This is an announcement for the paper "Some remarks on transportation inequalities and the slicing problem" by Mark W. Meckes. Abstract: We show that transportation cost inequalities can be used to derive bounds for isotropic constants of convex bodies. We state a conjecture about transportation costs (and discuss support for it) which would have strong consequences for the slicing problem. Archive classification: Metric Geometry; Functional Analysis Mathematics Subject Classification: 52A20; 60E15 Remarks: AMSLaTeX The source file(s), transport.tex: 21567 bytes, is(are) stored in gzipped form as 0405376.gz with size 7kb. The corresponding postcript file has gzipped size 47kb. Submitted from: mark@math.stanford.edu The paper may be downloaded from the archive by web browser from URL http://front.math.ucdavis.edu/math.MG/0405376 or http://arXiv.org/abs/math.MG/0405376 or by email in unzipped form by transmitting an empty message with subject line uget 0405376 or in gzipped form by using subject line get 0405376 to: math@arXiv.org.