists Clone Cash Cows
BOSTON--Cows have been cloned from fetal cells for the first time, researchers announced here today at the annual meeting of the International Embryo Transfer Society. The new procedure may lead...
16 January 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Paparazzi of the DNA World
An x-ray snapshot of crystallized DNA polymerase, an enzyme that copies our genetic blueprint, has revealed a remarkable ability to function while in crystal form, according to a report in...
16 January 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Watching the Andes Grow
Satellites have revealed, for the first time, exactly how Earth's surface buckles when a slab of ocean floor dives beneath a continent. A 2-year study of the Andes and the...
16 January 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Chemotherapy by Courier
The effectiveness of most drugs used for treating cancer is limited because they spread throughout the body, killing off normal dividing cells as well as those of tumors. And to...
15 January 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Rocket Man Redux
The word is out: It's all systems "go" for former astronaut and U.S. Senator John Glenn (D-OH), 76. NASA is expected to announce tomorrow that the grizzled space veteran can...
15 January 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Pumping Up AIDS Drugs
Protease inhibitors are a powerful tool for battling HIV, but they have two big problems: They are quickly removed from the bloodstream, and they are blocked from entering the brain,...
15 January 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Knees Help Set Body's Clock
Human circadian rhythms that govern sleep, body temperature, and other regular cycles apparently can be influenced by shining bright light on the body--even if the eyes cannot see it. The...
15 January 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Flu Sequence Offers Clues to Deadly Virus
Although the Hong Kong "bird flu" has killed six people--the latest died yesterday--and prompted the slaughter of 1.5 million chickens, it remains largely a mystery to scientists. Now a team...
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