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University of Maryland Report: High Risk of War, Governmental Collapse in 20 Percent of Nations.
June 1, 2005... Byline: University of Maryland, College Park COLLEGE PARK, Md., June 1 (AScribe Newswire) -- About 20 percent of all nations face a serious risk of civil war or governmental collapse, including a half dozen at high risk of future genocides,...

Air Pollution Linked to Increased Risk of Dangerous Arrhythmias Among People With Implanted Cardioverter Defibrillators.
June 1, 2005... Byline: Harvard School of Public Health BOSTON, June 1 (AScribe Newswire) -- Researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health and colleagues from Boston area medical institutions have linked short term high pollution concentrations with...

Gram-Negative Bacteria Shoot Their Way Into Cells.
June 1, 2005... Byline: Howard Hughes Medical Institute CHEVY CHASE, Md., June 1 (AScribe Newswire) -- The bacteria that cause food poisoning, bubonic plague, and whooping cough all deploy the same weapon to infect the body. A molecular "syringe" sticks...

Rapid-Scanning Doppler on Wheels Keeps Pace With Twisters.
June 1, 2005... Byline: National Center for Atmospheric Research BOULDER, Colo., June 1 (AScribe Newswire) -- A multibeam Doppler radar that can scan tornadic storms every 5 to 10 seconds is prowling the Great Plains through June 30 in search of its first...

Virus Uses Tiny RNA to Evade Immune System.
June 2, 2005... Byline: Howard Hughes Medical Institute CHEVY CHASE, Md., June 2 (AScribe Newswire) -- In the latest version of the hide-and-seek game between pathogens and the hosts they infect, researchers have found that a virus appears to cloak itself...

Historic Baseball Cards Reveal Striking Similarities to Famed Western Paintings; UC Irvine Student Wins Rare Invitation to Pitch Her Research at Baseball Hall of Fame.
June 2, 2005... Byline: University of California, Irvine IRVINE, Calif., June 2 (AScribe Newswire) -- Imagine a baseball player, bat in hand, stuck in the middle of one of Frederic Remington's iconic paintings of the Wild West. It's not much of a stretch,...

Space Telescopes Sharpen View of Deep Impact Target.
June 2, 2005... Byline: University of Maryland, College Park COLLEGE PARK, Md., June 2 (AScribe Newswire) -- On July 4, the University of Maryland-led NASA mission known as Deep Impact will get its one and only shot at its target, comet Tempel 1. Maryland...

New Book Says Immigration Has Varied Effects on U.S. Economy.
June 2, 2005... Byline: University of Illinois at Chicago CHICAGO, June 2 (AScribe Newswire) -- An in-depth look at immigration and its impact on America's economy is the focus of a new book written by a University of Illinois at Chicago economist. ...

Hubble Telescope Photo Release: Supernova Remnant Menagerie.
June 7, 2005... Byline: European Space Agency - Hubble GARCHING, Germany, June 7 (AScribe Newswire) -- The European Space Agency today released the following advisory of a new photo from the Hubble Space Telescope project. The photo is available at...

Research Finds Diabetics Susceptible to Compromised Cardiovascular Function From High Levels of Air Pollution; Results Suggest Biological Mechanism Linking Particle Pollution, Heart Attack Risk.
June 7, 2005... Byline: Harvard School of Public Health BOSTON, June 7 (AScribe Newswire) -- Researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health and colleagues assessed the effect of high air pollution levels, specifically emissions from coal-burning...

Joslin's New Textbook is Leading Source for Advances in Diabetes Care; 14th Edition Tailored to Primary Care and Specialty Practitioners.
June 7, 2005... Byline: Joslin Diabetes Center BOSTON, June 7 (AScribe Newswire) -- Joslin Diabetes Center, the world's leading authority in diabetes research, care and education, has published the fourteenth edition of Joslin Diabetes Mellitus, providing...

Penn Researchers Discover Mutation in Mouse Circulatory Gene That Mimics a Form of Congenital Heart Disease.
June 7, 2005... Byline: University of Pennsylvania Health System PHILADELPHIA, June 7 (AScribe Newswire) -- Mutations in a critical gene that controls heart and blood vessel development in mouse embryos mimics a type of congenital heart disease in humans,...

University of Illinois at Chicago Developing Drug for SARS.
June 8, 2005... Byline: University of Illinois at Chicago CHICAGO, June 8 (AScribe Newswire) -- A prototype drug created by researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago shows promise in slowing replication of the virus responsible for severe acute...

Technology Allows Spitting Image of Your Health; Saliva to Provide Noninvasive Way to Diagnose Diseases.
June 8, 2005... Byline: American Dental Association NEW YORK, June 8 (AScribe Newswire) -- Saliva or "spit" cleanses the mouth, helps fight tooth decay and, for some scientists at UCLA's School of Dentistry, serves as a potential diagnostic tool to paint...

Banking Baby and Wisdom Teeth for Stem Cells.
June 8, 2005... Byline: American Dental Association NEW YORK, June 8 (AScribe Newswire) -- Baby and wisdom teeth, along with jawbone and periodontal ligament, are non-controversial sources of stem cells that could be "banked" for future health needs,...

University of Florida Researcher: 'Jaws' Unduly Scared Public With Shark Stereotypes.
June 8, 2005... Byline: University of Florida GAINESVILLE, Fla., June 8 (AScribe Newswire) -- The slogan "Don't go in the water" from the movie "Jaws" should apply not to humans but rather to sharks that have been decimated since the thriller came out 30...

Study Establishes New Class of Cancer-Causing Genes: Researchers Link Aberrant 'microRNA' Expression to Human Cancer.
June 8, 2005... Byline: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory NEW YORK, June 8 (AScribe Newswire) -- Over the past few years, scientists have discovered that a new class of genetic regulators called "microRNAs" influences normal human growth and development. Now,...

Once Given 'No Respect,' Cells' Tiny RNAs Take Driver's Seat.
June 8, 2005... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BALTIMORE, June 8 (AScribe Newswire) -- Ribonucleic acid, or RNA, has long been thought to be important only to translate a gene's DNA into the proteins that are cells' workhorses. But new evidence...

Red Tide Toxins Pose Lingering Threat to Marine Mammals.
June 8, 2005... Byline: University of North Carolina at Wilmington WILMINGTON, N.C., June 8 (AScribe Newswire) -- New research findings have revealed that the toxins produced during Florida red tides do pose a threat to marine mammals, even after the...

Researchers Find High Levels of Phthalates in Infants Receiving Treatment in Neonatal Intensive Care Units That Use Medical Devices Containing Phthalates.
June 8, 2005... Byline: Harvard School of Public Health BOSTON, June 8 (AScribe Newswire) -- Researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH), two Harvard-affiliated hospitals, and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that...

MicroRNA Study Opens Potential Revolution in Cancer Diagnosis; Collaborative Effort Develops Novel Tool, Discovers Surprising Correlation of microRNA Expression and Cancer Type.
June 8, 2005... Byline: Pending CAMBRIDGE, Mass., June 8 (AScribe Newswire) -- Despite significant progress in understanding the genetic changes in many different cancers, diagnosis and classification of tumor type remain, at best, an imperfect art. This...

Unweaving Amyloid Fibers to Solve Prion Puzzles .
June 8, 2005... Byline: The Whitehead Institute CAMBRIDGE, Mass., June 8 (AScribe Newswire) -- Amyloid fibers are best known as the plaque that gunks up neurons in people with neurodegenerative illnesses such as Alzheimer's and Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease...

Researchers Get First Peek at Amyloid's Spine.
June 8, 2005... Byline: Howard Hughes Medical Institute CHEVY CHASE, Md., June 8 (AScribe Newswire) -- Howard Hughes Medical Institute researchers have provided the first detailed look at the core structure of the abnormal protein filaments found in at...

MicroRNAs Are Intimately Involved in Cancer.
June 8, 2005... Byline: Howard Hughes Medical Institute CHEVY CHASE, Md., June 8 (AScribe Newswire) -- In discoveries that may open a new chapter in understanding and diagnosing cancer, Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigators and their colleagues...

'Molecular Zipper' May Hold Important Clues to Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and Mad Cow Disease, Team of International Scientists Reports in Nature.
June 8, 2005... Byline: UCLA LOS ANGELES, June 8 (AScribe Newswire) -- An international team of chemists and molecular biologists has discovered a fundamental molecular mechanism that seems to play an important role in Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's...

Mayo Clinic Case Series Illuminates Connection Between Welding, Brain Damage.
June 8, 2005... Byline: Mayo Clinic ROCHESTER, Minn., June 8 (AScribe Newswire) -- A Mayo Clinic case series analysis has pinpointed for the first time syndromes associated with toxic damage to the brain and nervous system from manganese fumes generated...

Knight Commission Study Finds Low Graduation Rates Among Baseball Teams Participating in the NCAA Championship.
June 9, 2005... Byline: The Knight Foundation MIAMI, June 9 (AScribe Newswire) -- One of the central recommendations of A Call to Action, the Knight Foundation Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics' 2001 report, was that eligibility for postseason...

Johns Hopkins Team Finds 'Ancestral' Hepatitis-C Virus at Root of Evolution in Acute and Chronic Infections; Scientists Discover How Virus Evades Immune System in Acute and Chronic Infections; New Vaccines May Result.
June 9, 2005... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BALTIMORE, June 9 (AScribe Newswire) -- Researchers at Johns Hopkins have uncovered how a majority of the genetic changes in the hepatic-C virus, the most common cause of liver disease, allow it to...

Quantum Dots Provide Faster, More Sensitive Method for Detecting Respiratory Viral Infections.
June 9, 2005... Byline: Vanderbilt University NASHVILLE, Tenn., June 9 (AScribe Newswire) -- In what may be one of the first medical uses of nanotechnology, a chemist and a doctor who specializes in infectious childhood diseases have joined forces to...

'Sinkers' Provide Missing Piece in Deep-Sea Puzzle.
June 9, 2005... Byline: Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute MOSS LANDING, Calif., June 9 (AScribe Newswire) -- One of the biggest questions in modern oceanography is how animals in the deep sea get enough to eat. Marine biologists at the Monterey Bay...

New Concrete Handles a Heavy, Heavy Load.
June 10, 2005... Byline: Iowa State University AMES, Iowa, June 10 (AScribe Newswire) -- It broke with a loud pop. And then Iowa State University researchers gathered around to examine the long diagonal crack along one end of a 71-foot bridge beam made...

Scientists From U. T. Dallas Share International Innovation Prize for Nanotechnology Breakthrough; Industrial Award Recognizes Scientific, Commercial Importance of Advance in Nanoscale Assembly of Multifunctional Nanotube Yarns.
June 10, 2005... Byline: University of Texas at Dallas RICHARDSON, Texas, June 10 (AScribe Newswire) -- Scientists at The University of Texas at Dallas (UTD) NanoTech Institute, together with an Australian collaborator, were honored this week at an...

Immune Cells' Genetic 'Jam Session' Is Controlled by Cell Division Machinery; Discovery Sheds Light on Development of Immune System Cancers.
June 10, 2005... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BALTIMORE, June 10 (AScribe Newswire) -- If a dividing cell's activity is a pop song, then the same process in an immune cell is an extended-play dance remix. The basics of cell division are the...

New Regulators of Apoptosis, Chemoresistance Identified.
June 10, 2005... Byline: Harvard University Medical School BOSTON, June 10 (AScribe Newswire) -- Using targeted RNA interference, or RNAi libraries, researchers at Harvard Medical School describe the first large-scale classification of kinase and...

Burnham Institute Named a Program of Excellence in Nanotechnology by National Institutes of Health; Awarded $13 Million to Mount Nano-Attack on Atherosclerotic Plaque.
June 13, 2005... Byline: The Burnham Institute LA JOLLA, Calif., June 13 (AScribe Newswire) -- The Burnham Institute has been selected as a "Program of Excellence in Nanotechnology" ("PEN") by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute ("NHLBI") of the...

Study Shows Eutrophic Lakes May Not Recover for a Millennium.
June 13, 2005... Byline: University of Wisconsin - Madison MADISON, Wis., June 13 (AScribe Newswire) -- Although it has taken just 60 years for humans to put many freshwater lakes on the eutrophication fast track, a new study shows their recovery may take a...

Origin of American Black Church Explored Through Woman's Biography; Slave-Turned-Missionary Rebecca Protten an Essential Figure in U.S. Blacks' Religious Experience.
June 14, 2005... Byline: University of Florida GAINESVILLE, Fla., June 14 (AScribe Newswire) -- As blacks and others celebrate Juneteenth this weekend, the role of the church in the emancipation of the slaves will not be forgotten. A new book by a...

Improved Water Vapor Sensor Takes to the Skies.
June 15, 2005... Byline: National Center for Atmospheric Research BOULDER, Colo., June 15 (AScribe Newswire) -- By pairing a sleek new air sampler designed at the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) with a diode laser from SpectraSensors,...

Protocol Used to Treat First Known Survivor of Rabies Without Vaccination Published by Pediatricians at Medical College of Wisconsin, Children's Hospital of Wisconsin in New England Journal of Medicine.
June 15, 2005... Byline: Medical College of Wisconsin MILWAUKEE, June 15 (AScribe Newswire) -- The protocol used to treat the first known survivor of rabies without prior vaccination is published in the June 16, 2005, issue of the New England Journal of...

Avoiding Amputation: Early Intervention Can Save Feet, Legs in Patients With Serious Infections, University of Michigan Study Finds; Diabetes Patients May Benefit Most From Minor Surgery Plus Antibiotics.
June 15, 2005... Byline: University of Michigan Health System ANN ARBOR, Mich., June 15 (AScribe Newswire) -- A small sore on a toe may not seem like a major medical threat. But for the millions of people who have diabetes and other conditions, it can be...

Nature of Industry Changing Around the World, Kansas State Experts Say.
June 16, 2005... Byline: Kansas State University MANHATTAN, Kan., June 16 (AScribe Newswire) -- The character of work is changing around the world, according to Kansas State University professors Torry Dickinson and Robert Schaeffer. Some parts of the world...

National Center for Atmospheric Research Climate Expert: Hurricanes to Intensify as Earth Warms.
June 16, 2005... Byline: National Center for Atmospheric Research BOULDER, Colo., June 16 (AScribe Newswire) -- Warmer oceans, more moisture in the atmosphere, and other factors suggest that human-induced climate change will increase hurricane intensity and...

University of Maryland Scientist Receives 2005 Charles F. Kettering Prize for Cancer Research; Dr. Angela H. Brodie Pioneered Development of Aromatase Inhibitors to Treat Breast Cancer; $250,000 Prize Is One of Top Honors in Cancer Research.
June 16, 2005... Byline: University of Maryland Medical System BALTIMORE, June 16 (AScribe Newswire) -- Angela H. Brodie, Ph.D., professor of pharmacology and experimental therapeutics at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and a University of...

Studies of Lake Tahoe's Geologic Past Should Lay Ground for a Brighter Future.
June 16, 2005... Byline: University of California, Davis DAVIS, Calif., June 16 (AScribe Newswire) -- California and Nevada researchers are planning the most exhaustive study to date of the geologic history of the Lake Tahoe Basin. The results should help...

How Much Excess Fresh Water Was Added to the North Atlantic in Recent Decades? Continued Freshening of North Atlantic Could Slow Ocean Conveyor Belt in 21st Century.
June 16, 2005... Byline: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution WOODS HOLE, Mass., June 16 (AScribe Newswire) -- Large regions of the North Atlantic Ocean have been growing fresher since the late 1960s as melting glaciers and increased precipitation, both...

Fragment of Yellow Fever Virus May Hold Key to Safer Vaccine.
June 16, 2005... Byline: Howard Hughes Medical Institute CHEVY CHASE, Md., June 16 (AScribe Newswire) -- In one of the first molecular studies of the human antibody response to yellow fever, Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) researchers and their...

Credit Card Users With Highest Balances Pay Lowest Rates.
June 20, 2005... Byline: Ohio State University COLUMBUS, Ohio, June 20 (AScribe Newswire) -- People who hold credit cards with the lowest interest rates are not the ones you might expect - they're the borrowers who carry the highest credit card debt,...

Patients, Families, Caregivers to Hear Latest Research on Potential New Treatment Option for Primary Immune Deficiency.
June 20, 2005... Byline: Edelman Public Relations ORLANDO, Fla., June 20 (AScribe Newswire) -- The Third Immune Deficiency Foundation (IDF) National Conference, June 23-25, 2005, is the largest meeting bringing together patients, families and caregivers...

Physicists Clarify Exotic Force, But No 'Theory of Everything' Yet.
June 20, 2005... Byline: Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., June 20 (AScribe Newswire) -- The quest for a single theory that unites all of the universe's fundamental forces has thus far eluded physicists, but that has not stopped a team of them from...

Professors Develop System for Assessing Division I Academic-Athletic Success.
June 20, 2005... Byline: University of Iowa IOWA CITY, Iowa, June 20 (AScribe Newswire) -- Two sociologists have developed a method for evaluating combined athletic and academic success that they believe will assist recruits in selecting the best school...

Inner Structure of Cells Behaves Much as Molten Glass; Finding May Impact Understanding of Mechanical Facets of Many Diseases.
June 20, 2005... Byline: Harvard School of Public Health BOSTON, June 20 (AScribe Newswire) -- An international team led by Jeffrey J. Fredberg, professor of bioengineering and physiology at the Harvard School of Public Health, has found that the cell...

Stem Cells Grown in Lab Mirror Normal Developmental Steps.
June 20, 2005... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BALTIMORE, June 20 (AScribe Newswire) -- Johns Hopkins scientists have developed a way to study the earliest steps of human blood development using human embryonic stem cells grown in a lab dish...

Anthrax Inhibitors Identified by Burnham Team.
June 20, 2005... Byline: The Burnham Institute LA JOLLA, Calif., June 20 (AScribe Newswire) -- A collaborative team of scientists led by The Burnham Institute's Maurizio Pellecchia, Ph.D., has identified inhibitors of the anthrax toxin, termed lethal...

Purdue Scientists May Have Found Key to Halting Spinal Cord Damage.
June 20, 2005... Byline: Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., June 21 (AScribe Newswire) -- Purdue University researchers may have isolated the substance most responsible for the tissue damage that follows initial spinal cord injury, a discovery that...

A Protein in the Eye May Prevent Immune Response, Protect Eyes From Disease.
June 21, 2005... Byline: Schepens Eye Research Institute BOSTON, June 21 (AScribe Newswire) -- Scientists at The Schepens Eye Research Institute have discovered that a protein known as F4/80 found on immune cells in the eye and other parts of the body may...

Maryland-Led Deep Impact Detects Comet Nucleus.
June 21, 2005... Byline: University of Maryland, College Park COLLEGE PARK, Md., June 21 (AScribe Newswire) -- For the first time, scientists have processed images from NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft and clearly seen the solid body, or nucleus, of the comet...

Genomic Sequences Processed in Minutes, Rather Than Weeks; Breakthrough Could Lead to Solving Complex Problems Related to Human Biology, Biological Threats, Environment.
June 21, 2005... Byline: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory RICHLAND, Wash., June 21 (AScribe Newswire) -- A new computational tool developed at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory is speeding up our understanding of the...

Bioinformatics Reveals New Gene Regulation System.
June 21, 2005... Byline: Howard Hughes Medical Institute CHEVY CHASE, Md., June 22 (AScribe Newswire) -- By comparing 140 sequenced bacterial genomes, researchers have uncovered a system for regulating genes essential to bacterial replication - and they did...

Oral Rinse Predictor of Marrow Transplant Effectiveness.
June 22, 2005... Byline: University of Toronto TORONTO, June 22 (AScribe Newswire) -- Simple analysis of a bone marrow transplant patient's oral rinse can give medical personnel a quick indication of the transplant's effectiveness and predict whether an...

The Making and Breaking of Microtubules: How a Nucleotide Controls the Flexibility of Tubulin.
June 22, 2005... Byline: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory BERKELEY, Calif., June 22 (AScribe Newswire) -- Microtubules are active protein polymers critical to the structure and function of cells and the process of cell division. In a living cell their...

Molecular Steps Involved in Creation of Gene-Silencing MicroRNAs Identified; Connections to HIV and Cancer Seen.
June 22, 2005... Byline: The Wistar Institute PHILADELPHIA, June 22 (AScribe Newswire) -- First discovered only a few brief years ago, microRNAs are small, remarkably powerful molecules that appear to play a pivotal role in gene silencing, one of the...

Colorful Math Reveals How Forces Transmit Through Granular Materials.
June 22, 2005... Byline: Duke University DURHAM, N.C., June 22 (AScribe Newswire) -- Using color-changing plastic cylinders as a stand-in for a mass of granular material, Duke University physicists have created a computer-testable method to predict,...

Descendants to Celebrate Dig at Earliest Black-Founded Town.
June 22, 2005... Byline: University of Maryland, College Park BARRY, Ill., June 22 (AScribe Newswire) -- About 50 descendants of Frank McWorter - the first African American to establish a U.S. town - will hold a celebration and family reunion on Saturday,...

Study Shows How Granular Materials Get Themselves Out of a Jam; Scientists Probe Complicated Issues of Seemingly Simple Phenomena.
June 22, 2005... Byline: University of Chicago CHICAGO, June 22 (AScribe Newswire) -- University of Chicago physicists have made careful measurements of flowing sand that can help resolve long-standing questions regarding how glasses differ from liquids at...

Report Warns of Challenges to U.S. Leadership in Space; Long-term Commercial and Scientific Edge at Risk.
June 22, 2005... Byline: American Academy of Arts & Sciences CAMBRIDGE, Mass., June 23 (AScribe Newswire) -- The U.S. must bolster the competitiveness of its commercial space industry, expand international cooperation, and refocus on basic science in order...

A Step Forward in Stem Cell Research.
June 26, 2005... Byline: Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center NEW YORK, June 27 (AScribe Newswire) -- According to research published today, investigators from Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) have used new techniques in the laboratory that...

University of Florida, Nine Other Universities Complete Ultrahigh-Speed Data Network.
June 27, 2005... Byline: University of Florida GAINESVILLE, Fla., June 27 (AScribe Newswire) -- Whether mapping genes, probing elemental particles or monitoring global warming, more and more scientists rely on massive data vaults located at universities...

Iowa State Scientists Study Using Ultrasound to Treat Brain Tumors.
June 27, 2005... Byline: Iowa State University AMES, Iowa, June 27 (AScribe Newswire) -- Ultrasound, that mainstay of medical imaging, may one day be used to wipe out brain tumors. An Iowa State University research team led by Viren Amin, a scientist...

Mayo Clinic Finds Kidney Disease Associated with 'Benign' Prostate Obstruction.
June 28, 2005... Byline: Mayo Clinic ROCHESTER, Minn., June 28 (AScribe Newswire) -- Men who experience signs and symptoms of a prostate obstruction resulting from benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) are three times more likely than other men to develop...

Maryland-Led Deep Impact Observes Huge Comet 'Outburst'.
June 28, 2005... Byline: University of Maryland, College Park COLLEGE PARK, Md., June 28 (AScribe Newswire) -- NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft have observed a massive, short-lived outburst of ice or other particles from comet Tempel 1 that temporarily...

Johns Hopkins AIDS Experts Issue Warning About Global Efforts to Provide Drug Therapies in Developing World; Historical Precedents Show Aid Programs Could Backfire Unless Local Rationing Plans Are Made.
June 28, 2005... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BALTIMORE, June 28 (AScribe Newswire) -- Johns Hopkins infectious disease specialists who have spent more than two decades leading efforts to combat HIV and AIDS worldwide are warning that limited...

Anti-Fungal Drug May Help Treat Cancer, Say Scientists at UC Santa Barbara.
June 28, 2005... Byline: University of California, Santa Barbara SANTA BARBARA, Calif., June 28 (AScribe Newswire) -- A drug that has been used for 40 years for the treatment of skin fungus has been found to be a possible cancer treatment, according to an...

Mount Hood Won't Erupt Any Time Soon; New Research Concludes Portland-Area Seismic Activity Is Tectonic -- Not Volcanic -- in Origin.
June 29, 2005... Byline: Seismological Society of America EL CERRITO, Calif., June 29 (AScribe Newswire) -- Tectonic -- not volcanic -- stresses are the cause of most of the recent seismic activity at Mount Hood, according to new research published in the...

Scientist Refines Cosmic Clock to Determine Age of Milky Way.
June 29, 2005... Byline: University of Chicago CHICAGO, June 29 (AScribe Newswire) -- The University of Chicago's Nicolas Dauphas has developed a new way to calculate the age of the Milky Way that is free of the unvalidated assumptions that have plagued...

National Center for Atmospheric Research Analysis Shows Widespread Pollution From 2004 Wildfires.
June 29, 2005... Byline: National Center for Atmospheric Research BOULDER, Colo., June 29 (AScribe Newswire) -- Wildfires in Alaska and Canada in 2004 emitted about as much carbon monoxide as did human-related activities in the continental United States...

Children's Hospital Boston Hosts Live Webcast of Minimally Invasive Robotic Assisted Surgery to Correct Obstructed Kidney.
June 29, 2005... Byline: Children's Hospital Boston BOSTON, June 29 (AScribe Newswire) -- On Thursday, June 30, 2005, at 3 p.m. (EST) Children's Hospital Boston will broadcast live from the operating room a robotic assisted laparoscopic pyeloplasty to...

Purdue University Researchers Find Key to Rice Blast Fungus.
June 30, 2005... Byline: Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., June 30 (AScribe Newswire) -- Efforts to halt a fungus that deprives about 60 million people a year of food have led Purdue University scientists to discover the molecular machinery that...

Lake Tahoe Clarity Improved Slightly in 2004.
June 30, 2005... Byline: University of California, Davis DAVIS, Calif., June 30 (AScribe Newswire) -- The waters of Lake Tahoe were clear to an average depth of 73.6 feet in 2004, according to UC Davis scientists who have monitored the lake since 1968. That...

NASA Presents Breakthrough Discoveries on Sea Level Change.
June 30, 2005... Byline: Jet Propulsion Laboratory PASADENA, Calif., June 30 (AScribe Newswire) -- For the first time, scientists have the tools and expertise to measure changes in global sea level and understand the mechanisms that contribute to those...

Johns Hopkins Scientists Uncover Clues to 'Disappearing' Precancers; May Provide Better Targets for Cervical Cancer Vaccine Development.
June 30, 2005... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BALTIMORE, July 1 (AScribe Newswire) -- New research sheds light on why cervical precancers disappear in some women and not in others. Scientists at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center say the...