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Enzyme Prevents Lung Damage in Premature Infants.
May 2, 2004... Byline: Duke University DURHAM, N.C., May 3 (AScribe Newswire) -- An enzyme that protects the body from reactive chemicals called free radicals is crucial in preventing the inflammation that causes chronic lung disease in premature...

Even Drug-Resistant HIV Infection Responds to Right Treatment.
May 2, 2004... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BALTIMORE, May 2 (AScribe Newswire) -- Once expected to die in early childhood, children born with HIV are now surviving into their teens and early adulthood thanks to research advances over the...

Study Reveals Hidden Cost of Depression: Large Amounts of Extra Help for Depressed Seniors.
May 3, 2004... Byline: University of Michigan Health System ANN ARBOR, Mich., May 3 (AScribe Newswire) -- A new study reveals that depression among senior citizens carries a huge unrecognized cost: many extra hours of unpaid help with everyday activities,...

SDSC Technology Enables UC Berkeley Professor to Predict Big Changes on Big Planet; Inter-Planetary Weather Forecast Shows Global Warming Isn't Just Earthly Phenomenon.
May 3, 2004... Byline: San Diego Supercomputer Center SAN DIEGO, May 3 (AScribe Newswire) -- Backyard astronomers who want to get a glimpse of Jupiter's characteristic spots should look quickly. A recent report from Dr. Philip S. Marcus, professor of...

Adventurous Probabilistic Hardware to Pave Way for Faster Computers With Energy Savings; Georgia Tech Professor's Probabilistic Bits Hold Great Promise for Industry.
May 4, 2004... Byline: Georgia Institute of Technology ATLANTA, May 4 (AScribe Newswire) -- Imagine using a cell phone for hundreds of hours without recharging it. In the hope of making this dream a reality, researchers at the Georgia Institute of...

Researchers String Together Players in Pesticide Resistance Orchestra.
May 4, 2004... Byline: Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., May 4 (AScribe Newswire) -- A Purdue University research team has found a set of genes that may orchestrate insects' ability to fight the effects of pesticides. "Our study suggests that...

Hampshire College Student Uses J.K. Rowling's Quidditch as Basis for Artificial Intelligence Experiment.
May 4, 2004... Byline: Hampshire College AMHERST, MASS., May 4 (AScribe Newswire) -- Although enrolled in Hampshire College, not Hogwarts Academy, Raphael Crawford-Marks has spent the past year fine-tuning his Quidditch skills. Crawford-Marks - set to...

Anglo-American Team Gets Big Results with TeraGrid; Linking Resources on Two Continents Allowed TeraGyroid Project to Do a Year's Work in Three Months.
May 4, 2004... Byline: Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center PITTSBURGH, May 4 (AScribe Newswire) -- In a three-month project centered on the Supercomputing 2003 conference last November in Phoenix, a Boston-U.K. team of scientists linked more than 6,000...

Major Preclassic Maya City Discovered in Guatemala.
May 4, 2004... Byline: National Geographic Society WASHINGTON, May 5 (AScribe Newswire) -- New finds at a little-known, 2,000-year-old Maya site in Guatemala indicate it was one of the earliest and largest cities of the Preclassic Maya, a kingdom...

Special School Program Helps African American, Poor Children Close Literacy Achievement Gap, Study Finds.
May 5, 2004... Byline: Ohio State University COLUMBUS, Ohio, May 4 (AScribe Newswire) -- A specialized one-to-one teaching intervention helped the lowest-achieving African-American and disadvantaged children in first grade to close much of the literacy...

University of Virginia Doctors Develop Technique to Locate Tiny Lesions in the Lung.
May 5, 2004... Byline: University of Virginia Health System CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., May 5 (AScribe Newswire) -- Imagine using a medical "geiger counter" to locate pre-cancerous or cancerous lesions in the lungs. A multidisciplinary team of physicians at the...

Sandia Polymer Electrolyte Membrane Brings Goal of High Temperature PEM Fuel Cell Closer.
May 5, 2004... Byline: Sandia National Laboratories ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., May 5 (AScribe Newswire) -- A new type of polymer electrolyte membrane (PEM) is being developed by researchers at the Department of Energy's Sandia National Laboratories to help bring...

Plankton May Influence Climate Change, Says UC Santa Barbara Scientist.
May 5, 2004... Byline: University of California, Santa Barbara SANTA BARBARA, Calif., May 5 (AScribe Newswire) -- Plankton appear to play a major role in regulating the global climate system, according to new research. David Siegel, professor of...

Playing Games for Self-Esteem; McGill Scientists Design World-First Computer Games That Enhance Self-Acceptance.
May 6, 2004... Byline: McGill University MONTREAL, May 6 (AScribe Newswire) -- Can computer games help raise self-esteem? Absolutely. In a world-first study, researchers from McGill University's Department of Psychology have created and tested computer...

Disruption of a Gene May Prevent Type 1 Diabetes, University of Virginia Researchers Find.
May 6, 2004... Byline: University of Virginia Health System CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., May 6 (AScribe Newswire) -- Disrupting a gene called Stat-4 suppresses the activation of white blood cells involved in the development of type 1 diabetes, say researchers...

Cuneiform Goes Digital: UCLA Professor Illuminates Life in Ancient Iraq.
May 6, 2004... Byline: National Humanities Center RESEARCH TRIANGLE, N.C., May 6 (AScribe Newswire) -- It's not exactly Google, but the stunning cache of information Professor Robert Englund and his colleagues are making accessible on the Web is...

Danforth Center Scientists Identify 'Virus Factories' As Key to Spread of Infection Through Host; Virus Transmission Filmed for First Time.
May 7, 2004... Byline: Donald Danforth Plant Science Center ST. LOUIS, May 7 (AScribe Newswire) -- Building on plant virus theories established over 70 years ago, researchers at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center have identified and recorded the...

Wet Spring Means More Opportunities for Leptospirosis.
May 7, 2004... Byline: Kansas State University MANHATTAN, Kan., May 7 (AScribe Newswire) -- It's spring, so that means flowers blooming from the spring rains and more opportunities for leptospirosis to spread to domestic and wild animals. "Lepto is...

Botulinum Toxin Structure Offers Clues for Vaccines, Treatments.
May 10, 2004... Byline: Brookhaven National Laboratory UPTON, N.Y., May 10 (AScribe Newswire) -- By deciphering the near atomic-level structure of the catalytic domain of botulinum toxin type E -- one of seven neurotoxins that cause botulism, a disease...

Domesticated Tree Crops May Be the 'Future of Forestry'.
May 10, 2004... Byline: Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., May 10 (AScribe Newswire) -- The trees of the future may stem from advances in gene discovery research at Purdue University that could lead to domesticated trees, the forestry equivalent of...

Survival Rates of Cardiac Arrest Patients Improve With Defibrillation, Aggressive Treatment, Says Mayo Clinic Proceedings Study.
May 10, 2004... Byline: Mayo Clinic ROCHESTER, Minn., May 10 (AScribe Newswire) -- The long-term survival rate of patients who suffer cardiac arrest away from a hospital is much better when they are revived with a defibrillator and are entered into an...

Living Wills Don't Work, Researchers Argue; Time to Abandon Failed Policy in Favor of Durable Powers of Attorney.
May 11, 2004... Byline: University of Michigan Health System ANN ARBOR, Mich., May 11 (AScribe Newswire) -- Living wills don't work -- and can't work -- for their intended purpose of allowing people to say in advance how they'd want to be treated if they...

Two Water Testing Methods Could Prove Useful in Predicting Effects of Global Climate Change.
May 11, 2004... Byline: Ohio State University COLUMBUS, Ohio, May 11 (AScribe Newswire) -- Ohio State University geologists and their colleagues have used two water testing methods together for the first time to help a Gulf Coast tourist community manage...

Treatment Developed by University of Virginia Researchers May Reduce Death From Sepsis.
May 11, 2004... Byline: University of Virginia Health System CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., May 11 (AScribe Newswire) -- An experimental therapy that combines an antibiotic with a synthetic anti-inflammatory drug, designed at the University of Virginia Health...

Research Finds Star Students Shunning Teaching Careers.
May 11, 2004... Byline: Calif. State University, Sacramento SACRAMENTO, Calif., May 11 (AScribe Newswire) -- An economics professor from California State University, Sacramento has entered the national fray over teacher quality with a research approach...

Academic Interaction Shapes Physicians, Journal Reports.
May 12, 2004... Byline: Indiana University School of Medicine INDIANAPOLIS, May 12 (AScribe Newswire) -- No one would dispute the importance of courses, laboratories, syllabi and textbooks - the formal curriculum on the education of doctors. This month,...

International Study Led by Mayo Clinic Finds Minimally Invasive Surgery Safe, Effective for Patients With Colon Cancer; Concerns That resulted in Moratorium on Laparoscopic Procedure Resolved.
May 12, 2004... Byline: Mayo Clinic ROCHESTER, Minn., May 12 (AScribe Newswire) -- When performed by experienced surgeons, minimally invasive laparoscopic surgery is a safe and effective alternative to standard open surgery for most patients with cancer...

Chemical Reaction in Birds Provides Sense of Direction During Migratory Flights; Study Could Help Identify Mechanism of Magnetoreception in Animals, Humans.
May 12, 2004... Byline: University of California, Irvine IRVINE, Calif., May 12 (AScribe Newswire) -- Migrating birds stay on track because of chemical reactions in their bodies that are influenced by the Earth's magnetic field, a UC Irvine-led team of...

Frozen, Fresh Sperm Both Effective for In Vitro Fertilization.
May 12, 2004... Byline: Mayo Clinic ROCHESTER, Minn., May 12 (AScribe Newswire) -- A new Mayo Clinic study shows that couples using in vitro fertilization have the same likelihood of successful pregnancy whether the sperm used is frozen or fresh....

Arizona State University-Sponsored Archaeology Research Is Subject of Major Exhibition at Mexican National Museum of Anthropology.
May 12, 2004... Byline: Arizona State University TEMPE, Ariz., May 12 (AScribe Newswire) -- An exhibition opening May 12 at the National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City will feature major findings from a 6-year-long archaeological excavation at the...

From Algae, Weeds and People: New Genetic Clues to Complex Obesity Syndrome.
May 13, 2004... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BALTIMORE, May 13 (AScribe Newswire) -- By comparing the genomes of an alga, a weed and humans, a team of researchers has identified a new gene behind Bardet-Beidl syndrome (BBS), a complex...

UC San Diego Biologists Uncover Genetic Links to Broad Range of Human Disorders Resulting From Cilia Dysfunctions.
May 13, 2004... Byline: University of California, San Diego LA JOLLA, Calif., May 13 (AScribe Newswire) -- Biologists at the University of California, San Diego have discovered a number of key genes that humans, mice, fruit flies and roundworms all need to...

Researchers Snare New Cilia Genes.
May 13, 2004... Byline: Howard Hughes Medical Institute CHEVY CHASE, Md., May 13 (AScribe Newswire) -- Howard Hughes Medical Institute researchers have used a combination of brainpower and computer power to identify a multitude of new genes that control...

Carnegie Mellon Doctoral Student Develops First Origami-Folding Robot.
May 13, 2004... Byline: Carnegie Mellon University PITTSBURGH, May 13 (AScribe Newswire) -- Devin Balkcom, a student in Carnegie Mellon University's doctoral program in robotics, was looking for a challenge when he decided to develop the world's first...

Scientists Find Second Way to Kill Cancer Cells; Discovery Opens Possibilities for New Drug Therapies; New Study Shows Aklylating DNA Damage Stimulates Regulated Necrotic Cell Death.
May 13, 2004... Byline: University of Pennsylvania Health System PHILADELPHIA, May 13 (AScribe Newswire) -- Researchers at the Leonard and Madlyn Abramson Family Cancer Research Institute at the University of Pennsylvania have found a second way by which...

University of Maryland Researchers Study Cell Transplantation To Repair Damaged Heart Muscle.
May 14, 2004... Byline: University of Maryland Medical System BALTIMORE, May 14 (AScribe Newswire) -- University of Maryland physicians are taking part in a groundbreaking, multi-center study that could open a new range of treatment options for congestive...

Researchers Devise Method for Natural Killer Cells to Destroy Hiding HIV.
May 17, 2004... Byline: Mayo Clinic ROCHESTER, Minn., May 17 (AScribe Newswire) -- Mayo Clinic researchers have identified a way to manipulate the body's own natural killer cells to destroy cells containing the HIV virus. Current treatments for HIV...

More Science Faculty 'Kick the Lecture Habit' in Favor of Case Studies Method; Professors Using Method Will Change the Way Undergraduates Nationwide Learn Science.
May 17, 2004... Byline: University at Buffalo BUFFALO, N.Y., May 17 (AScribe Newswire) -- Want to make college science faculty really nervous? Tell them to stop lecturing and start telling stories, instead. That's the advice that science faculty...

Florida Frontier Expedition: Tapping the Unexplored Ocean Depths for Biomedical Resources.
May 17, 2004... Byline: Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution FT. PIERCE, Fla., May 17 (AScribe Newswire) -- Scientists from the new state-funded Center of Excellence in Biomedical and Marine Biotechnology will spend the next two weeks exploring never...

New Screening Method Turns Up Potential Compound for Treating Anthrax.
May 17, 2004... Byline: University of Chicago CHICAGO, May 17 (AScribe Newswire) -- University of Chicago scientists have identified a compound that halts the activity of a deadly toxin called anthrax lethal factor in laboratory tests. Nature...

Oxygen Therapy May Improve Vision Worsened by Diabetes.
May 17, 2004... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BALTIMORE, May 17 (AScribe Newswire) -- Oxygen delivered through the nose may improve poor vision caused by diabetic macular edema, fluid buildup in the part of the eye responsible for central...

Early Medicine, Literature Influenced Each Other.
May 18, 2004... Byline: University of Toronto TORONTO, May 18 (AScribe Newswire) -- What was known about the inner workings of the human body was radically altered in 16th- and 17th-century Renaissance England, and this new knowledge was shaped by an odd...

Super-Effective 'Jumping Gene' Created; Discovery Will Reveal Secrets of Genomic Evolution and Mammalian Genetics.
May 19, 2004... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BALTIMORE, May 19 (AScribe Newswire) -- Johns Hopkins scientists have transformed a common "jumping gene" found in the human genome into one that moves hundreds of times more often than normal in...

Stickleback Study Sheds Light on Species Formation.
May 19, 2004... Byline: University of Wisconsin, Whitewater WHITEWATER, Wis., May 19 (AScribe Newswire) -- When Jeffrey McKinnon was a boy growing up in Vancouver, he used to net threespine stickleback fish that were stranded in drainage ditches near his...

Pool-Bound Plyometrics Help You Get Stronger With Less Pain.
May 20, 2004... Byline: Ohio State University COLUMBUS, Ohio, May 20 (AScribe Newswire) -- If you want to turn your workout routine up a notch with the explosive, muscle-building exercises called plyometrics, take your regimen to a swimming pool,...

Tumor Suppressor Gene Family May Be Key to New Colon Cancer Drugs.
May 20, 2004... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BALTIMORE, May 20 (AScribe Newswire) -- In the hunt for new cancer drug targets, scientists from the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute have discovered...

UC Irvine Tobacco Research Center Issues Report Detailing Why Teens Are Most Vulnerable to Smoking Addiction; Findings Provide Clearest Picture Yet on Physical, Psychological Vulnerabilities of Adolescents.
May 20, 2004... Byline: University of California, Irvine IRVINE, Calif., May 20 (AScribe Newswire) -- Teenagers have long been regarded as the age group most vulnerable to the addictive lure of cigarettes, and a new report compiling five years of studies...

Theory Proposes New View of Sun and Earth's Creation.
May 20, 2004... Byline: Arizona State University TEMPE, Ariz., May 20 (AScribe Newswire) -- Like most creation stories, this one is dramatic: we began, not as a mere glimmer buried in an obscure cloud, but instead amidst the glare and turmoil of restless...

First Genetic Comparison of Purebred Domestic Dogs Produces Surprises.
May 20, 2004... Byline: Howard Hughes Medical Institute CHEVY CHASE, Md., May 20 (AScribe Newswire) -- The first detailed genetic comparison of purebred domestic dogs promises to rewrite the textbooks with new information about breed classification and...

'Underappreciated' Immune Cells May Play Important Role in Progression of Type 1 Diabetes, Joslin Researchers Find.
May 20, 2004... Byline: Joslin Diabetes Center BOSTON, May 20 (AScribe Newswire) -- A study reported in the May issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences suggests that cells of the body's immune system called natural killer (or NK)...

World War II Battlefield Site Pointe du Hoc to Be Surveyed by Texas A&M Team.
May 20, 2004... Byline: Texas A&M University COLLEGE STATION, May 20 (AScribe Newswire) -- This summer, a multi-disciplinary team from Texas A&M University's Historic Resources Imaging Laboratory (HRIL) will play the role of battlefield detectives as they...

Jefferson University Researchers Find Combining Two Types of Radiation Therapy is Better for Treating Brain Cancer.
May 20, 2004... Byline: Thomas Jefferson University PHILADELPHIA, May 20 (AScribe Newswire) -- Adding stereotactic radiosurgery - which entails delivering radiation to specific points in the brain while sparing normal tissue - after whole brain radiation...

Scientists Discover Undersea Volcano off Antarctica.
May 20, 2004... Byline: Hamilton College ARLINGTON, Va., May 20 (AScribe Newswire) -- Scientists working in the stormy and inhospitable waters off the Antarctic Peninsula have found what they believe is an active and previously unknown volcano on the sea...

Hunter's Hope Foundation, University at Buffalo Establish Research Institute to Study Krabbe Disease, Related Conditions.
May 21, 2004... Byline: University at Buffalo BUFFALO, N.Y., May 21 (AScribe Newswire) -- Hunter's Hope Foundation and the University at Buffalo today announced establishment of the Hunter James Kelly Research Institute, which will focus on research into...

New Strides In Understanding How Walking Is Coordinated.
May 21, 2004... Byline: Howard Hughes Medical Institute CHEVY CHASE, Md., May 21 (AScribe Newswire) -- Researchers have devised a genetic technique to distinguish the neurons in the spinal cord that control the sequential stepping of the left and right...

UC Irvine Scientist Will Lead NASA Effort to Overcome Physical Impact of Space Travel; Research Will Aid International Space Station, Manned Mars Exploration Efforts.
May 24, 2004... Byline: University of California, Irvine IRVINE, Calif., May 24 (AScribe Newswire) -- University of California, Irvine scientist Kenneth Baldwin has been reappointed by the NASA National Space Biomedical Research Institute to lead a...

NASA Announces Space Science Discoveries.
May 24, 2004... Byline: Jet Propulsion Laboratory PASADENA, Calif., May 24 (AScribe Newswire) -- NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope discoveries about planet-forming discs around stars, and possible evidence of what may be the youngest planet ever found outside...

U.T. Dallas, Duke University Political Scientists Win NSF Grant to Study Canadian Voting Behavior; Funding Comes Just in Time for Newly Called Federal Election on June 28.
May 26, 2004... Byline: University of Texas at Dallas RICHARDSON, Texas, May 26 (AScribe Newswire) -- Prominent political scientists from The University of Texas at Dallas (UTD) and Duke University received a grant from the National Science Foundation...

Shortened Chromosomes Linked to Early Stages of Cancer Development.
May 26, 2004... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BALTIMORE, May 26 (AScribe Newswire) -- Scientists at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center say they have evidence that abnormally short telomeres - the end-caps on chromosomes that normally...

African-Americans Respond Poorly to Hepatitis C Treatment.
May 26, 2004... Byline: Duke University DURHAM, N.C., May 26 (AScribe Newswire) -- African-Americans have a significantly lower response rate to treatment for chronic hepatitis C than non-Hispanic whites, according to a new study led by Duke University...

Saturn Seen From Far and Near.
May 26, 2004... Byline: Jet Propulsion Laboratory PASADENA, Calif., May 26 (AScribe Newswire) -- As Saturn grows closer through the eyes of the Cassini spacecraft, which is hurtling toward a rendezvous with the ringed world on June 30 (July 1, Universal...

Link Between Calcium, Weight Loss Is Focus of Purdue Summer Camp.
May 26, 2004... Byline: Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., May 26 (AScribe Newswire) -- While many teens go off to summer camp to swim, hike or learn to play tennis, participants in Purdue University's Camp Calcium will be the nation's first subjects...

Hepatitis C Treatment Evokes Highest-Ever Response in African-American Patients.
May 26, 2004... Byline: University of Maryland Medical System BALTIMORE, May 26 (AScribe Newswire) -- A study that tested a combination of drugs to treat African-American patients infected with the most common form of hepatitis C in the United States,...

UCLA Chemists Make Structure of Breathtaking Beauty, Molecular Counterpart of Interlocked Borromean Rings, Whose Origins Date Back to Renaissance Italy.
May 27, 2004... Byline: UCLA LOS ANGELES, May 27 (AScribe Newswire) -- UCLA chemists have devised an elegant solution to an intricate problem at the nanoscale that stumped scientists for many years: They have made a mechanically interlocked compound whose...

Raw Ingredients for Life Detected in Planetary Construction Zones.
May 27, 2004... Byline: Jet Propulsion Laboratory PASADENA, Calif., May 27 (AScribe Newswire) -- NASA has announced new findings from the Spitzer Space Telescope, including the discovery of significant amounts of icy organic materials sprinkled throughout...

Clinical Anatomists to Meet at Saint Mary's College; Topics Include Body Part Scandal, Heart Discovery.
May 28, 2004... Byline: Saint Mary's College of California MORAGA, Calif., May 28 (AScribe Newswire) -- The recent scandal over the sale of donated human body parts for medical research and a revolutionary discovery about the heart are among many issues to...

New Study Examines Voter Data Privacy in the U.S.; 'Voter Privacy in the Digital Age' Is Benchmark of Voter Registration Data Practices.
May 28, 2004... Byline: California Voter Foundation DAVIS, Calif., May 28 (AScribe Newswire) -- The California Voter Foundation (CVF) today published a state-by-state study of voter registration data gathering and privacy practices, to call attention to...

Spacecraft Prepares to Ring Saturn.
May 28, 2004... Byline: Jet Propulsion Laboratory PASADENA, Calif., May 28 (AScribe Newswire) -- NASA and European Space Agency officials will discuss the Cassini-Huygens mission to Saturn at a press briefing on Thursday, June 3, at 7 a.m. Pacific Time...

Benefits of Screening for Lung Cancer With CT Are Not Proven.
May 28, 2004... Byline: Duke University DURHAM, N.C., May 28 (AScribe Newswire) -- The medical literature does not support the widely held belief that an advanced screening technique called "CT" (computed tomography) can save lives simply because it...

Tropical Plants Help Identify Lags Between Abrupt Climate, Vegetation Shifts In Different Parts of the World.
May 28, 2004... Byline: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution WOODS HOLE, Mass., May 28 (AScribe Newswire) -- Clues to the timing and cause of abrupt climate changes in the past may lie in ocean floor sediments, according to a study by scientists at Woods...

National Center for Atmospheric Research Instrument Gets Breakthrough View of Sun's Magnetic Halo.
May 31, 2004... Byline: National Center for Atmospheric Research BOULDER, Colo., May 31 (AScribe Newswire) -- A new instrument developed at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) has captured landmark imagery of fast-evolving magnetic...

Breakthrough Research to Improve Forecasts of Sunspot Cycles.
May 31, 2004... Byline: National Center for Atmospheric Research BOULDER, Colo., May 31 (AScribe Newswire) -- Using a new computer model of the Sun, scientists have begun work on a groundbreaking forecast of the next cycle of sunspots. Today Mausumi...

Daily Dip in Blood Vessel Expansion May Help Explain Morning Heart Attack Peak.
May 31, 2004... Byline: Mayo Clinic ROCHESTER, Minn., May 31 (AScribe Newswire) -- Mayo Clinic researchers have discovered a daily reduction in the flexibility of blood vessels, which may help explain why heart attacks and strokes occur most frequently in...

New Cardiac Arrhythmia Syndrome Identified.
May 31, 2004... Byline: Duke University DURHAM, N.C., May 31 (AScribe Newswire) -- An international team led by researchers from Duke University Medical Center and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) have defined a previously undescribed inherited...

Cells From Fat Tissue Turned Into Functional Nerve Cells.
May 31, 2004... Byline: Duke University DURHAM, N.C., June 1 (AScribe Newswire) -- Two years after transforming human fat cells into what appeared to be nerve cells, a group led by Duke University Medical Center researchers has gone one step further by...