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Gecko Feet Hold The Key To Self-Cleaning Adhesives.
January 3, 2005... Byline: Lewis & Clark College PORTLAND, Ore., Dec. 29 (AScribe Newswire) -- Duct tape that never loses its stick. Bandages that come off without sticky residue or an "ouch." Gecko feet may hold the key to the development of synthetic...

Penn Researchers Find That Residual Tumor Cells Are a Barrier to Targeted Cancer Therapeutics.
January 4, 2005... Byline: University of Pennsylvania Health System PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 4 (AScribe Newswire) -- Over the past five years, so-called molecularly targeted therapies for cancer have held out great promise. These therapies are based on blocking a...

Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt Makes 'Top 10' in U.S.
January 4, 2005... Byline: Vanderbilt Medical Center NASHVILLE, Tenn., Jan. 4 (AScribe Newswire) -- Less than one year after its move into a facility that is nationally recognized for its design, the Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt has...

Study of Hypoxia and New Gene Reveals Early-Stage Action of p53 Tumor Suppressor Gene.
January 4, 2005... Byline: University of Pennsylvania Health System PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 4 (AScribe Newswire) -- Researchers have known for a decade that the p53 tumor suppressor gene is important for killing cells as they proliferate under low-oxygen...

Stem Cell Therapy for Ailing Hearts: Cord Blood Cells Limit Heart Attack Damage in Animal Study.
January 4, 2005... Byline: University of South Florida Health Sciences TAMPA, Fla., Jan. 4 (AScribe Newswire) -- Stem cells from umbilical cord blood effectively treated heart attacks in an animal study, report cardiologist Robert J. Henning, MD, and...

Study Finds Herpes Virus In 98 Percent Of Healthy Participants.
January 5, 2005... Byline: LSU Health Sciences Center NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 5 (AScribe Newswire) -- A study led by Dr. Herbert Kaufman, Boyd Professor of Ophthalmology at Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center in New Orleans, published in the January...

Elegant Shape of Eiffel Tower Solved Mathematically By University of Colorado at Boulder Professor.
January 5, 2005... Byline: University of Colorado, Boulder Boulder, Colo., Jan. 5 (AScribe Newswire) -- An American engineer has produced a mathematical model explaining the elegant shape of the Eiffel Tower that was derived from French engineer Gustave...

Wright State University Geologist Uses Satellite Imagery To Study Surface Water Quality Within Ohio River Watershed.
January 6, 2005... Byline: Wright State University Dayton, Ohio., Jan. 6 (AScribe Newswire) -- A Wright State University research scientist is using satellite imagery to evaluate water quality within the streams and rivers of the Ohio River watershed. ...

Cloned Cow At University of Georgia Brings a Little Sunshine Into World.
January 6, 2005... Byline: University of Georgia Athens, Ga., Jan. 6 (AScribe Newswire) -- In a country clouded by a deep suspicion of foods from cloned animals, a little Sunshine may help soften consumers' fears. Born on the coldest night of the year in...

Backcountry Water Quality Tests Are Good News For Campers; Sierra Nevada Waters Usually Free of Troublesome Bacteria Except in High Use Areas.
January 6, 2005... Byline: Pending susan.marschwab@ucdmc.ucdavis.edu Sacramento, Calif., Jan. 6 (AScribe Newswire) -- Data collected by experts from the UC Davis School of Medicine have revealed that except for some heavily used areas, streams and lakes...

NASA Goes 'Down Under' for Shuttle Mapping Mission Finale.
January 6, 2005... Byline: Jet Propulsion Laboratory PASADENA, Calif., Jan. 6 (AScribe Newswire) -- Culminating more than four years of processing data, NASA and the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency have completed Earth's most extensive global...

Mayo Clinic Discovery on Nature of Rheumatoid Arthritis Lung Disease May Offer Patients Therapy Where None Now Exists.
January 7, 2005... Byline: Mayo Clinic ROCHESTER, Minn., Jan. 7 (AScribe Newswire) -- A discovery by a Mayo Clinic research team may pave the way for the creation of new drugs to treat rheumatoid arthritis (RA) lung disease, which affects an estimated...

Saturn's Moon Iapetus Shows Bulging Waistline.
January 7, 2005... Byline: Jet Propulsion Laboratory PASADENA, Calif., Jan. 7 (AScribe Newswire) -- Images returned by NASA's Cassini spacecraft cameras during a New Year's Eve flyby of Saturn's moon Iapetus (eye-APP-eh-tuss) show startling surface features...

Searle Grant Stimulates New Collaborative Initiative Among Chicago-Area Universities.
January 10, 2005... Byline: University of Illinois at Chicago EVANSTON, Ill., Jan. 10 (AScribe Newswire) -- The successful sequencing of the human genome has spawned an even more challenging area of large-scale scientific study: proteomics -- the study of all...

Drought's Growing Reach: National Center for Atmospheric Research Study Points to Global Warming as Key Factor.
January 10, 2005... Byline: National Center for Atmospheric Research BOULDER, Colo., Jan. 10 (AScribe Newswire) -- The percentage of Earth's land area stricken by serious drought more than doubled from the 1970s to the early 2000s, according to a new analysis...

Hubble's Infrared Eyes Home in on Suspected Extrasolar Planet.
January 10, 2005... Byline: European Space Agency - Hubble GARCHING, Germany, Jan. 10 (AScribe Newswire) -- Unique follow up observations carried out with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope are providing important supporting evidence for the existence of a...

Portable Detector for HIV-AIDS, Measles, Other Infectious Diseases Is Object of New University/Industry Collaboration.
January 10, 2005... Byline: Vanderbilt University NASHVILLE, Tenn., Jan. 10 (AScribe Newswire) -- A portable device similar to today's home pregnancy tests that can quickly detect the presence of infectious diseases, including HIV-AIDS and measles, as well as...

Comprehensive Response to HIV Prevention, Care Could Avert 10 Million Deaths in Africa by 2020; Each Strategy Alone Far Less Effective for Large-Scale Effort.
January 11, 2005... Byline: Harvard School of Public Health BOSTON, Jan. 11 (AScribe Newswire) -- A new study published in the January, 2005 issue of PLoS Medicine shows that a combination of wide access to AIDS treatment and strong national prevention...

Social Computing and Cyber Interaction Is Focus of Rochester Institute of Technology Research; University Launches Social Computing Lab.
January 11, 2005... Byline: Rochester Institute of Technology ROCHESTER, N.Y., Jan. 11 (AScribe Newswire) -- Social computing - using computers for cyber interaction - has exploded in popularity as more and more people embrace e-mail, instant messaging and...

Astronomers Take Revealing Peek At Star Factory; Observations Eventually Expected Lead To Increased Understanding Of Interstellar Dust And Gas.
January 11, 2005... Byline: Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, Jan. 11 (AScribe Newswire) -- Using NASA's orbiting Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer, a team of astronomers from The Johns Hopkins University and elsewhere has taken an unprecedented peek...

Complementary and Alternative Medicine Use by One-Third of U.S. Adults Is Unchanged From 1997; Steady Five-Year Prevalence Points to Need For More Rigorous Evaluation.
January 12, 2005... Byline: Harvard University Medical School BOSTON, Jan. 12 (AScribe Newswire) -- In a comparison of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) use by adults in 1997 and 2002, researchers from Harvard Medical School found more than one in...

Copper vs. Copper at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider: Middleweight Matchup to Provide Control Data in Exploration of New Form of Matter.
January 12, 2005... Byline: Brookhaven National Laboratory UPTON, N.Y., Jan. 12 (AScribe Newswire) -- Scientists searching for evidence that a particle accelerator at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory has created a new form of...

Vanderbilt Author: Government Should Educate Public for Stronger Democracy.
January 12, 2005... Byline: Vanderbilt University NASHVILLE, Tenn., Jan. 12 (AScribe Newswire) -- The U.S. government should take action to strengthen democracy by educating the public to be better citizens, argues Vanderbilt University philosopher Robert...

In Nature Paper, Scientists at University of Virginia Health System Crack Part of 'Histone' Code.
January 12, 2005... Byline: University of Virginia Health System CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., Jan. 12 (AScribe Newswire) -- Little is known about the specific role of histones - the protein 'spool' around which the famous DNA double helix is folded. Now,...

Long Shifts for Interns Increase Risk of Motor Vehicle Incidents; Risk of Crashing En Route From Work After Extended Shift - Longer Than 24 Hours - Is Nearly 2.5 Times Greater Than After Shifts Lasting Less Than 12 Hours.
January 12, 2005... Byline: Harvard University Medical School BOSTON, Jan. 12 (AScribe Newswire) -- Researchers in the Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital Divisions of Sleep Medicine report on a nation wide study in this week's New England...

Photo Release: Hubble Finds Infant Stars in Neighbouring Galaxy.
January 12, 2005... Byline: European Space Agency - Hubble GARCHING, Germany, Jan. 12 (AScribe Newswire) -- Hubble astronomers have uncovered, for the first time, a population of infant stars in the Milky Way satellite galaxy, the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC,...

Expedition to Second Undersea Canyon Will Study Differences in Ocean Crust Construction.
January 13, 2005... Byline: Duke University DURHAM, N.C., Jan. 13 (AScribe Newswire) -- The second Duke University-led expedition since 1999 to a deep underwater canyon will take geologists to another place in the eastern Pacific Ocean where new sea floor was...

Floating Films on Liquid Mercury: New Results May Lead to Advances in Nanotechnology, Molecular Electronics.
January 14, 2005... Byline: Brookhaven National Laboratory UPTON, N.Y., Jan. 14 (AScribe Newswire) -- Scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory, Bar-Ilan University, and Harvard University have grown ultrathin films of...

Vanderbilt Professor to Study Relationship Between Foreign Aid and Democracy.
January 14, 2005... Byline: Vanderbilt University NASHVILLE, Tenn., Jan. 14 (AScribe Newswire) -- A Vanderbilt University political scientist will work with colleagues at the University of Pittsburgh and the University of Virginia to measure the impact of...

Study Finds More Than One-Third of Human Genome Regulated by RNA.
January 14, 2005... Byline: The Whitehead Institute CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Jan. 14 (AScribe Newswire) -- For many years, DNA and proteins have been viewed as the real movers and shakers in genomic studies, with RNA seen as little more than a messenger that shuttles...

Media Advisory: Harbor Invaders Could Trigger 'Meltdown' of Coastal Ecosystems.
January 17, 2005... Byline: University of California, Davis DAVIS, Calif., Jan. 17 (AScribe Newswire) -- University of California, Davis today released the following advisory. NOTE TO EDITORS: Embargo: This information may not be published until 2 p.m....

Research Sheds Light on How Cancer Cells Become Resistant to Treatment.
January 17, 2005... Byline: Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center NEW YORK, Jan. 17 (AScribe Newswire) -- A new study by researchers at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and The Johns Hopkins University provides new insight into how tumor cells can...

Big, Old Fish Key to Restoring Groundfish Stocks.
January 18, 2005... Byline: Oregon State University CORVALLIS, Ore., Jan. 18 (AScribe Newswire) -- Recent studies have found that large, old and oily groundfish are significantly more important than their younger counterparts in maintaining healthy marine...

First View of Many Neurons Processing Information in Living Brain; Images of Brain Function Will Allow Scientists to Study Brain Development, Diseases at Entirely New Level.
January 19, 2005... Byline: Harvard University Medical School BOSTON, Jan. 19 (AScribe Newswire) -- Harvard Medical School researchers have applied a new microscopy technique in a living animal brain that for the first time reveals highly sophisticated...

New Cancer Gene Identified by Memorial Sloan-Kettering Scientists; Oncogene Plays a Critical Role in Tumor Formation.
January 19, 2005... Byline: Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center NEW YORK, Jan. 19 (AScribe Newswire) -- Scientists at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) have identified a new cellular oncogene essential for the development of cancer. Oncogenes...

Cassini Spacecraft 'Sandblasted' by Dust From Saturn System in 2004.
January 19, 2005... Byline: University of Colorado, Boulder BOULDER, Colo., Jan. 19 (AScribe Newswire) -- New results from the Cassini mission indicate the spacecraft was pelted with sporadic bursts of interplanetary dust as it approached Saturn last year,...

Key Molecule in Plant Photo-Protection Identified.
January 20, 2005... Byline: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory BERKELEY, Calif., Jan. 20 (AScribe Newswire) -- Another important piece to the photosynthesis puzzle is now in place. Researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National...

Scientists Find Evidence of Electrical Charging of Nanocatalysts.
January 21, 2005... Byline: Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, Jan. 21 (AScribe Newswire) -- Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology and Technical University Munich have discovered evidence of a phenomenon that may lead to drastically lowering...

Smith College Study Calls For Better Handling of Imported Live Marine Species.
January 21, 2005... Byline: Smith College Northampton, Mass., Jan. 21 (AScribe Newswire) -- Although most efforts to prevent marine invasions in the United States target organisms hitchhiking inside shipping vessels from foreign ports, the importation of live...

Timing Is Everything: First Step in Protein Building Revealed.
January 21, 2005... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BALTIMORE, Jan. 21 (AScribe Newswire) -- Timing is everything, it seems, even in science. A team led by Johns Hopkins scientists has unraveled the first step in translating genetic information in...

Following Nature's Lead, Scientists Seek Better Catalysts; Iron-Sulfur Nanosystem Isolated From Bacterium Is More Reactive Than Catalysts in Use.
January 24, 2005... Byline: Brookhaven National Laboratory UPTON, N.Y., Jan. 24 (AScribe Newswire) -- Those seeking to design more efficient catalysts for the production of hydrogen and the control of air pollutants might do well to take a closer look at how...

Microbes in Colorful Yellowstone Hot Springs Fueled by Hydrogen, CU-Boulder Researchers Say.
January 24, 2005... Byline: University of Colorado, Boulder BOULDER, Colo., Jan. 24 (AScribe Newswire) -- Microbes living in the brilliantly colored hot springs of Yellowstone National Park use primarily hydrogen for fuel, a discovery University of Colorado at...

Youth Library Programs Help More Than Just Teens; Study of Youth Programming Shows Benefits to Youth, Libraries, Communities.
January 25, 2005... Byline: The Wallace Foundation CHICAGO, Jan. 25 (AScribe Newswire) -- A new study by researchers from Chapin Hall Center for Children, at the University of Chicago, commissioned by The Wallace Foundation, suggests that communities should...

Beliefs May Hinder HIV Prevention Among African-Americans.
January 25, 2005... Byline: Oregon State University CORVALLIS, Ore., Jan. 25 (AScribe Newswire) -- A new study suggests that a number of African Americans are distrustful of the government's role in the origin and treatment of HIV/AIDS - and that African...

Arid Australian Interior Linked to Landscape Burning by Ancient Humans.
January 25, 2005... Byline: University of Colorado, Boulder BOULDER, Colo., Jan. 25 (AScribe Newswire) -- Landscape burning by ancient hunters and gatherers may have triggered the failure of the annual Australian Monsoon some 12,000 years ago, resulting in the...

Cow Study Yields Surprises About Source, Amount of Dairy Air Pollution.
January 26, 2005... Byline: University of California, Davis DAVIS, Calif., Jan. 26 (AScribe Newswire) -- California dairy cows produce only half the amount of air pollution as had previously been believed and, perhaps more important, most of a dairy cow's...

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Forecasters Develop More Accurate Method to Predict Snowfall Amount.
January 27, 2005... Byline: University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee MILWAUKEE, Wis., Jan. 27 (AScribe Newswire) -- As anyone who has shoveled knows, all snow is not created equal. Some winter storms produce the light, powdery kind that results in more inches on the...

Man and Mouse Share Genome Structures.
January 27, 2005... Byline: Howard Hughes Medical Institute CHEVY CHASE, Md., Jan. 27 (AScribe Newswire) -- In the most detailed large-scale study to date of the proteins that package DNA, researchers have mapped a family of switches that turn genes on and...

Steroids Could Add Bulk to Crop Harvests.
January 27, 2005... Byline: Howard Hughes Medical Institute CHEVY CHASE, Md., Jan. 27 (AScribe Newswire) -- Taking steroids is a definite no-no for human athletes, but treating plants with steroids could offer performance enhancement of a more desirable nature...

How Many Comparative Genomes Are Enough?
January 28, 2005... Byline: Howard Hughes Medical Institute CHEVY CHASE, Md., Jan. 28 (AScribe Newswire) -- As the human genome sequence neared completion several years ago, geneticists eagerly began discussing which other organisms to sequence -- partly to...

Does Oscar Discriminate?
January 28, 2005... Byline: Rice University HOUSTON, Jan. 28 (AScribe Newswire) -- In any given year of Academy Award presentations, female nominees are, on average, younger than their male counterparts. A recent study of Oscar recipients over the past 74...

News Tip: Models Under Development Could Help Navy Avoid Whales During Future Sonar Tests, Duke Professor Says.
January 28, 2005... Byline: Duke University DURHAM, N.C., Jan. 28 (AScribe Newswire) -- Scientists cannot yet say if military sonar played a role in the recent whale strandings on the North Carolina coast, but Duke University biologists are developing...

Oiled Birds Prompt Study by UC Santa Barbara Experts of Oil Seeps in Santa Barbara Channel.
January 31, 2005... Byline: University of California, Santa Barbara SANTA BARBARA, Calif., Jan. 31 (AScribe Newswire) -- Oil-coated birds turning up on southern California beaches in recent weeks have raised concern about potential oil sources. The Coal Oil...

Spectroscopy for the Real World: New System Used to Analyze Environmental, Biological Phenomena in Their Natural State.
January 31, 2005... Byline: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory BERKELEY, Calif., Jan. 31 (AScribe Newswire) -- One good thing leads to another. A team of scientists used a first-of-its-kind spectroscopy system at the U.S. Department of Energy's Advanced...

Study Finds Striking Difference in Male Body Image in East vs. West; 'Adonis Complex' Predominant in U.S., European Men.
January 31, 2005... Byline: McLean Hospital BELMONT, Mass., Jan. 28 (AScribe Newswire) -- A study by Harvard-affiliated McLean Hospital suggests that Taiwanese men show much less distortion of their body image than men in the United States and Europe. The...