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MIT Nanoparticles May Help Detect, Treat Tumors.
May 1, 2006

What Is The Sound of One Person Talking? New Speech Collection Tells All, Syllable by Syllable.
May 1, 2006

Bats Use Guided Missile Strategy to Capture Prey.
May 3, 2006... Byline: University of Maryland, College Park COLLEGE PARK, Md., May 3 (AScribe Newswire) -- When it comes to rocket science, it looks like bats had it worked out before the scientists did. A new University of Maryland study finds that...

Results With Newer Bladeless LASIK Equivalent to Standard Microkeratome LASIK.
May 3, 2006... Byline: Mayo Clinic ROCHESTER, Minn., May 3 (AScribe Newswire) -- A Mayo Clinic study comparing femtosecond (bladeless) and mechanical microkeratome LASIK surgeries has found equal results from both types six months post-surgery, using a...

Key Root-Development Pathway Mapped Using Advanced Genomic Technique.
May 3, 2006... Byline: Duke University DURHAM, N.C., May 3 (AScribe Newswire) -- Biologists have vastly expanded understanding of the biological machinery controlling the intricate process by which plant roots burgeon from single cells into complex...

New CARMA Brings Cool, Far Out Astrophysics More in Focus.
May 4, 2006... Byline: University of Maryland, College Park COLLEGE PARK, Md., May 4 (AScribe Newswire) -- This Friday, May 5, astronomers from the University of Maryland, the University of California at Berkeley, the University of Illinois at...

Digital Is Safer: Online Calculator and Chemotherapy Order Systems Reduce Medication Errors in Children, Hopkins Studies Show.
May 7, 2006... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BALTIMORE, May 8 (AScribe Newswire) -- Two new studies from the Johns Hopkins Children's Center show that computerizing ordering of chemotherapy and other types of intravenous drug infusions for...

Protein BRICK1 Keeps Pathway to Growth From Crumbling.
May 8, 2006... Byline: Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., May 8 (AScribe Newswire) -- Research involving a protein called BRICK1 is paving the way to a better understanding of cellular growth and development mechanisms that may result in designer...

Nice Guys Do Finish First in Lizards' Evolutionary Race, Says Michigan State University Professor.
May 9, 2006... Byline: Michigan State University EAST LANSING, Mich., May 9 (AScribe Newswire) -- Getting beaten up by the neighborhood bully so your buddy can spend time with the ladies may seem like a rough life, but that strategy not only works for...

Monster Hurricanes: Study Questions Linkage Between Severe Hurricanes, Global Warming.
May 9, 2006... Byline: University of Virginia CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., May 9 (AScribe Newswire) -- New research calls into question the linkage between major Atlantic hurricanes and global warming. That is one of the conclusions from a University of...

'Cosmic Collisions' Space Show Highlights Simulations at Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center.
May 10, 2006... Byline: Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center PITTSBURGH, May 10 (AScribe Newswire) -- Scientists relied on NSF TeraGrid computing resources at Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center to create the finale of a thrilling new planetarium show for the...

World's Tiniest Test Tubes Get Teensiest Corks.
May 10, 2006... Byline: University of Florida GAINESVILLE, Fla., May 10 (AScribe Newswire) -- Now all they need is a really, really small corkscrew. Like Lilliputian chemists, scientists have found a way to "cork" infinitesimally small nano test...

Stanford Business School Research: The 'Wall Street Walk' as Shareholder Activism.
May 11, 2006... Byline: Stanford Graduate School of Business STANFORD, Calif., May 11 (AScribe Newswire) -- Whose job is it to oversee corporate governance if a board fails at its duties? Historically, the onus has fallen on large shareholders to engage in...

Warren Institute at University of California, Berkeley, School of Law Announces Recommendations to Amend Voting Rights Act.
May 11, 2006... Byline: University of California, Berkeley - School of Law (Boalt Hall) BERKELEY, Calif., May 11 (AScribe Newswire) -- The Chief Justice Earl Warren Institute on Race, Ethnicity and Diversity (the Warren Institute) at the University of...

How Bad Is Malarial Anemia? It May Depend on Your Genes; Study Holds Promise for Susceptibility Test.
May 11, 2006... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BALTIMORE, May 11 (AScribe Newswire) -- Cell and animal studies conducted jointly by scientists at Johns Hopkins, Yale and other institutions have uncovered at least one important contributor to...

A Ruler to Measure the Universe: 'Lighthouses in the Sky' Yield Biggest-Ever 3-D Map of the Cosmos.
May 15, 2006... Byline: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory BERKELEY, Calif., May 15 (AScribe Newswire) -- A team of astronomers led by Nikhil Padmanabhan and David Schlegel has published the largest three-dimensional map of the universe ever...

New Book by California State Northridge Marine Biologist Reveals Beauty, Variety of Fishes in Coastal Waters.
May 15, 2006... Byline: Calif. State University, Northridge NORTHRIDGE, Calif., May 15 (AScribe Newswire) -- "The Ecology of Marine Fishes," California State University, Northridge (CSUN) biology department chair Larry Allen's monumental new reference...

Packard Scientists Announce First International Gene Search for Typical ALS; Million Dollar Study Is International Collaboration Supported by Government, Top ALS Organizations.
May 16, 2006... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BALTIMORE, May 16 (AScribe Newswire) -- Though it's the more common form of the disease, sporadic ALS, which affects roughly 90 percent of those living with the fatal neurodegenerative illness, has...

Restoration Project Critical to Salton Sea's Future; Health, Economic, Environmental Costs Would Be Catastrophic.
May 16, 2006... Byline: Full Court Press Communications OAKLAND, Calif., May 16 (AScribe Newswire) -- The Salton Sea is shrinking, and without a restoration project it will transform from California's largest lake into an economic, health, and...

Rheumatoid Arthritis Drug Linked to Serious Infections, Cancers.
May 16, 2006... Byline: Mayo Clinic ROCHESTER, Minn., May 16 (AScribe Newswire) -- A new meta-analysis of many previous studies of TNF (tumor necrosis factor)-blocking antibodies for treatment of rheumatoid arthritis has confirmed a previously discovered...

University of Florida Study: 'Don't Call Us, We'll Call You' Class Tool May Aid Math Students.
May 17, 2006... Byline: University of Florida GAINESVILLE, Fla., May 17 (AScribe Newswire) -- It's a feeling nearly everyone remembers experiencing at least once: sitting in class unprepared, silently praying the teacher won't call your name. For...

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Paleobiologist Reconstructing Life of Earliest Complex Animals.
May 17, 2006... Byline: University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee MILWAUKEE, Wis., May 17 (AScribe Newswire) -- For paleobiologist Stephen Dornbos and his colleagues, finding fossils of an ancient aquatic animal that was smaller than the size of a pinhead turned...

Schepens Scientists Are First to Discover Angiogenesis Switch Inside Blood Vessel Cells; Could Contribute to More Targeted Drugs for Diabetic Retinopathy, Macular Degeneration, Cancer.
May 18, 2006... Byline: Schepens Eye Research Institute BOSTON, May 18 (AScribe Newswire) -- Scientists at Schepens Eye Research Institute, an affiliate of Harvard Medical School, are the first to discover a switch inside blood vessel cells that controls...

And the Mountain Moved: Scientists Study How Heart Mountain Shifted.
May 18, 2006... Byline: American Committee for the Weizmann Institute of Science NEW YORK, May 18 (AScribe Newswire) -- "Moving mountains" has come to mean doing the impossible. Yet at least once in the past, one mountain relocated a fair distance away....

In the Loop: Scientists Reveal How Signals Travel Through Rats' Whiskers.
May 18, 2006... Byline: American Committee for the Weizmann Institute of Science NEW YORK, May 18 (AScribe Newswire) -- Like blind peoples' fingers, rats use their whiskers to engage in active sensing - a combination of movement and touch - when trying to...

Southern Regional Education Board States Among National Leaders in Online Learning, New Report From SREB, Sloan Consortium Finds.
May 18, 2006... Byline: Babson College BABSON PARK, Mass., May 18 (AScribe Newswire) -- Online learning is thriving in the 16 member states of the Southern Regional Education Board when compared with the rest of the nation, according to a...

Linking Climate Change Across Time Scales.
May 18, 2006... Byline: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution WOODS HOLE, Mass., May 18 (AScribe Newswire) -- What do month-to-month changes in temperature have to do with century-to-century changes in temperature? At first it might seem like not much. But...

New Century of Thirst for World's Mountains; Most Detailed Forecast to Date Shows Sharp Snowpack Decline Between Now and Year 2100; New Zealand, Latin America, Western U.S., European Ranges Hardest Hit.
May 18, 2006... Byline: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory RICHLAND, Wash., May 18 (AScribe Newswire) -- By the century's end, the Andes in South America will have less than half their current winter snowpack, mountain ranges in Europe and the U.S. West...

A Laser Technique That Strips Hydrogen Atoms From Silicon Surfaces Enables Low-Temperature Semiconductor Processing.
May 18, 2006... Byline: Vanderbilt University NASHVILLE, Tenn., May 18 (AScribe Newswire) -- A team of researchers has achieved a long-sought scientific goal: using laser light to break specific molecular bonds. The process uses laser light, instead of...

Book: Femme Fatale in Art Colors 19th Century Feminism in France.
May 19, 2006... Byline: Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., May 19 (AScribe Newswire) -- A new book by a Purdue University professor examines how men in 19th century France attempted to stop the spread of feminism by using the femme fatale image in...

FDA Finds High Levels of Benzene in Limited Test of Drinks.
May 19, 2006... Byline: Environmental Working Group OAKLAND, Calif., May 19 (AScribe Newswire) -- Following is Environmental Working Group's statement on the Food and Drug Administration's finding of high levels of benzene in several samples in a test of...

Feedback Loops in Global Climate Change Point to a Very Hot 21st Century.
May 22, 2006... Byline: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory BERKELEY, Calif., May 22 (AScribe Newswire) -- Studies have shown that global climate change can set off positive feedback loops in nature which amplify warming and cooling trends. Now...

University of Maryland Team Invents Way to Mass Produce Microscopic Plastic Components.
May 22, 2006... Byline: University of Maryland, College Park COLLEGE PARK, Md., May 22 (AScribe Newswire) -- Plastic parts in kitchenware, children's toys, and even automobiles, are generally mass-produced with a molding process. But mass producing...

MIT Revamps Energy System for More Fuel-Efficient Cars.
May 22, 2006... Byline: MIT CAMBRIDGE, Mass., May 22 (AScribe Newswire) -- MIT researchers are trying to unleash the promise of an old idea by converting light into electricity more efficiently than ever before. The research is applying new materials,...

Mayo Clinic Researchers Find Irritable Bowel Syndrome Aggregates Strongly in Families.
May 23, 2006... Byline: Mayo Clinic ROCHESTER, Minn., May 23 (AScribe Newswire) -- A new Mayo Clinic study found strong familial aggregation of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), suggesting a possible genetic basis for the disorder. Results of the research...

Satellite Remote-Sensing Method Hatches New Cell-Analysis System.
May 23, 2006... Byline: Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., May 23 (AScribe Newswire) -- Using the same "multispectral analysis" concept that enables satellites to study Earth's surface, Purdue University researchers have developed a new system that...

Mayo Clinic Study Finds Majority of Patients With Pancreatic Cancer Could be Treated Surgically if Diagnosed Just Six Months Earlier.
May 23, 2006... Byline: Mayo Clinic ROCHESTER, Minn., May 23 (AScribe Newswire) -- A new Mayo Clinic study reviewed CT scans of pancreatic cancer patients done before their cancer diagnosis and found that the cancer rapidly progresses from early to...

MIT 'Seeing Machine' Offers Hope to Blind.
May 23, 2006... Byline: MIT CAMBRIDGE, Mass., May 23 (AScribe Newswire) -- An MIT poet has developed a small, relatively inexpensive "seeing machine" that can allow people who are blind, or visually challenged like her, to access the Internet, view the...

American Dental Association Foundation Announces Awards for Dental Research; Four Dental Schools Share Funding in Support of Evidenced-Based Dentistry.
May 23, 2006... Byline: American Dental Association CHICAGO, May 23 (AScribe Newswire) -- Four dental schools are sharing $100,000 in competitive grants from the American Dental Association Foundation (ADAF) to conduct oral health research. Entries...

Mary-Claire King to Receive 2006 Weizmann Women & Science Award; Leader in Breast Cancer Research Cited for Groundbreaking Scientific Achievements.
May 23, 2006... Byline: American Committee for the Weizmann Institute of Science NEW YORK, May 23 (AScribe Newswire) -- The American Committee for the Weizmann Institute of Science has announced that Mary-Claire King, Ph.D., who is internationally known...

Treating It Right: Using Nanotechnology to Preserve Wood.
May 23, 2006... Byline: Michigan Technological University HOUGHTON, Mich., May 23 (AScribe Newswire) -- Untreated wood rots. Ask anyone who has put their foot through a deck. Pressure-treated wood eliminates that problem, but the metallic salts used to...

For Future Hydrogen Economy, a Tiny, Self-Powered Sensor.
May 24, 2006... Byline: University of Florida GAINESVILLE, Fla., May 24 (AScribe Newswire) -- Hydrogen has been called "the fuel of the future." But the gas is invisible, odorless and explosive at high concentrations, posing a safety problem for...

Nature Paper Details Eruption Activity at Submarine Volcano.
May 24, 2006... Byline: Oregon State University NEWPORT, Ore., May 24 (AScribe Newswire) -- An international team of scientists has presented its findings from the first observations of the eruption of a submarine volcano that in 2004 and 2005 spewed out...

Exxon Valdez Oil Found in Tidal Feeding Grounds of Ducks, Sea Otters.
May 25, 2006... Byline: American Chemical Society WASHINGTON, May 25 (AScribe Newswire) -- Seventeen years after the Exxon Valdez ran aground in Alaska's Prince William Sound, compelling new evidence suggests that remnants of the worst oil spill in U.S....

Overfishing Puts Southern California Kelp Forest Ecosystems at Risk, Report Scientists.
May 25, 2006... Byline: University of California, Santa Barbara SANTA BARBARA, Calif., May 25 (AScribe Newswire) -- Overfishing presents a much greater risk to the kelp forest ecosystems that span the West Coast -- from Alaska to Mexico's Baja Peninsula --...

Research Links Warming Oceans to Global Rise of Cyclone Intensity.
May 30, 2006... Byline: Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., May 30 (AScribe Newswire) -- Climate researchers at Purdue University have concluded in a new study that rising sea-surface temperatures over the past 40 years are linked to a trend of more...

Cambridge Health Alliance Researchers Find That U.S. Residents Are Less Healthy, Less Able to Access Health Care Than Canadians; Joint Canada-U.S. Survey of Health Is First-Ever Cross National Health Survey Carried Out by the Two Nations' Official Statistics Agencies.
May 30, 2006... Byline: Cambridge Health Alliance CAMBRIDGE, Mass., May 30 (AScribe Newswire) -- Cambridge Health Alliance (CHA) physicians, who teach at Harvard Medical School (HMS), authored a study in the July, 2006 issue of the American Journal of...

Biological Mechanisms of Aging Explored at First Annual Paul F. Glenn Symposium on Aging at Harvard Medical School.
May 31, 2006... Byline: Harvard University Medical School BOSTON, May 31 (AScribe Newswire) -- Harvard Medical School today released the following advisory. - - - - WHAT: Aging research has shown that it is possible to slow aging and extend...

North Pole's Ancient Past Holds Clues About Future Global Warming.
May 31, 2006... Byline: Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., May 31 (AScribe Newswire) -- A treasure trove of scientific data is revealing detailed information about conditions of subtropical warmth at the North Pole about 55 million years ago while...

When Galaxies Collide: Supercomputers Reproduce Fluid Motions of Cosmic Duet; Simulations Forecast Favorable Conditions for Verifying Einstein Predictions.
May 31, 2006... Byline: University of Chicago CHICAGO, May 31 (AScribe Newswire) -- A wispy collection of atoms and molecules fuels the vast cosmic maelstroms produced by colliding galaxies and merging supermassive black holes, according to some of the...

Combination Therapy Shows Promising Results in Patients With Advanced Lung Cancer.
May 31, 2006... Byline: UCLA LOS ANGELES, June 1 (AScribe Newswire) -- An early phase study pairing an experimental targeted therapy with a common anti-inflammatory produced promising results in patients with advanced lung cancer, researchers at UCLA's...