--- Ronn! Blankenship <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello? Anyone out there? > > Are we having server problems, or did everyone run > out of things to say all at once>
You had to ask...here are some [listref] snippets from the digest I just scanned: GENE THERAPY: Second Child in French Trial Is Found > to Have Leukemia For the second time in 4 months, a child has developed a leukemia-like disease after receiving gene therapy at the Necker Hospital for Sick Children in Paris. Concerned about the safety of such trials, the panel that monitors U.S. research in the field scheduled a public meeting this week to review the clinical data and weigh its next steps. ------------------------------------------------------- PHYSICS: Confirmation of Gravity's Speed? Not So Fast SEATTLE--Last week, the media were awash with reports that astronomers had confirmed Einstein's prediction that gravity crosses space at the speed of light. Not necessarily, say some physicists. The work described at the annual meeting of the American Astronomical Society here, they warn, may have been nothing more than a test of the speed of light itself. ------------------------------------------------------- TOXICOLOGY: Academy Panel Mulls Ethics of Human Pesticide Experiments In late 2001, the Environmental Protection Agency asked the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) for advice about the ethics of so-called dosing experiments, in which human volunteers are deliberately exposed to pesticides to see how much is needed to trigger a metabolic response or even make subjects sick. Last week, the new NAS panel heard from both advocates and opponents of dosing experiments. Their vehement debate underlines the difficulty the panel faces in trying to untangle the scientific and ethical questions. ------------------------------------------------------- NEUROSCIENCE: Deconstructing Schizophrenia After decades of research, no one knows the cause of schizophrenia, many efforts to unravel the genetics behind it have ended in frustration, and no cure is in sight. But in recent years, scientists have made significant gains--not by tackling the disease head-on but by picking apart its components, especially those involved in cognition. And this has given them hope that they might finally be able to unlock some of schizophrenia's intractable secrets. ------------------------------------------------------- RENEWABLE ENERGY: Norway Goes With the Flow To Light Up Its Nights CAMBRIDGE, U.K.--Three European teams are racing to be the first in the world to harness a new source of power: underwater coastal currents driven by the tides. In early March, engineers in Hammerfest, Norway, are expected to flip the switch of a sea-floor generator that, for the first time, will feed electricity tapped from underwater tidal streams into a power grid. In addition, two U.K.-based companies are hard at work on prototypes. _______________________________________________________ Copyright (c) 2003 by the American Association for the Advancement of Science. __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
