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MIT's Nanoruler Could Impact Space Physics, More.
February 2, 2004... Byline: MIT CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Feb. 2 (AScribe Newswire) -- An MIT device that makes the world's most precise rulers--with "ticks" only a few hundred billionths of a meter apart--could impact fields from the manufacture of computer chips to...

Team Identifies Potential New Strategy for Preventing Precancerous Intestinal Polyps; Findings Raise Caution About Colon Cancer Risk for Drugs That Activate Receptor.
February 2, 2004... Byline: Vanderbilt Medical Center NASHVILLE, Tenn., Feb. 2 (AScribe Newswire) -- Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center researchers have provided the first evidence that activation of a particular cellular receptor dramatically increases the...

Mad Cow Disease Has Confidence Stirred, But Not Shaken; Any Drop in Beef Consumption Likely to Be Short-Lived.
February 2, 2004... Byline: Cook College, Rutgers, The State Univ. of New Jersey NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J., Feb. 2 (AScribe Newswire) -- According to a recent study conducted by Rutgers University's Food Policy Institute, most Americans know about the recent...

University of Florida Botanists Help Create 'Supertree' of Evolution for Flowering Plants.
February 2, 2004... Byline: University of Florida GAINESVILLE, Fla., Feb. 2 (AScribe Newswire) -- A group of scientists has created the first comprehensive evolutionary reconstruction of the many families of flowering plants, an achievement that could aid in...

'Rule-Breaking' Molecule Could Lead to Non-Metal Magnets.
February 2, 2004... Byline: Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., Feb. 2 (AScribe Newswire) -- Purdue University scientists have uncovered an unusual material that could lead to non-metallic magnets, which might be lighter, cheaper and easier to fabricate...

New 'Bumpy' Jelly Found in Deep Sea.
February 3, 2004... Byline: Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute MOSS LANDING, Calif., Feb. 3 (AScribe Newswire) -- Wart-like bumps of stinging cells cover the feeding arms and bell of a newly described deep-sea jelly, published by MBARI biologists in this...

New Report Finds Many Indiana Nonprofits Challenged by Small Staffs, Low Revenues; Report Is Most Comprehensive of Its Kind Ever Compiled.
February 3, 2004... Byline: Indiana University INDIANAPOLIS, Feb. 3 (AScribe Newswire) -- A new report profiling the Indiana nonprofit sector shows that many organizations are constrained by their relatively small sizes and low revenues, among other revealing...

New Book on George Washington by James MacGregor Burns and Susan Dunn Looks Behind Persona at a Complex Man.
February 3, 2004... Byline: Williams College WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass., Feb. 3 (AScribe Newswire) -- Times Books has announced publication of a new book, "George Washington," ($20.) by James MacGregor Burns and Susan Dunn. The book is the first volume in a new...

Grain Prices Weigh Heavily on Livestock Profitability.
February 3, 2004... Byline: Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., Feb. 3 (AScribe Newswire) -- This year the story for livestock producers might not be so much about the price of their livestock products, as it will be about the cost of livestock feed. ...

Inflammation Marker Predicts Colon Cancer.
February 3, 2004... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BALTIMORE, Feb. 3 (AScribe Newswire) -- C-reactive protein (CRP) -- a marker of inflammation circulating in the blood already associated with increased risk of heart disease -- can also be used to...

Scientists Develop Plant That Produces Potential Anti-Carcinogen.
February 3, 2004... Byline: Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., Feb. 3 (AScribe Newswire) -- A Purdue University researcher has successfully engineered plants that may not only lead to the production of anti-carcinogenic nutritional supplements, but also...

Dickinson College Brings Rare Historical Documents to Virtual Life.
February 3, 2004... Byline: Dickinson College CARLISLE, Pa., Feb. 3 (AScribe Newswire) -- Imagine having an historian who always would be available to explain the meaning of an important historical document, to help you do research or to work with you on...

Colorado University Underwater Archaeologist, Colleagues Aided by Octopus's Antiquities Collection Are Hot on Trail of Ancient Persian Warships.
February 3, 2004... Byline: University of Colorado, Boulder BOULDER, Colo., Feb. 3 (AScribe Newswire) -- An international research team including a University of Colorado at Boulder professor has mounted a deep-water search off the northern coast of Greece in...

New Evidence Suggests That Monkey Thought Extinct Still Exists.
February 4, 2004... Byline: Ohio State University COLUMBUS, Ohio, Feb. 4 (AScribe Newswire) -- After years of searching for a rare African primate, anthropologist Scott McGraw and his colleagues believed that the Miss Waldron's red colobus monkey (Procolobus...

Rare Ant May Help Solve Some Mysteries of Social Evolution.
February 4, 2004... Byline: Ohio State University COLUMBUS, Ohio, Feb. 4 (AScribe Newswire) -- Last fall, ecologists at Ohio State University cracked open an acorn they had found in an Ohio park and discovered a colony of extremely rare ants. They had...

University of Florida Study: People Unduly Gloomy in Positive Situations, Upbeat in Negative Ones.
February 4, 2004... Byline: University of Florida GAINESVILLE, Fla., Feb. 4 (AScribe Newswire) -- Odds are people think the glass is half empty when it is overflowing and half full when it is about to run dry, according to a new University of Florida study on...

University of Michigan College of Engineering Researchers Are Key Players in Mars Exploration.
February 4, 2004... Byline: University of Michigan College of Engineering ANN ARBOR Mich., Feb. 4 (AScribe Newswire) -- On Jan. 3, the Mars Spirit spacecraft hit the planet's surface and bounced as high as a five-story building. A great deal of the credit goes...

Kinesiology Researcher gets $1.2 Million to Study Weight Training and Cardiovascular Health.
February 4, 2004... Byline: University of Texas at Austin AUSTIN, Texas, Feb. 4 (AScribe Newswire) -- The National Institute of Aging, part of the National Institutes of Health, has awarded a researcher in College of Education at The University of Texas at...

Ohio Supercomputer Center and Ohio Medical Research Centers Receive Federal Funds for Pediatric Cancer Research.
February 4, 2004... Byline: Ohio Supercomputer Center COLUMBUS, Ohio, Feb. 4 (AScribe Newswire) -- The Ohio Supercomputer Center (OSC), along with three state medical centers, has received $350,000 for pediatric cancer research as part of the federal FY2004...

Trouble Sleeping in the Hospital? Maybe It's That Jackhammer.
February 4, 2004... Byline: Mayo Clinic ROCHESTER, Minn., Feb. 4 (AScribe Newswire) -- A Mayo Clinic nursing team looking into reasons why patients have difficulty sleeping in the hospital after surgery found surprisingly high peak noise levels, rivaling...

Barbershops Provide Productive Venues for Scholarship on African-American Opinion, University of Chicago Research Shows.
February 5, 2004... Byline: University of Chicago CHICAGO, Feb. 5 (AScribe Newswire) -- The casual conversations African-Americans have among themselves in places like barbershops can reveal volumes about their attitudes toward politics and other issues,...

UC Irvine Receives Major Grant to Study How Acupuncture Can Treat Cardiovascular Ailments; Grant Will Help Bridge Gap Between Western, Eastern Medicine.
February 5, 2004... Byline: University of California, Irvine IRVINE, Calif., Feb. 5 (AScribe Newswire) -- The Susan Samueli Center for Integrative Medicine at UC Irvine has received a $2 million, five-year federal grant to continue studying how an ancient...

Scientists at Scripps Research Institute Describe Structure of Receptor on Surface of 1918 Flu Virus, World's Most Deadly Outbreak.
February 5, 2004... Byline: The Scripps Research Institute LA JOLLA, Calif., Feb. 5 (AScribe Newswire) -- A team of scientists at The Scripps Research Institute has described for the first time the structure of a protein from the deadly 1918 Spanish Flu...

Howard Hughes Medical Institute International Programs Build Science Capacity in Developing Countries.
February 5, 2004... Byline: Howard Hughes Medical Institute CHEVY CHASE, Md., Feb. 5 (AScribe Newswire) -- At the United Nations today, scientists from around the world proposed steps to strengthen science and technology in developing countries. Among the...

Researchers Determine Reason for Deadly Spread of 1918 Influenza.
February 5, 2004... Byline: Howard Hughes Medical Institute CHEVY CHASE, Md., Feb. 5 (AScribe Newswire) -- The explosive spread of the influenza virus during the 1918 pandemic that killed some 20 million people worldwide was likely enabled by the unique...

Popular Drug for Chest Pain May Promote Blood Vessel Damage.
February 5, 2004... Byline: Duke University DURHAM, N.C, Feb. 5 (AScribe Newswire) -- Nitroglycerin -- a drug commonly prescribed for the treatment of chest pain in patients with heart conditions -- has the frustrating property that its beneficial effects are...

'No Child Left Behind' Holds Potential for Teacher Improvement.
February 9, 2004... Byline: University of Wisconsin, Whitewater WHITEWATER, Wis., Feb. 9 (AScribe Newswire) -- "No Child Left Behind," the federal education reform act implemented two years ago, warrants broader support among universities for its push to...

New Evidence Points to Pollution as Main Cause of Much Coral Reef Destruction.
February 9, 2004... Byline: Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution FORT PIERCE, Fla., Feb. 9 (AScribe Newswire) -- Scientists agree that coral reefs are in an alarming global state of decline. However, determining the main cause or causes of this decline has...

First State of Adult Literacy Report Available; ProLiteracy Worldwide Predicts More Adults Face Literacy Challenges.
February 10, 2004... Byline: ProLiteracy Worldwide SYRACUSE, N.Y, Feb. 10 (AScribe Newswire) -- ProLiteracy Worldwide's first State of Adult Literacy report, which was presented by President Robert Wedgeworth at the ProLiteracy annual conference in Washington,...

Fear of 'Friday the 13th' Most Likely Originated From Jesus' Last Supper and Crucifixion, Says University at Buffalo Anthropologist.
February 10, 2004... Byline: University at Buffalo BUFFALO, N.Y., Feb. 10 (AScribe Newswire) -- "Friday the 13th's" association with bad luck is one of countless examples of humankind's universal predisposition for magical thinking -- the belief that thoughts,...

Midwest Proton Radiotherapy Institute Opens Its Doors to Cancer Patients.
February 10, 2004... Byline: Indiana University BLOOMINGTON, Ind., Feb. 10 (AScribe Newswire) -- The Midwest Proton Radiotherapy Institute will treat its first cancer patient this week, the culmination of seven years of hard work by Indiana University...

University of Iowa Study: Emotional Aspects of Organ Donation Need Attention.
February 10, 2004... Byline: University of Iowa IOWA CITY, Iowa, Feb. 10 (AScribe Newswire) -- Imagine you are a nurse who has just helped provide life-saving medical treatment to a car accident victim, an otherwise healthy young woman whose devastated parents...

California Scientists Unveil Pilot Project at UC San Diego for Automated Monitoring of Animal Behavior in Medical Research; 'Smart Vivarium' Could Enable Better Care of Laboratory Animals.
February 10, 2004... Byline: University of California, San Diego SAN DIEGO, Feb. 10 (AScribe Newswire) -- Computer scientists and animal care experts at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) have come up with a new way to automate the monitoring of...

Cloud Forest Plants May Not Survive Unprecedented Climate Change.
February 10, 2004... Byline: Wake Forest University WINSTON-SALEM, N.C., Feb. 10 (AScribe Newswire) -- Many species of plants in the Amazon cloud forest may not survive the dramatic climate changes forecast to occur within the next 100 years, according to a new...

Online Pharmacies Provide Benefits to Patients, Also Raise Concerns; Mayo Clinic Proceedings Reviews Issues.
February 10, 2004... Byline: Mayo Clinic ROCHESTER, Minn., Feb. 10 (AScribe Newswire) -- Online pharmacies have raised ethical and safety concerns and have highlighted weaknesses in the traditional physician-pharmacist-patient relationship, researchers report...

University of Florida Study: Gays, Blacks, Other Groups Stake Out New Roles in Rodeo.
February 11, 2004... Byline: University of Florida GAINESVILLE, Fla., Feb. 11 (AScribe Newswire) -- The American frontier experience is being replayed by nontraditional groups who are taking the bull by the horns and staging their own rugged rodeos, a new...

UC San Diego Historian of Science Naomi Oreskes Presents AAAS Award Lecture on Proof and Consensus in Science.
February 11, 2004... Byline: University of California, San Diego SEATTLE, Feb. 11 (AScribe Newswire) -- In an address at a convocation of leading scientists, the University of California, San Diego historian Naomi Oreskes argues that although science cannot...

Student Academic Record Continues to Be Most Important Factor in College Admission.
February 11, 2004... Byline: National Assn. for College Admission Counseling ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 (AScribe Newswire) -- Students applying to college in 2004 can expect their academic record to be the single-most important factor in a college's decision to...

Manhattan Bridge Significant Step in Bridge Evolution, Says Elizabethtown College Professor's New Book.
February 11, 2004... Byline: Elizabethtown College ELIZABETHTOWN, Pa., Feb. 11 (AScribe Newswire) -- Although forever in the shadow of its famous neighbor the Brooklyn Bridge, the Manhattan Bridge represents a significant step in the evolution of...

University of Georgia Complex Carbohydrate Research Center Scientists Fight Cancer, Other Diseases.
February 11, 2004... Byline: University of Georgia ATHENS, Ga., Feb. 11 (AScribe Newswire) -- The University of Georgia's new Complex Carbohydrate Research Center officially opened this morning with a dedication ceremony at the new facility, which is located...

Civil War Historians Honored With $50,000 Lincoln Prize.
February 12, 2004... Byline: Gettysburg College GETTYSBURG, Pa., Feb. 12 (AScribe Newswire) -- An Oxford University historian is the first British scholar to win the annual Lincoln Prize, which is endowed by Richard Gilder and Lewis Lehrman and administered by...

Anthropologist Proposes Link Between Per Capita Energy Use and Fertility Rate.
February 12, 2004... Byline: Vanderbilt University NASHVILLE, Tenn., Feb. 12 (AScribe Newswire) -- As world reserves of oil and natural gas dwindle over the coming decades - a prospect predicted by many energy experts - the rate at which the people in most...

New Book by Haas School of Business Trio Explores Powerful Connections Between Globalization, High-Tech Jobs.
February 12, 2004... Byline: Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley BERKELEY, Calif., Feb. 12 (AScribe Newswire) -- Foreign outsourcing can boost the profit margins for high-tech firms but it also contributes to the growing earnings disparities between blue- and...

Carnegie Mellon University to Introduce Valerie, World's First Roboceptionist, Feb. 18.
February 12, 2004... Byline: Carnegie Mellon University PITTSBURGH, Feb. 12 (AScribe Newswire) -- Carnegie Mellon University will introduce Valerie, one of the world's first robotic receptionists. Valerie will be demonstrated and members of the media will have...

University of Virginia Researchers Make Cellular Model of Parkinson's Disease.
February 12, 2004... Byline: University of Virginia Health System CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., Feb. 12 (AScribe Newswire) -- For the first time, scientists at the University of Virginia Health System have engineered cells that produce the pathological hallmark found...

Jefferson Researchers Find Immune Response, Dosing Keys to Vaccine's Success Against Melanoma.
February 12, 2004... Byline: Thomas Jefferson University PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 12 (AScribe Newswire) -- How well a patient's immune system reacts to his own cancer cells and the schedule by which the vaccine is given are two key factors in the success of a...

Sweet Science: Common Candies Yield Physics Discovery; Research Using M&M's Sheds Light on Particle-Packing Problem.
February 12, 2004... Byline: Princeton University PRINCETON, N.J., Feb. 12 (AScribe Newswire) -- For most people, a regular lunch of M&M's and coffee would lead to no good. For Princeton physicist Paul Chaikin and collaborators, it spurred fundamental insights...

Engineers Create Chip-Size Version of Widely Used Detector.
February 12, 2004... Byline: Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., Feb. 12 (AScribe Newswire) -- Researchers have created a portable, chip-size version of a detection system that is commonly used by industry and law enforcement to identify everything from...

Landscape Olive Trees Are Sanctuaries for Olive Fruit Fly.
February 12, 2004... Byline: University of California Division of Agriculture FRESNO, Feb. 12 (AScribe Newswire) -- With gray-green leaves, textured bark and interesting shape, olive trees make striking landscape plants. And for many gourmets, there is nothing...

Report Details Growing Climate Change Threat to Coral Reefs.
February 13, 2004... Byline: National Center for Atmospheric Research SEATTLE, Feb. 13 (AScribe Newswire) -- Global climate change poses a major threat to the world's coral reefs, which already are suffering from coastal development, overfishing, and pollution....

Clinical Trials Open for New Treatment of Degenerative Disc Disease; Hospital for Special Surgery Is First NYC Hospital to Offer This Procedure.
February 13, 2004... Byline: Hospital for Special Surgery NEW YORK, Feb. 13 (AScribe Newswire) -- Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS) in Manhattan is now conducting a clinical trial on the usage of MAVERICK(tm), an artificial lumbar (back) disc for the...

Parkinson's Disease Genetic Study Progresses With $8 Million Grant.
February 13, 2004... Byline: Indiana University School of Medicine INDIANAPOLIS, Feb. 13 (AScribe Newswire) -- Success in the location of genes potentially involved with the onset of Parkinson's disease has been rewarded with $8.26 million grant renewal from...

Wearable Air-Conditioners: Hot New Microtechnology Keeps GI's Cool.
February 13, 2004... Byline: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory SEATTLE, Feb. 12 (AScribe Newswire) -- Personal protective suits may protect soldiers from chemical and biological weapons, yet extreme heat inside that gear poses a different but equal threat....

Rare Disease Endemic in South America Is Model for Studying Autoimmunity.
February 16, 2004... Byline: Medical College of Georgia AUGUSTA, Feb. 16 (AScribe Newswire) -- A group of men living amid the gold mines and disappearing jungles of northeastern Colombia, is giving a Medical College of Georgia scientist unprecedented access to...

Jefferson Researchers Uncover Biochemical Clues to How Cells Migrate in Embryos; Work Offers Potential Insights Into Disease Processes, Including Cancer.
February 16, 2004... Byline: Thomas Jefferson University PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 16 (AScribe Newswire) -- Researchers at Jefferson Medical College and Jefferson's Kimmel Cancer Center are gaining a better understanding of the cues that help guide cells to the right...

Possible Mechanism for Link Between Diabetes, Alzheimer's Disease Discovered.
February 16, 2004... Byline: Joslin Diabetes Center BOSTON, Feb. 16 (AScribe Newswire) -- For some time, researchers have known that people with diabetes have a greater risk of developing Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia than those without...

Cord Blood Cells Proven to Differentiate Into Heart Muscle, Brain Cells.
February 16, 2004... Byline: Duke University DURHAM, N.C., Feb. 16 (AScribe Newswire) -- Scientists at the Duke Comprehensive Cancer Center have scientifically validated for the first time that stem cells in umbilical cord blood can infiltrate damaged heart...

A Chance to Speak Up: Surgical Procedures Offer Dramatic Improvement in Patients With Vocal Cord Paralysis.
February 17, 2004... Byline: Thomas Jefferson University PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 17 (AScribe Newswire) -- People with chronic hoarseness and breathy voices often learn to live with their impediment, accepting it as an unfortunate characteristic that they feel can...

Duke University Physicians Predict Risks of Deadly Infections After Cord Blood Transplants.
February 17, 2004... Byline: Duke University DURHAM, N.C., Feb. 17 (AScribe Newswire) -- Transplant physicians at the Duke Comprehensive Cancer Center have identified several risk factors that make certain children more likely than others to die of viral...

Two New Books Examine Catholic Church.
February 17, 2004... Byline: Williams College WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass., Feb. 17 (AScribe Newswire) -- Two recent books by Francis Oakley, the Edward Dorr Griffin Professor of the History of Ideas, Emeritus, and President, Emeritus, of Williams College, focus on the...

Pittsburgh Scientists Measure Productivity in Petascale Supercomputing.
February 17, 2004... Byline: Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center PITTSBURGH, Feb. 17 (AScribe Newswire) -- As part of a national effort to boost the power of supercomputers a thousand-fold by 2010, researchers at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC) and the...

Mayo Clinic Cancer Researchers Discover How to Target Cell Fusion as Possible Way to Repair Organs, Deliver Cancer Vaccines.
February 17, 2004... Byline: Mayo Clinic ROCHESTER, Minn., Feb. 17 (AScribe Newswire) -- Mayo Clinic cancer researchers have developed a way to biologically fuse living cells through the use of a genetically engineered cell membrane. This process, which Mayo...

Drug Addiction, Learning Share Common Brain Protein.
February 18, 2004... Byline: Duke University DURHAM, N.C., Feb. 18 (AScribe Newswire) -- Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigators at Duke University Medical Center have linked a gene previously shown to play a role in learning and memory to the early...

Japanese Kelp Invades Southern California; UC Santa Barbara Scientists to Develop Control, Education Campaign.
February 18, 2004... Byline: University of California, Santa Barbara SANTA BARBARA, Calif., Feb. 18 (AScribe Newswire) -- An aggressive Japanese seaweed is making its way around the world, invading foreign harbors. It arrived in Southern California in 2001,...

Eat Early, Eat Less: Time of Day, Television Influence How Much We Eat, University of Texas at El Paso Studies Find.
February 18, 2004... Byline: University of Texas at El Paso EL PASO, Texas, Feb. 18 (AScribe Newswire) -- A University of Texas at El Paso researcher says morning meals satisfy our hunger better and seem to reduce overindulgence throughout the whole day,...

Valley Fever Vaccine 'at Hand'.
February 19, 2004... Byline: California State University, Bakersfield BAKERSFIELD, Calif., Feb. 19 (AScribe Newswire) -- Scientists with the Valley Fever Vaccine Project, administered by California State University, Bakersfield Foundation, announced today that...

Life in the Universe Takes Orders From Space.
February 19, 2004... Byline: Arizona State University TEMPE, Ariz., Feb. 19 (AScribe Newswire) -- A century ago, when biologists used to talk about the primordial soup from which all life on Earth came, they probably never imagined from how far away the...

Orange Juice Fortified With Plant Sterols Found to Lower 'Bad' Cholesterol in Healthy Volunteers.
February 20, 2004... Byline: Univ. of California, Davis, Medical Center SACRAMENTO, Calif., Feb. 20 (AScribe Newswire) -- Plant sterols -- recognized for their cholesterol-lowering power when added to margarines, salad dressings and other fats -- are just as...

University of Florida Team Builds Rough-And-Tumble Robot Car For LA-To-Vegas Race.
February 20, 2004... Byline: University of Florida GAINESVILLE, Fla., Feb. 20 (AScribe Newswire) -- It looks like a cross between a Hummer and a tank. But the squat, pug-nosed car with brown body panels in place of its windshield and windows is radically...

Well-Stocked, Staffed School Libraries Boost FCAT Scores, University of Central Florida Research Shows.
February 20, 2004... Byline: University of Central Florida ORLANDO, Fla., Feb. 20 (AScribe Newswire) -- Students at schools with well-staffed libraries that circulate the most books and have the most computers outperform their peers on the Florida Comprehensive...

Iowa State University's Whole Earth Telescope Confirms a Gem of a Star.
February 20, 2004... Byline: Iowa State University AMES, Iowa, Feb. 20 (AScribe Newswire) -- Thanks to an Iowa State University-led collaboration of 50 astronomers worldwide, there is now the best evidence yet that the galaxy's "Diamond Star" truly is...

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Study May Improve Gene Therapy Safety.
February 23, 2004... Byline: University of North Carolina Healthcare System CHAPEL HILL, N.C., Feb. 23 (AScribe Newswire) -- New research from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill may hold keys to improving the safety of human gene therapy. The...

USC Researchers Produce a Hairier Mouse; Transgenic Mouse Shows Other Intriguing Physiological Changes.
February 23, 2004... Byline: USC Health Sciences LOS ANGELES, Feb. 23 (AScribe Newswire) -- A transgenic mouse designed to grow more hair than other mice has provided University of Southern California researchers with some surprising results - and insight into...

Double Mastectomies Significantly Lower Risk of Breast Cancer in Women Who Are Genetically at Risk, Penn Study Shows; PROSE Is First Study to Quantify Risk Reduction for BRCA1, BRCA2 Gene Mutation Carriers.
February 23, 2004... Byline: University of Pennsylvania Health System PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 23 (AScribe Newswire) -- An international study led by researchers from the Abramson Cancer Center of the University of Pennsylvania has found that a prophylactic double...

Jefferson Scientists Unlocking Secrets of Cholesterol Transport in Body.
February 23, 2004... Byline: Thomas Jefferson University PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 23 (AScribe Newswire) -- Scientists at Jefferson Medical College and Jefferson's Kimmel Cancer Center have discovered one part of the mechanism behind a popular anti-cholesterol drug....

University of Maryland Cancer Specialists Study New Treatment Delivery System for Aggressive Brain Cancer; Novel Approach Allows Doctors to Send Timed-Release Chemotherapy Directly to Tumor.
February 23, 2004... Byline: University of Maryland Medical System BALTIMORE, Feb. 23 (AScribe Newswire) -- As part of a multi-center clinical study in the United States and Canada, oncologists at the University of Maryland Greenebaum Cancer Center are treating...

Mayo Clinic Researchers Discover Key Cancer Gene CBP Doesn't Work Alone; Important Clue to Targeting New Treatments for Lymphoma, Breast, Colon Cancers.
February 23, 2004... Byline: Mayo Clinic ROCHESTER, Minn., Feb. 23 (AScribe Newswire) -- Mayo Clinic cancer researchers have discovered a key partnership between two genes in mice that prevents the development of cancer of the lymph nodes, known as T-cell...

Purdue Scientists: Genetically Modified Fish Could Damage Ecology.
February 23, 2004... Byline: Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., Feb. 23 (AScribe Newswire) -- The genetic modifications that improve animals for human consumption also could doom populations if released into the wild, according to a Purdue University...

Renowned Scientist at UCLA'S Jonsson Cancer Center to Receive American Cancer Society's Top Research Award.
February 23, 2004... Byline: UCLA LOS ANGELES, Feb. 23 (AScribe Newswire) -- Dr. Dennis Slamon, whose laboratory and clinical research lead to the development of the molecularly targeted breast cancer drug Herceptin, has been named to receive the highest honor...

Internal Collaboration at Danforth Center Yields National Science Foundation Grant for Nematode Research Project; Three Labs Team Up to Investigate One of the Most Destructive Plant Pathogens.
February 24, 2004... Byline: Donald Danforth Plant Science Center ST. LOUIS, Feb. 24 (AScribe Newswire) -- As a regional collaborator of plant science research, the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center's strategy of internal collaboration among its Principal...

Renowned Scientist at UCLA's Jonsson Cancer Center to Receive American Cancer Society's Top Research Award.
February 24, 2004... Byline: UCLA LOS ANGELES, Feb. 24 (AScribe Newswire) -- Dr. Dennis Slamon, whose laboratory and clinical research led to the development of the molecularly targeted breast cancer drug Herceptin, has been named to receive the highest honor...

Researchers Discover New Family of Atlantic Corals in Groundbreaking Study; Analysis Vital for Planning Conservation of Threatened Coral Species.
February 25, 2004... Byline: University of California, San Diego LA JOLLA, Calif., Feb. 25 (AScribe Newswire) -- An international research team led by scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego, and the...

Procedure Stops Pediatric Heart Arrhythmia Cold; University of Michigan Health System First in State to Offer 'Cryoablation' Technique for Children With Abnormal Heart Rhythm.
February 25, 2004... Byline: University of Michigan Health System ANN ARBOR, Mich., Feb. 25 (AScribe Newswire) -- Two thousand times a day, Austin Miller's heart rate would race - sometimes in excess of 200 beats per minute, nearly twice the rate of a normal...

Despite Confinement, Crop Genes Can Spread Fast to Wild.
February 25, 2004... Byline: University of Wisconsin - Madison MADISON, Wis., Feb. 25 (AScribe Newswire) -- With the slim chance that farmers will stop planting crops containing genes from other organisms, researchers have started to develop strategies that...