Chesapeake scientists fight fatigue
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Billions of dollars have been spent to restore the polluted Chesapeake Bay since the rallying cry "Save The Bay" was plastered on a popular blue-and-white bumper sticker 30 years ago.
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To: SCIENCE EDITORS  Contact: J.D. Harrington of Headquarters, Washington, +1-202-358- 5241; Chris Rink of Langley Research Center, Hampton, Va., +1-757- 864-6786   HAMPTON, Va., Feb.
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Scientists are zeroing in on brain growth and inflammation as possible suspects in the cause of autism.
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Two studies an ocean apart illustrate the growing importance of inflammation as a contributor to heart attack, stroke and other cardiovascular diseases.
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HOUSTON - Marine researchers are hoping to prevent tides of destructive algae from killing fish and fouling beaches through early detection of the microscopic organisms.
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By JON W. GLASS UF06C THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT  CHESAPEAKE - After a string of 12- and 16-hour days, Paul Phelps expected a slow morning. But as the computer tech drove to his business partner's backyard work shed in Deep Creek, a call from corporate quickly changed that.
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By Dori Berman  Lawmakers hoping to improve water quality in the Chesapeake Bay have proposed assessing a fee on all new construction to create a dedicated funding source for bay cleanup programs.
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Scientists attempt to pair coral with algae that is better able to withstand rising sea temperatures.
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By Patrick Lynch, Daily Press, Newport News, Va.  Feb. 17--NEWPORT NEWS -- The Chesapeake Bay Foundation has filed a lawsuit challenging a decision to allow Newport News to continue work on the King William Reservoir.
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By Greg Esposito, The Roanoke Times, Va.  Feb. 24--BLACKSBURG -- When Virginia Tech junior Angella De Soto sits in her Community Renewable Energy Systems class she can't help but notice her surroundings.
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An international team of scientists isolates antibodies that could protect against bird flu in humans.
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Virginia plans to install a monitoring station in the Potomac River that will help boaters and fishermen while assisting marine biologists studying the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries.
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By Debbie Gebolys, The Columbus Dispatch, Ohio  Jun. 17--In the rolling landscape north of Scioto Downs, a colony of agricultural researchers and greenhouse entrepreneurs toils a short walk from their ecologically sensitive homes.
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Two University of Oklahoma scientists are starting research that they hope will someday lead to the development of a vaccine to combat the HIV virus, which causes AIDS.
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Researchers look to the shark's primitive immune system for better diagnostics and drugs.
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Hong Kong scientists have been researching a vaccine for the avian flu epidemic, commonly known as bird flu. Doctor John Nichols, a pathologist at Hong Kong University, says
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A cutting-edge laboratory has opened in Alabama.  Its mission: to combat diseases ranging from asthma to malaria to stroke using data from NASA satellites.  Space scientists and public health officials are working together to train the doctors of tomorrow in this far-out approach to medicine.