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New Forecasting Tool Could Reduce Drug Development Costs; Authors Call on Pharmaceutical Industry to Share More Data.
February 1, 2007... Byline: Children's Hospital Boston BOSTON, Feb. 1 (AScribe Newswire) -- It now costs more than $800 million to develop a new drug. But what if pharmaceutical companies had a way to predict which experimental drugs will ultimately get FDA...

Another Case for Index Funds: New Research Shows Individual Investors Who Buy Shares in Local Companies Fail to Enjoy Superior Returns; Overall, Trades of Individual Investors Perform Poorly.
February 1, 2007... Byline: Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley BERKELEY, Calif., Feb. 1 (AScribe Newswire) -- The idea of "local knowledge" - or "investing in what you know" - is popular stock-picking advice that doesn't appear to hold true for individual...

Emergency Departments Test Chest Pain Patients Differently, Based on Race, Gender, Insurance.
February 1, 2007... Byline: Medical College of Wisconsin MILWAUKEE, Feb. 1 (AScribe Newswire) -- A new study by researchers at the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee and Johns Hopkins University has found that race, gender and insurance differences...

Targeting Tau: Inflammation Study Suggests New Approach for Fighting Alzheimer's.
February 1, 2007... Byline: University of Pennsylvania Health System PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 1 (AScribe Newswire) -- Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have shown that impaired function and loss of synapses in the hippocampus of a...

When Lap Dogs Become Attack Dogs: UCLA Study Isolates Triggers for D.C. Press Corps.
February 1, 2007... Byline: UCLA LOS ANGELES, Feb. 1 (AScribe Newswire) -- Presidents don't enjoy a honeymoon period with the White House press corps. But neither do reporters turn on presidents just because their popularity has tanked. Still, that doesn't...

Molecular Motors and Brakes Work Together in Cells: Interaction Sheds Light on How Cell's Inner 'Skeleton' Is Organized.
February 1, 2007... Byline: University of Pennsylvania Health System PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 1 (AScribe Newswire) -- Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have discovered that microtubules - components responsible for shape, movement, and...

Scientists Develop Portable Generator That Turns Trash Into Electricity.
February 1, 2007... Byline: Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., Feb. 1 (AScribe Newswire) -- A group of scientists have created a portable refinery that efficiently converts food, paper and plastic trash into electricity. The machine, designed for the...

Tiny 'Gas-Flow' Sensor Has Industrial, Environmental Applications.
February 2, 2007... Byline: Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., Feb. 2 (AScribe Newswire) -- Researchers at Purdue University have shown how to create a new class of tiny sensors for applications ranging from environmental protection to pharmaceutical...

Examining Media Bias: Lewis & Clark Political Science Professor Finds No Ideological Labeling Bias in Major U.S. Newspapers.
February 2, 2007... Byline: Lewis & Clark College PORTLAND, Ore., Feb. 2 (AScribe Newswire) -- Do the media have a liberal bias? According to a new study by Robert Eisinger, associate professor and chair of political science at Lewis & Clark College, the...

World's Oldest Sedimentary Rocks Show How Earth May Have Avoided Becoming Giant Snowball; Carbon Dioxide May Have Acted as Planet's 'Thermostat' Since Earliest Times.
February 5, 2007... Byline: University of Chicago CHICAGO, Feb. 5 (AScribe Newswire) -- A greenhouse gas that has become the bane of modern society may have saved Earth from completely freezing over early in the planet's history, according to the first...

Aerospace Group Advances 'Structural Health Monitoring' Technology; Intelligent Sensor Networks on Planes Can Reduce Maintenance Cost, Downtime.
February 5, 2007... Byline: Stanford School of Engineering STANFORD, Calif., Feb. 5 (AScribe Newswire) -- Aircraft and spacecraft are complex vehicles whose maintenance requires time-consuming and expensive manual inspections. But a suite of new technologies,...

Scripps Research Scientists: Compounds Show Significant Promise Against Potential Bioweapon Toxins; Small Molecules Could Fill Therapy Gap in Nation's Bioterrorism Defense.
February 5, 2007... Byline: The Scripps Research Institute LA JOLLA, Calif., Feb. 5 (AScribe Newswire) -- Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute and the University of Wisconsin have identified two small molecules with promising activity against...

Severe Form of 'Enlarged Prostate' Disease Discovered; Blood Test Developed to Detect Problems Long Before Middle Age.
February 5, 2007... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BALTIMORE, Feb. 5 (AScribe Newswire) -- Millions of middle-aged and older men experience the symptoms of an enlarged prostate multiple times during the day and night. What they may not know is that...

New Take on Affirmative Action, According to Stanford Business School Research.
February 5, 2007... Byline: Stanford Graduate School of Business STANFORD, Calif., Feb. 5 (AScribe Newswire) -- Affirmative action remains one of the most contentious issues in American society. Researchers typically suggest that that people who oppose it do...

Dutch Adopt Managed Competition in Health Care Proposed by Stanford Business School Researcher.
February 5, 2007... Byline: Stanford Graduate School of Business STANFORD, Calif., Feb. 5 (AScribe Newswire) -- The Netherlands has become the first nation to inaugurate a system of universal health insurance based on regulated competition in the private...

University of Maryland Study: Hackers Attack Computers Every 39 Seconds; Clark School's Cukier Stresses Strong Passwords as Defense Against Harm.
February 6, 2007... Byline: University of Maryland, College Park COLLEGE PARK, Md., Feb. 6 (AScribe Newswire) -- Are hackers trying to get into your computer right now? And what are they up to? A study by the University of Maryland's A. James Clark School of...

Immigration Slows Rate of Racial, Ethnic Intermarriages.
February 6, 2007... Byline: Ohio State University COLUMBUS, Ohio, Feb. 6 (AScribe Newswire) -- Immigration has played a key role in unprecedented declines in interracial and inter-ethnic marriage in the United States during the 1990s, according to a new...

Major Population Centers May Be at Risk; Building Codes Must Reflect New Seismic Data.
February 6, 2007... Byline: Seismological Society of America EL CERRITO, Calif., Feb. 6 (AScribe Newswire) -- Earthquakes in stable continental regions lack sufficient understanding to prepare local populations for future seismic activity, according to a paper...

Penn Study Suggests New Model for Testing and Discovery of Anti-HIV Drugs.
February 7, 2007... Byline: University of Pennsylvania Health System PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 7 (AScribe Newswire) -- Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine are the first to show that a mouse protein, whose human equivalent is related to...

Discovery Could Lead to Better Control of Hemorrhagic Fever Viruses; New World Arenaviruses Enter Cells Through a Well-Known Iron-Uptake Receptor.
February 7, 2007... Byline: Children's Hospital Boston BOSTON, Feb. 7 (AScribe Newswire) -- Researchers report discovering the receptor through which a group of life-threatening hemorrhagic fever viruses enter and attack the body's cells, and show that...

Hamilton College Youth Poll Finds That American High School Students Do Not Understand Climate Change Issues.
February 7, 2007... Byline: Hamilton College CLINTON, N.Y., Feb. 7 (AScribe Newswire) -- It's an inconvenient truth that would make Al Gore shudder: Despite an increasing emphasis at school and in the media on the causes and effects of global climate change,...

New Data Shakes Accepted Models of Collisions of Earth's Crust.
February 7, 2007... Byline: Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., Feb. 7 (AScribe Newswire) -- New research findings may help refine the accepted models used by earth scientists over the past 30 years to describe the ways in which continents clash to form...

Forensic Photography Brings Color Back to Ancient Textiles.
February 8, 2007... Byline: Ohio State University COLUMBUS, Ohio, Feb. 8 (AScribe Newswire) -- Archaeologists are now turning to forensic crime lab techniques to hunt for dyes, paint, and other decoration in prehistoric textiles. Although ancient fabrics...

Love, Not Money, Inspires Immigrants to Become U.S. Citizens; UC Irvine Research Shows Welcoming Attitudes Double Naturalization Rates.
February 8, 2007... Byline: University of California, Irvine IRVINE, Calif., Feb. 8 (AScribe Newswire) -- Love, more than money, inspires legal immigrants to go through the naturalization process to become American citizens, according to new research from UC...

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Scientists Discover New Gene That Prevents Multiple Types of Cancer; Cell Publishes Study Titled 'CHD5 Is a Tumor Suppressor at Human 1p36'.
February 8, 2007... Byline: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory COLD SPRING HARBOR, N.Y., Feb. 8 (AScribe Newswire) -- A decades-old cancer mystery has been solved by researchers at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL). "We not only found a critical tumor...

Master Switches Found for Adult Blood Stem Cells.
February 8, 2007... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BALTIMORE, Feb. 8 (AScribe Newswire) -- Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center scientists have found a set of "master switches" that keep adult blood-forming stem cells in their primitive state....

Enceladus, a Moon of Saturn, Is a 'Cosmic Graffiti Artist,' Astronomers Discover.
February 8, 2007... Byline: University of Virginia CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., Feb. 8 (AScribe Newswire) -- Astronomers from the University of Virginia and other institutions have found that Enceladus, the sixth-largest moon of Saturn, is a "cosmic graffiti...

Johns Hopkins University Nursing News and Research Briefs, February 2007.
February 9, 2007... Byline: School of Nursing, Johns Hopkins University BALTIMORE, Feb. 9 (AScribe Newswire) -- Following are news and research briefs from Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing. For media inquiries, contact Lynn Schultz-Writsel at...

Rochester Institute of Technology Researchers Developing 'Micropump' for Hearing-Loss Treatments; Project Funded by $900,000 Grant From National Institutes of Health.
February 9, 2007... Byline: Rochester Institute of Technology ROCHESTER, N.Y., Feb. 9 (AScribe Newswire) -- Hearing aids have existed, in one form or another, for hundreds of years. Wearable, electrical hearing aids have been around for about 75 years. More...

Scientists Use Nanoparticle to Discover Disease-Causing Proteins.
February 12, 2007... Byline: Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., Feb. 12 (AScribe Newswire) -- A complex molecule and snake venom may provide researchers with a more reliable method of diagnosing human diseases and developing new drugs. Purdue...

Scientists Find Method to Pick Non-Competitive Animals, Improve Production.
February 12, 2007... Byline: Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., Feb. 12 (AScribe Newswire) -- A new statistical method of determining genetic traits that influence social interactions among animals may provide for more productive livestock. Scientists...

Johns Hopkins Scientists Uncover Cause of Antipsychotic Drug Weight Gain.
February 12, 2007... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BALTIMORE, Feb. 12 (AScribe Newswire) -- Johns Hopkins brain scientists have hit on how and why some powerful drugs used for treating mental illnesses cause patients to gain so much weight that...

Wealth Gap Between Blacks and Whites Has Grown Larger, Scholars Find.
February 12, 2007... Byline: University of California, Santa Barbara SANTA BARBARA, Calif., Feb. 12 (AScribe Newswire) -- Disparities in wealth - or net worth - have shaped the financial inequality existing between blacks and whites for generations even as...

RAND Study Identifies Ways Shopping Centers Can Sharply Reduce Terrorism Risk.
February 12, 2007... Byline: RAND Corporation SANTA MONICA, Calif., Feb. 12 (AScribe Newswire) -- A RAND Corporation report issued today identifies and prioritizes 39 security measures that can substantially reduce the risk of terrorist attacks at enclosed...

Macarthur Foundation to Invest $25 Million in New Research on the Impact of Housing.
February 12, 2007... Byline: MacArthur Foundation CHICAGO, Feb. 12 (AScribe Newswire) -- The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation will invest $25 million in new research that builds and deepens our knowledge about the ways that housing matters to...

Human Stem Cell Transplants Mature Into Neurons and Make Contacts in Rat Spinal Cord.
February 13, 2007... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BALTIMORE, Feb. 13 (AScribe Newswire) -- Human nerve stem cells transplanted into rats' damaged spinal cords have survived, grown and in some cases connected with the rats' own spinal cord cells in...

Call Made for Changes in Women's Heart Disease Risk-Factor List: Family History, Blood C-Reactive Protein Should Be Added to Traditional Risk Factors for All Older Women.
February 13, 2007... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BALTIMORE, Feb. 13 (AScribe Newswire) -- Johns Hopkins cardiologists are calling for an expansion of the criteria widely used by physicians to detect and assess a postmenopausal woman's chances of...

University of Florida Study: World Shark Attacks Rise Slightly But Continue Long-Term Dip.
February 13, 2007... Byline: University of Florida GAINESVILLE, Fla., Feb. 13 (AScribe Newswire) -- Shark attacks edged up slightly in 2006 but continued an overall long-term decline as overfishing and more cautious swimmers helped take a bite out of the...

Military Enlistment of Felons Has Doubled; Murder and Other Serious Crimes Are Allowable Offenses.
February 14, 2007... Byline: Michael D. Palm Center SANTA BARBARA, Calif., Feb. 14 (AScribe Newswire) -- The number of convicted felons who enlisted in the U.S. military almost doubled in the past three years, rising from 824 felons in fiscal year 2004 to 1,605...

Winter Colds, Over-Wrapping Raise Risk of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, Doctors Warn.
February 14, 2007... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BALTIMORE, Feb. 14 (AScribe Newswire) -- Sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) - the leading cause of death in infants under 1 year of age can happen at any time. But parents and caregivers should be...

Catalyst Magazine Targets Autonomy and Accountability in Chicago's Schools; Catalyst Special Edition Eyes Major Challenges on Key Issues Here, Details Big Changes in New York City Schools.
February 14, 2007... Byline: Community Renewal Society CHICAGO, Feb. 14 (AScribe Newswire) -- While New York city's public school system undergoes radical restructuring designed to empower individual schools, the Chicago Public Schools (CPS) face major...

University of Virginia Researchers Unveil www.relemed.com, New Search Engine for MEDLINE Providing the Most Relevant Results; Free Site Facilitates Rapid Search for Relevance of Medical Topics.
February 14, 2007... Byline: University of Virginia Health System CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., Feb. 14 (AScribe Newswire) -- Researchers at the University of Virginia School of Medicine have created a new online search engine - www.relemed.com - that provides medical...

Just Part of the Job: City Workers 'Donate' Thousands Of Dollars and 'Volunteer' To Support Their Bosses.
February 14, 2007... Byline: Community Renewal Society CHICAGO, Feb. 14 (AScribe Newswire) -- More than 1800 city workers contributed nearly $2.2 million over a seven-year period to Chicago aldermen and ward organizations, including those run by their own...

Motors, Not Slime, Power Bacterial 'Wolf Packs' According to University of Idaho Scientist.
February 14, 2007... Byline: University of Idaho MOSCOW, Idaho, Feb. 14 (AScribe Newswire) -- Forget the slime gun. New evidence shows a bacterium that forms "wolf packs" capable of cooperative predation and may yield powerful new cancer drugs appears to move...

Idaho Oilseed and Biodiesel Researchers at University of Idaho Working to Grow Alternative Fuel Supply.
February 14, 2007... Byline: University of Idaho SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 14 (AScribe Newswire) -- An oil patch that keeps growing will be the focus of a University of Idaho research team's exhibit during Family Science Days sponsored by the American Association...

Power Breeds Power In Politics, According To New Study Of Us Congress.
February 15, 2007... Byline: Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley BERKELEY, Calif., Feb. 15 (AScribe Newswire) -- Today's political landscape is peppered with examples of political dynasties: President George W. Bush, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Former Vice...

Coldest Lab in Chicago to Simulate Hot Physics of Early Universe.
February 15, 2007... Byline: University of Chicago CHICAGO, Feb. 15 (AScribe Newswire) -- Cheng Chin will make a vacuum chamber in his laboratory the coldest place in Chicago in order to simulate the impossibly hot conditions that followed the big bang during...

New Observations Show Sun-Like Star in Earliest Stage of Development.
February 15, 2007... Byline: University of Colorado, Boulder BOULDER, Colo., Feb. 15 (AScribe Newswire) -- Members of a research team led by the University of Colorado at Boulder have used NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory to peer at the embryo of an infant star...

Europeans' Understanding of Science, Evolution, More Advanced Than Americans.
February 15, 2007... Byline: Michigan State University SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 15 (AScribe Newswire) -- When it comes to scientific literacy, Americans aren't nearly as evolved as they may think. In fact, only about 40 percent of American adults accept the basic...

UC Santa Barbara Study on Sibling Detection Mechanism Highlighted in Journal Nature.
February 15, 2007... Byline: University of California, Santa Barbara SANTA BARBARA, Calif., Feb. 15 (AScribe Newswire) -- Fundamental theories in evolutionary biology have long proposed that biological kinship is the foundation of the family unit. It not only...

Googling Brain Proteins With 3-D Goggles: PNNL-UCLA Team Takes First Deep Dive Into Brain's Molecular Machinery.
February 15, 2007... Byline: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory RICHLAND, Wash., Feb. 15 (AScribe Newswire) -- The Allen Brain Atlas, a genome-wide map of the mouse brain on the Internet, has been hailed as "Google of the brain." The atlas now has a...

Computer Tool Helps Pinpoint Risky Gene Mutations; Mathematical Analysis Could Aid in Predicting Cancer Cases.
February 15, 2007... Byline: Johns Hopkins University BALTIMORE, Feb. 15 (AScribe Newswire) -- Certain cancer risks can be passed down through families, the result of tiny changes in a family's genetic code. But not all genetic changes are deadly. To help...

Power Breeds Power in Politics, According to New Study of U.S. Congress.
February 15, 2007... Byline: Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley BERKELEY, Calif., Feb. 15 (AScribe Newswire) -- Today's political landscape is peppered with examples of political dynasties: President George W. Bush, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Former Vice...

Primitive Yeast Yields Secrets of Human Cholesterol, Drug Metabolism; Regulator of Cholesterol Production Identified.
February 16, 2007... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BALTIMORE, Feb. 16 (AScribe Newswire) -- By first probing the way primitive yeast make cholesterol, a team of scientists has discovered a long-sought protein whose human counterpart controls...

Old Food Meets New Technologies, Leaves Food for Thought.
February 16, 2007... Byline: Michigan State University SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 16 (AScribe Newswire) -- There are big changes driven by small forces in two of the oldest industries of the U.S. economy - agriculture and agricultural production. From the fields...

University of Idaho Aquaculture Expert: Farming Fish No Longer Relies Only on Fish Meal Feeds.
February 16, 2007... Byline: University of Idaho SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 16 (AScribe Newswire) -- The world's farmed fish industry no longer relies entirely on fish meal to feed its most valuable products such as salmon and trout, a University of Idaho aquaculture...

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Researchers Show RNA Splicing Factor May Be New Target for Cancer Therapy; Nature Structural & Molecular Biology Publishes 'The Gene Encoding the Splicing Factor SF2/ASF Is a Proto-Oncogene'.
February 18, 2007... Byline: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory COLD SPRING HARBOR, N.Y., Feb. 18 (AScribe Newswire) -- New results in the field of RNA research establish that the RNA splicing factor SF2/ASF can act as a cancer-causing protein by changing the...

Swarthmore College Linguist Calls Attention to Dying Languages.
February 19, 2007... Byline: Swarthmore College SWARTHMORE, Pa., Feb. 19 (AScribe Newswire) -- Speakers of thousands of the world's languages are now abandoning their ancestral tongues at an unprecedented rate. What is lost when a language dies? And what are...

Study Links Attempted Suicide With Genetic Evidence Identified in Previous Suicide Research.
February 19, 2007... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BALTIMORE, Feb. 19 (AScribe Newswire) -- A Johns Hopkins-led study has found evidence that a genetic tendency toward suicide has been linked to a particular area of the genome on chromosome 2 that...

Big Bang Was Not a Fiery Chaotic Explosion, But an Orderly High-Velocity Dispersion of Relativistic Protons That Became Dark Matter, New Scientific Paper Posits.
February 19, 2007... Byline: The Drexler Foundation LOS ALTOS HILLS, Calif., Feb. 19 (AScribe Newswire) -- A new scientific paper published and available on the Internet, posits that the Big Bang was not a fiery, chaotic, disordered explosion but an orderly...

Vanderbilt Center for Human Genetics Research Investigators Join International Team of Experts to Find Genetic Links to Autism; Results Published in Nature Genetics.
February 19, 2007... Byline: Vanderbilt Medical Center NASHVILLE, Tenn., Feb. 19 (AScribe Newswire) -- A team of Vanderbilt Center for Human Genetics Research investigators and colleagues from around the world are releasing findings from the largest study to...

Orthopaedic Surgery Team Successfully Creates Anterior Cruciate Ligament Tissue Using Synthetic Scaffolds.
February 19, 2007... Byline: University of Virginia Health System CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., Feb. 19 (AScribe Newswire) -- A research team led by Cato T. Laurencin, M.D., Ph.D., at the University of Virginia Health System has created a synthetic matrix on which the...

National Association for College Admission Counseling Releases Research Paper on Standardized Tests in Undergraduate Admission.
February 20, 2007... Byline: National Assn. for College Admission Counseling ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 20 (AScribe Newswire) -- Will changes in the content and administration of the SAT and ACT reduce the degree of controversy surrounding college admissions tests?...

Fetal Heart-Cell Enzyme Important in Onset of Heart Failure; Findings Provide New Targets for Treatment.
February 20, 2007... Byline: University of Pennsylvania Health System PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 20 (AScribe Newswire) -- In almost all forms of heart failure, the heart begins to express genes that are normally only expressed in the fetal heart. Researchers have known...

Gene Hunters Close in on Lou Gehrig's Disease.
February 20, 2007... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BALTIMORE, Feb. 20 (AScribe Newswire) -- In the first genome-wide search for the genetic roots of the most common form of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), Johns Hopkins scientists have newly...

Study Confirms Normal Patterns of Grief, Highlights Yearning.
February 21, 2007... Byline: Dana-Farber Cancer Institute BOSTON, Feb. 21 (AScribe Newswire) -- "Is my grief normal?" That is one of the most common questions posed by people who have lost a loved one. A new study by Dana-Farber researchers has helped answer...

Microfluidic Chip Helps Solve Cellular Mating Puzzle; Experiments in Ultra-Small Channels Unlock Secrets in Yeast Behavior.
February 21, 2007... Byline: Johns Hopkins University BALTIMORE, Feb. 21 (AScribe Newswire) -- Using a biochemical version of a computer chip, a team led by Johns Hopkins researchers has solved a long-standing mystery related to the mating habits of yeast...

First Molecular Evidence of Body's Internal Clock in Controlling Blood Pressure; Implications for Treating Heart Attacks, Stroke.
February 21, 2007... Byline: University of Pennsylvania Health System PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 21 (AScribe Newswire) -- It has been known for decades that heart attacks and strokes occur most frequently in the early-morning hours. Now, researchers at the University...

Foundation Support for Most Program Areas Continued to Rise in 2005; Funding for International Affairs Reached Record Level.
February 21, 2007... Byline: The Foundation Center NEW YORK, Feb. 21 (AScribe Newswire) -- Foundation giving for most program areas grew in 2005, and funders increased the number of exceptionally large grants they awarded, according to "Foundation Giving...

Why Are African American Women More Likely Than Whites to Die From Breast Cancer? Hypothesis Suggests They Are at Higher Risk for Metastatic Growth After Surgery.
February 21, 2007... Byline: Children's Hospital Boston BOSTON, Feb. 21 (AScribe Newswire) -- Why are African American women 1.5 to 2.2 times more likely than white women to die from breast cancer, despite their lower incidence of the disease? Is it solely...

Older Adults May Be Unreliable Eyewitnesses, Study Shows.
February 21, 2007... Byline: University of Virginia CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., Feb. 21 (AScribe Newswire) -- A University of Virginia study suggests that older adults are not only more inclined than younger adults to make errors in recollecting details that have...

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Research Ties Harmless Viruses to Cancer; Current Biology Publishes 'A Virus Causes Cancer by Inducing Massive Chromosomal Instability Through Cell Fusion.'.
February 22, 2007... Byline: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory COLD SPRING HARBOR, N.Y., Feb. 22 (AScribe Newswire) -- Research led by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) may link viruses that have been considered harmless to chromosomal instability (CIN) and...

Killing the Messenger RNA - But Which One? Small Gene-Silencing Molecules Subject to Redirection by Editing.
February 22, 2007... Byline: The Wistar Institute PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 22 (AScribe Newswire) -- Tiny molecules called microRNAs, only 19 to 21 nucleotides in length, are able to effectively silence sometimes large sets of genes. They do this by specifically...

Study: Inhabitants of Early Settlement Were Desperate to Find Metals.
February 22, 2007... Byline: University of Florida GAINESVILLE, Fla., Feb. 22 (AScribe Newswire) -- A new study provides evidence that the last inhabitants of Christopher Columbus' first settlement desperately tried to extract silver from lead ore, originally...

Opening and Closing the Genome: Newly Identified Enzyme Orchestrates Access to Genes for Transcription.
February 22, 2007... Byline: The Wistar Institute PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 22 (AScribe Newswire) -- At any given time, most of the roughly 30,000 genes that constitute the human genome are inactive, or repressed, closed to the cellular machinery that transcribes...

Genetic Hearing Loss May Be Reversible Without Gene Therapy.
February 22, 2007... Byline: Emory University Health Sciences Center ATLANTA, Feb. 22 (AScribe Newswire) -- A large proportion of genetically caused deafness in humans may be reversible by compensating for a missing protein, based on discoveries in mice. ...

Election Day Registration a Success in 2006, Report Finds; 750,000+ Voters Registered, Cast Ballot on Election Day in Seven States.
February 22, 2007... Byline: Demos NEW YORK, Feb. 22 (AScribe Newswire) -- More than three-quarters of a million Americans were able to cast their ballot in November 2006 because of Election Day Registration (EDR), according to a new report published this week...

African Scientists Will Train at Emory University in Latest Drug Discovery Techniques.
February 22, 2007... Byline: Emory University Health Sciences Center ATLANTA, Feb. 22 (AScribe Newswire) -- African scientists will soon begin training at Emory University as part of a unique partnership between Emory and the Republic of South Africa. The South...

Outlook Report Shows Grantmakers Anticipate Healthy Growth in Giving.
February 22, 2007... Byline: Minnesota Council on Foundations MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Feb. 22 (AScribe Newswire) -- Giving by Minnesota's foundations and corporate grantmakers will see healthy growth in 2007, according to a new report from the Minnesota Council on...

Expert: Wikipedia Won't Go Away, So Learn How To Use It.
February 23, 2007... Byline: Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., Feb. 23 (AScribe Newswire) -- The popularity of Wikipedia makes it important that users learn to use the online collaborative encyclopedia as a starting point for their research rather than...

Sixth Graders in Middle Schools Fare Worse than Peers in Elementary Schools, Study Finds.
February 26, 2007... Byline: Duke University DURHAM, N.C., Feb. 26 (AScribe Newswire) -- Sixth graders placed in middle schools have more discipline problems and lower test scores than their peers who attend elementary schools, according to a study by...

South Pole Telescope to Help Astrophysicists Learn What Universe Is Made of, How It Evolves.
February 26, 2007... Byline: University of Chicago CHICAGO, Feb. 26 (AScribe Newswire) -- Scientists aimed the South Pole Telescope at Jupiter on the evening of Feb. 16 and successfully collected the instrument's first test observations. Soon, far more distant...

Urban Institute Book Looks at Preparing Workforce for Labor Market Turmoil.
February 26, 2007... Byline: Johns Hopkins University BALTIMORE, Feb. 26 (AScribe Newswire) -- The U.S. labor market has seen changes over the past few decades, and further turmoil is expected as the population ages and immigration and offshoring of jobs...

Early Sex May Lead Teens to Delinquency, Study Shows.
February 26, 2007... Byline: Ohio State University COLUMBUS, Ohio, Feb. 26 (AScribe Newswire) -- Teens who start having sex significantly earlier than their peers also show higher rates of delinquency in later years, new research shows. A national study of...