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Volcanoes on Jovian Moon Spew Salt Into Atmosphere; Discovery Explains 1970s Observation of Sodium Above Io.
January 1, 2003... Byline: Johns Hopkins University BALTIMORE, Jan. 1 (AScribe Newswire) -- Astronomers at The Johns Hopkins University, the Observatoire de Paris, and other institutions have solved a nearly 30-year-old mystery surrounding Jupiter's moon Io,...

Johns Hopkins Researchers Find Genetic Cause for Multi-System Disorder.
January 2, 2003... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BALTIMORE, Jan. 2 (AScribe Newswire) -- Faulty cell communication is at the root of a complex and rare disorder that affects many of the body's structures and systems, including the eyes, face,...

Indiana University Sociology Professor Receives Fulbright Award; Second Fulbright for Expert on Sociology of Childhood.
January 2, 2003... Byline: Indiana University BLOOMINGTON, Ind., Jan. 2 (AScribe Newswire) -- William Corsaro, the Robert H. Shaffer Class of 1967 Endowed Professor of Sociology at Indiana University, has received a Fulbright Senior Specialists grant for...

University of California Announces Sweeping Management Changes at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
January 2, 2003... Byline: University of California OAKLAND, Calif., Jan. 2 (AScribe Newswire) -- University of California President Richard C. Atkinson today announced sweeping management changes at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), including the...

Primatologists Find Evidence for Orangutan Culture.
January 2, 2003... Byline: Duke University DURHAM, N.C., Jan. 2 (AScribe Newswire) -- An international collaboration of primatologists has gleaned evidence from decades of observations of orangutans that the apes show behaviors that are culturally based. ...

Even Occasional Lack of Health Insurance Results in Less Preventive Care.
January 2, 2003... Byline: Case Western Reserve University CLEVELANd, Jan. 2 (AScribe Newswire) -- People with even short breaks in their health insurance coverage are less likely to seek crucial preventive care, according to a new study from researchers at...

Rochester Institute of Technology Collaborates With IBM on Genomic Research; IBM Advances RIT's Bioinformatics Program With Grant for Linux Cluster.
January 2, 2003... Byline: Rochester Institute of Technology ROCHESTER, N.Y., Jan. 2 (AScribe Newswire) -- New doors to genetic understanding will open at a remarkable rate in the near future, thanks to upcoming applied research in the field of...

Bates College Offers Workshops in Response to Racist Group; World Church of the Creator to Protest Somali Immigration.
January 2, 2003... Byline: Bates College LEWISTON, Maine, Jan. 2 (AScribe Newswire) -- A Jan. 15 lecture by a former prime minister of Somalia is one of a series of events that Bates College is presenting in response to the World Church of the Creator, a...

University of Maryland Celebrates Roald Sagdeev With Symposium on Science and Security Jan. 3-4.
January 2, 2003... Byline: University of Maryland, College Park COLLEGE PARK, Md., Jan. 2 (AScribe Newswire) -- Jan. 3 and 4, the University of Maryland hosts a Celebration Symposium for world-renowned physicist and director of the East-West Space Science...

Bates College Offers Support to Lewiston and Its Somali Residents Through Service-Learning.
January 2, 2003... Byline: Bates College LEWISTON, Maine, Jan. 2 (AScribe Newswire) -- As the nation looks to Lewiston to see how it responds to a Jan. 11 rally planned by a national hate group, Bates College's most fruitful involvement flows from its...

National Technology Transfer Center Program Provides Minorities Apprenticeships in Tech Transfer.
January 3, 2003... Byline: The National Technology Transfer Center WHEELING, W.Va., Jan. 3 (AScribe Newswire) -- The Wheeling Jesuit University campus is home to The Entrepreneurial Technology Apprenticeship Program - the only program of its kind in the...

Early Implants Found to be Critical in Establishing Hearing Pathway.
January 3, 2003... Byline: Arizona State University TEMPE, Ariz., Jan. 3 (AScribe Newswire) -- Even before children talk, they are listening - and their brains are changing. A study comparing brain activity of children in response to sound, including...

Johns Hopkins Curriculum Writers Develop Teacher Guides to Accompany PBS Series "Freedom: A History of US".
January 3, 2003... Byline: Johns Hopkins University BALTIMORE, Md., Jan. 3 (AScribe Newswire) -- The Johns Hopkins University's Talent Development Middle Schools U.S. history curriculum developers have written several teaching guides to accompany "Freedom: A...

Duke and Seoul National Universities Agree to Global Alliance of Business Schools.
January 3, 2003... Byline: Duke University DURHAM, N.C., and SEOUL, Korea, Jan. 3 (AScribe Newswire) -- Duke University's Fuqua School of Business and Seoul National University's College of Business Administration have signed a letter of intent for a...

Architect of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" Favors Ending Gay Ban If Draft Returns.
January 3, 2003... Byline: Center for the Study of Sexual Minorities in the Military SANTA BARBARA, Calif., Jan. 3 (AScribe Newswire) -- Northwestern University Professor Charles Moskos, the primary author of the current U.S. policy on gay and lesbian...

Vision Is a 'Reflex,' Says New Book.
January 3, 2003... Byline: Duke University DURHAM, N.C., Jan. 3 (AScribe Newswire) -- The human visual system does not generate a picture of what actually exists in front of the viewer at any given moment, asserts a new book by neurobiologists at Duke...

Parents' Views on Toy Guns Vary by Gender and Race.
January 5, 2003... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BALTIMORE, Jan. 6 (AScribe Newswire) -- Race, gender and other social factors may explain why some parents allow their children to play with toy guns, while others shudder at the thought, a Johns...

Study Finds Language Barrier May Be Root Cause for Medical Errors.
January 5, 2003... Byline: Medical College of Wisconsin MILWAUKEE, Jan. 6 (AScribe Newswire) -- It can be difficult for patients to understand what a doctor is telling them under the best of circumstances; imagine the problem when the patient doesn't...

Hyperactive Children Treated With Stimulants Not at Increased Risk for Drug Abuse Later in Life, Medical College of Wisconsin Study Finds.
January 5, 2003... Byline: Medical College of Wisconsin MILWAUKEE, Jan. 6 (AScribe Newswire) -- Children diagnosed with hyperactivity/ADHD (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder) are at no greater risk for using illegal drugs when they are teenagers or...

Shire Applauds Studies in Pediatrics Reconfirming the Role of Stimulant Medications in Decreasing Risk of Future Substance Use Disorder.
January 6, 2003... Byline: unknown NEWPORT, Ky., Jan. 6 (AScribe Newswire) -- Shire US Inc. applauds the findings of two studies published today in the journal Pediatrics, which strengthen the evidence that parents of children with attention...

Middlebury College Signs $509,000 Contract With Island Pond Woodworkers; Products for New Library to Be Made From Sustainably Harvested Vermont Wood.
January 6, 2003... Byline: Middlebury College MIDDLEBURY, Vt., Jan. 6 (AScribe Newswire) -- Middlebury College officials announced that the College has signed a contract for more than $509,000 with Island Pond Woodworkers, whose employees will provide...

Pomona College Professor Nicole Weekes Named One of Nine Rising Stars in Academy by Black Issues in Higher Education.
January 6, 2003... Byline: Pomona College CLAREMONT, Calif., Jan. 6 (AScribe Newswire) -- Nicole Weekes, an assistant professor of psychology at Pomona College, has been selected by the national newsmagazine Black Issues in Higher Education as one of nine...

Purdue Researchers Discover Basis for Biological Clock.
January 6, 2003... Byline: Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., Jan. 6 (AScribe Newswire) -- The biological clock - timekeeper for virtually every activity within living things, from sleep patterns to respiration - is a single protein, Purdue University...

Sirtuin Protein Has New Function; May Play Role in Lifespan Extension.
January 6, 2003... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BALTIMORE, Jan. 6 (AScribe Newswire) -- Scientists from Johns Hopkins and the University of Wisconsin have discovered that a protein called Sir2, which is found in nearly all living cells, has a...

University of Maryland, Baltimore County Official to Lead International Research Park Group; bwtech@UMBC Director Ellen Hemmerly Named Association of University Research Parks President.
January 6, 2003... Byline: University of Maryland, Baltimore County BALTIMORE, Jan. 6 (AScribe Newswire) -- Ellen Wiggins Hemmerly, Executive Director of the UMBC Research Park Corporation, has been named president of the Association of University Research...

Duke University Researchers to Test Effectiveness of Diluted Smallpox Vaccine.
January 6, 2003... Byline: Duke University DURHAM, N.C., Jan. 6 (AScribe Newswire) -- Duke University Medical Center researchers are conducting a study to determine whether diluted amounts of smallpox vaccine are effective in boosting immunity from smallpox...

Dean's Speaker Series Brings Exciting Lineup to UNC's Kenan-Flagler Business School.
January 6, 2003... Byline: Kenan-Flagler Business School at UNC-Chapel Hill CHAPEL HILL, N.C., Jan. 6 (AScribe Newswire) -- UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School's Spring 2003 Dean's Speaker Series will feature executives from Red Hat, Newell Rubbermaid,...

Colorado University Study: Two Global Pollutants Work to Offset Each Other.
January 6, 2003... Byline: University of Colorado, Boulder BOULDER, Colo., Jan. 6 (AScribe Newswire) -- University of Colorado at Boulder researchers have found, ironically, that two pollutants -- carbon dioxide and hydrocarbons emitted from agricultural...

Pomona Psychology Professors Receive $400,000 NSF Grant to Study Stress, Memory.
January 6, 2003... Byline: Pomona College CLAREMONT, Calif., Jan. 6 (AScribe Newswire) -- Pomona College Professors Richard Lewis and Nicole Weekes have received a $408,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to study the relationship between...

American Cities Say 'No' to War in Iraq; Across U.S. City Councils - Representing Millions of American Citizens - Pass Anti-War Resolutions, With Many More on the Way.
January 7, 2003... Byline: unknown WASHINGTON, Jan. 7 (AScribe Newswire) -- At least 29 City Councils from Baltimore to Seattle, from Philadelphia to Kalamazoo, have passed resolutions opposing war in Iraq. Anti-war resolutions are pending in many more...

National Report Card Gives California Low Grades for Anti-Smoking Campaign; American Lung Association Calls on Governor, Legislature to Raise Tobacco Tax to Fight Big Tobacco, Help Smokers Quit.
January 7, 2003... Byline: American Lung Association SACRAMENTO, Calif., Jan. 7 (AScribe Newswire) -- The birthplace for the nation's anti-smoking campaign has earned mediocre grades in the fight against Big Tobacco, according to the first annual American...

Super Bowl Advertising Is Not a Super Strategy.
January 7, 2003... Byline: The National Technology Transfer Center WHEELING, W.Va., Jan. 7 (AScribe Newswire) -- While it is one of the most popular television shows of the year, for a lot of advertisers, the Super Bowl isn't, by itself, a really a good buy....

Next-Generation Solar Cells Could Put Power Stations in Space; RIT Scientists Develop Nanomaterials for NASA Program.
January 7, 2003... Byline: Rochester Institute of Technology ROCHESTER, N.Y., Jan. 7 (AScribe Newswire) -- Someday, large-scale solar power stations in space could beam electricity to the surface of the moon, the earth and other planets, decreasing our...

Coronal Activity May Be 'Buried Alive' in Red Giant Stars, University of Colorado Researchers Say.
January 7, 2003... Byline: University of Colorado, Boulder BOULDER, Colo., Jan. 7 (AScribe Newswire) -- When Earth's sun expands into a red giant star in roughly five billion years, long after Earth has become uninhabitable, the hydrogen core will be burned...

Syracuse University Offers Online Course, 'Remembering the Holocaust'.
January 7, 2003... Byline: Syracuse University Syracuse, N.Y., Jan. 7 (AScribe Newswire) -- Syracuse University Professor Linda Shires says her husband, Professor U. C. Knoepflmacher of Princeton University, remembers the Holocaust all too well. At age...

Patient Compliance Influences Pediatric Transplant Recommendations.
January 7, 2003... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BALTIMORE, Jan. 7 (AScribe Newswire) -- Whether or not a doctor recommends a child for kidney transplantation often depends on the child's track record for sticking to a medication regimen,...

Ireland Remains World's Most Global Nation; Countries Continue to Integrate, But at Slowing Pace, Says Annual Globalization Index Released by Foreign Policy, A.T. Kearney.
January 7, 2003... Byline: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace WASHINGTON, Jan. 7 (AScribe Newswire) -- Ireland ranks as the world's most global country for the second year in a row, according to the third annual A.T. Kearney/Foreign Policy Magazine...

Gay Soldiers Ask Congress to Include Acknowledged Homosexuals on Military if Draft Returns; Group of 15 Currently Serving Gays and Lesbians Petitions Frist, Hastert.
January 7, 2003... Byline: Center for the Study of Sexual Minorities in the Military SANTA BARBARA, Calif., Jan. 7 (AScribe Newswire) -- Following Representative Charles Rangel's announcement two weeks ago that he would recommend reinstating the draft, a...

Knowledge Management How-to: Internal Simplicity, External Complexity and Teams.
January 7, 2003... Byline: Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., Jan. 7 (AScribe Newswire) -- A Purdue University professor who started out doing a research project on instituting flow manufacturing, ended up confronting issues of how companies change...

Nearby Supernova Factory Announces 34 Supernovae in One Year; Best Rookie Year Ever for Supernova Search.
January 7, 2003... Byline: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory BERKELEY, Calif., Jan. 7 (AScribe Newswire) -- The Nearby Supernova Factory (SNfactory), an international collaboration based at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, today announced that it...

Vermont Elementary School Beats All Odds; Test Scores Soar Thanks to Intensive Relationship With University of Vermont.
January 7, 2003... Byline: University of Vermont BURLINGTON, Vt., Jan. 7 (AScribe Newswire) -- While many schools' test scores show that American students are at or below grade level in math or reading, one of the most unlikely schools to go the head of the...

Biologist, Noted Natural History Writer, Unlocks Secrets of Survival in 'Winter World'.
January 7, 2003... Byline: University of Vermont BURLINGTON, Vt., Jan. 7 (AScribe Newswire) -- Think the frigid Northeastern winters are unbearable even under layers of GorTex? Imagine the challenges that 30-below temperatures bring to the tiny gold-crowned...

Five Hundred University of California Press eScholarship Editions Now Available on Web.
January 7, 2003... Byline: University of California OAKLAND, Calif., Jan. 7 (AScribe Newswire) -- More than 500 University of California Press books are available online free of charge through an ongoing partnership between UC Press and the California...

Mayo Clinic Study Shows One in Four Have Precursor to Heart Failure; Mortality Eight to 10 Times Higher in Patients With Heart-Filling Dysfunction.
January 7, 2003... Byline: Mayo Clinic ROCHESTER, Minn., Jan. 7 (AScribe Newswire) -- More than one-fourth of adults over age 45 have abnormalities in the way their heart fills with blood and are at significantly increased risk for premature death, according...

The Markets May Be Down, But the Largest Intergenerational Transfer of Wealth in History Is Still Coming to Town; Projection of $41 Trillion Transfer - with $6 Trillion to Charity - Remains Valid.
January 7, 2003... Byline: Boston College CHESTNUT HILL, Mass., Jan. 7 (AScribe Newswire) -- Researchers at Boston College this week confirmed the validity of their widely-cited 1999 projection that $41 trillion would be transferred via estates over the next...

Alzheimer's Association Says Early Diagnosis, Treatment Improve Quality of Life.
January 7, 2003... Byline: Alzheimer's Association CHICAGO, Jan. 7 (AScribe Newswire) -- A review in the Jan. 8 issue of JAMA, the journal of the American Medical Association, reports that cholinesterase inhibitors, the primary treatment for cognitive...

Syracuse University Online Course Studies Behavior of Web Users.
January 7, 2003... Byline: Syracuse University SYRACUSE, N.Y., Jan. 7 (AScribe Newswire) -- From Hallmark Cards to the MSNBC.com website, Professor Denise Heckman has made a career out of studying how messages are crafted, offered, and received. She's taken...

Indiana University Graduate Student Mixes Art and Entertainment to Create 'The 8 Step Revival'.
January 7, 2003... Byline: Indiana University BLOOMINGTON, Ind., Jan. 7 (AScribe Newswire) -- Indiana University graduate student Stuart Hyatt has worked as an artist, painter, musician, recording engineer, interior decorator, graphic designer, Web...

Researchers at Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center Unmask Silent Neurological Damage From AIDS-Related Virus.
January 7, 2003... Byline: LSU Health Sciences Center NEW ORLEANS, La., Jan. 7 (AScribe Newswire) -- Research conducted by a team of scientists at the Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center in New Orleans and supported by the National Institute of...

Race, Geography Factors in Md. Death Penalty Decisions Says University of Maryland Study.
January 8, 2003... Byline: University of Maryland, College Park COLLEGE PARK, Md., Jan. 8 (AScribe Newswire) -- Race affects the way death penalty cases are handled in Maryland, mainly influencing prosecutors' decisions early in the process, says a new study...

Institute of Biomedical Sciences and Technology Created by University of Texas at Dallas to Combat Disease, Improve Health; Dr. Steven Goodman Named Director of New Interdisciplinary Unit.
January 8, 2003... Byline: University of Texas at Dallas RICHARDSON, Texas, Jan. 8 (AScribe Newswire) -- The University of Texas at Dallas (UTD) announced today that it has created a new Institute of Biomedical Sciences and Technology to provide added focus...

Indiana University Center Celebrates 10 Years of Focus on Urban Policy, Environmental Issues.
January 8, 2003... Byline: Indiana University BLOOMINGTON, Ind., Jan. 8 (AScribe Newswire) -- From community safety and riverboat gambling to property tax issues and the economic impact of the arts and sports, the Center for Urban Policy and the Environment...

Chemicals Used to Protect Soldiers in 1991 Gulf War Can Damage Testes, Animal Studies Show.
January 8, 2003... Byline: Duke University DURHAM, N.C., Jan. 8 (AScribe Newswire) -- A combination of chemicals given to protect Gulf War soldiers against deadly diseases and nerve gas may have inadvertently damaged their testes and sperm production,...

Colorado University Researchers Find Stellar Cocoons in Surprisingly Harsh Environment.
January 8, 2003... Byline: University of Colorado, Boulder BOULDER, Colo., Jan. 8 (AScribe Newswire) -- University of Colorado at Boulder astronomers have discovered what they believe to be dozens of potential stellar cocoons within a giant star-forming...

Purdue University Licenses Premature Infant Monitor to Theron Technologies LLC of Indianapolis.
January 8, 2003... Byline: Purdue University INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. 8 (AScribe Newswire) -- The Purdue Research Foundation has partnered with an Indianapolis company to develop and market technology discovered at Purdue University that provides doctors with a...

University of North Carolina Studies Target Molecular Defects Implicated in Cancer, Genetic Diseases.
January 8, 2003... Byline: University of North Carolina Healthcare System CHAPEL HILL, N.C., Jan. 8 (AScribe Newswire) -- In three separate studies, scientists at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine have shown that it is...

Study Finds Frequent Consumption of Alcohol Linked to Lower Risk of Heart Attack in Men; Near-Daily Intake Seems Key to Greatest Benefit.
January 8, 2003... Byline: Harvard School of Public Health BOSTON, Jan. 8 (AScribe Newswire) -- Daily or near-daily servings of beer, wine or spirits may help protect men from heart attacks, according to the results of a large, long-term study by researchers...

Hundreds of Thousands in Poverty With Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis Could Be Saved With Now Proven Community-Based Outpatient Treatment Program; Proven Approach; 83 Percent of Study Participants in Lima, Peru Cured, Rate Exceeding Best Reported U.S. Cure Rate.
January 8, 2003... Byline: Harvard University Medical School BOSTON, Jan. 8 (AScribe Newswire) -- Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis no longer must be considered a death sentence for infected individuals living in resource-poor nations, according to a study by...

UC Riverside Presents Former Governor Jerry Brown; Free Public Forum on the Subject: Do Our Cities Have a Future?
January 8, 2003... Byline: University of California, Riverside RIVERSIDE, Calif., Jan. 8 (AScribe Newswire) -- Former California Governor and current Oakland Mayor Jerry Brown will speak at UC Riverside at 10 a.m. Saturday, January 11 in a wide-ranging public...

Bruce Darling Named University of California Interim Vice President for Laboratory Management.
January 8, 2003... Byline: University of California OAKLAND, Calif., Jan. 8 (AScribe Newswire) -- University of California President Richard C. Atkinson today named longtime UC senior administrator Bruce B. Darling as interim vice president for laboratory...

Can a Computer Improve Your Health? New Book Says Yes; Then Why Aren't More Americans Getting Access to This Technology?
January 8, 2003... Byline: St. Louis University ST. LOUIS, Jan. 8 (AScribe Newswire) -- Imagine an organization spending millions of dollars on a new product that could demonstrably improve the U.S. health care system and help make millions of Americans...

Astronomers Identify New Type of Star.
January 8, 2003... Byline: University of California, Riverside RIVERSIDE, Calif., Jan. 8 (AScribe Newswire) -- A new type of star has been discovered lurking as a low mass component in a very compact binary star system. Astronomers Steve B. Howell of the...

Nation's Brightest Minds Increasingly Shun Science, Study Finds.
January 9, 2003... Byline: University of Washington SEATTLE, Wash., Jan. 7 (AScribe Newswire) -- America's top college graduates increasingly reject careers in science and engineering, University of Washington researchers have found, raising concerns about...

Martin Kramer, Authority on Middle East Politics, to Speak at Indiana University Bloomington.
January 9, 2003... Byline: Indiana University BLOOMINGTON, Ind., Jan. 9 (AScribe Newswire) -- Martin Kramer, internationally renowned authority on contemporary Islam and Arab politics and editor of the Middle East Quarterly, will deliver a lecture at Indiana...

University of Missouri-Rolla Will Help U.S. Army Prepare for Future Warfare With $2.15 Million Grant.
January 9, 2003... Byline: University of Missouri, Rolla ROLLA, Mo., Jan. 9 (AScribe Newswire) -- Researchers from the University of Missouri-Rolla will be instrumental in helping the Army develop new tools for future warfare, including sensors for detecting...

American Children of War - Coping With Tearful Goodbyes: Vanderbilt University Researcher Says Department of Defense Schools Are Prepared.
January 9, 2003... Byline: Vanderbilt University NASHVILLE, Tenn., Jan. 9 (AScribe Newswire) -- More and more tearful goodbyes are happening across the country between American children and parents who are being deployed because of impending war. However,...

University of Florida Study: Black Students Give Higher Grades to Black Colleges.
January 9, 2003... Byline: University of Florida GAINESVILLE, Fla., Jan. 9 (AScribe Newswire) -- Black students attending the nation's historically black colleges and universities say they make greater strides in a broad range of academic and social areas...

UC Davis Study Identifies C-Reactive Protein as Cause of Blood Clot Formation.
January 9, 2003... Byline: Univ. of California, Davis, Medical Center SACRAMENTO, Calif., Jan. 9 (AScribe Newswire) -- Further underscoring the limitations of cholesterol screening in assessing a patient's risk for heart disease, a new study by University of...

Arizona State University Scientists Find Faint Objects With Hubble That May Have Concluded Galactic 'Dark Ages'.
January 9, 2003... Byline: Arizona State University TEMPE, Ariz., Jan. 9 (AScribe Newswire) -- Astronomers at Arizona State University using the Hubble Space Telescope have found evidence of faint objects that may have led to the re-ionization of the universe...

Researchers Identify Key Pathway in Pupil's Response to Light.
January 9, 2003... Byline: Washington University, St. Louis ST. LOUIS, Jan. 9 (AScribe Newswire) -- Investigators at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have demonstrated that a particular protein is important for the eye's pupil to respond...

Researchers Link Melanopsin Gene to Unexplored Light Detection System Within Eye; Discovery Could Explain Why Light Keeps Us Awake, May Lead to New Treatments for Disorders Such as Jet-Lag, Seasonally Affective Disorder.
January 9, 2003... Byline: AlphaGalileo LONDON, Jan. 9 (AScribe Newswire) -- Researchers from Imperial College London, Johns Hopkins University, USA, and Brown University, USA, have discovered that melanopsin, a recently identified protein, plays a key role...

Radiation-Resistant Organism Reveals Its Defense Strategies; Secret to Its Strength Is a Ring, Weizmann Institute Researchers Report in Science.
January 9, 2003... Byline: American Committee for the Weizmann Institute of Science REHOVOT, Israel, Jan. 9 (AScribe Newswire) -- Weizmann Institute scientists have found what makes the bacterium Deinococcus radiodurans the most radiation-resistant organism...

Mutation in DKC1 Gene Can Cause Rare Aging Disease, Cancer; May Suggest New Target for Drug Treatment.
January 9, 2003... Byline: Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center NEW YORK, Jan. 9 (AScribe Newswire) -- A rare genetic syndrome, Dyskeratosis Congenita (DC), may hold the key to understanding a mechanism that causes premature aging and cancer. Recreating DC...

University of Arizona's John Szivek Awarded Major Grant to Develop Technology to Repair, Monitor Cartilage in Arthritic Joints.
January 9, 2003... Byline: University of Arizona TUCSON, Ariz., Jan. 9 (AScribe Newswire) -- A researcher at the University of Arizona Health Sciences Center (AHSC) has been awarded a major grant to conduct a first-of-its-kind study that will employ...

University of Arizona Center for Education and Research in Therapeutics Awarded $3.9 Million in Federal Funds to Promote Safe Medication Use.
January 9, 2003... Byline: University of Arizona TUCSON, Ariz., Jan. 9 (AScribe Newswire) -- The University of Arizona Center for Education and Research in Therapeutics (AzCERT) has been awarded $3.9 million over five years by the U.S. Agency for Healthcare...

National Panel Seeks Testimony to Improve Quality of Treatment for Substance Use Disorders.
January 9, 2003... Byline: Join Together BOSTON, Jan. 9 (AScribe Newswire) -- A national policy panel is accepting testimony to develop recommendations to improve the quality of treatment for substance use disorders. The testimony will be used in a report...

Viagra Deaths Explained by New Understanding of Platelet Clumping.
January 9, 2003... Byline: University of Illinois at Chicago CHICAGO, Jan. 9 (AScribe Newswire) -- Incidents of heart attack and stroke, some fatal, in a small number of men taking the drug Viagra have remained a puzzle. After all, Viagra, commonly prescribed...

Cancer Risk Not Same for Both Breasts After Diagnosis of Type of Atypia; Findings Challenge Current Thinking, Hold Implications for Surgery to Reduce Risk.
January 9, 2003... Byline: Vanderbilt Medical Center NASHVILLE, Tenn., Jan. 9 (AScribe Newswire) -- Women diagnosed with a specific form of benign breast disease called atypical lobular hyperplasia (ALH) are at increased risk of developing breast cancer, but...

Molecule Helps Eye Respond to Light.
January 9, 2003... Byline: Howard Hughes Medical Institute CHEVY CHASE, Md., Jan. 9 (AScribe Newswire) -- Researchers are reporting progress in understanding whether a second light-sensing pathway in mammals indeed contributes to the detection of ambient...

Brain Booster: Mayo Clinic Research in Mice Finds New Role for Interleukin-6; Find May Lead to Drugs That Prevent Brain Injury From Diseases, Aging.
January 9, 2003... Byline: Mayo Clinic ROCHESTER, Minn., Jan. 10 (AScribe Newswire) -- A Mayo Clinic investigation of Interleukin-6, a hormone inside cells often considered a "bad actor" of the immune system because of its association with inflammation...

Cancer Therapy May Offer Lupus Patients New Hope.
January 10, 2003... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BALTIMORE, Jan. 10 (AScribe Newswire) -- Researchers at Johns Hopkins report success in using high doses of the anti-cancer drug cyclophosphamide to treat patients with moderate and severe forms of...

Strange TV: Book Examines Television's Commentary on Capitalism, Culture.
January 10, 2003... Byline: University of Arkansas FAYETTEVILLE, Ark., Jan. 10 (AScribe Newswire) -- From "The Twilight Zone" to "The X-Files," it seems the most important television shows have always been a tad weird. But is that weirdness purely stylistic,...

University of Iowa Researcher Studies Model for Better Web Search Engine Results.
January 10, 2003... Byline: University of Iowa IOWA CITY, Iowa, Jan. 10 (AScribe Newswire) -- While search engines such as Google and Yahoo are effective tools for the common World Wide Web user, there is a desire to improve upon these engines to find pages...

Swarthmore Researchers Discover Group of Young, Nearby Stars; Newly Identified Stars Could Lead to Better Understanding of Planet Formation.
January 10, 2003... Byline: Swarthmore College Swarthmore, Pa., Jan. 10 (AScribe Newswire) -- A Swarthmore College astronomer and his undergraduate research partner have discovered previously unknown young stars relatively close to earth, a discovery that...