Ascribe Higher Education News Service articles from May 2005

Ascribe Higher Education News Service archives from May 2005

Mayo Clinic Researchers Discover Genetic Glitch in Heart's Electrical System That Leads to Drowning.
May 2, 2005... Byline: Mayo Clinic ROCHESTER, Minn., May 2 (AScribe Newswire) -- Mayo Clinic researchers have identified defects in a second gene called RyR2 that causes malfunctions in the heart's electrical system and contributes to what were...

Report Shows Concentration of Bars, Liquor Stores Linked to Neighborhood Violence; Government Role in Solving Problem Also Outlined.
May 2, 2005... Byline: Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation BERKELEY, Calif., May 2 (AScribe Newswire) -- When bars, liquor stores and other businesses that sell alcohol are located close together in neighborhoods, more assaults and other violent...

Findings Reinforce Theories About How Viruses Evolve.
May 2, 2005... Byline: Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., May 2 (AScribe Newswire) -- Two viruses that split from a common ancestor possibly a billion years ago still have the same protein "fold" in their outer shells, shedding light on how viruses...

Astronomers Confirm the First Image of a Planet Outside of Our Solar System.
May 2, 2005... Byline: UCLA LOS ANGELES, May 2 (AScribe Newswire) -- An international team of astronomers reports April 29 the confirmation of the discovery of a giant planet, approximately five times the mass of Jupiter, that is gravitationally bound to...

Gamma Rays From Thunderstorms?
May 2, 2005... Byline: Duke University DURHAM, N.C., May 2 (AScribe Newswire) -- Duke University engineers have led the most detailed analyses of links between some lightning events and mysterious gamma ray emissions that emanate from earth's own...

Researchers Induce Heart Cells to Proliferate; Findings Could Lead to Strategies to Regenerate Tissue After Heart Attack.
May 2, 2005... Byline: Children's Hospital Boston BOSTON, May 2 (AScribe Newswire) -- In the best documented effort to date, researchers from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at Children's Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School have successfully...

Metal Stents Are Safe and Effective for Treatment of Obstructions From Pancreatic Cancer.
May 2, 2005... Byline: University of Virginia Health System CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., May 2 (AScribe Newswire) -- One key goal of treating pancreatic cancer, which is often fatal within a year, is making sure patients have a good quality of life with as few...

Major Advance Made on DNA Structure.
May 2, 2005... Byline: Oregon State University CORVALLIS, Ore., May 2 (AScribe Newswire) -- Oregon State University researchers have made significant new advances in determining the structure of all possible DNA sequences -- a discovery that in one sense...

New Prostate Cancer Vaccine to Be Tested at University of Maryland Greenebaum Cancer Center; Goal Is to Prevent Recurrence of Cancer Following Surgery to Remove Prostate.
May 4, 2005... Byline: University of Maryland Medical System BALTIMORE, May 4 (AScribe Newswire) -- Doctors at the University of Maryland Greenebaum Cancer Center have started a Phase II clinical study of a new prostate cancer vaccine to harness the...

Scalpel-Free Surgery Could Reduce Risk of HIV, Hepatitis Exposure for Health Care Workers in City Hospitals.
May 4, 2005... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BALTIMORE, May 4 (AScribe Newswire) -- While the incidence of disease from HIV and hepatitis is increasing in the United States, little is known about their prevalence in patients undergoing...

Keeping Cancer in Check: Penn Researchers Demonstrate That a Metabolic Enzyme Works Through the Tumor-Suppressor Protein p53 to Control Cellular Replication.
May 4, 2005... Byline: University of Pennsylvania Health System PHILADELPHIA, May 4 (AScribe Newswire) -- Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have identified in normal cells that a common metabolic enzyme, which acts as a...

Jefferson Medical College Scientists Create Plant Factories That Churn Out Antibodies Against Tumor Cells.
May 4, 2005... Byline: Thomas Jefferson University PHILADELPHIA, May 4 (AScribe Newswire) -- Scientists at Jefferson Medical College are using tobacco plants to produce monoclonal antibodies - tiny guided protein missiles - that can target and hunt down...

Small Glaciers in Northern California Buck Global Warming Trend.
May 5, 2005... Byline: University of California, Santa Barbara SANTA BARBARA, Calif., May 5 (AScribe Newswire) -- While glaciers around the world are shrinking and disappearing, presumably due to global warming, two small glaciers in the Trinity Alps of...

UC Davis Cancer Center Takes Part in National Effort to Build 'World Wide Web' of Cancer Research; Faster Exchange of Information Will Benefit Patients.
May 5, 2005... Byline: Univ. of California, Davis, Medical Center SACRAMENTO, Calif., May 5 (AScribe Newswire) -- UC Davis Cancer Center is partnering with the National Cancer Institute to build the cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid (caBIG), a virtual...

Physicists Shake and Stir to Make Granular Materials Change Phases.
May 5, 2005... Byline: Duke University DURHAM, N.C., May 5 (AScribe Newswire) -- In an experiment originally planned for the International Space Station, physicists at Duke University have devised a controlled, measurable method to make a container of...

Canadian and U.S. Researchers Have Identified Important New Genetic Information That Could Improve Diagnosis, Treatment of High Blood Pressure.
May 5, 2005... Byline: Medical College of Wisconsin MILWAUKEE, May 5 (AScribe Newswire) -- Canadian and U.S. researchers at the Medical College of Wisconsin today announced important new information on the genetics of hypertension, offering hope for...

Earth Lightens Up: After 30 Years of Dimming, the Planet's Surface Is Brightening, an International Collaboration Concludes This Week in Science Magazine.
May 5, 2005... Byline: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory RICHLAND, Wash., May 5 (AScribe Newswire) -- Earth's surface has been getting brighter for more than a decade, a reversal from a dimming trend that may accelerate warming at the surface and...

Scientists Discover Pluto Kin Is Member of Saturn Family.
May 6, 2005... Byline: Jet Propulsion Laboratory PASADENA, Calif., May 6 (AScribe Newswire) -- Saturn's battered little moon Phoebe is an interloper to the Saturn system from the deep outer solar system, scientists have concluded. The new findings appear...

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Seeks Maxi Space Exploration Via Mini Technology; Lab to Develop More Economical, Reliable Space Travel.
May 6, 2005... Byline: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory RICHLAND, Wash., May 6 (AScribe Newswire) -- Images of deep space exploration in old sci-fi movies will take one giant leap toward reality as Battelle scientists manipulate microtechnology to...

African Americans, Caucasians Have Similar Emotional Brain Activity When Seeing African Americans, UCLA Psychologists Find.
May 8, 2005... Byline: UCLA LOS ANGELES, May 8 (AScribe Newswire) -- African Americans and Caucasians viewing African American faces display extremely similar changes in the activity of brain structures that respond to emotional events, a new UCLA study...

Embryonic Law and Order; Team of Scientists at Weizmann Institute of Science Reveals How Fruit Fly Embryos Impose Order in Early Development.
May 9, 2005... Byline: American Committee for the Weizmann Institute of Science NEW YORK, May 9 (AScribe Newswire) -- Soon after fertilization, the cells in an embryo, which have been dividing furiously from the start, begin to take on different forms and...

Side Effects of Colon Cancer Drug Explained.
May 9, 2005... Byline: American Committee for the Weizmann Institute of Science NEW YORK, May 9 (AScribe Newswire) -- A team of scientists at the Weizmann Institute of Science, working in collaboration with scientists at St. Jude's Children's Research...

Live Reporting: Iron Storage Molecule Could Play 'Spy' Role in Future Gene Therapy.
May 9, 2005... Byline: American Committee for the Weizmann Institute of Science NEW YORK, May 9 (AScribe Newswire) -- New findings show an iron storage molecule in the cell can serve as an advanced tool for mapping gene expression. Future gene therapy may...

MIT Professors, Colleagues Propose Plan for Nuclear Energy.
May 9, 2005... Byline: MIT CAMBRIDGE, Mass., May 9 (AScribe Newswire) -- MIT faculty members and colleagues, all former senior energy or security advisors in Democratic and Republican administrations from Carter to Clinton, have proposed a pragmatic plan...

Gold Nanoparticles May Simplify Cancer Detection.
May 9, 2005... Byline: Georgia Institute of Technology ATLANTA, May 9 (AScribe Newswire) -- Binding gold nanoparticles to a specific antibody for cancer cells could make cancer detection much easier, suggests research at the Georgia Institute of...

Previously Unknown Geological Fault Provides New Insights on Himalayan Mountain Building.
May 9, 2005... Byline: MIT CAMBRIDGE, Mass., May 9 (AScribe Newswire) -- Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Dartmouth College scientists have identified a previously unrecognized, active fault in the Nepalese Himalayas. The discovery, published in...

Scientists Find Unusual Use of Metals in Ocean.
May 9, 2005... Byline: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution WOODS HOLE, Mass., May 9 (AScribe Newswire) -- Cadmium, commonly considered a toxic metal and often used in combination with nickel in batteries, has been found to have a biological use as a...

As World Warms, Vegetation Changes May Influence Extreme Weather.
May 9, 2005... Byline: Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., May 9 (AScribe Newswire) -- A Purdue University climatologist has found that vegetation can significantly affect extreme weather, a discovery that could add a new piece to the global warming...

Archeoseismological Investigation Uncovers Evidence for Strong Rhine Valley Earthquake; Most Severe Earthquake Damage Ever Described for Region; Temblor of Intensity IX Likely Struck Germany Sometime in 4th Century A.D.
May 10, 2005... Byline: Seismological Society of America EL CERRITO, Calif., May 10 (AScribe Newswire) -- An archeoseismological investigation of Roman ruins near Cologne, Germany, indicates that a record-setting earthquake of Mw 6.4 struck the region...

Shared Computing Grid Cuts Data Mountains Down to Size.
May 10, 2005... Byline: University of Wisconsin - Madison MADISON, Wis., May 10 (AScribe Newswire) -- Although University of Wisconsin-Madison professors Wesley Smith and David Schwartz operate in completely different scientific spheres - one seeking to...

UCLA Cancer Researchers Find Way to Shake Loose 'Hidden' Biomarker in Prostate Cancer Cells; Discovery May Pave Way for Immunotherapy Treatments.
May 10, 2005... Byline: UCLA LOS ANGELES, May 11 (AScribe Newswire) -- Using a common chemotherapy agent, researchers at UCLA's Jonsson Cancer Center and the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine found a way to move an important biomarker...

Mayo Clinic Study Determines Surgery Is Best Remedy for Hammer Hand Hypothenar; Hammer Syndrome, Known for Affecting Laborers, Gets Relief From Bypass Grafting.
May 11, 2005... Byline: Mayo Clinic ROCHESTER, Minn., May 11 (AScribe Newswire) -- The hand pain, tingling, numbness and cold sensitivity of hypothenar hammer syndrome, also known as hammer hand, are best alleviated by bypass grafting surgery, according...

Study Shows Positive Economic Impact of Iowa Farmers' Markets.
May 11, 2005... Byline: Iowa State University AMES, Iowa, May 11 (AScribe Newswire) -- Farmers' markets not only are a great place to get fresh produce, flowers and baked goods, they also may generate an estimated $20.8 million in sales and more than 325...

National Institutes of Health Funding Helps Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Researchers Study Bacteria That Commonly Attack Cystic Fibrosis Patients, Tumor Development.
May 11, 2005... Byline: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory RICHLAND, Wash., May 11 (AScribe Newswire) -- Two National Institutes of Health grants, totaling nearly $3 million, aim to alleviate painful conditions that affect millions of Americans. For...

Atherosclerosis Boosts Risks of Depression in Elderly, According to Study Released at American Geriatrics Society's Annual Meeting.
May 12, 2005... Byline: American Geriatrics Society ORLANDO, Fla., May 12 (AScribe Newswire) -- According to a study presented today at the American Geriatrics Society Annual Meeting, atherosclerosis -- the accumulation of fatty plaque in the blood vessels...

Gene 'Archeology' Gets Easier Using Carnegie Mellon University Software.
May 12, 2005... Byline: Carnegie Mellon University PITTSBURGH, May 12 (AScribe Newswire) -- Comparing genomes of different species can tell you when new genes evolved and what they do for their respective hosts. But pinpointing the ancestry of any given...

San Diego Supercomputer Center Boosts Data Capabilities; Center Now Provides 1.1 Petabytes of On-Line Disk Storage.
May 12, 2005... Byline: San Diego Supercomputer Center SAN DIEGO, May 12 (AScribe Newswire) -- The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at University of California, San Diego recently added new on-line disk storage, offering 1.1 petabytes to users,...

Black Children More Likely to Die From Traumatic Injury Than White Children.
May 12, 2005... Byline: Ohio State University COLUMBUS, Ohio, May 12 (AScribe Newswire) -- A new study of nearly 6,000 children suggests that black youth are more than twice as likely to die from a traumatic injury as are white children. "Trauma has a...

Atmosphere May Cleanse Itself Better Than Previously Thought.
May 12, 2005... Byline: Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., May 12 (AScribe Newswire) -- A research team from Purdue University and the University of California, San Diego has found that the Earth's atmosphere may be more effective at cleansing itself...

Barriers Prevent Many Hispanics From Participating in Research Studies; Providing Health Services, Showing Benefit to the Community, Speaking Spanish Help in Recruitment of Hispanic Research Participants.
May 12, 2005... Byline: University of Michigan Health System ANN ARBOR, Mich., May 12 (AScribe Newswire) -- At a time when the Hispanic population in the United States is growing at a rate faster than any other minority group, Hispanics still represent...

Left- or Right-Brain? Genes May Tell the Story.
May 12, 2005... Byline: Howard Hughes Medical Institute CHEVY CHASE, Md., May 12 (AScribe Newswire) -- Subtle differences in how a single gene behaves on opposite sides of the growing brain may explain how various intellectual talents -- language, math...

High Overnight Blood Pressure Linked to Increased Blood Sugar Levels; Research Presented at American Geriatrics Society Meeting Suggests Doctors Closely Monitor Glucose Levels of Patients Whose Blood Pressure Doesn't Dip at Night.
May 13, 2005... Byline: University of Michigan Health System ANN ARBOR, Mich., May 13 (AScribe Newswire) -- People whose blood pressure doesn't drop significantly overnight tend to have more cardiovascular problems. Now, new research at the University...

University of North Carolina Wilmington Acquires Underwater Glider to Provide State-of-the-Art Undersea Equipment, Data for Ocean Science.
May 13, 2005... Byline: University of North Carolina at Wilmington WILMINGTON, N.C., May 13 (AScribe Newswire) -- As part of its continuing efforts to provide state-of-the-art undersea equipment and data for ocean science, the NOAA Undersea Research...

Blocking Tumor Blood Vessels Represents New Option for Group of Advanced Lung Cancer Patients.
May 13, 2005... Byline: Vanderbilt Medical Center ORLANDO, Fla., May 13 (AScribe Newswire) -- Patients with a particular type of advanced lung cancer may have a new option based on data presented here at the 2005 annual meeting of the American Society of...

Nature Study Explains Mystery of Mars Icecaps.
May 13, 2005... Byline: Oregon State University CORVALLIS, Ore., May 13 (AScribe Newswire) -- An interdisciplinary team of scientists thinks it has an answer to a long-standing mystery of why the permanent icecap on Mars' South Pole is offset from the...

Response Rate for New Kidney Cancer Drug is More than Double that of Standard Treatment.
May 14, 2005... Byline: Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center ORLANDO, Fla., May 14 (AScribe Newswire) -- Recent studies of a new anticancer drug show continued response for patients with late-stage kidney cancer. Robert Motzer, MD, attending physician at...

Mayo Clinic Researchers Use Pharmacogenetic Test Prior to Chemotherapy to Reduce Toxic Side Effects, Determine Best Dose of Three-Drug Treatment for Various Cancers.
May 14, 2005... Byline: Mayo Clinic ROCHESTER, Minn., May 14 (AScribe Newswire) -- Mayo Clinic researchers report that using a genetic screening blood test prior to the start of chemotherapy can decrease the toxicity of a three-drug chemotherapy regimen,...

New Test for Early Detection of Prostate Cancer Shows Promise.
May 14, 2005... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BALTIMORE, May 15 (AScribe Newswire) -- In the first clinical study of a new blood protein associated with prostate cancer, researchers have found that the marker, called EPCA or early prostate...

Speed-of-Processing Training May Cut Car Crashes Involving Elderly, Study Presented at American Geriatrics Society's Annual Meeting Suggests.
May 14, 2005... Byline: American Geriatrics Society ORLANDO, Fla., May 14 (AScribe Newswire) -- According to a study released at the American Geriatrics Society Annual Meeting today, special training that enhances visual information processing ability...

Still Have to Swab Those Tonsils, Mayo Clinic Study Finds.
May 15, 2005... Byline: Mayo Clinic ROCHESTER, Minn., May 15 (AScribe Newswire) -- Mayo Clinic ear, nose and throat surgeons hoped to find a more user-friendly test for strep throat than swabbing the tonsils directly, but instead discovered that the swab...

Mayo Clinic Researchers Report on Effectiveness of Treatments for Hot Flashes; Findings Presented at American Society of Clinical Oncology.
May 15, 2005... Byline: Mayo Clinic ROCHESTER, Minn., May 15 (AScribe Newswire) -- Mayo Clinic researchers, working with North Central Cancer Treatment Group (NCCTG) investigators, will present new study findings about treatments to reduce hot flashes in...

Heart Scan Surprises: CT Images Reveal Serious Problems Outside the Heart in 44 Percent of Heart Patients Scanned, University of Michigan Researchers Find; Trained Eyes Needed to Spot Small Cancers, Blood Clots, Aneurysms Early.
May 16, 2005... Byline: University of Michigan Health System NEW ORLEANS, May 16 (AScribe Newswire) -- Nearly half of all patients who get their hearts scanned with a high-speed CT scanner may get a shocking surprise: a diagnosis of a serious problem that...

Berkeley Lab Technology Dramatically Speeds Up Searches of Large Databases.
May 16, 2005... Byline: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory BERKELEY, Calif., May 16 (AScribe Newswire) -- In the world of physics, one of the most elusive events is the creation and detection of "quark-gluon plasma," the theorized atomic outcome of the...

Mayo Clinic Researchers Develop New Treatment for Incurable Recurring Form of Adult Brain Cancer; Early Results Promising.
May 17, 2005... Byline: Mayo Clinic ROCHESTER, Minn., May 17 (AScribe Newswire) -- A study led by Mayo Clinic researchers and conducted by the North Central Cancer Treatment Group (NCCTG) reports that a new "smart" drug treatment for an incurable form of...

Math Suggests Homeland Security Committee Most Partisan in House.
May 17, 2005... Byline: Georgia Institute of Technology ATLANTA, May 17 (AScribe Newswire) -- The Select Committee on Homeland Security is one of the most partisan in the U.S. House of Representatives. No, that's not the latest finding of a Washington...

MIT Student Studies Disaster Relief Logistics.
May 17, 2005... Byline: MIT CAMBRIDGE, Mass., May 17 (AScribe Newswire) -- The devastation caused by last December's tsunami prompted an unprecedented outpouring of global aid that presented disaster relief providers with innumerable logistical...

Glacier Geology Still Cleaning Iowa Groundwater.
May 17, 2005... Byline: Iowa State University AMES, Iowa, May 17 (AScribe Newswire) -- The geology left by the last glacier to advance into Iowa is helping to clean nitrate from Iowa groundwater and producing methane gas, according to research by William...

Diesel Emissions Research to Look at Particulate Matter.
May 17, 2005... Byline: Kettering University FLINT, Mich., May 17 (AScribe Newswire) -- Researchers at Kettering University in Flint, Mich., will use a National Science Foundation grant to determine levels of particulate matter emitted by diesel engines,...

Hypertension Drug Combination Yields High Rate of Blood Pressure Control in Hard-to-Treat Patients; Researchers Studied Irbesartan and a Diuretic Combined in One Tablet.
May 17, 2005... Byline: University of Maryland Medical System COLLEGE PARK, Md., May 17 (AScribe Newswire) -- A multi-center study of a pill that combines two drugs for hypertension shows significant benefit for people with hard-to-control high blood...

Same Fold in Viral Shells Point to Common Ancestry.
May 18, 2005... Byline: Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., May 18 (AScribe Newswire) -- New findings in research led by Purdue University biologists provide further evidence that the protein envelope protecting DNA in viruses evolved billions of...

Brain May Be Less Plastic Than Hoped.
May 18, 2005... Byline: Howard Hughes Medical Institute CHEVY CHASE, Md., May 18 (AScribe Newswire) -- The visual cortex of the adult primate brain displays less flexibility in response to retinal injury than previously thought, according to a new study...

To Stop Evolution: New Way of Fighting Antibiotic Resistance Demonstrated by Scripps Research Scientists.
May 18, 2005... Byline: The Scripps Research Institute LA JOLLA, Calif., May 18 (AScribe Newswire) -- A team of scientists at The Scripps Research Institute and the University of Wisconsin have demonstrated a new way of fighting antibiotic resistance: by...

With A Little Help From Your Friends: A New Way to Block Spam.
May 19, 2005... Byline: University of Florida GAINESVILLE, Fla., May 19 (AScribe Newswire) -- Friends can help friends block spam -- or at least their computers can. So says a University of Florida computer engineer who has pioneered a new approach to...

Researchers Find First Gene for Inherited Testicular Cancer in Mice; Findings May Offer Clues to Cancer in Male Infants.
May 19, 2005... Byline: Case Western Reserve University - School of Medicine CLEVELAND, May 19 (AScribe Newswire) -- In this week's journal Nature, researchers report finding the first gene responsible for inherited susceptibility of testicular cancer in...

Disease Progression Model of Pancreatic Cancer Developed by Penn Researchers.
May 19, 2005... Byline: University of Pennsylvania Health System PHILADELPHIA, May 19 (AScribe Newswire) -- Building on previous work, researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have developed an animal model of pancreatic cancer that...

Gene Keeps Neural Cells on Right Developmental Path.
May 19, 2005... Byline: Howard Hughes Medical Institute CHEVY CHASE, Md., May 19 (AScribe Newswire) -- Embryonic stem cells with identical genomes grow into distinctive tissues, such as heart, bone, and brain. At one time, scientists believed the...

Los Angeles' 'Big Squeeze' Continues, Straining Earthquake Faults.
May 19, 2005... Byline: Jet Propulsion Laboratory PASADENA, Calif., May 19 (AScribe Newswire) -- New NASA research confirms that northern metropolitan Los Angeles is being squeezed at a rate of 5 millimeters (0.2 inches) a year, straining an area between...

Men With Spouses, Partners Fare Better After Treatment for Prostate Cancer Than Single Men, UCLA Study Finds.
May 22, 2005... Byline: UCLA LOS ANGELES, May 23 (AScribe Newswire) -- Being married or in a relationship significantly improves quality of life for prostate cancer patients following treatment, according to a study by researchers at UCLA's Jonsson Cancer...

New Delivery Technology Paves Way for Disease Therapies Based on RNA Interference; Modified Antibody Carries Cancer-Fighting RNA Straight to Tumor Cells in Mice.
May 22, 2005... Byline: Harvard University Medical School BOSTON, May 22 (AScribe Newswire) -- A new way to administer therapeutic RNA molecules that efficiently guides them to cells throughout the body is being reported by researchers at the CBR...

Howard Hughes Medical Institute Awards First Gilliam Graduate Fellowships.
May 23, 2005... Byline: Howard Hughes Medical Institute CHEVY CHASE, Md., May 23 (AScribe Newswire) -- The late James H. Gilliam Jr., a charter Trustee of Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), spent a lifetime fostering diversity and opportunity in...

Charter Schools: Western Michigan University Research Finds Wide Disparity Among States.
May 23, 2005... Byline: Western Michigan University KALAMAZOO, Mich., May 23 (AScribe Newswire) -- A just-released comparison of charter schools in six states reveals a wide disparity in how well the schools are functioning, and Michigan charter schools...

Migratory Songbirds Have a Specialized Night-Vision Brain Area.
May 23, 2005... Byline: Duke University DURHAM, N.C., May 23 (AScribe Newswire) -- Neurobiologists have discovered a specialized night-vision brain area in night-migratory songbirds. They believe the area might enable the birds to navigate by the stars,...

UW-Madison Professor Weaves Wisconsin Idea Into the Chemistry of Cloth.
May 23, 2005... Byline: University of Wisconsin - Madison MADISON, Wis., May 23 (AScribe Newswire) -- To paraphrase a popular advertising line, Majid Sarmadi doesn't make the products you use every day. He makes them better. The products in question...

Dr. Paul Talalay Receives 2005 Pauling Prize for Health Research.
May 23, 2005... Byline: Oregon State University PORTLAND, Ore., May 23 (AScribe Newswire) -- Dr. Paul Talalay, a pioneer in the study of dietary phytochemicals that help protect against cancer, has been awarded the Linus Pauling Institute Prize for Health...

Procedure May Save Patients From Developing Diabetes.
May 23, 2005... Byline: University of Illinois at Chicago CHICAGO, May 23 (AScribe Newswire) -- Transplanting a patient's own islet cells is a simple procedure that can save pancreatitis sufferers from developing diabetes, but many are unaware the therapy...

Researchers Closer to Learning Underlying Logic of Olfactory System.
May 23, 2005... Byline: Howard Hughes Medical Institute CHEVY CHASE, Md., May 23 (AScribe Newswire) -- Researchers from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute have succeeded in mapping the unique patterns of neural activity produced by a wide range of odors,...

A Continent Split by Climate Change: Study Projects Stronger Drought in Southern Africa, More Rain in Sahel.
May 23, 2005... Byline: National Center for Atmospheric Research BOULDER, Colo., May 24 (AScribe Newswire) -- A new analysis of Africa's past and future climate shows that the Sahel region, which experienced catastrophic drought until rains returned in the...

Cure for Common Cold Will Need to Wiggle to Work, Scientists Say.
May 24, 2005... Byline: Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., May 24 (AScribe Newswire) -- An antiviral compound that wiggles its way into the common cold virus may provide one piece of the solution to halting the infection, say Purdue University...

University of Chicago Study Finds Administrative Failures Linked to Dramatic Decline in Chicago-Area Welfare Case Loads.
May 24, 2005... Byline: University of Chicago CHICAGO, May 24 (AScribe Newswire) -- Administrative disorganization, delays, miscommunication, and processing hassles are blocking access to the safety net that provides public benefits to eligible poor and...

University of Iowa Physicist Don Gurnett Says Voyager 1 Reaches Milestone on Journey to Interstellar Space.
May 24, 2005... Byline: University of Iowa IOWA CITY, Iowa, May 24 (AScribe Newswire) -- University of Iowa space physicist Don Gurnett says that NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft -- the most distant manmade object at some 94 astronomical units (AU) or more...

New Computing Cluster to Help Scientists Reconstruct the Tree of Life; Powerful New System Allows Phylogenetic Researchers to Conduct Large-Scale Calculations.
May 24, 2005... Byline: San Diego Supercomputer Center SAN DIEGO, May 24 (AScribe Newswire) -- A new supercomputing cluster designed for the phylogenetic research community has been installed at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC). The Cluster, a 16...

Penn Study Points to New Evidence to Explain How COX-2 Inhibitors Can Eventually Lead to Heart Disease and Stroke.
May 24, 2005... Byline: University of Pennsylvania Health System PHILADELPHIA, May 24 (AScribe Newswire) -- University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine researchers have found additional evidence that may help explain how selective inhibitors of COX-2...

University of Wisconsin-Madison Offers Highway Safety and Transportation Research Ideas in Time for Summer Travel.
May 24, 2005... Byline: University of Wisconsin - Madison MADISON, Wis., May 24 (AScribe Newswire) -- With the twin forces of summer travel and road construction poised for their annual collision this time of year, reporters may be interested in projects...

Voyager Spacecraft Enters Solar System's Final Frontier.
May 24, 2005... Byline: Jet Propulsion Laboratory PASADENA, Calif., May 24 (AScribe Newswire) -- NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft has entered the solar system's final frontier. It is entering a vast, turbulent expanse where the Sun's influence ends and the...