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Joslin Diabetes Center Researchers Pinpoint Causes of Adverse Reactions to Popular Type 2 Diabetes Drugs; Findings Suggest Potential Way to Prevent Side Effects.
June 1, 2006... Byline: Joslin Diabetes Center BOSTON, June 1 (AScribe Newswire) -- Used by several million people worldwide, rosiglitazone (RSG) is an oral agent that helps patients with type 2 diabetes to maintain good blood glucose levels by improving...

Pick Your COX Partners: Penn Study Reveals COX Enzymes Work Together in Ways That Suggest New Biological Roles, Drug Targets.
June 1, 2006... Byline: University of Pennsylvania Health System PHILADELPHIA, June 1 (AScribe Newswire) -- Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and Queen's University, Ontario, Canada report in the online edition of Nature...

National Survey Showed Racial Minorities Strongly Inclined to Consider Becoming Foster Parents; American Indians Caught Between Mainstream and Traditional Cultural Expectations.
June 1, 2006... Byline: National Indian Child Welfare Association PORTLAND, Ore., June 1 (AScribe Newswire) -- An ABC News/Time national poll on foster care issues showed 31 percent of non-Whites surveyed answered "Yes," when asked, "Would you seriously...

Canadian-Chinese Team Verifies Prediction of M 7.3 1975 Haicheng Earthquake; Declassified Documents Lead to Conclusion That 'Earthquake Prediction Is Not Impossible'.
June 5, 2006... Byline: Seismological Society of America EL CERRITO, Calif., June 5 (AScribe Newswire) -- When the M 7.3 1975 Haicheng earthquake struck, Chinese scientists and government officials announced that they had done the impossible: They had...

'Cosmic Telescopes' May Have Found Infant Galaxies.
June 5, 2006... Byline: Johns Hopkins University BALTIMORE, June 5 (AScribe Newswire) -- Using massive clusters of galaxies as "cosmic telescopes," a research team led by a Johns Hopkins University astronomer has found what may be infant galaxies born in...

Galaxy Evolution in Cyber Universe Matches Astronomical Observations in Fine Detail.
June 5, 2006... Byline: University of Chicago CHICAGO, June 5 (AScribe Newswire) -- Scientists at the University of Chicago have bolstered the case for a popular scenario of the big bang theory that neatly explains the arrangement of galaxies throughout...

New Mexico's Chaco Canyon: A Place of Kings and Palaces?
June 5, 2006... Byline: University of Colorado, Boulder BOULDER, Colo., June 5 (AScribe Newswire) -- Kings living in palaces may have ruled New Mexico's Chaco Canyon a thousand years ago, causing Pueblo people to reject the brawny, top-down politics in...

Astronomers Find Hundreds of Young, Distant Galaxy Clusters.
June 5, 2006... Byline: University of Florida GAINESVILLE, Fla., June 5 (AScribe Newswire) -- Astronomers have found the largest number of the most distant, youngest galaxy clusters yet, a feat that will help them observe the developing universe when it...

Old Technology Helps Find New Test for Leg Artery Disease.
June 6, 2006... Byline: University of Virginia Health System CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., June 6 (AScribe Newswire) -- Between 8 and 12 million Americans are affected by peripheral arterial disease, or PAD, where the arteries that bring blood to the legs are...

Tuberculosis Drug May Cure Parkinson's-Like Illness.
June 6, 2006... Byline: Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., June 6 (AScribe Newswire) -- Researchers have discovered that a drug used to treat tuberculosis apparently cures patients of a Parkinson's-like illness suffered by thousands of mineworkers,...

Johns Hopkins Researchers Discover Potential New Approach to Treating Diabetes.
June 7, 2006... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BALTIMORE, June 7 (AScribe Newswire) -- Scientists at Johns Hopkins have uncovered a surprising and novel way of lowering blood sugar levels in mice by manipulating the release of sugar by liver...

Neuroscientist Looks at Music's Heady Experience.
June 8, 2006... Byline: University of California, Davis DAVIS, Calif., June 8 (AScribe Newswire) -- Petr Janata, neuroscientist and devoted Deadhead, wants to know why one of life's most transcendent experiences -- being in "the musical groove" -- is such...

Discovery Could Aid Fight Against Cystic Fibrosis Infection.
June 9, 2006... Byline: Harvard University Medical School BOSTON, June 9 (AScribe Newswire) -- Harvard Medical School researchers have discovered one way that a hardy disease-causing bacteria could be surviving in the lungs of chronically infected cystic...

Joslin Scientists Discover Surprising Signs of Residual Islet Cell Functioning in People With Type 1 Diabetes in 50-Year Medalist Study; Study to Be Presented June 12 at American Diabetes Association's 66th Scientific Sessions in Washington.
June 12, 2006... Byline: Joslin Diabetes Center BOSTON, June 12 (AScribe Newswire) -- Scientists at Joslin Diabetes Center have discovered that a surprisingly high percentage of people with type 1 diabetes (insulin-dependent) who have had the disease for 50...

Organ Transplants Just as Successful in Those With Mental Retardation.
June 12, 2006... Byline: Ohio State University COLUMBUS, Ohio, June 12 (AScribe Newswire) -- Mental retardation does not lessen the likelihood that a patient will benefit from a kidney transplant, a new study suggests. A survey of published cases...

UC Davis Researchers Report New Molecule That Targets Leukemia and Lymphoma Cells; Peptide Shows Promise as Imaging and Therapeutic Agent for Lymphoid Cancers.
June 12, 2006... Byline: Univ. of California, Davis, Medical Center SACRAMENTO, Calif., June 12 (AScribe Newswire) -- UC Davis Cancer Center researchers have developed a novel peptide that binds to the surface of leukemia and lymphoma cells with extremely...

Activation of MicroRNA Inhibits Cancer Gene in Human Cancer Cells.
June 12, 2006... Byline: USC Health Sciences LOS ANGELES, Calif., June 12 (AScribe Newswire) -- Scientists report that tumor cells display a dramatic reduction of cancer-causing genes when a newly discovered method is used to activate the expression of...

Coral Death Results From Bacteria Fed by Algae.
June 12, 2006... Byline: University of California, Santa Barbara SANTA BARBARA, Calif., June 12 (AScribe Newswire) -- Bacteria and algae are combining to kill coral -- and human activities are compounding the problem. Scientists have discovered an indirect...

Some Genetic Research Is Best Done Close to the Evolutionary Home.
June 12, 2006... Byline: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory BERKELEY, Calif., June 12 (AScribe Newswire) -- Some aspects of evolution are like the real estate business in that it's all about location, location, location! Researchers with the U.S....

Nationwide Long-term Study Shows Brain Function Not Impaired by Tight Diabetes Control, Severe Hypoglycemia; Joslin Diabetes Center Psychiatrist to Present DCCT Follow-up Cognitive Study June 12 at American Diabetes Association's 66th Scientific Sessions in Washington.
June 12, 2006... Byline: Joslin Diabetes Center BOSTON, June 12 (AScribe Newswire) -- The landmark Diabetes Control and Complications Trial (DCCT) funded by the National Institutes of Health, which followed 1,441 people with type 1 diabetes for a decade...

Scientists Take 'Snapshots' of Enzyme Action; Results Advance Understanding of How Toxic Compounds Are Eliminated From the Body.
June 12, 2006... Byline: Brookhaven National Laboratory UPTON, N.Y., June 12 (AScribe Newswire) -- Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory, the New York Structural Biology Center, and SGX Pharmaceuticals, Inc., have...

Stanford Business School Research: Are Wall Street Careers Just the Luck of the Draw?
June 13, 2006... Byline: Stanford Graduate School of Business STANFORD, Calif., June 13 (AScribe Newswire) -- Many young MBAs who go into investment banking might just owe their career to happenstance as much as their die-hard allegiance to Wall Street,...

National Center for Atmospheric Research Joins TeraGrid, Enabling Scientists to Strengthen Research Into Complex Phenomena.
June 13, 2006... Byline: National Science Foundation BOULDER, Colo., June 13 (AScribe Newswire) -- The National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) has joined the TeraGrid, the nation's most comprehensive and advanced infrastructure for open scientific...

Carnegie Mellon Researchers Teach Computers to Perceive Three Dimensions in 2-D Images; Program Automatically Generates 3-D Models From a Single Photograph.
June 13, 2006... Byline: Carnegie Mellon University PITTSBURGH, June 13 (AScribe Newswire) -- We live in a three-dimensional world but, for the most part, we see it in two dimensions. Discerning how objects and surfaces are juxtaposed in an image is second...

Fathers Are 'On the Radar Screen' This Father's Day.
June 13, 2006... Byline: University of Maryland, College Park COLLEGE PARK, Md., June 13 (AScribe Newswire) -- Fathers are on the radar screen and under the microscope this Father's Day more than ever before. "We think of fathers differently than we did...

Sleepy Fruit Flies Provide Clues to Learning, Memory.
June 15, 2006... Byline: University of Pennsylvania Health System PHILADELPHIA, June 15 (AScribe Newswire) -- Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have discovered that a brain region previously known for its role in learning and...

Report Calls for Changes in No Child Left Behind Act to Help Children Move From Bad Schools to Good Ones.
June 15, 2006... Byline: The Century Foundation NEW YORK, June 15 (AScribe Newswire) -- A new report from The Century Foundation proposes that the federal No Child Left Behind Act should be revised to enable more low-income students to attend good...

New Imaging Technology to Shed a Realistic Light on Art; Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Awards Rochester Institute of Technology $855,000.
June 16, 2006... Byline: Rochester Institute of Technology ROCHESTER, N.Y., June 16 (AScribe Newswire) -- Digitally archiving and reproducing artwork as it would be seen in a museum is a mathematical conundrum of light and geometry. Rochester Institute...

Climate Scientists Spotlight Arctic Warming, Plight of Polar Bears; Public Comment Period on Threatened Species Listing Ends Today.
June 16, 2006... Byline: University of Chicago CHICAGO, June 16 (AScribe Newswire) -- A climate scientist at the University of Chicago and 30 of her colleagues from across North America and Europe are urging the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to list the...

Report Calls for Ban on Dual Office Holding; 'One to a Customer' in New Jersey.
June 19, 2006... Byline: Demos TRENTON, N.J., June 19 (AScribe Newswire) -- The practice of letting one person hold two elected offices at the same time should be banned in New Jersey, according to a new report that says dual office holding hampers...

Summer Learning Tips: Avoid the 'Summer Slide'.
June 19, 2006... Byline: Johns Hopkins University BALTIMORE, June 19 (AScribe Newswire) -- Too often, summer's learning opportunities slip away, along with months' worth of hard-won academic skills from the school year. Research from the Center for Summer...

Need for FEMA, Red Cross to Coordinate More Effectively With Local and Faith-Based Organizations Identified; New Report Highlights Role of Grassroots Nonprofits in Disaster Relief.
June 19, 2006... Byline: Aspen Institute Nonprofit Sector Philanthropy Program WASHINGTON, June 19 (AScribe Newswire) -- National responder groups were overwhelmed by the monumental task of providing relief to hundreds of thousands of Hurricane Katrina...

Tropical Forest CO2 Emissions Tied to Nutrient Increases, Says University of Colorado, Boulder Study.
June 19, 2006... Byline: University of Colorado, Boulder BOULDER, Colo., June 19 (AScribe Newswire) -- Extra helpings of key nutrients given to tropical rain forest soils caused them to release substantially more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, a...

University of Colorado at Boulder Team May Have Solved Mystery of Carcinogenic Mothballs.
June 20, 2006... Byline: University of Colorado, Boulder BOULDER, Colo., June 20 (AScribe Newswire) -- Chemical compounds in household products like mothballs and air fresheners can cause cancer by blocking the normal process of "cell suicide" in living...

Successful Transplantation From Pig Embryos to Mice.
June 20, 2006... Byline: American Committee for the Weizmann Institute of Science NEW YORK, June 20 (AScribe Newswire) -- Millions of diabetics face a lifetime of daily injections to replace the insulin their bodies fail to produce, as well as a host of...

Bones Hold Key to Blood Renewal.
June 20, 2006... Byline: American Committee for the Weizmann Institute of Science NEW YORK, June 20 (AScribe Newswire) -- Though we think of them as solid and permanent, our bones are actually constantly being rebuilt throughout our lives. A team of...

Molecular Mechanism of a Diabetes Vaccine Revealed.
June 20, 2006... Byline: American Committee for the Weizmann Institute of Science NEW YORK, June 20 (AScribe Newswire) -- A team of researchers led by Prof. Irun Cohen of the Weizmann Institute of Science Immunology Department has revealed the molecular...

Armed With Cannons, Cranes and Wind Machines, Engineers Test Houses.
June 20, 2006... Byline: University of Florida GAINESVILLE, Fla., June 20 (AScribe Newswire) -- The wind roared against the house. Shingles and tar paper flew off the roof, exposing bare plywood. The front window buckled, then shattered, shooting glass...

Data Shows That Full-Time Work Fails to Lift Many Families out of Poverty.
June 20, 2006... Byline: National Center for Children in Poverty NEW YORK, June 20 (AScribe Newswire) -- As Congress considers whether to increase the federal minimum wage from $5.15 to $7.25 an hour, data from the National Center for Children in Poverty...

Standards and Testing, Yes, but What Else? Parents, Students, Teachers and Administrators See Standards as Necessary but Not Enough; School Environment, Adequate Funding Are Bigger Priorities.
June 20, 2006... Byline: Public Agenda NEW YORK, June 21 (AScribe Newswire) -- In a sign of the success - but also the limits - of the standards and testing movement in public education reform, new research released today by Public Agenda concludes that...

What Can a Magnet Tell You About Rain Patterns? More Than You Would Guess.
June 20, 2006... Byline: UCLA LOS ANGELES, June 20 (AScribe Newswire) -- If someone said you can understand rain patterns and the dynamics of the atmosphere by studying magnets and magnetism, and therefore make better predictions of the effects of global...

You Scream, I Scream...There's Something in My Ice Cream! Patented Technology Detects Foreign Objects in Process Streams.
June 21, 2006... Byline: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory RICHLAND, Wash., June 21 (AScribe Newswire) -- Looks like ice cream. Smells like ice cream. But does it sound like ice cream? A new ultrasonic technology could tell ice cream manufacturers if...

Global Warming Surpassed Natural Cycles in Fueling 2005 Hurricane Season, National Center for Atmospheric Research Scientists Conclude.
June 22, 2006... Byline: National Center for Atmospheric Research BOULDER, Colo., June 22 (AScribe Newswire) -- Global warming accounted for around half of the extra hurricane-fueling warmth in the waters of the tropical North Atlantic in 2005, while...

New System Trains Good Grid Operators With Bad Data.
June 22, 2006... Byline: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory RICHLAND, Wash., June 22 (AScribe Newswire) -- Power grid operators now have the ability to train like pilots, with simulators providing faulty readings designed to throw them off. Such...

Jacksonville, Albuquerque Have Largest City Park Systems; New Facts on City Parks Released.
June 22, 2006... Byline: Trust for Public Land WASHINGTON, June 22 (AScribe Newswire) -- The 56 largest cities in the United States have a total of 745,000 acres of parks, with Jacksonville, Fla., and Albuquerque, N.M., each leading the list of largest...

Americans' Social Networks Have Shrunk Dramatically Over Past Two Decades, New Study Shows.
June 22, 2006... Byline: Duke University DURHAM, N.C., June 23 (AScribe Newswire) -- Americans' circle of confidants has shrunk dramatically in the past two decades and the number of people who say they have no one with whom to discuss important matters...

Missouri State University's Center for Applied Science and Engineering Begins $10.95 Million Project to Develop Anti-Terrorism Technology.
June 23, 2006... Byline: Missouri State University SPRINGFIELD, Mo., June 23 (AScribe Newswire) -- With the help of U.S. Congressman Roy Blunt (R-Springfield), Missouri State University's Center for Applied Science and Engineering (CASE) has started a...

University of Iowa Museum of Natural History Finds Baby Ice-Age Sloth.
June 23, 2006... Byline: University of Iowa IOWA CITY, Iowa, June 23 (AScribe Newswire) -- For the past three years, students, staff and volunteers from the University of Iowa Museum of Natural History, UI Department of Geoscience in the College of Liberal...

Hopkins Scientists Use Embryonic Stem Cells, New Cues to Awaken Latent Motor Nerve Repair.
June 25, 2006... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BALTIMORE, June 26 (AScribe Newswire) -- In a dramatic display of stem cells' potential for healing, a team of Johns Hopkins scientists reports that they've engineered new, completed,...

New Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Deep-Sea Hybrid Vehicle Gets Mythical Name.
June 26, 2006... Byline: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution WOODS HOLE, Mass., June 26 (AScribe Newswire) -- Nereus, a mythical god with the torso of a man and the tail of a fish, was chosen June 25 as the name of a new deep-sea vehicle under construction...

Underwater Microscope Finds Biological Treasures in Subtropical Ocean.
June 26, 2006... Byline: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution WOODS HOLE, Mass., June 26 (AScribe Newswire) -- Scientists towing an underwater digital microscope across the Atlantic have found possible missing links to the global nitrogen cycle, which in...

Curtain May Be Closing on Scientific Water Controversy.
June 26, 2006... Byline: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory BERKELEY, Calif., June 26 (AScribe Newswire) -- The curtain may be ringing down on a scientific controversy which arose two years ago regarding the structure of water. A new study by scientists...

Joyriders vs. Jaywalkers: A Collision of Cultures.
June 27, 2006... Byline: University of Virginia CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., June 27 (AScribe Newswire) -- "Look both ways for cars before you cross the street." That's one of the most important warnings American children hear when they're old enough to walk...

Blood Pressure Variability Increases Risk for Stroke Death.
June 27, 2006... Byline: Mayo Clinic ROCHESTER, Minn., June 27 (AScribe Newswire) -- Erratic blood pressure during the first hours after a stroke dramatically lowers the chances of survival. That's the finding of a Mayo Clinic study published in the...

Mayo Clinic Pioneers New Method of Jaw Reconstruction for Oral Cancer Patients.
June 27, 2006... Byline: Mayo Clinic ROCHESTER, Minn., June 28 (AScribe Newswire) -- Mayo Clinic ear, nose and throat surgeons have developed a promising new process for mandible (lower jaw) reconstruction following removal of oral cancer. Details will be...

Study: Pirates Pursued Democracy, Helped American Colonies Survive.
June 28, 2006... Byline: University of Florida GAINESVILLE, Fla., June 28 (AScribe Newswire) -- Blackbeard and Ben Franklin deserve equal billing for founding democracy in the United States and New World, a new University of Florida study finds. ...

Sleeping With the Lights On: Discovery of New Fruit Fly Protein Illuminates Circadian Response to Light.
June 28, 2006... Byline: University of Pennsylvania Health System PHILADELPHIA, June 28 (AScribe Newswire) -- Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have identified a new protein required for the circadian response to light in...

A Probable Cause for Parkinson's? Largest, Most Detailed Survey of Proteins in Mouse Brain Also Applies to Alzheimer's, Other Degenerative Brain Diseases.
June 28, 2006... Byline: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory RICHLAND, Wash., June 28 (AScribe Newswire) -- Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, Lou Gehrig's disease and other brain disorders are among a growing list of maladies attributed to oxidative stress, the...

New From The Century Foundation's Security and Opportunity Agenda: Improving Voter Participation Through Better Access to Polls and Pols.
June 29, 2006... Byline: The Century Foundation NEW YORK, June 29 (AScribe Newswire) -- Despite much attention to election reform efforts, voter registration, and get-out-the-vote efforts during the hotly contested presidential election of 2004, only...

Johns Hopkins Lab Scientists Tame Overactive Cystic Fibrosis Protein; Test-Tube Studies Show Promise in Restoring Cells to Normal Status in Patients With Cystic Fibrosis.
June 29, 2006... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BALTIMORE, June 29 (AScribe Newswire) -- A team led by Johns Hopkins Childrens Center scientists has identified and successfully tamed an overactive protein that plays a key role in cystic fibrosis...

New Clues for Treatment of Liver Cancer: Study Implicates Two Human Genes in Third Leading Cause of Cancer Deaths.
June 29, 2006... Byline: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory COLD SPRING HARBOR, N.Y., June 29 (AScribe Newswire) -- By generating tumors in laboratory mice that mimic human liver cancer and by comparing the DNA of mouse and human tumors, researchers at Cold...

Film Professor Discovers Gallup Polled Movie Audiences.
June 29, 2006... Byline: University of Notre Dame SOUTH BEND, Ind., June 29 (AScribe Newswire) -- For many of us, the basement is sort of a merchandise purgatory, home to the items we don't really use anymore but still can't quite bring ourselves to throw...

Jellyfish-Like Creatures May Play Major Role in Fate of Carbon Dioxide in the Ocean.
June 30, 2006... Byline: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution WOODS HOLE, Mass., June 30 (AScribe Newswire) -- Transparent jellyfish-like creatures known as a salps, considered by many a low member in the ocean food web, may be more important to the fate of...