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Tough Tubes: Carbon Nanotubes Endure Heavy Wear and Tear; Study Suggests Nanotube Structures Hold Potential for Creating Synthetic Tissue, Muscles.
July 2, 2007... Byline: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute TROY, N.Y., July 2 (AScribe Newswire) -- The ability of carbon nanotubes to withstand repeated stress yet retain their structural and mechanical integrity is similar to the behavior of soft tissue,...

University of Florida Survey: Most Boaters Speed through Manatee Conservation Zones.
July 3, 2007... Byline: University of Florida GAINESVILLE, Fla., July 3 (AScribe Newswire) -- Caring but careless boaters are the greatest threat to Florida's manatees, according to a new University of Florida study that caught more than half of boat...

Breakthrough Polymer Has Virtues of Plastics and Metals -- Lightweight, Conductive, Corrosion-Proof, Flexible, Affordable; University of Virginia Engineering School-Developed Nanocomposite Material Wins Nanotech Award.
July 3, 2007... Byline: University of Virginia CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., July 3 (AScribe Newswire) -- University of Virginia engineering professor Mool C. Gupta and his team have used carbon nanotubes to unite the virtues of plastics and metals in a new...

Students, Museum Visitors, Web Surfers Can Join First Search for Life on Arctic Ocean Floor; Dispatches, Photos Being Sent Daily From Historic Research Expedition.
July 6, 2007... Byline: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution WOODS HOLE, Mass., July 6 (AScribe Newswire) -- A multidisciplinary team of scientists and engineers is conducting the first search for life and hot springs on the seafloor of the Arctic Ocean....

Leading Social Scientists Say Illinois Eyewitness Identification Study Is Unreliable; Blue-Ribbon Panel of Experts Calls for More - and Better - Research of Important Law Enforcement Practices.
July 9, 2007... Byline: John Jay College of Criminal Justice NEW YORK, July 9 (AScribe Newswire) -- A blue ribbon panel of social scientists, convened by the Center for Modern Forensic Practice of the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, said the Illinois...

Neutral Evolution Has Helped Shape Our Genome.
July 9, 2007... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BALTIMORE, July 9 (AScribe Newswire) -- Johns Hopkins researchers have added to the growing mound of evidence that many of the genetic bits and pieces that drive evolutionary changes do not confer...

University of Colorado at Boulder Study of Environmental Inequality Finds No Direct Links to Segregation, Income.
July 9, 2007... Byline: University of Colorado, Boulder BOULDER, Colo., July 9 (AScribe Newswire) -- A new study examining two possible factors leading to "environmental racism" finds that although the average black or Hispanic resident of a major U.S....

Invisible Gases Form Most Organic Haze in Both Urban and Rural Areas, University of Colorado at Boulder Study Finds.
July 9, 2007... Byline: University of Colorado, Boulder BOULDER, Colo., July 9 (AScribe Newswire) -- A new University of Colorado at Boulder study shows that invisible, reactive gases hovering over Earth's surface, not direct emissions of particulates,...

Penn Researchers Discover How MicroRNAs Control Protein Synthesis.
July 9, 2007... Byline: University of Pennsylvania Health System PHILADELPHIA, July 9 (AScribe Newswire) -- While most RNAs work to create, package, and transfer proteins as determined by the cell's immediate needs, miniature pieces of RNA, called...

Location, Location, Location? Globalization of Real Estate Raises Questions About Popular Real Estate Adage.
July 11, 2007... Byline: Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley BERKELEY, Calif., July 11 (AScribe Newswire) -- From construction materials to office space, many facets of real estate have been transformed by globalization, according to new research from the...

Laser Used to Help Fight Root Canal Bacteria: American Dental Association Journal.
July 12, 2007... Byline: American Dental Association CHICAGO, July 12 (AScribe Newswire) -- High-tech dental lasers used mainly to prepare cavities for restoration now can help eliminate bacteria in root canals, according to research published in the July...

Penn Researchers Find a New Target for Muscular Dystrophy Drug Therapy; 'Blocking the Blocker' for Utrophin Gene Proposed.
July 12, 2007... Byline: University of Pennsylvania Health System PHILADELPHIA, July 12 (AScribe Newswire) -- Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine report how the gene for utrophin, which codes for a protein very similar to...

Fragmented Structure of Seafloor Faults May Dampen Effects of Earthquakes: Studies of Gravity Fields Suggest Volcanism May Smooth Rough Edges of Tectonic Plates.
July 12, 2007... Byline: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution WOODS HOLE, Mass., July 12 (AScribe Newswire) -- Many earthquakes in the deep ocean are much smaller in magnitude than expected. Geophysicists from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI)...

Higher Efficiency Organic Solar Cell Created by UCSB Nobel Laureate and Research Team.
July 12, 2007... Byline: University of California, Santa Barbara SANTA BARBARA, Calif., July 12 (AScribe Newswire) -- Using plastics to harvest the energy of the sun just got a significant boost in efficiency thanks to a discovery made at the Center for...

National Center for Preservation Technology and Training Funds Aerial Thermal Survey of New Philadelphia, Ill., Town Site.
July 16, 2007... Byline: Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign CHAMPAIGN, Ill., July 16 (AScribe Newswire) -- New Philadelphia, Ill., was the first town platted and legally registered by an African American in the United States. Founded by Frank McWorter, a...

Stanford Business School Research Examines Who Really Pays for Uninsured Medical Patients.
July 16, 2007... Byline: Stanford Graduate School of Business STANFORD, Calif., July 16 (AScribe Newswire) -- California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has proposed setting up a universal health coverage system, arguing that caring for the uninsured has...

Immune System 'Escape Hatch' Gives Cancer Cells Traction; Discovery Explains Why Anticancer Vaccines Mostly Fail.
July 16, 2007... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BALTIMORE, July 16 (AScribe Newswire) -- Scientists at Johns Hopkins and elsewhere say they have mapped out an escape route that cancers use to evade the body's immune system, allowing the disease...

Penn Researchers Identify New Combination Therapy That Promotes Cancer Cell Death.
July 16, 2007... Byline: University of Pennsylvania Health System PHILADELPHIA, July 16 (AScribe Newswire) -- Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine identified a combination therapy as a way to sensitize resistant human cancer...

Purdue, Indiana University Researchers Explore New Method For Early Disease Diagnosis.
July 17, 2007... Byline: Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., July 17 (AScribe Newswire) -- Purdue University researchers worked with the Indiana University School of Medicine to establish a technique that provides a new approach for detecting a number...

In Violent Neighborhoods, Adults Too Fearful to Intervene With Most Young Offenders.
July 17, 2007... Byline: Ohio State University COLUMBUS, Ohio, July 17 (AScribe Newswire) -- A study of young, violent criminals in New York City found that they used fear and intimidation to keep adults from interfering with their criminal activities. ...

Last-Minute Shoppers Settle For Less.
July 18, 2007... Byline: Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley BERKELEY, Calif., July 18 (AScribe Newswire) -- It's early January, and you are just beginning to entertain a number of grand ideas about the most romantic way to demonstrate your affection to...

Diversity Best Practices Releases 'WOW! Facts 2007'; Leaders in Business, Government, Media Unveil the Resource for Diversity Trends in America.
July 18, 2007... Byline: Diversity Best Practices WASHINGTON, July 18 (AScribe Newswire) -- Businesses interested in growing their markets would do well to provide better accommodations for people with disabilities, reach out to the GLBT community,...

New Mechanism Found for Memory Storage in Brain; Persistent Changes in 'Slow' Nerve Currents May Also Link Memory and Addiction.
July 18, 2007... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BALTIMORE, July 18 (AScribe Newswire) -- Our experiences - the things we see, hear, or do - can trigger long-term changes in the strength of the connections between nerve cells in our brain, and...

Reducing Insulin Signaling in the Brain Can Prolong Lifespan; Study Explains the Physiologic Benefits of Diet and Exercise.
July 19, 2007... Byline: Children's Hospital Boston BOSTON, July 19 (AScribe Newswire) -- One route to a long and healthy life may be establishing the right balance in insulin signaling between the brain and the rest of the body, according to new research...

Glaciers and Ice Caps to Dominate Sea-Level Rise Through 21st Century, University of Colorado at Boulder Study Says.
July 19, 2007... Byline: University of Colorado, Boulder BOULDER, Colo., July 19 (AScribe Newswire) -- Ice loss from glaciers and ice caps is expected to cause more global sea rise during this century than the massive Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets,...

Measuring the Unseeable: Penn Researchers Probe Proteins' 'Dark Energy'; Accounting for Proteins' Internal Motion May Have Implications for Drug Design.
July 19, 2007... Byline: University of Pennsylvania Health System PHILADELPHIA, July 19 (AScribe Newswire) -- Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine are the first to observe and measure the internal motion inside proteins, or its...

Social Networks Influence Growers' Water-Quality Management.
July 19, 2007... Byline: University of California Division of Agriculture OAKLAND, July 19 (AScribe Newswire) -- Growers are most likely to trust their county's agricultural commissioner, Farm Bureau and UC Cooperative Extension office for information about...

Report on San Francisco Bay Area Energy R&D Released.
July 19, 2007... Byline: University of California, Davis DAVIS, Calif., July 19 (AScribe Newswire) -- Which research and development institutes in the San Francisco Bay Area are key players in the international push to develop biofuels? Which are playing...

Study Sheds Light on Why Humans Walk on Two Legs.
July 19, 2007... Byline: University of California, Davis DAVIS, Calif., July 19 (AScribe Newswire) -- A team of anthropologists that studied chimpanzees trained to use treadmills has gathered new evidence suggesting that our earliest apelike ancestors...

Tightly Packed Molecules Lend Unexpected Strength to Nanothin Sheet of Material.
July 23, 2007... Byline: University of Chicago CHICAGO, July 23 (AScribe Newswire) -- Scientists at the University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory have discovered the surprising strength of a sheet of nanoparticles that measures just 50 atoms in...

Obesity and Magnesium Deficiency May Increase Asthma Symptoms.
July 23, 2007... Byline: University of California Division of Agriculture OAKLAND, Calif., July 23 (AScribe Newswire) -- Diet can have a significant effect on asthma, according to research reported in the current issue of California Agriculture journal. The...

Examining Obesity: What Should We Eat?
July 23, 2007... Byline: University of California Division of Agriculture OAKLAND, Calif., July 23 (AScribe Newswire) -- By reviewing thousands of research reports, University of California scientists were able to pin down four factors that are most likely...

Graphene Nanoelectronics: Making Tomorrow's Computers From a Pencil Trace; New Discovery at Rensselaer Could Lead to Faster, Cooler Interconnects.
July 23, 2007... Byline: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute TROY, N.Y., July 23 (AScribe Newswire) -- A key discovery at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute could help advance the role of graphene as a possible heir to copper and silicon in nanoelectronics. ...

Researchers Produce Firsts With Bursts of Light; Team Generates Most Energetic Terahertz Pulses Yet, Observes Useful Optical Phenomena.
July 24, 2007... Byline: Brookhaven National Laboratory UPTON, N.Y., July 24 (AScribe Newswire) -- Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory have generated extremely short pulses of light that are the strongest of their...

Baltimore Inner-City Homes Unsafe for Young Children, Hopkins Study Finds.
July 24, 2007... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BALTIMORE, July 24 (AScribe Newswire) -- Infants and young children living in Baltimore's inner-city homes are at risk for serious perils, including fires, falls and poisoning, according to a small...

Outcome of Prostate Cancer Surgery Depends on Experience of Surgeon; Steep Learning Curve Found.
July 24, 2007... Byline: Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center NEW YORK, July 24 (AScribe Newswire) -- According to a new study published online today in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, prostate cancer patients treated by highly experienced...

Gene-Transcription Machinery Seen Poised for Action, Held in Check Until Needed: Findings May Provide Insights Into Stem-Cell Differentiation, Other Vital Processes.
July 25, 2007... Byline: The Wistar Institute PHILADELPHIA, July 25 (AScribe Newswire) -- For some time, scientists have been tracking down the sequence of biochemical steps required to attract and assemble at the head end of a gene the molecular machinery...

Public Schools Must Be Held Accountable, Americans Say; Public Calls for Dramatic Changes to No Child Left Behind Act, Says an Engaged Public Is Key to Accountability.
July 26, 2007... Byline: Public Education Network WASHINGTON, July 26 (AScribe Newswire) -- Americans believe public schools must be held accountable for properly educating children and give the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) high marks for its goals, but...

College Science Success Linked to Math and Same-Subject Preparation.
July 26, 2007... Byline: University of Virginia CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., July 26 (AScribe Newswire) -- Researchers at the University of Virginia and Harvard University have found that high school coursework in one of the sciences generally does not predict...

Discovery of 'Hidden' Quantum Order Improves Prospects for Quantum Super Computers.
July 26, 2007... Byline: Johns Hopkins University BALTIMORE, July 26 (AScribe Newswire) -- An international team of scientists, including several at The Johns Hopkins University, has detected a hidden magnetic "quantum order" that extends over chains of...

Penn Abramson Cancer Center Researcher Caryn Lerman, Ph.D., Receives 2007 Alton Ochsner Award.
July 26, 2007... Byline: University of Pennsylvania Health System PHILADELPHIA, July 26 (AScribe Newswire) -- Caryn Lerman, PhD, Deputy Director, of the Abramson Cancer Center of the University of Pennsylvania, has been awarded the 22nd Annual Alton Ochsner...

University of Virginia Law Professor Garrett's Study of First 200 Post-Conviction DNA Exonerations Shows Flawed Criminal System.
July 27, 2007... Byline: University of Virginia CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., July 27 (AScribe Newswire) -- University of Virginia law professor Brandon Garrett's groundbreaking study examining the cases of the first 200 wrongly convicted people later found...

New Technique to 'See' and Protect Transplants Successful in Diabetic Animal Model.
July 29, 2007... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BALTIMORE, July 29 (AScribe Newswire) -- Researchers at Johns Hopkins have found a way to overcome a major stumbling block to developing successful insulin-cell transplants for people with type I...

Multiple Sclerosis Gene Uncovered After 30-Year Search.
July 29, 2007... Byline: Vanderbilt Medical Center NASHVILLE, Tenn., July 29 (AScribe Newswire) -- For the first time in more than three decades, a multi-center team of researchers has uncovered a gene linked to multiple sclerosis (MS) that could pave the...

Study Finds Insufficient Information Exists to Suggest Best Treatment Option for Uterine Fibroids; Problem Affects as Many as 80 Percent of All Women Over Age 50.
July 30, 2007... Byline: Vanderbilt Medical Center NASHVILLE, Tenn., July 30 (AScribe Newswire) -- A systematic review of the research concerning treatment options for uterine fibroids, which affect most American women over 50, reveals surprisingly little...

Insulin Grown in Plants Relieves Diabetes in Mice; University of Central Florida Study Holds Promise for Humans.
July 30, 2007... Byline: University of Central Florida ORLANDO, Fla., July 30 (AScribe Newswire) -- Capsules of insulin produced in genetically modified lettuce could hold the key to restoring the body's ability to produce insulin and help millions of...

Physicists: Quantum Dance Draws Unexpected Guests.
July 30, 2007... Byline: University of Florida GAINESVILLE, Fla., July 30 (AScribe Newswire) -- It was always thought to be restricted to everyday types, with no magnetic sorts allowed in the door. But the quantum dance party's guest list just got...

LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans Research Shows NPD1 Protects a Key Component of Vision.
July 30, 2007... Byline: LSU Health Sciences Center NEW ORLEANS, July 30 (AScribe Newswire) -- Two papers to be published in the Early Edition online of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) the week of July 30-August 3, 2007 report...

Hopkins Team Develops First Mouse Model of Schizophrenia.
July 30, 2007... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BALTIMORE, July 30 (AScribe Newswire) -- Johns Hopkins researchers have genetically engineered the first mouse that models both the anatomical and behavioral defects of schizophrenia, a complex and...

Discovery in Plant Virus May Help Prevent HIV and Similar Viruses.
July 31, 2007... Byline: Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., July 31 (AScribe Newswire) -- In a study that could lead to new ways to prevent infection by human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and similar organisms, Purdue University researchers have been...

Gold Nanoparticles May Pan Out as Tool for Cancer Diagnosis.
July 31, 2007... Byline: Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., July 31 (AScribe Newswire) -- When it comes to searching out cancer cells, gold may turn out to be a precious metal. Purdue University researchers have created gold nanoparticles that are...

Penn Researchers Demonstrate Key Pathway Linked to Heart Development, Regeneration; Pathway Could Hold Promise for Regeneration of Damaged Heart Tissue.
July 31, 2007... Byline: University of Pennsylvania Health System PHILADELPHIA, July 31 (AScribe Newswire) -- By manipulating a critical cell-to-cell signaling pathway, researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have successfully...