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Wage Gap Linked to Customer Bias.
June 5, 2009... Byline: University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee MILWAUKEE, June 5 (AScribe Newswire) -- Researchers have helped solve the mystery of why white men continue to earn 25 percent more than equally well-performing women and minorities. Managers and...

New Online Database Provides Free Access to Wealth of Information on Property Tax; Lincoln Institute-George Washington Joint Venture Restores Federal Service Ended in 1996.
June 7, 2009... Byline: Lincoln Institute of Land Policy WASHINGTON, June 7 (AScribe Newswire) -- A new online database created by the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy and the George Washington Institute of Public Policy provides a wealth of information...

LSU Health Sciences Center Researchers First to Document Early Signs for Diabetes in Kids as Young as 7.
June 8, 2009... Byline: LSU Health Sciences Center NEW ORLEANS, June 8 (AScribe Newswire) -- Research conducted under the direction of Melinda Sothern, PhD, Professor and Director of Health Promotion at the LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans School of...

'Bluetooth' Signals Show Airport Security-Line Waiting Times.
June 8, 2009... Byline: Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., June 8 (AScribe Newswire) -- Researchers have used Bluetooth signals from cell phones and other wireless devices to track how long it takes travelers to get through security lines at the...

Study Shows Animal Mating Choices More Complex Than Once Thought.
June 8, 2009... Byline: Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., June 8 (AScribe Newswire) -- When female tiger salamanders choose a mate, it turns out that size does matter - tail size that is - and that's not the only factor they weigh. Findings of a...

Fire Mitigation Work In U.S. West Is Misplaced, According to New Study Led by University of Colorado at Boulder.
June 8, 2009... Byline: University of Colorado, Boulder BOULDER, Colo., June 8 (AScribe Newswire) -- Only 11 percent of wildfire mitigation efforts undertaken as a result of a long-term federal fuels-reduction program to cut down catastrophic wildfire risk...

Antibiotics, Antimicrobials and Antifungals In Waterways; Detrimental Effects of Anti-Infectives On Aquatic Microbiota Are Possible.
June 9, 2009... Byline: Universite de Montreal MONTREAL, June 9 (AScribe Newswire) -- Antibiotics, antimicrobials and antifungals are seeping into the waterways of North America, Europe and East Asia, according to an investigation published in the...

Biodiesel Blend Performs as Well as Ultra-Low Sulfur Fuel.
June 9, 2009... Byline: Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., June 9 (AScribe Newswire) -- Those worried about a performance drop-off going from standard diesel fuel to the more environmentally friendly B20 biodiesel blend can ease their minds. A...

Researchers Create Freestanding Nanoparticle Films Without Fillers.
June 9, 2009... Byline: Vanderbilt University NASHVILLE, Tenn., June 9 (AScribe Newswire) -- Nanoparticle films are no longer a delicate matter: Vanderbilt physicists have found a way to make them strong enough so they don[sup.1]t disintegrate at the...

Carnegie Mellon Engineering and Public Policy Researchers Unveil Groundbreaking Solutions for Energy-Efficient Lighting.
June 9, 2009... Byline: Carnegie Mellon University PITTSBURGH, June 9 (AScribe Newswire) -- A study by Carnegie Mellon University researchers argues that new lighting technologies can be a key player in the portfolio of strategies needed to promote energy...

Fracture Risk Following Bariatric Surgery.
June 10, 2009... Byline: Mayo Clinic ROCHESTER, Minn., June 10 (AScribe Newswire) -- Mayo Clinic researchers are reporting that persons who undergo bariatric surgery (http://www.mayoclinic.org/bariatric-surgery/surgery.html) may have a greater chance of...

Wistar Institute Team Finds Key Target of Aging Regulator.
June 10, 2009... Byline: The Wistar Institute PHILADELPHIA, June 10 (AScribe Newswire) -- Researchers at The Wistar Institute have defined a key target of an evolutionarily conserved protein that regulates the process of aging. The study, published June 11...

Trimming the Fat Boosts Blood Recovery After Marrow Transplant.
June 10, 2009... Byline: Children's Hospital Boston BOSTON, June 10 (AScribe Newswire) -- Seeking ways to improve blood recovery after chemotherapy or bone marrow transplant, researchers at Children's Hospital Boston have discovered that fat cells, which...

Johns Hopkins Neuroscientists Watch Memories Form in Real Time.
June 10, 2009... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BALTIMORE, June 10 (AScribe Newswire) -- Our ability to form long-term memories depends on cells in the brain making strong connections with each other. Yet while it's not well understood how...

Predicted Ground Motions for Great Earthquake in Pacific Northwest: Seattle, Victoria and Vancouver.
June 10, 2009... Byline: Seismological Society of America EL CERRITO, Calif., June 10 (AScribe Newswire) -- A new study evaluates expected ground motion in Seattle, Victoria and Vancouver from earthquakes of magnitude 7.5 - 9.0, providing engineers and...

Reviving American Chestnuts May Mitigate Climate Change.
June 10, 2009... Byline: Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., June 10 (AScribe Newswire) -- A Purdue University study shows that introducing a new hybrid of the American chestnut tree would not only bring back the all-but-extinct species, but also put a...

A New Measure of Global Warming From Carbon Emissions.
June 10, 2009... Byline: Concordia University - Montreal MONTREAL, June 10 (AScribe Newswire) -- Damon Matthews, a professor in Concordia University's Department of Geography, Planning and the Environment has found a direct relationship between carbon...

LSU Health Sciences Center Research Finds Single Gene Controls Growth of Some Cancers.
June 11, 2009... Byline: LSU Health Sciences Center NEW ORLEANS, June 11 (AScribe Newswire) -- Research led by Ashok Aiyar, PhD, Associate Professor of Microbiology at LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans, showing that a single gene can control growth in...

Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Fathers, but Were Afraid to Ask.
June 11, 2009... Byline: Child Trends, Inc. WASHINGTON, June 12 (AScribe Newswire) -- As Father's Day approaches, here are short summaries of recent fatherhood research by Child Trends. For additional research on fatherhood and the ways in which it affects...

Low-Fat Diet Helps Genetically Predisposed Animals Avoid Liver Cancer; Penn Study Could Lead to Screening Methods to Detect Precancerous Conditions, Cancer Prevention Strategies Related to Obesity.
June 12, 2009... Byline: University of Pennsylvania Health System PHILADELPHIA, June 12 (AScribe Newswire) -- In a study comparing two strains of mice, one susceptible to developing cancer and the other not, researchers found that a high-fat diet...

Jumping Genes Discovery 'Challenges Current Assumptions,' Say Penn Researchers; Gene Insertions Have Implications for Understanding Development of Genetic Diseases, Cancer.
June 12, 2009... Byline: University of Pennsylvania Health System PHILADELPHIA, June 12 (AScribe Newswire) -- Jumping genes do most of their jumping, not during the development of sperm and egg cells, but during the development of the embryo itself. The...

Purdue-Developed Tool Can Get Most Pollution Control for the Money.
June 15, 2009... Byline: Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., June 15 (AScribe Newswire) -- There may be thousands of things large and small that can be done to better control pollution on even the smallest waterways, and a new tool developed at Purdue...

X-Rays for Early Alzheimer's Disease Detection: Researchers Demonstrate Ability of Experimental Technique to Image Telltale Brain Plaques.
June 15, 2009... Byline: Brookhaven National Laboratory UPTON, N.Y., June 15 (AScribe Newswire) -- Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory have demonstrated a new, highly detailed x-ray imaging technique that...

Plant Microbe Shares Features With Drug-Resistant Pathogen; Implications for Biotech Applications; Possible Targets for Infection-Fighting Drugs.
June 16, 2009... Byline: Brookhaven National Laboratory UPTON, N.Y., June 16 (AScribe Newswire) -- An international team of scientists has discovered extensive similarities between a strain of bacteria commonly associated with plants and one increasingly...

University of Central Florida Researcher's Nanoparticles Could Someday Lead to End of Chemotherapy.
June 16, 2009... Byline: University of Central Florida ORLANDO, Fla., June 16 (AScribe Newswire) -- Nanoparticles specially engineered by University of Central Florida Assistant Professor J. Manuel Perez and his colleagues could someday target and destroy...

Study Finds Autistics Better at Problem-Solving: Universite de Montreal and Harvard University Research in Human Brain Mapping.
June 16, 2009... Byline: Universite de Montreal MONTREAL, June 16 (AScribe Newswire) -- Autistics are up to 40 percent faster at problem-solving than non-autistics, according to a new Universite de Montreal and Harvard University study published in the...

New University of Colorado at Boulder Research Effort Discovers Ancient Maya Intensively Cultivated Manioc.
June 16, 2009... Byline: University of Colorado, Boulder BOULDER, Colo., June 16 (AScribe Newswire) -- A University of Colorado at Boulder team has uncovered an ancient and previously unknown Maya agricultural system -- a large manioc field intensively...

Another McGill/JGH Breakthrough Opens Door to Early Alzheimer's Diagnosis; New Technique Detects Possible Alzheimer's Biomarker in Blood.
June 16, 2009... Byline: McGill University MONTREAL, June 16 (AScribe Newswire) -- A new diagnostic technique which may greatly simplify the detection of Alzheimer's disease has been discovered by researchers at McGill University and the affiliated Lady...

University of Virginia Health System Scientists Find Faster, Cheaper Way to Investigate How Particular Genes Suppress or Cause Cancer.
June 16, 2009... Byline: University of Virginia Health System CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., June 16 (AScribe Newswire) -- Researchers at the University of Virginia Health System have found a new way to study how genes function in living organisms, and their...

Protein Structures From Human Immune System's Oldest Branch Shed Light on a Range of Diseases; Penn Study Has Implications for Treating Bacterial Infection and Diseases of Auto-Immunity and Inflammation.
June 17, 2009... Byline: University of Pennsylvania Health System PHILADELPHIA, June 17 (AScribe Newswire) -- How molecules of the oldest branch of the human immune system have interconnected has remained a mystery. Now, two new structures, both involving a...

Scientific American: Dark Matter Is Not Made of Protons; Jerome Drexler: Dark Matter is made of Relativistic Protons.
June 17, 2009... Byline: The Drexler Foundation SILICON VALLEY, Calif., June 17 (AScribe Newswire) -- An article entitled, "The Search for Dark Matter" in the recent Majestic Universe special issue of Scientific American, makes the following statements...

Roux-en-Y Weight Loss Surgery Raises Kidney Stone Risk.
June 17, 2009... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BALTIMORE, June 17 (AScribe Newswire) -- The most popular type of gastric bypass surgery appears to nearly double the chance that a patient will develop kidney stones, despite earlier assumptions...

University of Colorado Researchers Find First Definitive Evidence for Ancient Lake on Mars.
June 17, 2009... Byline: University of Colorado, Boulder BOULDER, Colo., June 17 (AScribe Newswire) -- A University of Colorado at Boulder research team has discovered the first definitive evidence of shorelines on Mars, an indication of a deep, ancient...

Johns Hopkins Researchers Edit Genes in Human Stem Cells.
June 18, 2009... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BALTIMORE, June 18 (AScribe Newswire) -- Researchers at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine have successfully edited the genome of human-induced pluripotent stem cells, making possible the future...

Water Snake With a Unique Angle: It Startles Fish in Fashion That Causes Them to Flee Into Its Jaws.
June 18, 2009... Byline: Vanderbilt University NASHVILLE, Tenn., June 18 (AScribe Newswire) -- Forget the old folk tales about snakes hypnotizing their prey. The tentacled snake from South East Asia has developed a more effective technique. The small water...

HIV Antibody Tests Unreliable for Early Infections in Teens.
June 19, 2009... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BALTIMORE, June 19 (AScribe Newswire) -- A previously healthy teenager shows up at the doctor's office with a sore throat, fever, aches and general malaise. Routine blood tests are normal, an HIV...

Mayo Researchers: Dramatic Outcomes in Prostate Cancer Study.
June 19, 2009... Byline: Mayo Clinic ROCHESTER, Minn., June 19 (AScribe Newswire) -- Two Mayo Clinic patients whose prostate cancer (http://www.mayoclinic.org/prostate-cancer/) had been considered inoperable are now cancer free thanks in part to an...

How Botulism Paralyzes Nerve Cells: New Details Revealed; Inhibitor Molecules Mimic Interaction; Could Become Drugs to Block Deadly Poison.
June 22, 2009... Byline: Brookhaven National Laboratory UPTON, N.Y., June 22 (AScribe Newswire) -- New structures of a botulism toxin interacting with a mimic of the nerve-cell protein it destroys suggest new ways to block this often-fatal interaction....

Potent Metastasis Inhibitor Identified; Could Curb a Cancer's Deadliness.
June 22, 2009... Byline: Children's Hospital Boston BOSTON, June 22 (AScribe Newswire) -- Researchers at Children's Hospital Boston have isolated a potent inhibitor of tumor metastasis made by tumor cells, one that could potentially be harnessed as a...

Citizens in 34 Countries Show Implicit Bias Linking Males More Than Females with Science.
June 22, 2009... Byline: University of Virginia CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., June 22 (AScribe Newswire) -- Implicit stereotypes - thoughts that people may be unwilling to express or may not even know that they have - may have a powerful effect on gender equity in...

Low Level Light Therapy Shows Promise for Improving Neuronal Function in Parkinson's Disease Patients, Say Researchers at University of Virginia Health System.
June 22, 2009... Byline: University of Virginia Health System CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., June 22 (AScribe Newswire) -- Low level light therapy (LLLT) holds potential for improving neuronal cell function in patients with Parkinson's Disease (PD), according to a...

Energy-Saving Method Checks Refrigerant Level in Air Conditioners.
June 23, 2009... Byline: Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., June 23 (AScribe Newswire) -- Engineers have developed a technique that saves energy and servicing costs by indicating when air conditioners are low on refrigerant, preventing the units from...

'Mixed Reality' Human Helps Medical Students Learn to Do Intimate Exams.
June 23, 2009... Byline: University of Florida GAINESVILLE, Fla., June 23 (AScribe Newswire) -- "What brings you in to see me today?" "Part of my left breast has been painful for awhile." "Can you lie down so that I can examine you?" It sounds...

54-Million-Year-Old Skull Reveals Early Evolution of Primate Brains.
June 23, 2009... Byline: University of Florida GAINESVILLE, Fla., June 23 (AScribe Newswire) -- Researchers at the University of Florida and the University of Winnipeg have developed the first detailed images of a primitive primate brain, unexpectedly...

Cooperative Learning Methods Top List of Effective Approaches for Secondary Mathematics, Finds Johns Hopkins Review.
June 24, 2009... Byline: Johns Hopkins University BALTIMORE, June 24 (AScribe Newswire) -- Cooperative learning methods have been found to be most effective in raising the math scores of middle and high school students, according to a comprehensive...

LSU Health Sciences Center Research Identifies Enzyme That Makes Survival Molecule for Key Vision Cells.
June 26, 2009... Byline: LSU Health Sciences Center NEW ORLEANS, June 26 (AScribe Newswire) -- Research lead by Dr. Nicolas Bazan, Boyd Professor and Director of the Neuroscience Center of Excellence at LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans, identifying an...

Trio of Signals Converge to Induce Liver and Pancreas Cell Development in the Embryo; Findings Point to Clues for Regenerative Therapies.
June 26, 2009... Byline: University of Pennsylvania Health System PHILADELPHIA, June 26 (AScribe Newswire) -- Understanding the molecular signals that guide early cells in the embryo to develop into different organs provides insight into ways that tissues...

Dog Food Contaminated With Levels of Fluoride Above EPA's Legal Limit for Humans; Fluoride Linked to Hormone Disruption, Thyroid Problems, Bone Cancer.
June 26, 2009... Byline: Environmental Working Group WASHINGTON, June 26 (AScribe Newswire) -- Eight of 10 dog food brands tested by an independent laboratory commissioned by Environmental Working Group (EWG) contain fluoride in amounts up to 2.5 times...

Dawson Revisited: Scientists Present Groundbreaking Study on Psychological Impact of School Shooting.
June 29, 2009... Byline: Universite de Montreal NEW YORK, June 29 (AScribe Newswire) -- Less than two percent of the community were diagnosed with post-traumatic stress, and seven percent report post-traumatic stress symptoms, as a result of the shooting...

Researchers Harness the Science of Invisibility to Make Things Visible.
June 29, 2009... Byline: National University of Singapore SINGAPORE, June 29 (AScribe Newswire) -- Scientists are developing invisibility devices, but can they also make things more visible? A team from National University of Singapore, Masaryk University,...

Fighting Tuberculosis With Anti-Inflammatory Drugs Shown Possible in Animal Studies.
June 29, 2009... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BALTIMORE, June 29 (AScribe Newswire) -- Tuberculosis (TB) experts at Johns Hopkins have evidence from a four-year series of experiments in mice that anti-inflammatory drugs could eventually prove...

Mayo Clinic Proceedings Reviews Deep Brain Stimulation to Treat Psychiatric Diseases.
June 29, 2009... Byline: Mayo Clinic ROCHESTER, Minn., June 29 (AScribe Newswire) -- Pioneering therapeutic trials to investigate the effectiveness of deep brain stimulation (DBS) (http://www.mayoclinic.org/deep-brain-stimulation/) in hard-to-treat...

'Perfect Storm' of Fiscal Stress Hits Nonprofits.
June 29, 2009... Byline: Johns Hopkins University BALTIMORE, June 29 (AScribe Newswire) -- Eighty percent of nonprofit organizations are experiencing fiscal stress according to a survey released today by Johns Hopkins University, and close to 40 percent of...

Crunching the (Sometimes Surprising) Numbers on Hormone-Related Disease.
June 29, 2009... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BALTIMORE, June 29 (AScribe Newswire) -- A dogged review of the medical literature has produced what is believed to be the nation's first comprehensive estimate of the extent of dozens of endocrine...

Insect Venom Shots Work for Severe 'Local' Sting Reactions, Too; Study Encourages Use Beyond Treatment for Life-Threatening Stings.(Clinical report)
June 29, 2009... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BALTIMORE, June 29 (AScribe Newswire) -- The same bee and other insect venom shots that doctors use to prevent deadly systemic reactions to insect stings can also tone down large local allergic...

LSU Health Sciences Center MD/Phd Student Awarded NIH Grant for Research on Protective Effects of Fish Oil in Stroke.
June 30, 2009... Byline: LSU Health Sciences Center NEW ORLEANS, June 30 (AScribe Newswire) -- Tiffany Niemoller, a 5th year MD/PhD student at LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans Schools of Medicine and Graduate Studies, has been awarded a grant in the...

Ulysses Spacecraft Ends Historic Mission of Discovery.
June 30, 2009... Byline: Jet Propulsion Laboratory PASADENA, Calif., June 30 (AScribe Newswire) -- Ulysses, a joint NASA and European Space Agency mission, officially ceased operations today, after receiving commands from ground controllers to do so. The...

Mayo Clinic Study Finds Celiac Disease Four Times More Common Than in 1950s; Undiagnosed Celiac Disease Associated With Nearly Quadrupled Mortality.
June 30, 2009... Byline: Mayo Clinic ROCHESTER, Minn., July 1 (AScribe Newswire) -- Celiac disease (http://paweb.mayo.edu/newsreleases/default.cfm?pp=1111111releasepublished-new.cfm) , an immune system reaction to gluten in the diet, is over four times more...