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New Light Shed on How Metals Change Shape at the Nanoscale.
August 2, 2004... Byline: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory BERKELEY, Calif., Aug. 2 (AScribe Newswire) -- A nanocrystalline metal is one whose average grain size is measured in billionths of a meter, much smaller than in most ordinary metals. As the...

Modern Heart Devices Can Be Safely Used During Magnetic Resonance Imaging Scans, Study Shows; Findings Could Eventually Make Diagnostic Tool Available to Patients With Heart Devices.
August 2, 2004... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BALTIMORE, Aug. 2 (AScribe Newswire) -- In animal and laboratory studies, scientists at Johns Hopkins have shown that modern, implanted heart assist devices - such as pacemakers and defibrillators...

Scientists' Showdown With Soil Moisture at O.K. Corral.
August 2, 2004... Byline: Jet Propulsion Laboratory PASADENA, Calif., Aug. 2 (AScribe Newswire) -- Tombstone, Ariz., is a dusty place known for Wyatt Earp's famous 1881 "Shootout at the O.K. Corral." This year, from Aug. 2 to 27, it will be known as the...

'Bookish Behavior' Measured in America's 79 Largest Cities; Minneapolis, Seattle, Pittsburgh, Madison, Cincinnati Earn Top Rankings for 2004.
August 3, 2004... Byline: University of Wisconsin, Whitewater WHITEWATER, Wis., Aug. 3 (AScribe Newswire) -- A national survey released today that ranks the reading culture and resources of America's 79 largest cities identifies Minneapolis, Seattle,...

Babies With DiGeorge Syndrome Saved by Immune Suppression, Thymus Transplant.
August 3, 2004... Byline: Duke University DURHAM, N.C., Aug. 3 (AScribe Newswire) -- Duke University Medical Center researchers have developed a combination immune suppression and thymus transplantation technique to save infants born with complete DiGeorge...

University of Iowa Researcher: Doctors, Patients Must Work Together to Improve Compliance.
August 3, 2004... Byline: University of Iowa IOWA CITY, Iowa, Aug. 3 (AScribe Newswire) -- If a doctor prescribes medication or recommends a specific treatment, but the patient never fills the prescription or ignores the recommendation, what's a doctor to...

Climate Change Could Doom Alaska's Tundra.
August 3, 2004... Byline: Oregon State University PORTLAND, Ore., Aug. 3 (AScribe Newswire) -- In the next 100 years, Alaska will experience a massive loss of its historic tundra, as global warming allows these vast regions of cold, dry, lands to support...

Pesticide Contamination Higher in North American Songbirds Than South or Central American Songbirds.
August 3, 2004... Byline: Illinois Wesleyan University BLOOMINGTON, Ill., Aug. 3 (AScribe Newswire) -- Although a ban on the use of organochlorine pesticides such as DDT has been in effect in the United States for more than three decades, studies at Illinois...

More Data From Mars Rover Spirit's First Month Now Online.
August 3, 2004... Byline: Jet Propulsion Laboratory PASADENA, Calif., Aug. 3 (AScribe Newswire) -- Millions of people have viewed pictures from NASA's Spirit on the Mars rovers home page and other Internet sites. Beginning today, a more complete set of...

American Lung Association of California Grants $732,000 to 19 Researchers at 10 California Institutions; Studies Include Air Pollution, Asthma, Cancer.
August 3, 2004... Byline: American Lung Association OAKLAND, Calif., Aug. 3 (AScribe Newswire) -- As the American Lung Association celebrates 100 years of fighting lung disease this year, research funded by the organization continues to play a key role in...

Survey Finds Majority of African Americans Say U.S. Is Losing Ground on HIV/AIDS; African Americans Name HIV/AIDS Most Urgent Health Problem, Latinos Place it Second Most Urgent Behind Cancer.
August 4, 2004... Byline: Kaiser Family Foundation WASHINGTON, Aug. 4 (AScribe Newswire) -- A majority of African Americans (56 percent) say the U.S. is losing ground when it comes to the problem of HIV/AIDS - an 18 percentage point increase since October...

Discovery May Help Transplants Survive; Blocking Growth Factor Stops Rejection Process.
August 4, 2004... Byline: Schepens Eye Research Institute BOSTON, Aug. 4 (AScribe Newswire) -- For the first time scientists have found that a growth factor called vascular endothelial growth factor receptor-3 (VEGFR-3), known to cause the growth of...

Carnegie Mellon Researchers Develop Untethered Wireless Robot That Has Successfully Explored Underground Gas Mains in New York.
August 4, 2004... Byline: Carnegie Mellon University PITTSBURGH, Aug. 4 (AScribe Newswire) -- Carnegie Mellon University robotics researchers, in conjunction with the Northeast Gas Association (NGA), the National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) of the...

Study Suggests Humans Can Speed Evolution.
August 4, 2004... Byline: Georgia Institute of Technology ATLANTA, Aug. 4 (AScribe Newswire) -- It's no secret that life in the 21st century moves at a rapid pace. Human inventions such as the Internet, mobile phones and fiber optic cable have increased the...

Early Clinical Treatment Can Halt Progression of Alzheimer's Disease, UC Irvine Researchers Find; Study Supports Controversial Hypothesis About Cause of Alzheimer's Disease.
August 4, 2004... Byline: University of California, Irvine IRVINE, Calif., Aug. 4 (AScribe Newswire) -- University of California, Irvine, neurobiologists have provided the first evidence that early clinical treatment of brain lesions can halt the progression...

Ursinus Professor's New Book Leads to Class on Mississippi Bluesman.
August 4, 2004... Byline: Ursinus College COLLEGEVILLE, Pa., Aug. 4 (AScribe Newswire) -- For Ursinus English Professor Patricia R. Schroeder, teaching a course led to writing a book, which in turn led to teaching a new course. Schroeder's new book,...

Mars Exploration Rover Mission Status: Both Rovers Are Having Unexpected Problems.
August 4, 2004... Byline: Jet Propulsion Laboratory PASADENA, Calif., Aug. 4 (AScribe Newswire) -- NASA's Spirit rover has climbed higher into rocky hills on Mars, and its twin, Opportunity, has descended deeper into a crater, but both rovers, for the time...

Aura Post-Launch Status Report: Mission Going Well So Far.
August 4, 2004... Byline: Jet Propulsion Laboratory PASADENA, Calif., Aug. 4 (AScribe Newswire) -- Activation of the Aura spacecraft, launched July 15, is continuing, with the mission going very well so far. Just over an hour after launch, the...

Jefferson Researcher Using Department of Defense Grant to Plan New Trial Testing Targeted Agent for High-Risk Prostate Cancer.
August 5, 2004... Byline: Thomas Jefferson University PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 5 (AScribe Newswire) -- When prostate cancer spreads to the bones, it turns deadly. Some 90 percent of deaths from prostate cancer occur in those whose disease has gone to the bones....

Study to Probe How Technology Helps Students Learn; Major Grant From Andrew Mellon Foundation Supports UC Santa Barbara Project.
August 5, 2004... Byline: University of California, Santa Barbara SANTA BARBARA, Calif., Aug. 5 (AScribe Newswire) -- Although instructional technology is widely used in higher education, research on how students learn with technology has not kept pace. ...

'Self-Recovery' From Hepatitis C Infection Linked to Genes That Suppress Action of Killer Immune Cells.
August 5, 2004... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BALTIMORE, Aug. 5 (AScribe Newswire) -- In a study to be published in Science online Aug. 6, researchers at Johns Hopkins have found that genes involved in suppressing the body's defensive...

Method to Visualize Gene Activity May Provide Important Insights Into Normal Development and Genome Function.
August 5, 2004... Byline: University of California, San Diego LA JOLLA, Calif., Aug. 5 (AScribe Newswire) -- A technique developed by University of California, San Diego biologists, which uses bright fluorescent dyes to reveal the activity of genes in...

Air Pollution Reveals Privilege, Politics, and Priorities, Says Author E. Melanie DuPuis; DuPuis Available for Comment.
August 5, 2004... Byline: University of California, Santa Cruz SANTA CRUZ, Calif., Aug. 5 (AScribe Newswire) -- It's been more than a century since women donned dark dresses to hide the black soot of coal fires and architects streamlined building designs...

First-of-Its Kind Poll Shows Many 'Authentic' Leaders Despite Popular Myth.
August 5, 2004... Byline: University of Nebraska at Lincoln LINCOLN, Neb., Aug. 5 (AScribe Newswire) -- How authentic do Americans perceive the leadership of their organizations to be? A first-ever poll by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln revealed...

Carnegie Mellon Researchers to Demonstrate Autonomous Robot That Soon Will Soon Be Sent to Seek Life in Chile's Atacama Desert.
August 5, 2004... Byline: Carnegie Mellon University PITTSBURGH, Aug. 5 (AScribe Newswire) -- Carnegie Mellon University robotics and life sciences researchers will demonstrate Zoe, an autonomous rover being groomed to seek and identify life in hostile...

Rocks Tell Stories in Reports of Spirit's First 90 Martian Days.
August 5, 2004... Byline: Jet Propulsion Laboratory PASADENA, Calif., Aug. 5 (AScribe Newswire) -- Scientific findings from the NASA rover Spirit's first three months on Mars will be published Friday, marking the start of a flood of peer-reviewed...

Research Finds Good News for Anti-Cancer Drug Designers.
August 6, 2004... Byline: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory BERKELEY, Calif., Aug. 6 (AScribe Newswire) -- Pharmaceutical companies seeking to design more effective cancer chemotherapy agents may have an easier road ahead than was previously believed. A...

High Time to Label Fragrance Allergens.
August 6, 2004... Byline: Cancer Prevention Coalition CHICAGO, Aug. 6 (AScribe Newswire) -- The Cancer Prevention Coalition today released the following statement by Samuel S. Epstein, M.D., professor emeritus Environmental & Occupational Medicine,...

First National Study of Arab-American Women Counters Stereotype; UC Irvine Researcher Shows Majority of Arab-American Women Are Highly Educated and Christian.
August 9, 2004... Byline: University of California, Irvine IRVINE, Calif., Aug. 9 (AScribe Newswire) -- Today's Arab-American women look a lot more like their American counterparts than popular post-Sept. 11 stereotypes suggest, according to a University of...

Biologists Deciphering Complex Lemur Scent Language.
August 9, 2004... Byline: Duke University DURHAM, N.C., Aug. 9 (AScribe Newswire) -- A "stink fight" between ring-tailed lemurs might be dead serious to them. But to observers, the scented struggle ranks among the more odd, even comical sights at the Duke...

Study: Mexican-Americans Face Far Higher Stroke Risk; First Data on Gap Between Non-Hispanic Whites, Largest Hispanic Subgroup.
August 9, 2004... Byline: University of Michigan Health System ANN ARBOR, Mich., Aug. 9 (AScribe Newswire) -- Mexican-Americans have a far higher chance of suffering a stroke than non-Hispanic whites, according to a new study led by a University of Michigan...

Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Mission Status: Spacecraft Is Getting Ready for Launch Next Year.
August 9, 2004... Byline: Jet Propulsion Laboratory PASADENA, Calif., Aug. 9 (AScribe Newswire) -- With one very busy year remaining before launch, the team preparing NASA's next mission to Mars has begun integrating and testing the spacecraft's versatile...

Consumer Reports Rates Audi S4, BMW M3 'Excellent' Overall in Tests of Four Sports Cars; S4, M3 Finished in Near Tie, Ahead of CR's Previously Top-Rated Subaru Impreza WRX STi.
August 9, 2004... Byline: Consumers Union YONKERS, N.Y., Aug. 9 (AScribe Newswire) -- The Audi S4 and BMW M3 finished in a virtual tie with "Excellent" overall ratings following tests of four high-powered sports cars for the September issue of Consumer...

Second Hypoxic Event Off Oregon Coast May Indicate New Trend.
August 9, 2004... Byline: Oregon State University CORVALLIS, Ore., Aug. 9 (AScribe Newswire) -- For the second time in three years, a hypoxic "dead zone" has formed off the central Oregon Coast. It's killing fish, crabs and other marine life and leading...

Physicists to Mark 20th Anniversary of First String Theory Revolution.
August 10, 2004... Byline: University of Chicago CHICAGO, Aug. 10 (AScribe Newswire) -- Twenty years have passed since the first superstring revolution started in the Aspen Center for Physics in Colorado. Approximately 75 scientists will meet for a symposium...

Genes May Determine Who Developed Gulf War Syndrome, University at Buffalo Researchers Find; Variant in ACE Gene Appears to Cause Susceptibility to Environmental Triggers.
August 10, 2004... Byline: University at Buffalo BUFFALO, N.Y., Aug. 10 (AScribe Newswire) -- Veterans of the first Persian Gulf War suffering from medically unexplained fatigue associated with Gulf War Syndrome may have a genetic predisposition for...

RNA Could Form Building Blocks for Nanomachines.
August 11, 2004... Byline: Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., Aug. 11 (AScribe Newswire) -- Microscopic scaffolding to house the tiny components of nanotech devices could be built from RNA, the same substance that shuttles messages around a cell's...

'Membrane Protein Factories' Result in Another Patent for University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
August 11, 2004... Byline: University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee MILWAUKEE, Aug. 11 (AScribe Newswire) -- To produce many drugs and vaccines for human use and for many other applications, scientists need proteins that are found in the membranes of cells. But...

Photo Release: Hubble Peers Inside a Celestial Geode.
August 12, 2004... Byline: European Space Agency - Hubble GARCHING, Germany, Aug. 12 (AScribe Newswire) -- In an unusual image, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured a rare view of the celestial equivalent of a geode - a gas cavity carved by the...

Future Heat Waves: More Severe, More Frequent, Longer Lasting.
August 12, 2004... Byline: National Center for Atmospheric Research BOULDER, Colo., Aug. 12 (AScribe Newswire) -- Heat waves in Chicago, Paris, and elsewhere in North America and Europe will become more intense, more frequent, and longer lasting in the 21st...

Burnham Institute Scientists Discover Body's Own Defense Against H. Pylori, Cause of Stomach Ulcers, Stomach Cancer.
August 12, 2004... Byline: The Burnham Institute LA JOLLA, Calif., Aug. 12 (AScribe Newswire) -- An international team led by The Burnham Institute's Minoru Fukuda, Ph.D., has discovered that a human glycoprotein inhibits Helicobacter pylori ("H. pylori"),...

Technology Already Exists to Stabilize Global Warming; Analysis Shows How to Control Carbon Emissions for 50 Years.
August 12, 2004... Byline: Princeton University PRINCETON, N.J., Aug. 12 (AScribe Newswire) -- Existing technologies could stop the escalation of global warming for 50 years and work on implementing them can begin immediately, according to an analysis by...

Last of Known Genes Identified in Complex Obesity Syndrome.
August 15, 2004... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BALTIMORE, Aug. 15 (AScribe Newswire) -- By comparing three different species' genomes and adding some good old-fashioned genetic analysis, scientists have uncovered the identity of the last of...

Out From the Shadows: Two New Saturnian Moons.
August 16, 2004... Byline: Jet Propulsion Laboratory PASADENA, Calif., Aug. 16 (AScribe Newswire) -- With eyes sharper than any that have peered at Saturn before, the Cassini spacecraft has uncovered two moons, which may be the smallest bodies so far seen...

Mayo Clinic Researcher Uses Supercomputer to Model SARS Viral Enzyme for Developing Anti-SARS Drug.
August 16, 2004... Byline: Mayo Clinic ROCHESTER, Minn., Aug. 16 (AScribe Newswire) -- A Mayo Clinic researcher is the first to develop a series of three-dimensional (3D) models of an enzyme responsible for the replication of the deadly SARS (Severe Acute...

Heart 'Repair Kit': Stem Cells Regenerate Injured Muscle.
August 18, 2004... Byline: Mayo Clinic ROCHESTER, Minn., Aug. 18 (AScribe Newswire) -- Mayo Clinic researchers have demonstrated that stem cell therapy repairs damaged heart tissue and aids recovery after heart attack. The details of the animal-based study...

Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory Develops Computer Tool to Help Save Archaeological Treasures.
August 18, 2004... Byline: Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory IDAHO FALLS, Idaho, Aug. 18 (AScribe Newswire) -- If he'd only had an office computer and online treasure maps, Indiana Jones might have avoided all those snakes, scrapes and...

Sweet Success in Targeting Cell Surface.
August 18, 2004... Byline: Howard Hughes Medical Institute CHEVY CHASE, Md., Aug. 18 (AScribe Newswire) -- Howard Hughes Medical Institute researchers have successfully targeted unnatural sugar molecules with chemically unique functional groups onto the...

New Book Documents the Wide-Ranging Science of Enrico Fermi.
August 18, 2004... Byline: University of Chicago CHICAGO, Aug. 18 (AScribe Newswire) -- A new book edited by the University of Chicago's James Cronin describes the many-faceted scientific legacies of Nobel laureate Enrico Fermi, whose contributions to...

Bedrock in Mars' Gusev Crater Hints at Watery Past.
August 18, 2004... Byline: Jet Propulsion Laboratory PASADENA, Calif., Aug. 18 (AScribe Newswire) -- Now that NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit is finally examining bedrock in the "Columbia Hills," it is finding evidence that water thoroughly altered some...

Free Talks Focus on Link Between Carbon Dioxide, Climate.
August 18, 2004... Byline: Jet Propulsion Laboratory PASADENA, Calif., Aug. 18 (AScribe Newswire) -- It's an important greenhouse gas, and a fundamental building block for food, fiber and life on Earth. It's also the principal human contribution toward...

Plumbing Trees' Plumbing Reveals Their Engineering Skill.
August 19, 2004... Byline: Duke University DURHAM, N.C., Aug. 19 (AScribe Newswire) -- Taking advantage of a unique labyrinth of Texan caves festooned with tree roots, Duke University biologists have given trees the most exacting root-to-twig physical of...

Food Fight: Wolves Pack Up to Out-Eat Ravens.
August 19, 2004... Byline: Michigan Technological University HOUGHTON, Mich., Aug. 19 (AScribe Newswire) -- New research on the wolves of Isle Royale may shed light on a mystery that has long puzzled biologists: Why do some predators band together to hunt?...

NASA Mission Returns With Piece of the Sun.
August 19, 2004... Byline: Jet Propulsion Laboratory PASADENA, Calif., Aug. 19 (AScribe Newswire) -- In a dramatic ending that marks a beginning in scientific research, NASA's Genesis spacecraft is set to swing by Earth and jettison a sample return capsule...

Implantable Device Designed To Detect, Stop Seizures Under Study at MCG.
August 20, 2004... Byline: Medical College of Georgia AUGUSTA, Ga., Aug. 20 (AScribe Newswire) -- A small electronic device implanted in the skull that detects oncoming seizures then delivers a brief electrical stimulus to the brain to stop them is under...

New Class of Compounds Promises to Revive Failing Hearts; Nitroxyl-Releasing Drugs Seem to Strengthen Cardiac Contractions, Relaxation in Conscious Dogs.
August 22, 2004... Byline: Johns Hopkins University BALTIMORE, Aug. 22 (AScribe Newswire) -- Half a million Americans are diagnosed each year with heart failure, a progressively debilitating condition characterized by the heart's declining ability to pump...

Nanotechnology: Taking Charge of Molecular Wires.
August 23, 2004... Byline: Brookhaven National Laboratory UPTON, N.Y., Aug. 23 (AScribe Newswire) -- Scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory and the University of Florida have uncovered information that may help...

That Stinks: People With Rare Obesity Syndrome Can't Sense Odors -- Loss Supports Cilia's Role in the Condition.
August 23, 2004... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BALTIMORE, Aug. 23 (AScribe Newswire) -- Johns Hopkins researchers have discovered that many people with Bardet-Biedl syndrome (BBS), a rare, complex condition marked by an array of seemingly...

National Survey Gauges High School Students' Engagement.
August 23, 2004... Byline: Indiana University BLOOMINGTON, Ind., Aug. 23 (AScribe Newswire) -- New survey results from Indiana University Bloomington complement standardized test scores by providing data on the experiences that influence high school...

Anticancer Drug Zebularine Specifically Targets Tumor Cells; Drug Also Slows Tumor-Cell Growth, USC Scientists Say.
August 23, 2004... Byline: USC Health Sciences LOS ANGELES, Aug. 23 (AScribe Newswire) -- A novel anticancer drug that inhibits a process known as DNA methylation is preferentially taken up by tumor cells as compared to normal cells, according to a group of...

New Compounds Show Promise in Fighting Malaria, Cancer; Design of Dual Action Drugs Based on Ancient Folk Remedy.
August 24, 2004... Byline: Johns Hopkins University BALTIMORE, Aug. 24 (AScribe Newswire) -- Using an ancient Chinese folk remedy as a model, researchers at The Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore have designed several new compounds that, in early testing,...

Voters Need to Examine Poll Results Critically, Says Illinois Wesleyan Political Scientist.
August 24, 2004... Byline: Illinois Wesleyan University BLOOMINGTON, Ill., Aug. 24 (AScribe Newswire) -- The proliferation of public opinion polls means that citizens need to become more critical consumers of poll results, says an Illinois Wesleyan University...

UC Santa Barbara Water-Mapping Project Could Help Efforts to Restore Lost Iraqi Wetlands.
August 24, 2004... Byline: University of California, Santa Barbara SANTA BARBARA, Calif., Aug. 24 (AScribe Newswire) -- For thousands of years, the almost 5 million acres of wetlands formed by the confluence of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in southern Iraq...

Chemical Catalysts May Neutralize Groundwater Contaminants; Compounds 'Break Bonds' Holding Dangerous Pollutants Together.
August 24, 2004... Byline: Johns Hopkins University BALTIMORE, Aug. 24 (AScribe Newswire) -- Everything from the manufacture of new materials to the creation of modern medications relies on chemicals known as metal-based catalysts. Catalysts pack a double...

Joint Genome Institute Announces Community Sequencing Program Portfolio; Extreme-Environment Microbes, Antibiotic-Resistant Bacterium, Moss, Sponge, Leech, Red Tide Algae Among Selections.
August 24, 2004... Byline: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory WALNUT CREEK, Calif., Aug. 24 (AScribe Newswire) -- Despite the perception that the genetic diversity among animals - ranging from humans to worms - is enormous, the reality is that it pales in...

Annual 'Sex on the Reef' Ritual Attracts University at Buffalo Biologists Seeking Genomic Clues to Coral Bleaching; UB Lab Houses One of World's Largest Coral Symbiont Collections.
August 25, 2004... Byline: University at Buffalo BUFFALO, N.Y., Aug. 25 (AScribe Newswire) -- The one-night-a-year spawning of massive star corals (Montastraea species) off of the Florida coast generates millions of infant corals, each of which has the...

Drug-Resistant Bacteria May Find New Foe in Novel Drug Design Approach.
August 25, 2004... Byline: Harvard University Medical School PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 25 (AScribe Newswire) -- At the 228th national meeting of the American Chemical Society held this week in Philadelphia, researchers from Harvard Medical School report that they...

Images Reveal How Rotavirus, Leading Cause of Severe Childhood Diarrhea, Enters Cells; Findings May Lead to New Rotavirus Vaccine.
August 25, 2004... Byline: Harvard University Medical School BOSTON, Aug. 25 (AScribe Newswire) -- High-resolution images constructed by researchers at Children's Hospital Boston (CHB) and Harvard Medical School (HMS) reveal the molecular rearrangements that...

Researchers Uncover Secrets of Immune System's 'Munitions Factory'.
August 25, 2004... Byline: Howard Hughes Medical Institute CHEVY CHASE, Md., Aug. 25 (AScribe Newswire) -- Howard Hughes Medical Institute researchers have discovered a new component of the machinery immune cells use to generate a remarkably diverse array of...

Falloff in Freezes: National Center for Atmospheric Research Study Projects Decrease in Frost Days.
August 25, 2004... Byline: National Center for Atmospheric Research BOULDER, Colo., Aug. 25 (AScribe Newswire) -- Days and nights when the air temperature dips below freezing will become increasingly less common by the late 21st century across much of the...

Results of CardioWest Total Artificial Heart Trial Published in New England Journal of Medicine.
August 25, 2004... Byline: University of Arizona TUCSON, Ariz., Aug. 25 (AScribe Newswire) -- The results of the nine-year study of the CardioWest Total Artificial Heart -- developed at University Medical Center by a team led by Jack G. Copeland, MD -- will...

Riverbank Filtration Pulls Pollutants From Drinking Water; Soil Beside Stream Can Remove Harmful Microbes, Organic Material, Researchers Find.
August 25, 2004... Byline: Johns Hopkins University BALTIMORE, Aug. 25 (AScribe Newswire) -- Harmful contaminants often taint drinking water drawn directly from a river, but a low-cost natural filter may lie just beyond the banks. Johns Hopkins researchers...

Mars Odyssey Begins Overtime After Successful Mission.
August 25, 2004... Byline: Jet Propulsion Laboratory PASADENA, Calif., Aug. 25 (AScribe Newswire) -- NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter begins working overtime today after completing a prime mission that discovered vast supplies of frozen water, ran a safety check...

'Report Card' Finds 60 Percent Rise in Government Secrecy at Rising Cost of $6.5 Billion Last Year.
August 26, 2004... Byline: OMB Watch WASHINGTON, Aug. 26 (AScribe Newswire) -- Government data confirm what many have suspected: secrecy has increased dramatically in recent years under policies of the current administration. For every $1 the federal...

When It Rains, It Pours -- Even for the Drops That Lead to Drizzle; New Theory on Drizzle Formation Says a Few Big Drops Get All the Water.
August 26, 2004... Byline: Brookhaven National Laboratory UPTON, N.Y., Aug. 26 (AScribe Newswire) -- In research that could lead to more accurate weather forecasts and climate models, scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National...

Researchers Show HIV Patients May Be Infected With More Than One Type of HIV: HIV SuperInfection.
August 26, 2004... Byline: McGill University MONTREAL, Aug. 26 (AScribe Newswire) -- Some HIV patients may be plagued by more than one type of HIV infection according to researchers at the McGill AIDS Centre, Sir Mortimer B. Davis - Jewish General Hospital...

Study in Science Reveals Recreational Fishing Takes Big Bite of Ocean Catch; U.S. Saltwater Recreational Fishing Catch Rivals Commercial Fisheries for Many Depleted Fish Stocks Including Red Snapper, Black Seabass, Lingcod.
August 26, 2004... Byline: SeaWeb WASHINGTON, Aug. 26 (AScribe Newswire) -- Taking a hard look at the common belief that recreational fishing accounts for only 2-3 percent of total landings in the U.S., a new study published in the journal Science (August...

New Tool Predicts How Long Pollutants Will Stay in Soil; Equation Could Help Decide Future of Land Tainted With Pesticides, Pharmaceuticals.
August 26, 2004... Byline: Johns Hopkins University BALTIMORE, Aug. 26 (AScribe Newswire) -- Building on an idea developed by medicinal chemists, Johns Hopkins researchers have devised a new mathematical tool that accurately predicts how long certain...

Michigan State University Professors Write Comprehensive Biography of British Medical Legend John Snow; 150-Year-Old Lessons of John Snow Still Relevant Today.
August 26, 2004... Byline: Michigan State University EAST LANSING, Mich., Aug. 26 (AScribe Newswire) -- It was 150 years ago this September that a London physician named John Snow urged officials in his city to shut down a well-used water pump in the heart...

Notre Dame Researchers Seek to Solve Cities' Sewer Problem.
August 26, 2004... Byline: University of Notre Dame SOUTH BEND, Ind., Aug. 26, 2004 (AScribe Newswire) -- New research by a team of University of Notre Dame engineers may help solve an important environmental challenge facing many of America's major cities....

Major Extra-Solar Discovery Announcement Scheduled Aug. 31.
August 26, 2004... Byline: Jet Propulsion Laboratory PASADENA, Calif., Aug. 26 (AScribe Newswire) -- A team of planet-hunters will announce their discovery of a new class of planets beyond our solar system at a NASA Science Update at 10 a.m. Pacific Time (1...

Quark Study Breaks Logjam Between Theory, Experiment.
August 27, 2004... Byline: University of Chicago CHICAGO, Aug. 27 (AScribe Newswire) -- University of Chicago scientists have solved a 20-year-old puzzle in particle physics using data from an experiment conducted for an entirely different purpose. ...

Study Suggests Immediate Statins for Heart Attack Patients.
August 30, 2004... Byline: Mayo Clinic ROCHESTER, Minn., Aug. 30 (AScribe Newswire) -- Heart attack patients who began taking a cholesterol-lowering medication within 48 hours of being admitted to the hospital were less likely to have ongoing problems with...

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Gets $10 Million From NIH to Build Virtual Lung; Grant Is Lab's Second Major NIH Award in Past Year.
August 30, 2004... Byline: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory RICHLAND, Wash., Aug. 30 (AScribe Newswire) -- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory will lead a $10 million, five-year multi-institutional National Institutes of Health study to devise 3-D...