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Survey Shows High Interest in Biofuels.
April 1, 2009... Byline: University of Wisconsin - Madison MADISON, Wis., April 1 (AScribe Newswire) -- Most Americans want to know more about biofuels, according to a new survey fielded by researchers in the Department of Life Sciences Communication at the...

April Media Tipsheet for the Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America.
April 1, 2009... Byline: Seismological Society of America EL CERRITO, Calif., April 1 (AScribe Newswire) -- Following are April media tips from the Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America. Please cite the Bulletin of the Seismological Society of...

Iowa State Chemist Synthesizes Carbohydrates, Launches Startup Company.
April 1, 2009... Byline: Iowa State University AMES, Iowa, April 1 (AScribe Newswire) -- Carbohydrates are part of our daily vocabulary. We all know they're part of a healthy diet. We know they're in breads and pastas. We know they have something to do...

Researchers Examine Bacterial Rice Diseases, Search for Genetic Solutions.
April 1, 2009... Byline: Iowa State University AMES, Iowa, April 1 (AScribe Newswire) -- As a major food source for much of the world, rice is one of the most important plants on earth. Keeping it safe from disease has become, in part, the task of a...

Keep on Spinning: A Persistent Spin State That Could Revolutionize Spintronics.
April 1, 2009... Byline: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory BERKELEY, Calif., April 1 (AScribe Newswire) -- By controlling the collective spin state of highly mobile electrons in semiconductors, researchers in the Materials Sciences Division (MSD) at the...

New Storage System Design Brings Hydrogen Cars Closer to Reality.
April 2, 2009... Byline: Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., April 2 (AScribe Newswire) -- Researchers have developed a critical part of a hydrogen storage system for cars that makes it possible to fill up a vehicle's fuel tank within five minutes with...

Johns Hopkins University Researcher Discovers That Brain Cells Have 'Memory'.
April 2, 2009... Byline: Johns Hopkins University BALTIMORE, April 2 (AScribe Newswire) -- As we look at the world around us, images flicker into our brains like so many disparate pixels on a computer screen that change every time our eyes move, which is...

On-the-Job Competence: Simply a Matter of Speaking Up.
April 3, 2009... Byline: Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley BERKELEY, Calif., April 3 (AScribe Newswire) -- Anybody in the workplace, and perhaps politics, has probably experienced this perplexing phenomenon. The guy (or gal) in charge isn't really...

Purdue Professor's Insight Leads to Better Understanding of Vision Loss.
April 3, 2009... Byline: Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., April 3 (AScribe Newswire) -- A Purdue University researcher's work could shed light on new targets for treating retinal degenerative diseases that cause blindness. According to the...

Locking Parasites in Host Cell Could Be New Way to Fight Malaria, Penn Study Shows.
April 3, 2009... Byline: University of Pennsylvania Health System PHILADELPHIA, April 3 (AScribe Newswire) -- Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have discovered that parasites hijack host-cell proteins to ensure their survival and proliferation,...

Gutsy Germs Succumb to Baby Broccoli.
April 5, 2009... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BALTIMORE, April 6 (AScribe Newswire) -- A small, pilot study in 50 people in Japan suggests that eating two and a half ounces of broccoli sprouts daily for two months may confer some protection...

New Satellite Data Shows Arctic Literally on Thin Ice.
April 6, 2009... Byline: University of Colorado, Boulder BOULDER, Colo., April 6 (AScribe Newswire) -- The latest data from NASA and the University of Colorado at Boulder's National Snow and Ice Data Center show the continuation of a decade-long trend of...

Compendium of Pancreatic Cancer Biomarkers Established as Strategic Approach to Early-Detection Research.
April 6, 2009... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BALTIMORE, April 6 (AScribe Newswire) -- A cancer scientist from Johns Hopkins has convinced an international group of colleagues to delay their race to find new cancer biomarkers and instead begin...

Independent Research Shows National Service Program Enlisting Tutors Over Age 55 Produces Big Gains in Student Learning; Rigorous Study Finds Students With Experience Corps Tutors Make 60 Percent More Progress in Critical Reading Skills Than Students Without Tutors.(Report)
April 7, 2009... Byline: Experience Corps WASHINGTON, April 7 (AScribe Newswire) -- Tutoring children in and after school isn't new, but how much does it really help in critical areas like reading? Rigorous new research from Washington University in St....

Boys More Prone to Trouble After Family Upheavals, University of Florida Study Finds.
April 8, 2009... Byline: University of Florida GAINESVILLE, Fla., April 8 (AScribe Newswire) -- Family disruptions such as divorce or children being forced to live elsewhere are tougher on boys than girls, according to a newly published University of...

New Common Pathway in Neurodegenerative Disease Is a Possible Door to a Point of No Return.
April 8, 2009... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BALTIMORE, April 8 (AScribe Newswire) -- A just-out study suggests that what keeps chronic nervous system diseases such as Alzheimer's, Huntington's and ALS going - until they overcome the...

Parkinson's Disease Medication Triggers Destructive Behaviors; Mayo Clinic Study Identifies At-Risk Patients.
April 8, 2009... Byline: Mayo Clinic ROCHESTER, Minn., April 8 (AScribe Newswire) -- A new study conducted at Mayo Clinic reports that one in six patients receiving therapeutic doses of certain drugs for Parkinson's disease develops new-onset, potentially...

New Babson Study: Management, Marketing, Money Determine High Growth Patterns of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises.
April 8, 2009... Byline: Babson College WELLESLEY, Mass., April 8 (AScribe Newswire) -- A new study, "Growth Challenges for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises: A UK-US Comparative Study," by Professors at Babson College, USA , and Kingston University,...

Drug Shows Activity in Men with Advanced Prostate Cancer.
April 8, 2009... Byline: Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center NEW YORK, April 8 (AScribe Newswire) -- A new multi-center study shows that an experimental drug lowers prostate specific antigen (PSA) levels - a marker for tumor growth - in men with advanced...

Physician Alert: Stop Commonly Prescribing Stomach-Upset Drugs for Asthmatics Without Serious Heartburn; Proton-Pump Inhibitor Drugs Do Not Stop Recurrent Attacks in People With the Lung Disease.
April 8, 2009... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BALTIMORE, April 8 (AScribe Newswire) -- Lung experts from Johns Hopkins and elsewhere are calling on physicians to suspend the routine use of potent heartburn medications in asthmatics solely to...

National Study Results Change Common Method of Treating Asthma.
April 8, 2009... Byline: Indiana University School of Medicine INDIANAPOLIS, April 8 (AScribe Newswire) -- A nationwide study of adults with asthma reveals no benefit for treatment for silent acid reflux, which long has been thought to be the culprit for...

American Lung Association Study Published in the New England Journal of Medicine Finds Prescription Heartburn Medication Esomeprazole (Nexium) Does Not Control Asthma Symptoms as Previously Thought; Practice-Changing Study Calls on Doctors to Stop Prescribing Potent Heartburn Medications to Asthma Patients Without Frequent Symptoms of Gastric Reflux.
April 8, 2009... Byline: American Lung Association OAKLAND, Calif., April 8 (AScribe Newswire) -- For nearly 20 years, it was believed that severe asthma symptoms such as coughing, wheezing and breathlessness were triggered in part by acid reflux. A new...

Earthquake Hazards for California and Seattle, Washington: New Information About Faults -- News from the Seismological Society of America 2009 Annual Meeting April 8 - 10.
April 9, 2009... Byline: Seismological Society of America MONTEREY, Calif., April 9 (AScribe Newswire) -- Following are news tips from the Seismological Society of America 2009 Annual Meeting, April 8 - 10, 2009, at Portola Hotel & Spa in Monterey, Calif....

New Laser Technique Advances Nanofabrication.
April 9, 2009... Byline: University of Maryland, College Park COLLEGE PARK, Md., April 9 (AScribe Newswire) -- The ability to create tiny patterns is essential to the fabrication of computer chips and many other current and potential applications of...

In the ICU, Use of Benzodiazepines, Other Factors May Predict Severity of Post-Stay Depression.
April 10, 2009... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BALTIMORE, April 10 (AScribe Newswire) -- Psychiatrists and critical care specialists at Johns Hopkins have begun to tease out what there is about a stay in an intensive care unit (ICU) that leads...

DNA 'Tricked' to Act as Nano-Building Blocks; McGill Researchers Find New Ways to Manufacture Nanotubes of Controlled Geometry, Stiffness and Porosities.
April 12, 2009... Byline: McGill University MONTREAL, April 12 (AScribe Newswire) -- McGill researchers have succeeded in finding a new way to manufacture nanotubes, one of the important building blocks of the nanotechnology of the future. Their...

Plant Gene Mapping May Lead to Better Biofuel Production.
April 13, 2009... Byline: Brookhaven National Laboratory UPTON, N.Y., April 13 (AScribe Newswire) -- By creating a "family tree" of genes expressed in one form of woody plant and a less woody, herbaceous species, scientists at the U.S. Department of...

News Tips: Johns Hopkins Researchers at the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.
April 13, 2009... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions NEW ORLEANS, April 13 (AScribe Newswire) -- Following are news tips from Johns Hopkins University on Hopkins researchers presenting at the annual meeting of the American Society for Biochemistry...

Connecting Materials Science with Biology, Kansas State Engineers Create Dna Sensors That Could Identify Cancer Using Material Only One Atom Thick.
April 13, 2009... Byline: Kansas State University MANHATTAN, Kan., April 13 (AScribe Newswire) -- Kansas State University engineers think the possibilities are deep for a very thin material. Vikas Berry, assistant professor of chemical engineering, is...

High-Tech Speed Bump Detects Damage to Army Vehicles.
April 13, 2009... Byline: Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., April 13 (AScribe Newswire) -- Researchers have developed a technology that detects damage to critical suspension components in military vehicles simply by driving over a speed bumplike...

University of Virginia Physicists Engineer the Picture-Perfect Classical Atom.
April 13, 2009... Byline: University of Virginia CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., April 13 (AScribe Newswire) -- Picture the textbook atom. It would resemble a miniature solar system - an atomic nucleus orbited by electrons, drawn in nice tidy elliptical orbits -...

Findings Show Insulin - Not Genes - Linked to Obesity.
April 14, 2009... Byline: Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., April 14 (AScribe Newswire) -- Researchers have uncovered new evidence suggesting factors other than genes could cause obesity, finding that genetically identical cells store widely differing...

Farmers Relying on Roundup Lose Some of Its Benefit.
April 14, 2009... Byline: Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., April 14 (AScribe Newswire) -- Roundup Ready crops have made weed control much easier for farmers, but a new study shows their reliance on the technology may be weakening the herbicide's...

University of Virginia Teams Researchers With Health Care Technology Company to Develop Novel Sensor Devices for the Elderly.
April 14, 2009... Byline: University of Virginia CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., April 14 (AScribe Newswire) -- When an older person is injured in a fall, the cost is significant, both in quality of life and medical expense. Wireless body sensor networks that monitor...

National Survey Reveals Gap in 'Uncontrolled Asthma' Knowledge - Putting Asthma Patients at Risk for Serious Health Consequences; Physicians Concerned That Asthma Patients Who Stop Using Asthma Controller Medicine May Visit Emergency Room More Often.
April 15, 2009... Byline: Edelman Public Relations WASHINGTON, April 15 (AScribe Newswire) -- A new nationwide telephone survey of 1,001 patients found that while most asthma patients know the risks of "uncontrolled asthma," they misinterpret asthma...

New Minimally Invasive Surgery Option for Patients with Stomach Cancer.
April 15, 2009... Byline: Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center NEW YORK, April 15 (AScribe Newswire) -- A novel, minimally invasive surgical approach to treat stomach cancer has been shown to have advantages that may make it a preferable treatment for some...

Public Turning to Social Media Sources for Information During Disasters and Major Events, CU-Boulder Researchers Find.
April 15, 2009... Byline: University of Colorado, Boulder BOULDER, Colo., April 15 (AScribe Newswire) -- In the immediate aftermath of the 2007 Virginia Tech shootings, students at the university were shocked, confused and wanted answers to simple...

Autopsy Study Links Prostate Cancer to Single Rogue Cell.
April 16, 2009... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BALTIMORE, April 16 (AScribe Newswire) -- One cell... one initial set of genetic changes - that's all it takes to begin a series of events that lead to metastatic cancer. Now, Johns Hopkins...

Evidence Grows That Maternal Immune Response to Fetal Brain During Pregnancy a Key Factor in Some Autism; Mouse Studies With Human Antibodies at Hopkins Children's Add Weight to Earlier Research.
April 16, 2009... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BALTIMORE, April 16 (AScribe Newswire) -- New studies in pregnant mice using antibodies against fetal brains made by the mothers of autistic children show that immune cells can cross the placenta...

Researchers Find Lack of Key Molecule Leads to Deafness.
April 16, 2009... Byline: Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., April 16 (AScribe Newswire) -- Researchers have identified tiny molecules that may lead to big breakthroughs in the treatment of hearing loss and deafness. An international team,...

Penn Scientists Use RNA to Reprogram One Cell Type Into Another; Implications for Cell-Based Personalized Therapies for Neurodegenerative Diseases.
April 16, 2009... Byline: University of Pennsylvania Health System PHILADELPHIA, April 16 (AScribe Newswire) -- For the past decade, researchers have tried to tweak cells at the gene and nucleus level to reprogram their identity. Now, working on the idea...

LSU Health Sciences Center Research Shows Fish Oil Protects Against Diseases Like Parkinson's.
April 19, 2009... Byline: LSU Health Sciences Center NEW ORLEANS, April 19 (AScribe Newswire) -- Dr. Nicolas Bazan, Director of the Neuroscience Center of Excellence, Boyd Professor, and Ernest C. and Yvette C. Villere Chair of Retinal Degenerative Diseases...

Researchers Use Brain Interface to Post to Twitter.
April 20, 2009... Byline: University of Wisconsin - Madison MADISON, Wis., April 20 (AScribe Newswire) -- In early April, Adam Wilson posted a status update on the social networking Web site Twitter - just by thinking about it. Just 23 characters long,...

First Noninvasive Technique to Accurately Predict Mutations in Human Brain Tumors, Penn Study Finds.
April 20, 2009... Byline: University of Pennsylvania Health System DENVER, April 20 (AScribe Newswire) -- Donald O'Rourke, MD, Associate Professor of Neurosurgery at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and colleagues, were able to accurately...

Innovation Could Make Lab-on-a-Chip Devices Easier to Use, Cheaper to Make.
April 21, 2009... Byline: Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., April 21 (AScribe Newswire) -- Researchers have designed a lab on a chip capable of being programmed to perform a variety of jobs, a step toward more widespread use of the miniature...

Early Target: Key Gene in Mouse Embryo Gut Implicated in Congenital Defects, Penn Study Finds.
April 21, 2009... Byline: University of Pennsylvania Health System PHILADELPHIA, April 21 (AScribe Newswire) -- They say you can put your foot in your mouth, and wear your heart on your sleeve. But your esophagus in your intestine? Researchers at the...

Massive Convergent Evolution Discovered in Snake and Lizard Proteins; Findings Impact Evolutionary Theory.
April 21, 2009... Byline: University of Colorado Denver AURORA, Colo., April 21 (AScribe Newswire) -- Convergent evolution, the acquisition of the same biological trait in unrelated lineages, is one of the most compelling arguments for the existence of...

Marketing and Social Networking: When Measuring Influence, Quality Connections Top Quantity.
April 22, 2009... Byline: Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley BERKELEY, Calif., April 22 (AScribe Newswire) -- Taylor has 483 friends on Facebook. Cameron has 832 connections on LinkedIn. And Paige boasts more than 1,000 followers on her Twitter page. Are...

Nonprofits Seek Increased Support for Advocacy; Concerns Over Offending Donor Base and Board Members Also Barriers.
April 22, 2009... Byline: Johns Hopkins University BALTIMORE, April 22 (AScribe Newswire) -- Supporting a cause is central to the mission of most nonprofit organizations in the United States, but a lack of resources often forces lobbying and advocacy to the...

Double-Lung Transplants Work Better Than Single for Long-Term Survival; Immune System Matching and College Education Also Important.
April 22, 2009... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BALTIMORE, April 22 (AScribe Newswire) -- Having both lungs replaced instead of just one is the single most important feature determining who lives longest after having a lung transplant, more than...

The Best Protectors From Bullies? Girls.
April 22, 2009... Byline: University of Florida GAINESVILLE, Fla., April 22 (AScribe Newswire) -- Playground bullies may meet their match from where they least expect -- in the ranks of kids who are anti-bullies -- and most of them are girls, a new...

LSU Health Sciences Center Public Health Researcher Finds Reason for Weight Gain.
April 22, 2009... Byline: LSU Health Sciences Center NEW ORLEANS, April 22 (AScribe Newswire) -- Liwei Chen, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology at the LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans School of Public Health, is the lead author of a research...

Ancient Greenland Ice Study of Methane May Be Good News for Planet, Says Study.
April 23, 2009... Byline: University of Colorado, Boulder BOULDER, Colo., April 23 (AScribe Newswire) -- An analysis of ancient Greenland ice suggests a spike in the greenhouse gas methane about 11,600 years ago originated from wetlands rather than the ocean...

A Biological Basis for the 8-Hour Workday? Penn Researchers Uncover 8- and 12-Hour Cycles of Gene Activity in Mice.
April 23, 2009... Byline: University of Pennsylvania Health System PHILADELPHIA, April 23 (AScribe Newswire) -- The circadian clock coordinates physiological and behavioral processes on a 24-hour rhythm, allowing animals to anticipate changes in their...

Fire Is Important Part of Global Climate Change, Report Scientists.
April 23, 2009... Byline: University of California, Santa Barbara SANTA BARBARA, Calif., April 23 (AScribe Newswire) -- Fire must be accounted for as an integral part of climate change, according to 22 authors of an article published in the April 24 issue of...

Scarless, Single-Port Surgery Through the Navel Provides New Option for Kidney Donation.
April 23, 2009... Byline: University of Maryland Medical System BALTIMORE, April 23 (AScribe Newswire) -- University of Maryland Medical Center is only the third hospital in United States to offer new procedure, which the first patient calls a "breakthrough...

CDS Central Clearing House Won't Fix Credit Default Mess, According to Stanford Business School Research.(Company overview)
April 23, 2009... Byline: Stanford Graduate School of Business STANFORD, Calif., April 23 (AScribe Newswire) -- As reported in this month's Stanford Knowledgebase, a plan by global financial regulators to fix the mess created by the misuse of credit default...

Mayo Clinic Study Finds Gene Bringing Together Animal and Human Research in Alcoholism.(Report)
April 23, 2009... Byline: Mayo Clinic ROCHESTER, Minn., April 23 (AScribe Newswire) -- An important genetic study conducted through Mayo Clinic has identified vital new information concerning alcoholism in subjects with European ancestry, according to a...

New Target for Maintaining Healthy Blood Pressure Discovered by Penn Scientists.
April 24, 2009... Byline: University of Pennsylvania Health System PHILADELPHIA, April 24 (AScribe Newswire) -- In trying to understand the role of prostaglandins - a family of fatty compounds key to the cardiovascular system - in blood pressure maintenance,...

Johns Hopkins School of Nursing Research News, Spring 2009.
April 24, 2009... Byline: School of Nursing, Johns Hopkins University BALTIMORE, April 24 (AScribe Newswire) -- Following are research news briefs from the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing. - - - - Ready to Fly: Evaluating Health...

Major Statin Study Reveals Several Important Findings for Reducing Prostate Cancer and Disease: American Urological Association, Chicago.
April 25, 2009... Byline: Mayo Clinic ROCHESTER, Minn., April 26 (AScribe Newswire) -- Statins, drugs widely prescribed to lower cholesterol, may have protective effects on prostate health. This large Mayo Clinic cohort study looked at three different...

Mayo Clinic Researcher Says Improved Detection of Bladder Tumors Reduces Cancer Recurrence: Annual Meeting, American Urological Association, Chicago.(Clinical report)
April 25, 2009... Byline: Mayo Clinic CHICAGO, April 26 (AScribe Newswire) -- Making tumors inside the bladder fluoresce red under blue light allows physicians to more easily find and remove them, substantially reducing the rate at which these cancers come...

Johns Hopkins Medical News Tips: Giving Prostate Cancer the Cold Shoulder; Boning Up the Cancer Fight; Kids With Kidney Stones Have Adult Health Problems; Two Robots Better Than One for Prostate Surgery.
April 25, 2009... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BALTIMORE, April 26 (AScribe Newswire) -- Following are news tips from Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions on abstracts or posters being presented at the American Urological Association Annual...

Details of Bacterial 'Injection' System Revealed; Decoded Structure of Secretion System, Essential for Infection, Could Lead to New Drugs.
April 27, 2009... Byline: Brookhaven National Laboratory UPTON, N.Y., April 27 (AScribe Newswire) -- New details of the composition and structure of a needlelike protein complex on the surface of certain bacteria may help scientists develop new strategies to...

Stanford Business School Research: Are Wall Street Careers Just the Luck of the Draw?
April 27, 2009... Byline: Stanford Graduate School of Business STANFORD, Calif., April 27 (AScribe Newswire) -- Paul Oyer backs away from using the word "luck." But nevertheless his research, first reported in 2006 and recently revised and reported in...

Parents: Slow Down and Get Off the Marriage-Go-Round; Revolving-Door Relationships Can Be Hard on Children.
April 27, 2009... Byline: Johns Hopkins University BALTIMORE, April 27 (AScribe Newswire) -- After a divorce or break-up, parents need to be very cautious about bringing new love interests into their homes, according to Andrew Cherlin, a professor in the...

New Model of Time Is Precursor to a Major Revolution in Physics; Prediction Made for NASA LRO Spacecraft Telemetry.
April 28, 2009... Byline: The Jay Pritzker Fellowship in Theoretical Physics DENVER, April 28 (AScribe Newswire) -- Jay Pritzker Fellow in Theoretical Physics, Alexander F. Mayer, will present a talk at the American Physical Society (APS) Meeting in Denver,...

Re-Awakening Old Genes to Help in the Fight Against HIV.
April 28, 2009... Byline: University of Central Florida ORLANDO, Fla., April 28 (AScribe Newswire) -- A new vaginal cream containing a re-awakened protein could someday prevent the transmission of HIV. Scientists at the University of Central Florida in...

Findings Uncover New Details About Mysterious Virus.
April 28, 2009... Byline: Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., April 28 (AScribe Newswire) -- An international team of researchers has determined key structural features of the largest known virus, findings that could help scientists studying how the...

A Bit of Advice: Cooling Can Lengthen Tool Life, Purdue Expert Says.
April 28, 2009... Byline: Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., April 28 (AScribe Newswire) -- Those who want their cutting tools to stay sharper and last longer might consider splurging for air conditioning. Rado Gazo, a Purdue University professor of...

Purdue Study Finds Dairy Better for Bones Than Calcium Carbonate.
April 28, 2009... Byline: Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., April 28 (AScribe Newswire) -- A Purdue University study shows dairy has an advantage over calcium carbonate in promoting bone growth and strength. Connie Weaver, distinguished professor and...

Carnegie Mellon's Sean Green Uses Combination of Computer Tools And Artificial Intelligence to Predict Diarrheal Illness Globally.
April 28, 2009... Byline: Carnegie Mellon University PITTSBURGH, April 28 (AScribe Newswire) -- Carnegie Mellon University's Sean Green is using a series of computer modeling tools to identify the best way to curb the spread of diarrheal illness in more...

Fish May Actually Feel Pain and React to It Much Like Humans.
April 29, 2009... Byline: Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., April 29 (AScribe Newswire) -- Fish don't make noises or contort their faces to show that it hurts when hooks are pulled from their mouths, but a Purdue University researcher believes they...

First Impressions Count: Human Brain Can Recognize Objects Much Faster Than Some Have Thought.
April 29, 2009... Byline: Children's Hospital Boston BOSTON, April 29 (AScribe Newswire) -- Human beings far outpace computers in their ability to recognize faces and other objects, handling with ease variations in size, color, orientation, lighting...

Hopkins Children's Study: Folic Acid May Help Treat Allergies, Asthma.(Report)
April 29, 2009... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BALTIMORE, April 30 (AScribe Newswire) -- Folic acid, or vitamin B9, essential for red blood cell health and long known to reduce the risk of spinal birth defects, may also suppress allergic...

Kansas State Researcher Finds That the 1918 Spanish Flu Virus Can Infect Swine and Resulted in Current Lineage of H1N1 Swine Influenza Viruses.
April 30, 2009... Byline: Kansas State University MANHATTAN, Kan., April 30 (AScribe Newswire) -- In 1918 a human influenza virus known as the Spanish flu spread through the central United States while a swine respiratory disease occurred concurrently. A...

Scientists Shed Light on Inner Workings of Human Embryonic Stem Cells; Findings Expected to Help Cancer Research.
April 30, 2009... Byline: University of California, Santa Barbara SANTA BARBARA, Calif., April 30 (AScribe Newswire) -- Scientists at UC Santa Barbara have made a significant discovery in understanding the way human embryonic stem cells function. They...

Ag Economist: Pork Industry Taking Hit From 'Swine' Flu.
April 30, 2009... Byline: Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., April 30 (AScribe Newswire) -- It could take weeks - or longer - before U.S. pork producers recover from export restrictions tied to a worldwide influenza outbreak, said a Purdue University...

Modeling Tool Shows How Public-Health Efforts Can Reduce Flu's Spread.
April 30, 2009... Byline: Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., April 30 (AScribe Newswire) -- Purdue University researchers have developed a tool that simulates how the spread of pandemic flu would be dramatically reduced by using antiviral drugs and...

Mysterious 1934 Disappearance of Explorer Everett Ruess in Utah Solved With Help of CU-Boulder Researchers.
April 30, 2009... Byline: University of Colorado, Boulder BOULDER, Colo., April 30 (AScribe Newswire) -- The mysterious disappearance of Everett Ruess, a 20-year-old artist, writer and footloose explorer who wandered the Southwest in the early 1930s on a...

Chemical Found in Medical Devices Impairs Heart Function.
April 30, 2009... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BALTIMORE, May 1 (AScribe Newswire) -- Researchers at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine have found that a chemical commonly used in the production of such medical plastic devices as...