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Good News on Heart Attack and Chest Pain.
May 1, 2007

Nicotine Also Hooks Smokers by Enhancing Pleasure of Experiences, 15-Year Pitt Research Project Suggests; Study Results Present New Ideas on How Nicotine Works and Why People Smoke.
May 1, 2007

'Insulator' Helps Silence Genes in Dormant Herpes Virus.
May 2, 2007

Lab-on-a-Chip Device from Berkeley Lab to Speed Proteomics Research.
May 2, 2007

Send In the Robots: Robot Teams Handle Hazardous Jobs.
May 2, 2007

Vigorous Exercise Keeps People Thin With Age.
May 3, 2007

Vitamin Extends Life of Yeast Cells.
May 3, 2007

Coral Reef Fish Make Their Way Home.
May 3, 2007

Strokes: Not Just for Old People; Childhood Strokes Linked to Whiplash, Other Traumatic Injury.
May 3, 2007

Study Led by Scripps Research Scientist Reveals Little-Known Cell Networks Vital to Circadian Rhythm; Findings Point to Strategic Shift in Future Research, Potential Therapies.
May 4, 2007

Cancer Cells 'Reprogram' Energy Needs to Grow and Spread, Study Suggests.
May 7, 2007

Brain's White Matter: More 'Talkative' Than Once Thought.
May 7, 2007

New Data Suggests Current Approach to Drug Discovery for Lou Gehrig's Disease Be Re-Examined; Penn Researchers Find Two Forms of the Disease Biochemically Different.
May 7, 2007

Childless Women Fare as Well Psychologically as Mothers at Mid-Life.
May 7, 2007

News Tips From the 2007 Annual Meeting of the Pediatric Academic Societies, May 5-8, 2007, Toronto.
May 8, 2007

Virus Sponge Could Aid Flu Treatments.
May 8, 2007

Johns Hopkins University Nursing News and Research Briefs, May 2007.
May 8, 2007

HPV Infection Linked to Throat Cancers; Oral Sex Increases Risk for Both Men and Women.
May 9, 2007

Drylands Are Not the Same as Badlands.
May 10, 2007

Real-Time Seismic Monitoring Station Installed Atop Active Underwater Volcano; New Mooring System Advances Technologies for Monitoring Geologic Hazards in Coastal Ocean.
May 10, 2007

Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center Provides Major Support for Unprecedented NOAA and University of Oklahoma Storm-Forecast Experiment.
May 10, 2007... Byline: Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center PITTSBURGH, May 10 (AScribe Newswire) -- Spring on the Great Plains brings one of nature's most awesome performances of fierce weather, as the May 5th weekend in Kansas tragically demonstrated. Many...

Students Devise Oral Quick-Dissolve Strips for Rotavirus Vaccine; Simple Drug-Delivery System Could Curb Illness That Kills Children.
May 14, 2007

RAND Study Finds Women With Heart Disease and Diabetes Less Likely Than Men to Receive Appropriate Outpatient Care.
May 14, 2007

Self-Compassion May Be More Important Than Self-Esteem in Coping with Negative Events, New Studies Show.
May 14, 2007

Brain, Size and Gender Surprises on Latest Fossil Tying Humans, Apes and Monkeys.
May 14, 2007

Kansas State Professor Looks to Find Ways to Stop Organ Damage When Blood Flow Is Cut Off.
May 14, 2007

Johns Hopkins Team Finds Ring of Dark Matter.
May 15, 2007

NASA Finds Vast Regions of West Antarctica Melted in Recent Past.
May 15, 2007

Newly Identified Mechanism for Silencing Genes Points to Possible Anti-Cancer Strategies.
May 16, 2007

From the Deep: Researchers Find New Species of Sea Anemone.
May 16, 2007

New Study: DNA Analysis Suggests Under-Reported Kills of Threatened Whales.
May 16, 2007

Salmon Tracking Program Begins Second Season, Expands to California.
May 16, 2007

Revealing the Origins of Morality -- Good and Evil, Liberal and Conservative.
May 17, 2007

New Technique Provides Continual View of Approaching Hurricanes.
May 17, 2007

Function Outlined of Lipoic Acid As Anti-Aging Compound.
May 17, 2007

Clock Gene Plays Role in Weight Gain, Study Finds.
May 17, 2007

Universities Prepare as Physicists Plan to Pop Protons.
May 17, 2007

Oceanic Storms Create Oases in the Watery Desert; New Research Demonstrates that Mid-Ocean Eddies Pump Up Nutrients to Fuel Plankton Blooms.
May 17, 2007

A First Glimpse at Healthy Brain and Behavioral Development: First Report From Large-Scale Study Establishes Norms for 6- to 18-Year-Olds.
May 17, 2007

Stanford Business School Research: Be Careful What You Ask Your Customers.
May 18, 2007

B12 Is Also an Essential Vitamin for Marine Life; Vitamin Has Impacts on Marine Food Web, Earth's Climate.
May 18, 2007

Less Crime, More Security Needed to Promote Democracy in El Salvador; Latin American Public Opinion Project Released May 18.
May 18, 2007

Kansas State Professor Investigating Possible Link Between Obesity and Cancer.
May 22, 2007

Medical, High-Energy Physicists Collaborate to Improve PET Scans.
May 22, 2007

System to Pinpoint Airline Passengers Who Contaminate Cabins.
May 22, 2007

Research Finds Christian Right 'Strikingly Unsuccessful' in Long-Term State and Local School Board Efforts; Study Examined the Evolution and Intelligent Design Controversies in Kansas, Georgia, Pennsylvania.
May 22, 2007

Penn Researchers Find COX Inhibitors May Weaken Protective Qualities of Estrogen Hormone Therapy.
May 22, 2007

Adult Brain Cells Rediscover Their Inner Child; Hopkins Study Shows Adult-Born Nerves Experience Brief Period of Child-Like Learning.
May 23, 2007... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BALTIMORE, May 23 (AScribe Newswire) -- You may not be able to relive your youth, but part of your brain can. Johns Hopkins researchers have found that newly made nerves in an adult brain's...

Plants That Produce More Vitamin C May Result From UCLA-Dartmouth Advance in Molecular Biology.
May 23, 2007... Byline: UCLA LOS ANGELES, May 23 (AScribe Newswire) -- UCLA and Dartmouth scientists have identified a crucial enzyme in plant vitamin C synthesis, which could lead to enhanced crops. The discovery now makes clear the entire 10-step...

Ancient Meteor Blast May Have Caused Extinctions, Report UC Santa Barbara Scientists.
May 23, 2007... Byline: University of California, Santa Barbara SANTA BARBARA, Calif., May 23 (AScribe Newswire) -- New scientific findings suggest that a large, extraterrestrial rock may have exploded over North America 13,000 years ago, explaining...

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Links Activity in Brain Synapses and Developmental Abnormalities With Schizophrenia Gene.
May 24, 2007... Byline: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory COLD SPRING HARBOR, N.Y., May 24 (AScribe Newswire) -- Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) researchers have identified a function of neuregulin1 (NRG1), a gene previously linked to schizophrenia but...

Penn Researchers Home in on Possible New Breast Cancer Gene.
May 24, 2007... Byline: University of Pennsylvania Health System PHILADELPHIA, May 24 (AScribe Newswire) -- Researchers at the Abramson Family Cancer Research Institute of the University of Pennsylvania and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute describe in this...

Telephone 'Quitlines' May Help Dental Patients Stop Smoking.
May 25, 2007... Byline: American Dental Association CHICAGO, May 25 (AScribe Newswire) -- Dentists may be able to help their patients stop smoking by referring them to tobacco-use telephone "quitlines," according to a pilot study published in the May...

New Mouse Model Closely Mimics Human Cancers; Scientists Say Development Will Enhance Cancer Gene Discovery in Humans.
May 25, 2007... Byline: Dana-Farber Cancer Institute BOSTON, May 25 (AScribe Newswire) -- A team led by Dana-Farber Cancer Institute scientists has developed a more human-like mouse model of cancer they say will aid the search for cancer-causing genes and...

Grandkids Don't Wear Out Grandma After All.
May 29, 2007... Byline: University of Chicago CHICAGO, May 29 (AScribe Newswire) -- Despite previous research findings that showed negative health impacts on grandmothers who care for their grandchildren, new research conducted by Linda Waite, the Lucy...

Skip Buying Extra Stuff and Take a Vacation Instead, Says University of Colorado at Boulder Happiness Expert.
May 29, 2007... Byline: University of Colorado, Boulder BOULDER, Colo., May 29 (AScribe Newswire) -- Shopping for that new high-definition television this summer? Skip it, and take a vacation instead, says a University of Colorado at Boulder psychologist...

Why Are Galaxies Without Black Holes Uncommon? The Answer Is Spin Alignment, Say University of Maryland Researchers.
May 29, 2007... Byline: University of Maryland, College Park COLLEGE PARK, Md., May 29 (AScribe Newswire) -- Recent calculations indicate that when two galaxies, and the supermassive black holes that lie at their centers, merge, these galactic "marriages"...

Ability to Measure Spin in Supermassive Black Holes Promises New Insights Into How They Form.
May 29, 2007... Byline: University of Maryland, College Park COLLEGE PARK, Md., May 29 (AScribe Newswire) -- Astronomers at the University of Maryland have made the first quantitative measurements of the spin of several supermassive black holes,...

Native Red Foxes Living in California's Sacramento Valley; Public's Help Sought.
May 29, 2007... Byline: University of California, Davis DAVIS, Calif., May 29 (AScribe Newswire) -- Contrary to onetime scientific opinion, red foxes living in the Sacramento Valley are not an artificially introduced species that threaten local ecosystems,...

Finding Better Pesticides for California Rice Fields.
May 29, 2007... Byline: University of California, Davis DAVIS, Calif., May 29 (AScribe Newswire) -- The University of California, Davis is helping the California rice industry adopt more environmentally friendly pesticides for weed and insect control. ...

Colgate Researcher Discovers Tomb, Remains in Honduras; Find Suggest a Politically and Culturally Diverse City.
May 30, 2007... Byline: Colgate University HAMILTON, N.Y., May 30 (AScribe Newswire) -- Colgate University anthropology professor Allan Maca and his team of researchers have found a previously unknown tomb in Copan, Honduras, dating back to the 7th...

Huge Wind Machine to Simulate Category Three Hurricanes.
May 30, 2007... Byline: University of Florida GAINESVILLE, Fla., May 30 (AScribe Newswire) -- It will huff, and puff, and blow the house in -- but only for research purposes. Two days before the June 1 start of the 2007 hurricane season, University of...

An 'Elegant' Idea Proves Its Worth 25 Years Later.
May 30, 2007... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BALTIMORE, May 30 (AScribe Newswire) -- The simple notion of copying the body's own natural "waste disposal" chemistry to mop up potentially toxic nitrogen has saved an estimated 80 percent of...

For Patients With a Common Back Ailment, Surgery Is the Way to Go.
May 31, 2007... Byline: Hospital for Special Surgery NEW YORK, May 31 (AScribe Newswire) -- Sufferers of back pain may find quicker relief thanks to a study published in the May 31 issue of The New England Journal of Medicine. Doctors found that surgery...

Love Still Dominates Pop Song Lyrics, But With Raunchier Language.
May 31, 2007... Byline: University of Florida GAINESVILLE, Fla., May 31 (AScribe Newswire) -- "Make love not war" may have been a popular slogan of the '60s, but romance still figures prominently - and perhaps even more so - in today's hit music, a new...

Research Finds Evidence Tropical Cyclones Have Climate-Control Role.
May 31, 2007... Byline: Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., May 31 (AScribe Newswire) -- Purdue University researchers have found evidence that tropical cyclones and hurricanes play an important role in the ocean circulation patterns that transport...

New Method for Making Improved Radiation Detectors.
May 31, 2007... Byline: Brookhaven National Laboratory UPTON, N.Y., May 31 (AScribe Newswire) -- Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory, with funding from DOE's National Nuclear Security Administration, have devised...

Study Says Many Guatemalan Women Don't Vote; Latin American Public Opinion Project Released May 31.
May 31, 2007... Byline: Vanderbilt University NASHVILLE, Tenn., May 31 (AScribe Newswire) -- A comparative study shows that Guatemalan women tend not to vote. This is especially true of those who lack education and live in rural areas. The study was...