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For the Sake of Land and Climate, Coaxing Soil to Soak up Carbon.
April 1, 2004... Byline: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory ANAHEIM, Calif., April 1 (AScribe Newswire) -- In a novel approach to stalling global warming while reinvigorating nutrient-depleted farmland, chemists have found they can promote soil's natural...

It's the Economy, Too, in Africa.
April 1, 2004... Byline: Michigan State University EAST LANSING, Mich., April 1 (AScribe Newswire) -- Much like U.S. residents fret about jobs lost despite an economic recovery, Africans are concerned about chronic unemployment, saying they are worse off...

University of California Studies Genetically Engineered Alfalfa to Produce Objective Information About the New Agricultural Technology.
April 1, 2004... Byline: University of California Division of Agriculture FRESNO, April 1 (AScribe Newswire) -- University of California Cooperative Extension farm advisors and researchers are growing genetically engineered alfalfa in small experimental...

University of Illinois at Chicago Researchers Discover Gene That Causes Liver Cancer in Animals.
April 1, 2004... Byline: University of Illinois at Chicago CHICAGO, April 1 (AScribe Newswire) -- Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago have discovered a gene that spurs the growth of liver cancer. When the gene, called Foxm1b, was...

Methuselah Enzymes: Sen and the Art of Molecule Maintenance; Lab Discovers Way to Keep Short-Lived Catalysts Active for Longer Than Five Months.
April 1, 2004... Byline: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory RICHLAND, Wash., April 1 (AScribe Newswire) -- Enzymes, the workhorses of chemical reactions in cells, lead short and brutal lives. They cleave and assemble proteins and metabolize compounds for...

MIT Team Reports New Insights in Visual Recognition.
April 1, 2004... Byline: MIT CAMBRIDGE, Mass., April 1 (AScribe Newswire) -- MIT scientists are reporting new insights into how the human brain recognizes objects, especially faces, in work that could lead to improved machine vision systems, diagnostics...

Obesity: It May Be How You're Wired.
April 1, 2004... Byline: Howard Hughes Medical Institute CHEVY CHASE, Md., April 1 (AScribe Newswire) -- New studies by Howard Hughes Medical Institute researchers at The Rockefeller University show that the appetite-regulating hormone leptin causes...

Puzzle of Corn's Origins Coming Together.
April 2, 2004... Byline: Duke University MONTREAL, April 2 (AScribe Newswire) -- The scientific puzzle pieces are fitting together to form a definitive picture of the origin of corn, says a Duke University plant geneticist who has proposed that the world's...

Children Spend More Time Playing Video Games Than Watching TV, MSU Survey Shows; More Games for Girls an Emerging Trend.
April 2, 2004... Byline: Michigan State University EAST LANSING, Mich., April 2 (AScribe Newswire) -- Boys spend twice as much time playing video games as girls, but the gap is expected to close as more games are designed for girls with their preferences in...

Novel MRI Technique Provides Clear Images of Blood Flow.
April 4, 2004... Byline: Duke University DURHAM, N.C., April 4 (AScribe Newswire) -- Duke University Medical Center researchers have created for the first time moving images of blood traveling through vessels, non-invasively and without the use of contrast...

Young Voters Are Low Priority for Political Parties; Party Chairs Blame Schools, Negative Campaigning, Media.
April 5, 2004... Byline: Allegheny College MEADVILLE, Pa., April 5 (AScribe Newswire) -- Local political party chairs are not paying attention to young people, even though an overwhelming majority agree that the political disengagement by young people is a...

African Americans and the Making of Liberia: New Book Tells How Emigration to Africa Was Seen As Remedy for Slavery.
April 5, 2004... Byline: Indiana University BLOOMINGTON, Ind., April 5 (AScribe Newswire) -- The American civil rights movement of the 1960s sought a meaningful citizenship for African Americans in the country of their birth. In the previous century,...

Urban Runoff Poses Increased Health Threat for Surfers, Other Beach Users, UC Irvine Study Shows; Findings Suggest Current Pollution Guidelines May Not Be Sufficient.
April 5, 2004... Byline: University of California, Irvine IRVINE, Calif., April 5 (AScribe Newswire) -- Surfing the beaches south of Los Angeles can make you sick to your stomach... literally. According to a University of California, Irvine, study of...

Barge vs. Bridge Experiments Set for Florida Panhandle Waters; Aim Is to Increase Safety.
April 5, 2004... Byline: University of Florida GAINESVILLE, Fla., April 5 (AScribe Newswire) -- A tugboat captain guides a 150-foot, 800-ton barge up a bay and points it at a bridge with one goal in mind: to ram it. It sounds like the beginnings of a...

Jefferson Scientists Use Gene Therapy to Restore Function of Damaged Human Heart Cells in Laboratory.
April 5, 2004... Byline: Thomas Jefferson University PHILADELPHIA, April 5 (AScribe Newswire) -- Researchers at Jefferson Medical College and Duke University have used gene therapy to help damaged heart cells regain strength and beat normally again in the...

Sitting in Nonsmoking Sections, Banning Smoking at Home Are Powerful Tactics for Preventing Teen Smoking.
April 5, 2004... Byline: Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center SEATTLE, April 5 (AScribe Newswire) -- The simple act of requesting to sit in a nonsmoking section may have profound benefits beyond avoiding second-hand smoke, according to new findings by...

New Calculator Provides More Accurate Estimates of Colon Cancer Survival; Tool Can Aid Physicians in Making Treatment Decisions With Patients.
April 5, 2004... Byline: Mayo Clinic ROCHESTER, Minn., April 5 (AScribe Newswire) -- A new calculator tool can help physicians provide colon cancer patients with more accurate, individualized five-year disease-free and overall survival estimates with...

'Exercise Hypertension' Occurs When Cells Can't 'Relax,' Hopkins Researchers Find; Same Mechanism May Be at Work in Developing Heart Disease.
April 6, 2004... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BALTIMORE, April 6 (AScribe Newswire) -- So-called "exercise hypertension," an abnormally high spike in blood pressure experienced by generally healthy people during a workout, is a known risk...

Loggerheads Nesting Earlier Due to Warmer Ocean Temperatures.
April 6, 2004... Byline: University of Central Florida ORLANDO, Fla., April 6 (AScribe Newswire) -- Loggerhead sea turtles along Florida's Atlantic coast are laying their eggs about 10 days earlier than they did 15 years ago, a change that a University of...

Johns Hopkins' Young Researchers Honored for Their Contributions.
April 6, 2004... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BALTIMORE, April 6 (AScribe Newswire) -- For students, residents and postdoctoral fellows at Johns Hopkins, conducting research is an opportunity to learn -- not just things they don't know, but...

Study Shows Lower Than Expected Allergic-Like Events Following Second Prescription of Penicillin.
April 6, 2004... Byline: University of Pennsylvania Health System PHILADELPHIA, April 7 (AScribe Newswire) -- Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have concluded the world's largest analysis of penicillin allergy due to...

Brookhaven Lab Helps Develop Technology to Turn Dredged Material Into Cement.
April 7, 2004... Byline: Brookhaven National Laboratory UPTON, N.Y., April 7 (AScribe Newswire) -- Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory have helped develop a new technology that converts material dredged from the...

University of Florida Study: Barren Siberia, of All Places, May Be Original Home to Animal Life.
April 7, 2004... Byline: University of Florida GAINESVILLE, Fla., April 7 (AScribe Newswire) -- Trilobites, the primitive shelled creatures considered by many to be among the first animals to appear in the fossil record, may have originated in a place...

Biosensor-Regulated Gene Therapy Reduces Heart Attack Damage in Mice, Cardiovascular Researchers Report.
April 7, 2004... Byline: University of South Florida Health Sciences TAMPA, Fla., April 7 (AScribe Newswire) -- A novel gene therapy that responds specifically to oxygen-starved heart muscle may protect against further injury following a heart attack, a...

64 Percent of Online Americans Have Used Internet for Religious, Spiritual Purposes; Online Acts of Personal Piety, Interest Augment Deep Devotion of Faithful to Their Churches.
April 7, 2004... Byline: Pew Internet & American Life Project WASHINGTON, April 7 (AScribe Newswire) -- Nearly two-thirds of online Americans use the Internet for faith-related reasons. The 64 percent of Internet users who perform spiritual and religious...

Analysis of Bacterial Genomes Begins to Unravel Complex and Twisted Story of Metabolic Evolution.
April 8, 2004... Byline: Arizona State University TEMPE, Ariz., April 8 (AScribe Newswire) -- As any biochemist knows, genetic change is really chemical change, and so it follows that if you want to really see how evolution happens, you need to see how it...

Scientists Devise Method to Study Membrane Proteins, One Key to Drug Discovery.
April 8, 2004... Byline: University of Virginia Health System CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., April 8 (AScribe Newswire) -- Proteins are complex compounds that are essential for the growth and repair of tissue. While scientists understand much about the structure and...

An Honest Look at Academic Dishonesty Among Engineering Undergrads.
April 9, 2004... Byline: Kettering University FLINT, Mich., April 9 (AScribe Newswire) -- A large percentage of college students engage in some form of academic dishonesty. But the motivation to cheat is not often based on a malicious or overt attempt to...

April Science & Technology News Tips From Washington University in St. Louis.
April 9, 2004... Byline: Washington University, St. Louis ST. LOUIS, April 9 (AScribe Newswire) -- The following are news and feature story ideas from Washington University in St. Louis. For more information on any of the stories below or for assistance in...

Purdue Counters Trend, Engineers Education From the Ground Up.
April 9, 2004... Byline: Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., April 9 (AScribe Newswire) -- Purdue University is taking steps to stem the decline in high school students' interest in careers in engineering. The university's Board of Trustees voted...

Scientists 'Beef Up' Plant-Dwelling Bacteria to Boost Phytoremediation.
April 12, 2004... Byline: Brookhaven National Laboratory UPTON, N.Y., April 12 (AScribe Newswire) -- Using plants to soak up and degrade environmental pollutants, a strategy known as phytoremediation, can be more successful in theory than in practice -- the...

Purdue University Scientists Finding Ways to Outsmart Crop-Damaging Bugs.
April 12, 2004... Byline: Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., April 12 (AScribe Newswire) -- A new screening method aimed at boosting pesticide effectiveness may be commercially viable, according to Purdue University researchers. The process is...

Surprises Found in Gene Variation Associated With Schizophrenia.
April 12, 2004... Byline: University of Iowa IOWA CITY, Iowa, April 12 (AScribe Newswire) -- Approximately two percent of Caucasians have a gene segment variation that can cause a certain form of schizophrenia. Most people with the variation, known as a...

Rewards, Not Sanctions, Help Schools Succeed Under Accountability Programs, Study Finds.
April 12, 2004... Byline: Ohio State University COLUMBUS, Ohio, April 12 (AScribe Newswire) -- One problem with the "No Child Left Behind" Act may well be that it punishes schools and teachers when students don't meet standards, rather than rewarding...

Police Judge Criminal Profiles Based on Who Writes Them, Study Finds.
April 12, 2004... Byline: Ohio State University COLUMBUS, Ohio, April 12 (AScribe Newswire) -- When police use criminal profiles to help identify suspects in major crimes, how do they determine whether the profiles are really accurate? In some cases,...

Cigarette Smoking Increases Risk of Neovascular Age-Related Macular Degeneration.
April 12, 2004... Byline: Massachusetts Eye & Ear Infirmary BOSTON, April 12 (AScribe Newswire) -- Researchers at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary found that smoking cigarettes increases the risk of developing the neovascular (wet form) age-related...

New Method for Determining Artifacts' Age Fills 50,000-Year Chronological Gap for Scientists: Quartz Hydration Dating.
April 12, 2004... Byline: University of California, Irvine IRVINE, Calif., April 12 (AScribe Newswire) -- A UC Irvine archaeological scientist has created a new method for determining the approximate age of many artifacts between 50,000 to 100,000 years old...

Cinnamon May Help to Alleviate Diabetes Says UC Santa Barbara Researcher.
April 12, 2004... Byline: University of California, Santa Barbara SANTA BARBARA, Calif., April 12 (AScribe Newswire) -- Cinnamon may be more than a spice -- it may have a medical application in preventing and combating diabetes. Cinnamon may help by playing...

Avian Influenza Outbreaks Create Concern About Human Infection, Mayo Clinic Researchers Warn.
April 13, 2004... Byline: Mayo Clinic ROCHESTER, Minn., April 13 (AScribe Newswire) -- The occurrence of avian influenza in humans is a reminder of the vulnerability of people to an emerging pandemic, Mayo Clinic researchers warn in the current issue of...

'Hidden Treasures of Ancient Egypt': Unearthing the Masterpieces of Egyptian History.
April 13, 2004... Byline: National Geographic Society WASHINGTON, April 13 (AScribe Newswire) -- A treasure trove of rarely seen Egyptian antiquities - and the thrilling stories behind their discoveries - is the subject of a new book from National...

New Light Shed on Atrial Fibrillation After Bypass Surgery.
April 13, 2004... Byline: Duke University http://www.dukemednews.org/gallery/detail.php?id=917. DURHAM, N.C., April 13 (AScribe Newswire) -- An analysis of 4,657 patients undergoing coronary artery bypass surgery has shown that discontinuing certain...

Supercold, Wiggling 'Jelly' Presents Evidence of New Kind of Superfluidity.
April 13, 2004... Byline: Duke University DURHAM, N.C., April 13 (AScribe Newswire) -- Duke University researchers may have reached a milestone in physics by cooling and confining a gas of lithium-6 atoms into a kind of oscillating "jelly" exhibiting group...

Small Uterine Fibroids May Be Linked With Increased Risk of Miscarriage, Early Study Results Show.
April 13, 2004... Byline: University of North Carolina Healthcare System CHAPEL HILL, N.C., April 13 (AScribe Newswire) -- Early results from a pioneering study at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill indicate that small uterine fibroids are...

College Finance Students Like Bush and Greenspan; Majority Predict Upswing in Dow Jones Industrial Average.
April 13, 2004... Byline: University of Dayton DAYTON, Ohio, April 13 (AScribe Newswire) -- If college students from more than 100 schools across the nation are any predictor, President George W. Bush will have another four years in office. A University...

Not Slippery When Wet: Anti-Ice Coating Hits the Road.
April 13, 2004... Byline: Michigan Technological University HOUGHTON, Mich., April 13 (AScribe Newswire) -- There's a bridge along Wisconsin's Highway 8 that's notorious for ice and bad wrecks. But this winter, no one has spun out and slammed into the...

How One City Is Winning the War on Sprawl.
April 13, 2004... Byline: University of Maryland, College Park COLLEGE PARK, Md., April 13 (AScribe Newswire) -- The growth management practices employed in Oregon's largest city over the past 25 years -- perhaps the most comprehensive and sustained effort...

Purdue Study Drives Home Benefits of GPS Auto Guidance.
April 13, 2004... Byline: Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., April 13 (AScribe Newswire) -- Drivers who take their hands off the steering wheel are asking for trouble, but Corn Belt farmers who relinquish the wheel in their tractors may profit...

Often Overlooked Human Resources Department Important to School District Reform, Study Shows; Case Studies of Three Districts Suggest New Ways to Make HR Offices Ally in Reform.
April 14, 2004... Byline: Wallace-Reader's Digest Funds NEW YORK, April 14 (AScribe Newswire) -- School district human resource (HR) offices play a crucial, but often overlooked, role in the success of school improvement efforts because they can determine...

Scientists Size Up, Classify Meteorite That Nearly Landed in Their Backyards.
April 14, 2004... Byline: University of Chicago CHICAGO, April 14 (AScribe Newswire) -- The meteorites that punched through roofs in Park Forest, Ill., on the evening of March 26, 2003, came from a larger mass that weighed no less than 1,980 pounds before it...

American Attitudes Toward WMD Proliferation: New University of Maryland PIPA Poll to Be Released.
April 14, 2004... Byline: University of Maryland, College Park COLLEGE PARK, Md., April 14 (AScribe Newswire) -- The University of Maryland today released the following advisory. WHAT: Briefing to release and explain results of the latest...

Ladies' Choice Drives Male Mating Display.
April 14, 2004... Byline: University of Maryland, College Park COLLEGE PARK, Md., April 14 (AScribe Newswire) -- Naturalists have long tried to understand why males in some species of animals use a variety of elaborate sexual displays to attract mates....

Evolution's Mirror in a Fish's Spines.
April 14, 2004... Byline: Howard Hughes Medical Institute STANFORD, Calif., April 14 (AScribe Newswire) -- Howard Hughes Medical Institute researchers at Stanford University are closer to understanding one of evolution's biggest questions: How do genetic...

Expert Brings 18th Century Literary Greats Back to Life in Digital Book.
April 14, 2004... Byline: Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., April 14 (AScribe Newswire) -- Thanks to Purdue University Press' first digital book, readers can learn what some of the greatest minds in 18th century literature might say today if they...

Study Casts Doubt on Freudian Idea of Homosexuality.
April 14, 2004... Byline: Calif. State University, Sacramento SACRAMENTO, Calif., April 14 (AScribe Newswire) -- An old Freudian idea that's contributed to beliefs that homosexuals aren't fit for marriage should be scrapped, according to a new study by...

Prescription of Opioids for Back Pain Needs Improvement.
April 14, 2004... Byline: Duke University DURHAM, N.C., April 15 (AScribe Newswire) -- Physicians' prescriptions of opioid drugs for back pain are inconsistent, found a Duke University Medical Center study, the largest and most comprehensive of its kind....

Seismological Society of America Scientists Find Northridge Lessons Not Fully Implemented.
April 15, 2004... Byline: Seismological Society of America PALM SPRINGS, Calif., April 15 (AScribe Newswire) -- Thrust faults remain a threat to southern California, at least in part because the lessons learned from the 1994 Northridge earthquake have not...

Researchers Substitute Whole Chromosomes to Speed Search for Genes in Common Diseases.
April 15, 2004... Byline: Case Western Reserve University CLEVELAND, April 15 (AScribe Newswire) -- Medical researchers know that most common human diseases, such as hypertension and diabetes, have a large genetic component. Many genes, interacting with the...

Robotic Carbon Explorer Floats Shed New Light on 'Iron Hypothesis': Testing Method of Offsetting Greenhouse Effect.
April 15, 2004... Byline: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory BERKELEY, CA, April 15 (AScribe Newswire) -- Three robotic Carbon Explorer floats, launched by scientists from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory during the Southern Ocean Iron Experiment...

Researchers Awarded $2 Million to Create High-Tech Tools for Fighting Wildfires.
April 15, 2004... Byline: National Center for Atmospheric Research BOULDER, Colo., April 15 (AScribe Newswire) -- Frontline fire fighting could soon go high tech. In the not so distant future, analysts using supercomputers may be able to send real-time maps...

Moss Landing Researchers Reveal Iron as Key to Climate Change.
April 15, 2004... Byline: Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute MOSS LANDING, Calif., April 15 (AScribe Newswire) -- A remarkable expedition to the waters of Antarctica suggests that iron supply to the Southern Ocean may have controlled Earth's climate...

Danforth Center Increases Folate Level in Plants.
April 16, 2004... Byline: Donald Danforth Plant Science Center ST. LOUIS, April 16 (AScribe Newswire) -- A team of Donald Danforth Plant Science Center researchers recently achieved a breakthrough to enhance folate levels, a vitamin essential to human and...

From Top Quarks to the Blues: Berkeley Lab Physicists Develop Way to Digitally Restore, Preserve Audio Recordings.
April 16, 2004... Byline: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory BERKELEY, Calif., April 16 (AScribe Newswire) -- The 1995 discovery of the top quark and singer Marian Anderson's 1947 rendition of Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen may seem unrelated. But...

Mayo Clinic Establishes Landmark Research Program to Predict, Prevent Alcoholism, Other Addictions.
April 16, 2004... Byline: Mayo Clinic ROCHESTER, Minn., April 16 (AScribe Newswire) -- Mayo Clinic has established a landmark research program in the genomics of addiction with the long-term goal of predicting and preventing alcoholism and other chemical...

Crowding Stem Cells' Personal Space Directs Their Future.
April 16, 2004... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BALTIMORE, April 16 (AScribe Newswire) -- Johns Hopkins scientists report that restricting the shape and personal space of human stem cells from bone marrow is more important than any known...

Common Food Allergens Found in Pediatric Skin Care Products.
April 16, 2004... Byline: Children's Memorial Hospital, Chicago CHICAGO, April 16 (AScribe Newswire) -- Common allergenic foods are widely present in all types of pediatric skin care products, which may represent a previously unknown source of exposure,...

Discovery Could Improve Anemia Treatment in Patients With Chronic Illness; Research Suggests a Link Between Iron Regulation and the Immune System.
April 18, 2004... Byline: Children's Hospital Boston BOSTON, April 18 (AScribe Newswire) -- Patients with chronic inflammatory disorders, including infections, inflammatory bowel disease, arthritis and cancer, commonly become anemic. The anemia can make...

Sleep Patterns May Be Inherited, Medical College of Wisconsin Rat Study Suggests.
April 19, 2004... Byline: Medical College of Wisconsin MILWAUKEE, April 19 (AScribe Newswire) -- Sleep disorders are a big problem in our society with 40 percent of older adults and 44 percent of young adults under age 30 reporting that daytime sleepiness is...

Science News Tips From the American Committee for the Weizmann Institute of Science.
April 19, 2004... Byline: American Committee for the Weizmann Institute of Science NEW YORK, April 19 (AScribe Newswire) -- Following are news tips from the American Committee for the Weizmann Institute of Science. A ROSE BY ANY OTHER NAME Research...

Prenatal Nicotine Primes Adolescent Brain for Addiction.
April 19, 2004... Byline: Duke University DURHAM, N.C., April 19 (AScribe Newswire) -- Prenatal exposure to nicotine inflicts lasting damage that might leave the brain vulnerable to further injury and addiction upon later use of the drug, according to...

Marine Reseachers Fertilize Southern Ocean With Iron to Study Past, Future Climate Change.
April 19, 2004... Byline: University of California, Santa Barbara SANTA BARBARA, Calif., April 19 (AScribe Newswire) -- Scientists are learning about the history and possibly the future of climate change by fertilizing the ocean with iron to create blooms of...

Study: Botox Shots Restore Voices, Confidence to Voice Disorder Patients; Lasting Effects Seen in Three-Year Study of People With Spasmodic Dysphonia.
April 19, 2004... Byline: University of Michigan Health System ANN ARBOR, Mich., April 19 (AScribe Newswire) -- An injection that's best known for smoothing wrinkles also helps restore the voices - and the confidence - of people with a voice disorder caused...

A Flash of Insight Into Visual Processing.
April 19, 2004... Byline: Howard Hughes Medical Institute CHEVY CHASE, Md., April 19 (AScribe Newswire) -- Howard Hughes Medical Institute scientists at The Salk Institute have discovered a new class of optical illusion that they have studied in detail to...

Study Finds Vibration From Powered-Tool Usage Leads to Artery Damage; Awareness, Prevention Strategies May Help.
April 19, 2004... Byline: Medical College of Wisconsin MILWAUKEE, April 19 (AScribe Newswire) -- Millions of people are exposed to hand-transmitted vibration at work by powered-tool usage every day for extended periods of time. Past studies have shown that...

More Useful Plants May Sprout From Gene Role Discovery.
April 19, 2004... Byline: Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., April 19 (AScribe Newswire) -- It may be possible to alter plants so they are more nutritious and easier to process without weakening them so much they fall over, according to Purdue...

Latinos' Choices in News Media Are Shaping Their Views of Their Communities, the Nation, the World.
April 19, 2004... Byline: The Pew Charitable Trusts WASHINGTON, April 19 (AScribe Newswire) -- Getting the news could be the single most extensive cross-cultural experience for the Hispanic population in America, according to a report issued today by the Pew...

Research Finds Lawn Chemicals Raise Cancer Risk in Scottish Terriers.
April 20, 2004... Byline: Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., April 20 (AScribe Newswire) -- Exposure to herbicide-treated lawns and gardens increases the risk of bladder cancer in Scottish terriers, a discovery that could lead to new knowledge about...

Purdue University to Provide High-Resolution Weather Data to Nation.
April 20, 2004... Byline: Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., April 20 (AScribe Newswire) -- Purdue University has been selected to be one of the country's four top-level distributors of advanced weather data, making the university a national resource...

Newborn Testing for Immune Disorders Could Save Lives.
April 21, 2004... Byline: Duke University DURHAM, N.C., April 21 (AScribe Newswire) -- A simple, inexpensive blood test performed at birth to screen for immune disorders could dramatically increase the chance of survival for babies born with such...

UC Santa Cruz Biologist Tells Story of Adventure, Discovery in Antarctica in Her New Book, 'The Hunter's Breath'.
April 21, 2004... Byline: University of California, Santa Cruz SANTA CRUZ, Calif., April 21 (AScribe Newswire) -- In six trips to Antarctica, biologist Terrie Williams endured brutal conditions on the coldest, driest, windiest continent on Earth in order to...

Bye-Bye Bio 101: Teach Science the Way You Do Science.
April 22, 2004... Byline: Howard Hughes Medical Institute BETHESDA, Md., April 22 (AScribe Newswire) -- University science education needs reform, and effective methods are already known. Yet for years, many scientists and educators have actively resisted...

Johns Hopkins Scientists Overcome Main Obstacle to Making Tons of Short, Drug-Like Proteins.
April 22, 2004... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BALTIMORE, April 22 (AScribe Newswire) -- Two Johns Hopkins scientists have figured out a simple way to make millions upon millions of drug-like peptides quickly and efficiently, overcoming a major...

Nitric Oxide Links Bulk of Sporadic and Familial Parkinson's Disease.
April 22, 2004... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BALTIMORE, April 22 (AScribe Newswire) -- Johns Hopkins researchers have discovered that nitric oxide, a chemical messenger involved in bodily functions from erection to nerves' communication, also...

New England Journal of Medicine Article Examines Quality of Care for Dying Children in U.S.
April 22, 2004... Byline: Project on Death in America NEW YORK, April 22 (AScribe Newswire) -- Approximately 50,000 children die and 500,000 children cope with life-threatening conditions each year in the United States, according to an article in the current...

Rate of Ocean Circulation Directly Linked to Abrupt Climate Change in North Atlantic Region.
April 22, 2004... Byline: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution WOODS HOLE, Mass., April 22 (AScribe Newswire) -- A new study strengthens evidence that the oceans and climate are linked in an intricate dance, and that rapid climate change may be related to...