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UCLA Imaging Study First to Show Placebo Alters Brain Function in Individuals With Major Depression.
January 2, 2002... Byline: UCLA LOS ANGELES, Jan. 2 (AScribe Newswire) -- UCLA researchers are the first to report altered brain function in people who respond favorably to placebo treatment for major depression. In addition, the findings show these changes...

Animal Study Finds Embryonic Stem Cells Can Repair Heart Muscle.
January 2, 2002... Byline: Beth Israel-Deaconess Medical Center BOSTON, Jan. 2 (AScribe Newswire) -- Transplantation of embryonic stem cells can help repair injured heart muscle and improve cardiac function following heart attacks and the development of...

National Sports Administration Leader Dave Maggard Named Athletics Director at University of Houston.
January 2, 2002... Byline: University of Houston HOUSTON, Jan. 2 (AScribe Newswire) -- Dave Maggard, formerly vice president of sports administration at Turner Sports/Time Warner Inc. and director of athletics at the University of Miami (Florida) and...

Competition for Resources Influences Species Diversity in Plant Communities.
January 2, 2002... Byline: Marine Biological Laboratory WOODS HOLE, Mass., Jan. 2 (AScribe Newswire) -- How plants compete for a limiting soil resource -- such as nitrogen -- influences the diversity and dominance of plant species within a community, reports...

Healthcare and Community Leaders Hope to Improve Palliative Care for African Americans.
January 2, 2002... Byline: Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center NEW YORK, Jan. 2 (AScribe Newswire) -- Representatives of approximately 100 national organizations will gather in Harlem January 3rd and 4th to discuss the medical, social, and spiritual...

Four New Members Named to Annenberg Institute for School Reform Board of Overseers.
January 2, 2002... Byline: Annenberg Institute for Social Reform PROVIDENCE, R.I., Jan. 2 (AScribe Newswire) -- Brown University President and Ex Officio Chair of the Annenberg Institute for School Reform Board of Overseers Ruth Simmons appointed four new...

New Generation Antipsychotic Drug Cuts Relapse Rate in Patients with Schizophrenia.
January 2, 2002... Byline: Washington University, St. Louis ST. LOUIS, Jan. 2 (AScribe News) -- A second-generation antipsychotic drug lowers the risk of relapse in patients with schizophrenia by nearly half, according to a team of researchers, led by...

Twenty Five Years Later, Rush's Bowman Center Celebrates Amidst Quiet Crisis in Geriatric Health Care.
January 2, 2002... Byline: Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center CHICAGO, Jan. 2 (AScribe Newswire) -- The opening of the Johnson R. Bowman Health Center in 1976 put Rush in a leadership role by addressing the health care needs of the burgeoning elderly...

MIT Unveils New Center Supporting Technological Innovation in New England.
January 3, 2002... Byline: MIT CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Jan. 3 (AScribe Newswire) -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) today announced the creation of a new center for technological innovation, established through a generous gift from Jaishree...

Boston University Offers New Charitable Giving Vehicle; National Charitable Services Provides Giving Infrastructure.
January 3, 2002... Byline: Boston University BOSTON, Jan. 3 (AScribe Newswire) -- Boston University Board of Trustees Chairman Richard B. DeWolfe and his wife, Marcy, and President Jon Westling and his wife, Elizabeth, recently opened the first accounts in...

Keck Foundation Gives $1.8 Million to Johns Hopkins University for Biomedical Research, Training.
January 3, 2002... Byline: Johns Hopkins University BALTIMORE, Jan. 3 (AScribe Newswire) -- The W.M. Keck Foundation has awarded $1.8 million to The Johns Hopkins University to create the W.M. Keck Center for the Rational Design of Biologically Active...

New Contraceptive to Block 'Sperm and Germs': NIH to Begin Tests on Contraceptive Gel That Blocks STDs.
January 3, 2002... Byline: Johns Hopkins University BALTIMORE, Jan. 3 (AScribe Newswire) -- Scientists announced today that a new type of contraceptive gel that is also designed to protect against sexually transmitted infections will be the first of its kind...

Metropolitan Opera and University of Connecticut Announce New Academic Partnership.
January 3, 2002... Byline: University of Connecticut STORRS, Conn., Jan. 3 (AScribe Newswire) -- The Metropolitan Opera and the University of Connecticut announced a new academic partnership today that will provide music and drama students with...

Hallucinations Plus Mathematics Plus Anatomy Equals Insight Into Brain Architecture.
January 3, 2002... Byline: University of Chicago CHICAGO, Jan. 3 (AScribe Newswire) -- Scientists are deducing the internal circuitry of the visual brain by mathematically reproducing the geometric hallucinations people see when they ingest mind-altering...

University of Chicago Discovery Overturns Long-Held Genetic Belief.
January 3, 2002... Byline: University of Chicago Hospitals CHICAGO, Jan. 3 (AScribe Newswire) -- A classic belief found in genetics and evolution textbooks since the 1930s has been overturned by powerful new techniques combined with the willingness to...

Study Shows How Plant Cells Spin Cotton.
January 3, 2002... Byline: University of California, Davis DAVIS, Calif., Jan. 3 (AScribe Newswire) -- Cotton, paper and wood -- they're all made of the cellulose that plants use for strength and flexibility. But surprisingly, scientists do not know a lot...

Researchers Shed Light on Insects' Sense of Smell; Find Could Lead to Improved Insecticides.
January 3, 2002... Byline: University of California, Davis DAVIS, Calif., Jan. 3 (AScribe Newswire) -- A key step in insects' sense of smell has been uncovered by researchers in Switzerland, the United States and Japan. The discovery could lead to...

Computer Scientists Rethink 'Magic Numbers' for Sports Leagues.
January 3, 2002... Byline: University of California, Davis DAVIS, Calif., Jan. 3 (AScribe Newswire) -- Whether their team is going to top the league is something every sports fan wants to know. But according to mathematicians, the traditional "magic number"...

Individual Neurons Reveal Complexity of Memory Within Brain; Researcher's Work to Be Featured on Discovery Health Channel.
January 3, 2002... Byline: University of Washington Health Sciences SEATTLE, Jan. 3 (AScribe Newswire) -- An investigation of the activity of individual human nerve cells during the act of memory indicates that the brain's nerve cells are even more...

Washington University in St. Louis Names First Harry C. Hartkopf Professor at Olin School of Business.
January 3, 2002... Byline: Washington University, St. Louis ST. LOUIS, Jan. 3 (AScribe Newswire) -- Professor Siddhartha Chib will become the first Harry C. Hartkopf Professor at the John M. Olin School of Business at Washington University in St. Louis. The...

Polar Experiment: TIGER Scientists Stalk Elusive Origin of Cosmic Rays.
January 3, 2002... Byline: University of Minnesota MINNEAPOLIS, Jan. 3 (AScribe Newswire) -- Floating 125,000 feet above the Antarctic ice sheet, a balloon-borne experiment is making an unprecendented second loop around the South Pole, probing the heavens...

Lehigh University Scientists Believe They Have Found Link Between Key Natural Steroid DHEA and Central Nervous System.
January 4, 2002... Byline: Lehigh University BETHLEHEM, Pa., Jan. 4 (AScribe Newswire) -- DHEA - dehydroepiandrosterone - has been called the "Mother Hormone" and hailed as the new Fountain of Youth. The most abundant steroid hormone produced by the body,...

MIT MBA Students Head West on 'Tech Trek' to Visit Companies in Silicon Valley.
January 4, 2002... Byline: Sloan School of Management, MIT CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Jan. 4 (AScribe Newswire) -- Despite the economic downturn and the horror stories about high tech, a large group of MIT MBAs are coming to Silicon Valley the week of January 7, 2002....

Policy Briefs on Rebuilding Afghanistan Say U.S. Should Avoid 'Impossible Fantasy of Democratic Government'.
January 4, 2002... Byline: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace WASHINGTON, Jan. 4 (AScribe Newswire) -- Analysis from the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace offers new perspectives on post-war Afghanistan and what can be achieved. In...

Cancer-Fighting Drug May Work in Prevention and Treatment.
January 4, 2002... Byline: Fox Chase Cancer Center PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 4 (AScribe Newswire) -- The ABCs of fighting cancer these days include two big words that describe exciting basic concepts. One is anti-angiogenesis, a strategy to stop or prevent the...

Rutgers Cell Biologist Sees New HIV Treatment Potential in Protein Discovery.
January 4, 2002... Byline: Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J., Jan. 4 (AScribe Newswire) -- Rutgers University cell biologist Bonnie L. Firestein is charting a new course in the search for an effective AIDS treatment. Firestein...

Popular Dietary Supplement Coenzyme Q Shortens Life Span of Worms Substantially, UCLA Chemists Report.
January 4, 2002... Byline: UCLA LOS ANGELES, Jan. 4 (AScribe Newswire) -- A popular dietary supplement, Coenzyme Q, accelerates aging and death in a microscopic worm studied by UCLA biochemists. Adult worms on a diet without Coenzyme Q live 60 percent...

State-by-State Analysis Reveals Disparity in Access to Postsecondary Education.
January 7, 2002... Byline: unknown INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. 7 (AScribe Newswire) -- A student's opportunity to gain access to and afford a college education varies significantly from state to state, according to a report issued today by Lumina Foundation for...

Study Shows Deoxygenating Ballast Water Can Prevent Invasive Species and Ship Corrosion.
January 7, 2002... Byline: Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute MOSS LANDING, Calif., Jan. 7 (AScribe Newswire) -- A new study shows that a novel method for combating ship ballast tank corrosion may also be a cost-effective way to prevent the introduction...

February is National Bird Feeding Month.
January 7, 2002... Byline: National Bird-Feeding Society NORTHBROOK, Ill., Jan. 7 (AScribe Newswire) -- Winter's cold weather and snow cover can make for a very picturesque scene. But it can mean serious trouble for backyard birds. These birds -- some...

The Rockefeller Foundation Appoints Darren Walker to Head Its Working Communities Division.
January 7, 2002... Byline: Rockefeller Foundation NEW YORK, Jan. 7 (AScribe Newswire) -- Gordon Conway, president of the Rockefeller Foundation, today announced the appointment of Darren Walker as director of the Foundation's Working Communities division,...

Study Reveals How Child Abuse Can Lead to Substance Abuse.
January 7, 2002... Byline: McLean Hospital BELMONT, Mass., Jan. 7 (AScribe Newswire) -- A five-year study by McLean Hospital researchers has provided a significantly new understanding of how childhood physical or sexual abuse increases the risk for substance...

University of Washington Offers Online Master of Library and Information Science.
January 7, 2002... Byline: University of Washington Educational Outreach SEATTLE, Jan. 7 (AScribe Newswire) -- A new program at the University of Washington will make it possible for aspiring librarians to get the education they need to advance their careers,...

Atlas Indexes Stars That Live Fast, Die Young.
January 7, 2002... Byline: Johns Hopkins University WASHINGTON, Jan. 7 (AScribe Newswire) -- Astronomers have produced a new spectral atlas of massive, hot stars in the Magellanic Clouds, small sister galaxies on the periphery of our galaxy, the Milky Way....

Extinction Rate Across Globe Reaches Historical Proportions, Concludes Professor at University of Texas at Austin.
January 7, 2002... Byline: University of Texas at Austin AUSTIN, Texas, Jan. 7 (AScribe Newswire) -- Half of all living bird and mammal species will be gone within 200 or 300 years, according to a botany professor at The University of Texas at Austin. ...

UCLA, Ohio State Astronomers Present the Hercules Deep Field of Distant Galaxies, Some Like Our Own.
January 7, 2002... Byline: UCLA LOS ANGELES, Jan. 7 (AScribe Newswire) -- A team of UCLA astronomers and colleagues at Ohio State University presented detailed new images of hundreds of distant galaxies at the American Astronomical Society meeting in...

Harvard Medical News Tips: Heart Repair Tissue, Life Expectancy, History of Medicine.
January 7, 2002... Byline: Harvard University Medical School BOSTON, Jan. 7 (AScribe Newswire) -- Following are news tips Harvard Medical School. These brief summaries of newsworthy features from Harvard Medical School are issued throughout the year. More...

Bates College Lecture Looks at Drilling in Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
January 7, 2002... Byline: Bates College LEWISTON, Maine, Jan. 7 (AScribe Newswire) -- Timothy Leach, a 1999 graduate of Bates College, discusses his fact-finding tour of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) in a lecture at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Jan. 14,...

Ancient Astronauts, Lost Continents: Scholar Debunks Archaeological Myths and Frauds.
January 7, 2002... Byline: Connecticut State University NEW BRITAIN, Conn., Jan. 7 (AScribe Newswire) -- If you're planning an expedition to search for the lost continent of Atlantis, or if you're seeking to visit foreign lands to prove that astronauts...

Samuel A. Goldblith, MIT Professor of Food Science and Bataan March Survivor, Dies.
January 7, 2002... Byline: MIT CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Jan. 7 (AScribe Newswire) -- Samuel A. Goldblith, a survivor of the Bataan Death March who became a professor of food science and technology at MIT, a leader in the field of food preservation and a tireless...

New Model Indicates Large Black Holes May Lurk in Star Clusters.
January 7, 2002... Byline: University of Maryland, College Park COLLEGE PARK, Md., Jan. 7 (AScribe Newswire) -- Three astronomers at the University of Maryland suggest in a new report that globular clusters, collections of hundreds of thousands of the oldest...

SFSU Student's Film to Premiere at Sundance Film Festival; Short Film 'Birju' Explores Child's Search in Indian Village.
January 7, 2002... Byline: San Francisco State University SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 7 (AScribe Newswire) -- "Birju," a short film directed by San Francisco State University student Heeraz Marfatia, will premiere at the Sundance Film Festival this week. "It is...

California's Ties to Sept. 11 Deaths to Be Discussed in Talk at UC Davis.
January 7, 2002... Byline: University of California, Davis DAVIS, Calif., Jan. 7 (AScribe Newswire) -- Despite being on the other side of the continent, many Californians had relatives, friends and business associates who died in the Sept. 11 attacks,...

'Women in Religion' to Be Topic of Symposium at Middlebury College.
January 8, 2002... Byline: Middlebury College MIDDLEBURY, Vt., Jan. 8 (AScribe Newswire) -- The role of women in religion, from Buddhism and Christianity to Judaism, will be the topic of the fourth Charles P. Scott Symposium at Middlebury College from Jan....

Ancient Supernova May Have Triggered Eco-Catastrophe on Earth.
January 8, 2002... Byline: Johns Hopkins University WASHINGTON, Jan. 8 (AScribe Newswire) -- An exploding star may have destroyed part of Earth's protective ozone layer 2 million years ago, devastating some forms of ancient marine life, according to a new...

CHCS Awards Grant to AXIS Healthcare to Improve Care Coordination Services for Medicaid Beneficiaries.
January 8, 2002... Byline: Center for Health Care Strategies LAWRENCEVILLE, N.J., Jan. 8 (AScribe Newswire) -- The Center for Health Care Strategies (CHCS) awarded AXIS Healthcare a $400,777 grant to improve Medicaid beneficiaries' access to preventive...

University of Maryland Medical Center Receives Federal Support to Create Operating Room of the Future.
January 8, 2002... Byline: University of Maryland Medical System BALTIMORE, Jan. 8 (AScribe Newswire) -- The University of Maryland Medical Center has been granted $2.5 million to develop an Operating Room of the Future, in conjunction with the Department of...

Chemicals in San Francisco Tap Water Put 4,000 Pregnant Women at Risk for Miscarriage, Birth Defects Each Year.
January 8, 2002... Byline: Environmental Working Group WASHINGTON, Jan. 8 (AScribe Newswire) -- Every year, an estimated 3,957 pregnant women in San Francisco face an elevated risk of miscarriage or having babies with birth defects because of chemicals in...

AAR Review of New Drugs for Treating Parkinson's Does Not Alter Existing Treatment Guidelines.
January 8, 2002... Byline: American Academy of Neurology ST. PAUL, Minn., Jan. 8 (AScribe Newswire) -- A re-examination of the practice guidelines for the treatment of Parkinson's disease suggest that, despite the introduction of new drug therapies since...

A Kinder, Gentler Nation? University of Michigan Analysis Shows Higher Levels of Self-Reported Virtues Since Sept. 11.
January 8, 2002... Byline: University of Michigan ANN ARBOR, Mich., Jan. 8 (AScribe Newswire) -- If you resolved to be a better person this year, you may have a lot of company. The results of a survey conducted by University of Michigan psychologist...

More Accurate Digital Tunes, Images May Result From New Mathematical Theory.
January 8, 2002... Byline: Vanderbilt University NASHVILLE, Tenn., Jan. 8 (AScribe Newswire) -- A teenager turns on her portable CD player, attaches the earphones and tunes out the rest of the world. A tourist with a digital camera snaps a picture of his wife...

UCLA and Adelphia Create New World Affairs TV Program; Brings West Coast Perspective to International Dialogue.
January 8, 2002... Byline: UCLA LOS ANGELES, Jan. 8 (AScribe Newswire) -- UCLA and Adelphia Communications have teamed to create a television series that brings a West Coast voice to the key issues in global affairs that have emerged since the Sept. 11...

Release of 'A Beautiful Mind' Helps Bust Myths About Schizophrenia, Says University of Michigan Expert.
January 8, 2002... Byline: University of Michigan Health System ANN ARBOR, Mich., Jan. 8 (AScribe Newswire) -- Across the country, movie critics and audiences are applauding "A Beautiful Mind" for its moving portrayal of a mathematician struggling with...

Major Conference to Convene Experts on Genetics of Aging.
January 8, 2002... Byline: University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio SAN ANTONIO, Jan. 8 (AScribe Newswire) -- The rapid deciphering of the human genetic blueprint gives researchers more tools than ever to chip away at the mysteries of aging....

Estrogen Level Determines Osteoporosis Drug's Breast Cancer Prevention Effectiveness in Postmenopausal Women.
January 8, 2002... Byline: University of California, San Francisco SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 8 (AScribe Newswire) -- A common osteoporosis drug can reduce breast cancer in postmenopausal women with high estrogen levels, but produces no reduction in risk for women...

Kaposi's Sarcoma-Associated Herpesvirus Epidemic in San Francisco Gay Men Predates HIV Epidemic, UCSF Study Finds.
January 8, 2002... Byline: University of California, San Francisco SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 8 (AScribe Newswire) -- A high percentage of San Francisco gay men were infected with Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV), the virus that causes Kaposi's...

BGSU Welcomes Return of the Heart of Campus Life; $34 Million in Renovations Transforms Student Union.
January 8, 2002... Byline: Bowling Green State University BOWLING GREEN, Ohio, Jan. 8 (AScribe Newswire) -- Bowling Green State University students returning to campus from holiday break will have one more rather large present waiting for them at midnight on...

Effect of Radiation on Normal Brain Identified in Landmark Study of Children With Brain Tumors.
January 8, 2002... Byline: St. Jude Children's Research Hospital MEMPHIS, Tenn., Jan. 8 (AScribe Newswire) -- The effect of radiation on a child's brain has been measured for the first time in a pioneer study of pediatric brain tumor patients. The study,...

Report Reveals Massachusetts, New York Most Dependent on New Foreign Immigrants for Labor in 90s.
January 8, 2002... Byline: Northeastern University BOSTON, Mass., Jan. 8 (AScribe Newswire) -- While many remember the great immigration of the late 1800s and early 1900s as the largest wave of people and culture to flow into the U.S., a new study by the...

Tiny Molecular Change Inactivates Tumor Suppressor Gene in Neurofibromatosis.
January 8, 2002... Byline: Washington University, St. Louis ST. LOUIS, Jan. 8 (AScribe Newswire) -- A tiny change in the cells of patients with neurofibromatosis (NF) seems to contribute to formation of aggressive tumors and could help explain why the disease...

Experimental Appetite Suppressant Affects Numerous Brain Messengers in Mice.
January 8, 2002... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BALTIMORE, Jan. 8 (AScribe Newswire) -- Johns Hopkins scientists report success in figuring out how an experimental compound prevents mice from recognizing that it's time to eat, profoundly...

Stanford Business School Research Sheds Light on Urban Legends.
January 8, 2002... Byline: Stanford Graduate School of Business STANFORD, Calif., Jan. 8 (AScribe Newswire) -- Shortly after the World Trade Center terror, some Americans urged their family and friends to avoid shopping malls on Halloween. They forwarded an...

Purdue Agribusiness MBA Students Fly In, Fly Out, Log On.
January 8, 2002... Byline: Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., Jan. 8 (AScribe Newswire) -- With silos bursting with corn and soybeans in Indiana, 27 students in Purdue University's executive MBA in agribusiness program are planting seeds for the future...

Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Related to Advantageous Gene.
January 8, 2002... Byline: University of California, Irvine IRVINE, Calif., Jan. 8 (AScribe Newswire) -- A variant form of a gene associated with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) indicates that the disorder is a recent affliction and may once...

Rene Stulz Named Vice President of American Finance Association.
January 8, 2002... Byline: Fisher College of Business, Ohio State COLUMBUS, Ohio, Jan. 8 (AScribe Newswire) -- Rene Stulz, professor of finance at The Ohio State University's Fisher of Business, was elected vice president of the American Finance Association...

Stanford Business School Research in Behavioral Finance: Where Stock Market Psychology and Pricing Intersect.
January 8, 2002... Byline: Stanford Graduate School of Business STANFORD, Ca., Jan. 8 (AScribe Newswire) -- At the zenith of the dot-com craze when Palm Inc. spun off from parent 3Com Corp., its March 2, 2000, IPO touched off a stampede of over-eager...

September 11 Victims' Families Will Travel to Afghanistan to Meet With Afghans Who Lost Loved Ones in US Bombing Campaign.
January 9, 2002... Byline: Global Exchange SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 9 (AScribe Newswire) -- In what promises to be a powerfully cathartic journey for peace, US citizens who lost loved ones on September 11 will travel to Afghanistan to meet with people whose...

Losers Are Winners on Hit CBS Show 'Survivor Africa,' Says Expert on 'Robinson Crusoe,' Other Castaway Literature.
January 9, 2002... Byline: Dick Jones Communications WASHINGTON, Pa., Jan. 9 (AScribe Newswire) -- Only one of the remaining four contestants on the hit CBS show "Survivor Africa," will walk away as the winner of the million dollars during the final episode...

Researchers Pinpoint Key Molecule in Determining Cell's Fate; Find Could Aid Therapeutic Cloning, Cancer Research.
January 9, 2002... Byline: Harvard University Medical School BOSTON, Jan. 9 (AScribe Newswire) -- Harvard Medical School scientists have identified a key molecule that helps push very early embryonic cells down the road to becoming a specific organ or tissue....

Sandia Lab 'Detective' Solves Strange Case: Key Detail Leads to New Interpretation of Water-Solid Interactions.
January 9, 2002... Byline: Sandia National Laboratories ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., Jan. 9 (AScribe Newswire) -- It was a small problem: a layer of water lying flat instead of slightly bumpy as it froze on a solid. It became a larger problem when no one could...

Media Advisory: First Major Debate of GOP Candidates for California Governor to be Held at San Jose State University.
January 9, 2002... Byline: San Jose State University SAN JOSE, Calif., Jan. 9 (AScribe Newswire) -- San Jose State University is pleased to host the first of two broadcast debates among the three Republican candidates for Governor of California, leading to...

University of Wisconsin Expert Says Research Supports Phonics as Essential Element of Reading Instruction.
January 9, 2002... Byline: University of Wisconsin - Madison MADISON, Wis., Jan. 9 (AScribe Newswire) -- The education bill signed into law this week by President Bush includes an ambitious federal commitment to teaching reading, with a focus on phonics. Mark...

Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, Geron Reach Stem Cell Licensing Agreement.
January 9, 2002... Byline: University of Wisconsin - Madison MADISON, Wis., Jan. 9 (AScribe Newswire) -- The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) and Geron Corporation announced an agreement today for the commercialization of human embryonic stem cell...

Promising Indiana University Lung Cancer Trial Enters New Phase.
January 9, 2002... Byline: Indiana University School of Medicine INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. 9 (AScribe Newswire) -- The second phase of a lung cancer trial that has shown promising results is now under way at the Indiana University School of Medicine. The...

Study Links Genetics and Poverty as Powerful Factors in Low Birth Weight.
January 9, 2002... Byline: Burness Communications NEW YORK, Jan. 9 (AScribe Newswire) -- A combination of poverty and a family history of low birth weight significantly increases the likelihood that a baby will be born underweight, according to a new study....

Computer Chips Found to Possess Explosive Properties Useful for Chemical Analysis and Nanoscale Sensors.
January 9, 2002... Byline: University of California, San Diego LA JOLLA, Calif., Jan. 9 (AScribe Newswire) -- Chemists at the University of California, San Diego have discovered that silicon wafers, the raw starting material for computer chips, can be easily...

Purdue Chemical Engineers Devise Method That Improves Inkjet Nozzles for Printing, Manufacturing.
January 9, 2002... Byline: Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., Jan. 9 (AScribe Newswire) -- Chemical engineers at Purdue University have developed a technique to dramatically reduce the amount of liquid in drops emitted by nozzles such as those used in...

Discovery That Common Mood Disorders Are Inherited Together May Reveal Genetic Underpinnings.
January 9, 2002... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BALTIMORE, Jan. 9 (AScribe Newswire) -- The genetic underpinnings of panic disorder and manic depressive (bipolar) illness have long eluded scientists. Now, researchers at Johns Hopkins studying...

University of California Applauds Governor's Proposal to Accelerate Capital Projects.
January 9, 2002... Byline: University of California OAKLAND, Calif., Jan. 9 (AScribe Newswire) -- University of California President Richard C. Atkinson today applauded Gov. Gray Davis' proposal to accelerate several UC facilities projects as a key piece of...

Rare, Record-Breaking Civil War-Era Quilt Now Home at Nebraska International Quilt Study Center.
January 9, 2002... Byline: University of Nebraska at Lincoln LINCOLN, Neb., Jan. 9 (AScribe Newswire) -- "The Reconciliation Quilt," a famous piece thought to be the world-record quilt sold at auction, will be unveiled Thursday (January 10, 2002) as a recent...

UCLA Researchers Invent First Technique to Image Alzheimer's Onset.
January 9, 2002... Byline: UCLA LOS ANGELES, Jan. 9 (AScribe Newswire) -- UCLA scientists have created the first technique to image the earliest evidence of Alzheimer's disease in the living brain - before the disorder begins attacking brain cells. Reported...

Astromers Discover Planet in Orbit Around Giant Star; Find Sheds Light on Life Cycles of Stars.
January 9, 2002... Byline: University of California, San Diego LA JOLLA, Calif., Jan. 9 (AScribe Newswire) -- A team of astronomers from the University of California, San Diego and two other institutions has made the first discovery of a planet orbiting a...

Thinking Big on a Small Scale: USC Engineers to Hunt Ocean Pathogens With Swarms of Tiny Robots.
January 9, 2002... Byline: University of Southern California LOS ANGELES, Jan. 9 (AScribe Newswire) -- The University of Southern California School of Engineering has received $1.5 million research grant from the National Science Foundation to create swarms...

Plum Good News! Kansas State Microbiologist's Research Finds Plum Good in Killing E. Coli, Other Pathogens in Meat.
January 10, 2002... Byline: Kansas State University MANHATTAN, Kan., Jan. 10 (AScribe Newswire) -- Behold, the power of... dried plums? Long the butt of many medical jokes, dried plums, according to a Kansas State University food microbiologist, can also...