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Everyday, events and discoveries occur that take biology out of the textbook and onto the front page. With BioUpdates, we hope to keep you abreast of the rapid changes and advances that affect your health, your environment, and your understanding of yourself and the world we live in. Each month you will find five engaging summaries of current biological news items with hyperlinks to additional information available on the Internet. These will be available at our website and will also be sent out as a listserv to subscribers.

This Month's BioUpdate Articles

March 2003

• We Are Not Alone
• New Channels For Breast Cancer Research
• Vitamin Supplement
• From a Mickey Mouse Operation to Monkey Business
• Molecular Fake Out

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BioUpdates Archive

February 2003

• Pumping Up the Brain Volume
• Sperm Like it Hot(ter)
• Gene Could Be Knockout Success
• A Supply to Meet Medical and Ethical Demands
• Unraveling the Landscape of Proteins

January 2003

• Timing is Everything
• Maternal Bonds
• Getting Down to the Bone (Marrow)
• Bones of Contention
• Heartworming News

November 2002

• Keeping Pace
• A Spoonful of Sugar
• Preserving Stem Cell Pluripotency
• Proteome Probe
• Adding a New Dimension to the Fossil Record

September 2002

• Giving Cells a Sense of Direction
• Not Just Any Adult Stem Cell Will Do
• Stroke of Luck
• Wanted: Western Weed - Killer of Tumors
• New Treatment Options Stemming For Diabetes

July 2002

• Skin Cells and Heat Sensitivity
• New Species
• Cellular Signaling
• Tomato Heat Tolerance
• Alzheimer Advances

April 2002

• Expressing Ourselves
• InGENEuity
• Heart Warming Story
• Substantial Advances
• Stemming a Tide of Controversy?

March 2002

• Getting to the Root of the Matter
• Alternative Ways of Hearing Trees Fall in Forests
• Small Dinosaur Equals Big Story
• More to the Eye Than Meets It
• Joint Discoveries

February 2002

• Gut Feelings: Not Always What You Think
• OK Charales
  
• Pass on the Salt
  
• Nonbreaking News
  
• Seals: No Longer Just a Circus Act

• Complex Complex Carbohydrate Story Comes to an End
• More to Flowers than Meets the Human Eye
• Virtuous Venom
• Peptides: A Dose of One's Own Medicine
• Suppressing Genes and Criticism

October 2001

• Making Stem Cells Less Divisive
• Going Beyond the Fossil Record
• The Promise of Everlasting Life
• Cloning News
• Breathtaking Announcement

August 2001

• Let There Be No Light
• Looks Can Be Deceiving
• Heartening News
• Researchers Go Forth and Multiply
• Plugging the Leaks

June 2001

• Seeing into the Future
• Is it a Bird? Is it a Plane? No, it’s a Dinosaur!
• The Ever Changing World of Proteins
• Very Bad Cholesterol

May 2001

• Prescription Drug Advertising
• Critical Thinking Questions
• Related Links

• First Blood Donations; Now Fat Donations
• Optimism for an AIDS Vaccination Gets a Boost
• Removing Pieces from the Alzheimer's Puzzle
• Growing the Tree of Life
• There Appears to Be No Escaping Math Class or the Law

• Fast Evolution in Fruit Flies
• Mass Murder of Male Mitochondria
• An Heir to DNA's Throne?
• Very Senior Worms
• New Fungal Order

• Good News for Guinea Pigs
• Tasteful Research on Umami
• St John's Wort: Herbal Treatment for Depression?
• Progress in Prion Protein Studies

• One Down, Twenty-Two To Go
• Hard Evidence of Earlier Vertebrates
• Genetics of Sexual Self-Incompatibility
• Glowing Prospects for Durable Microbe

• Alzheimer Vaccine: A Discovery to Remember
• Can Biological Controls Extinguish the Fire Ant Epidemic?
• Prostate Cancer: Why Does It Go for the Bone?
• A Genetic Approach to Improved Phytoremediation
• Reducing the Risk of Cardiovascular Disease: Got Olive Oil?

• Cloning: A Mouse's Tale
• Simulating Life on Mars
• Biological Pest Control - A Sting Operation
• Highly Technical Knock-Out
• Bacterial Toxin Fights Brain Tumors

• Monarchs Menaced by Biotech Corn
• Will the Common Cold Become Less Common?
• Bio-Artificial Kidney
• Fungus May Sweeten Prospects For Diabetics
• Worms Provide Clues to Longeviety

• Stems Cells: The Root of Tissue Regeneration
• Macro-Micro-organism
• The Speed of Light Detection
• Building-up an Argument Against Angiogenesis
• Stiffening Resistance to Flexible Plastics

• A Matter of Taste
• The Ones That Didn't Get Away
• Fighting the Resistance
• South African Clues to Mammalian Origins
• Engineering a Treatment for Phenylketonuria

• The Missing HIV Link
• Sugar-Coating Salmonella Infections
• Strides with Stroke Therapy
• Smart Brain Cells
• Bladder Control

• Mutation Linked to Epstein-Barr Syndrome Complication
• Universal Human Stem Cells Isolated and Cultured
• Bypassing Bypass Surgery - Gene Therapy for the Heart
• Fragile Breaking News - Sauropod Embyros Unearthed in Argentina
• An Old Enemy: Could Alzheimer's have Infectious Origins?

• Breaking Heart Story
• Stressful Births
• The Outer Limits
• Unfolding the RNA Folding Process
• Putting Chlamydia on the Map

• Smoking in the Womb: Carcinogen Crosses Placenta
• Renal Renewal
• Not So Fast Food
• Influential Influenza
• Pharmaceutical Farming
• Web of Intrigue
• Coming Ashore: What Was the First Land Plant?

• Cycling Together: An Effect of Female Pheromones
• Killer Bees: Being Mean Is In Their Genes
• Sucralose: How Sweet It Is
• Testing the Tenets of Therapeutic Touch
• Virus Causes Kaposi's Sarcoma, An AIDS-Associated Cancer

• Anxiety About Anthrax Abounds
• Homing in on Hunger Hormones
• Newly Discovered Species Are No Shrinking Violets
• Beef Irradiation Approved, But Will It Sell?
• Wine: Good for Hearts, Bad For Breasts
• Follow-Ups to Past BioUpdates

• Swimming in Somatotropin
• Chipping Away at the Olestra Controversy
• Clone, Clone on the Range
• Molecular Basis of Nicotine Addiction
• Were Scientists Wrong About Right Whales?

• Bird Flu Takes Wing Among Humans
• Lasers Zap Hair, Drug Makes it Grow
• Sheep Clones Contain Human Gene
• It's a Small World for Aquatic Stowaways
• Ultrasound All Around or Only For a Few?

• Cell Suicide: Advances in Understanding Apoptosis
• Diet Drugs: Old and New
• Decline of African Wild Dogs
• Viral Trigger for Multiple Sclerosis
• Living Fossil Flowers in Madagascar
• Follow-ups to past BioUpdates

• Medical Marijuana Study Is Funded
• Nobel Prize to Prusiner for Discovering Prions
• Extract of Ancient Plant Effective Against Alzheimer Disease
• A Kid With a Lot of Heart
• More Than 1 in 5 Americans Carries Virus for Genital Herpes
• Scientists Produce Freaky Frogs in the Lab
• Follow-up to Past BioUpdates

• The blues can break your heart
• Thalidomide's ugly past and potential promise
• DNA fingerprinting may clear the name of the man who inspired "The Fugitive"
• Dinoflagellate outbreak is killing fish
• Gene for classic Mendelian trait is isolated

• Hazardous Hamburgers Prompt Huge Recall
• Calf Clone Joins the Biotech Barnyard
• Gene Mutations Provide Natural Resistance to AIDS
• Got Milk? Or Broccoli? Or Tofu?
• Miniature Monkey Discovered

• Power Lines Pose No Leukemia Risk
• CPruning a Branch on the Insectivore Family Tree
• Embryonic Tissue Transplants to Spinal Cord and Eyes
• Australians Claim Record for the Oldest Living Plant
• Follow-Ups to Past BioUpdates

• Post-Mortem Paternity Troubles Bioethicists
• Sorghum Succumbing to Fungal Menace
• Cold Sore Cream Controls HSV-1
• A Newly Discovered Human Ancestor: Homo antecessor
• Autism Under Attack
• Follow-Ups to Past BioUpdates

• Appology for the Tuskegee Syphilis Study
• Passive Smoking Leads to Increased Deaths
• Was Sneezy Born in December?
• Biophysicists Shed Light on Photosynthesis
• Speedy Evolution Produces Leggy Lizards
• Follow-Ups to Past BioUpdates

• New DNA Vaccine: An Advance Against AIDS
• Stimulating Environment Boosts Brain Power
• Dinosaur Skin Fossil is on Display
• Mouse Model for Huntington's Disease
• Asexual Reproduction Can be Contagious
• Catch a Cold to Cure a Cancer
• Coral Reef Destruction Alarms Scientists

• Regulations to Save Sharks Proposed
• New Treatment for Tuberculosis
• Feeling Fatter? You're Not Alone
• Ozone Hole Fries Antarctic Fish
• Yellowstone Bison Become Burgers

• Baa, Baa Cloned Sheep
• New Evidence Linking Asteroid To Dinosaurs' Demise
• "/biology_d/special_features/bioUpdates/bioUpdates0397.html#food">Tasteful Experiments on Food Preferences
• Health Fallout from Three Mile Island
• Why is A with T and C with G in DNA?

• Vaccine against malaria
• 3-D imaging of serotonin in live cells
• Sumatran rhino in dire straits
• How to starve a tumor
• Stripping red blood cells
• Follow-ups to past BioUpdates

• One bad apple
• Closing in on Parkinson's disease
• The very early birds
• Primate, heal thyself
• Fragile X marks the spot
• Follow-ups to past BioUpdates

• Freaky frogs
• A Nobel achievement: Immunologists win in 1996
• Subsurface bacteria do it deeper
• Blood understudies waiting in the wings
• The buzz on disappearing bees

• Life on Mars?
• Photosystem I may not be necessary for photosynthetic growth
• Transfusion of placental blood could replace bone marrow transplants
• Increase in global temperatures gives rise to longer growing season
• Brain imaging technique shows dyslexia is a visual, not a reading, problem

• "Mad cow" disease may threaten humans
• Rhinos -- going, going. . .?
• Cloning produces five identical lambs
• Stress and personality affect cholesterol levels
• Genetically engineered corn fights back against pests

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