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Study From Children's Hospital Boston Evaluates Community Response to Personally Controlled Health Information.
May 1, 2009... Byline: Children's Hospital Boston BOSTON, May 1 (AScribe Newswire) -- A new paper published in the latest issue of the open access publication Journal of Medical Internet Research evaluates consumers' experiences with the Indivo...

When Cells Reach Out and Touch: RNA Production Revs Up During Cell-to-Cell Contact.
May 1, 2009... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BALTIMORE, May 1 (AScribe Newswire) -- MicroRNAs are single-stranded snippets that, not long ago, were given short shrift as genetic junk. Now that studies have shown they regulate genes involved...

'Smart Turbine Blades' to Improve Wind Power.
May 1, 2009... Byline: Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., May 1 (AScribe Newswire) -- Researchers have developed a technique that uses sensors and computational software to constantly monitor forces exerted on wind turbine blades, a step toward...

Nature Paper Asks, Drexler Explains How Dark Matter Caused the Early Rapid Growth of Massive Galaxies.
May 4, 2009... Byline: The Drexler Foundation SILICON VALLEY, Calif., May 4 (AScribe Newswire) -- A paper in the journal Nature entitled, "Early assembly of the most massive galaxies," published April 2, 2009, reports that astronomers' discovery of...

Experts Urge More Caution in the Continued Use of DDT.
May 4, 2009... Byline: Public Health Institute OAKLAND, Calif., May 4 (AScribe Newswire) -- A panel of international scientists is calling for stronger efforts to reduce exposure to DDT in areas where it is still used and in areas where significant...

Children Who View Adult-Targeted TV May Become Sexually Active Earlier in Life; Longitudinal Study Tracked Content Viewed During Childhood and Adolescence.(Clinical report)
May 4, 2009... Byline: Children's Hospital Boston BOSTON, May 4 (AScribe Newswire) -- Early onset of sexual activity among teens may relate to the amount of adult content children were exposed to during their childhood, according to a new study released...

Animals on Runways Can Cause Serious Problems at Small Airports.
May 4, 2009... Byline: Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., May 4 (AScribe Newswire) -- It's a bird. It's a plane. It's a potentially deadly combination. A Purdue University study of 10 small Indiana airports found that animals can gain easy...

Endocyte Initiates Phase 1 Trial of EC0489 for Treatment of Refractory or Metastatic Solid Tumors.
May 5, 2009... Byline: Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., May 5 (AScribe Newswire) -- Endocyte Inc., has announced the initiation of a Phase 1 clinical trial with EC0489, a folate-targeted anticancer drug for the treatment of refractory or...

Treatment for Extreme Nausea, Vomiting During Pregnancy: Collaborative Canada-France Study Published in European Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Reproductive Biology.
May 6, 2009... Byline: Universite de Montreal MONTREAL, May 6 (AScribe Newswire) -- Nausea and vomiting are telltale indicators of pregnancy, affecting more than 80 percent of future mothers. For a few moms-to-be, symptoms can become so severe that...

Narcolepsy Confirmed as an Auto-Immune Disorder.
May 6, 2009... Byline: Narcolepsy Network NORTH KINGSTOWN, R.I., May 6 (AScribe Newswire) -- Narcolepsy Network announced today to its members and supporters newly published research that clearly establishes that narcolepsy is an auto-immune disorder. An...

Random Picks Better Than Complicated Process in Gene Identification.
May 6, 2009... Byline: Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., May 6 (AScribe Newswire) -- Researchers at Purdue University have found a way to save time, money and a little frustration in searches for specific genes that shed light on the biological...

New Evidence Ties Gene to Alzheimer's.
May 6, 2009... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BALTIMORE, May 6 (AScribe Newswire) -- Of dozens of candidates potentially involved in increasing a person's risk for the most common type of Alzheimer's disease that affects more than 5 million...

Genes Found to Play a Role in Breast Cancer's Spread to the Brain.
May 6, 2009... Byline: Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center NEW YORK, May 6 (AScribe Newswire) -- New research led by investigators at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) identifies three genes that specifically mediate the metastasis, or...

Refined Hubble Constant Narrows Possible Explanations for Dark Energy.
May 7, 2009... Byline: Johns Hopkins University BALTIMORE, May 7 (AScribe Newswire) -- Whatever dark energy is, explanations for it have less wiggle room following a Hubble Space Telescope observation that has refined the measurement of the universe's...

Rise of Oxygen Caused Earth's Earliest Ice Age.
May 7, 2009... Byline: University of Maryland, College Park COLLEGE PARK, Md., May 7 (AScribe Newswire) -- An international team of geologists may have uncovered the answer to an age-old question - an ice-age-old question, that is. It appears that Earth's...

Team of Researchers Achieves Major Step Toward Faster Chips.
May 7, 2009... Byline: University of Florida GAINESVILLE, Fla., May 7 (AScribe Newswire) -- New research findings could lead to faster, smaller and more versatile computer chips. A team of scientists and engineers from Stanford, the University of...

Purdue Researcher Starts Work on 2009 H1N1 Flu Vaccine.
May 7, 2009... Byline: Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., May 7 (AScribe Newswire) -- Using a method he developed for the H5N1 bird flu, Purdue University researcher Suresh Mittal believes he will be able to create a vaccine that will work against...

Online Surveillance Tools Provide Opportunity to Support Public Health; HealthMap Swine Flu Tracking Offers a Case in Point.
May 7, 2009... Byline: Children's Hospital Boston BOSTON, Mass., May 7 (AScribe Newswire) -- Tapping the Internet - including personal Web searches, news reports, blogs, chat rooms and social networking sites - is fast becoming a way to get a complete,...

Well-Designed 'Circuit Breakers' Provide Effective Property Tax Relief, Lincoln Institute Report Says; Existing Programs Can Be Fine-Tuned to Help Over-Burdened Households Without Stressing Local Governments Struggling to Provide Services.
May 8, 2009... Byline: Lincoln Institute of Land Policy CAMBRIDGE, Mass., May 8 (AScribe Newswire) -- State and local governments could make better use of "circuit breaker" programs to provide targeted property tax relief based on ability to pay,...

Research on Extraordinary Perceptual Deficit Sheds Light on How We See.
May 8, 2009... Byline: Johns Hopkins University BALTIMORE, May 8 (AScribe Newswire) -- To the casual observer, the student seemed absolutely normal. Though she often made mistakes in spelling and math, those were usually ascribed to carelessness. After...

Harvard Survey Shows Americans Are Pleased With Public Health Response to Novel H1N1 Outbreak.
May 8, 2009... Byline: Association of State and Territorial Health Officials ARLINGTON, Va., May 8 (AScribe Newswire) -- More than 80 percent of Americans say they are satisfied with the way that public health officials have managed the response to the...

The Day the Universe Froze.
May 8, 2009... Byline: Vanderbilt University NASHVILLE, Tenn., May 8 (AScribe Newswire) -- Imagine a time when the entire universe froze. According to a new model for dark energy, that is essentially what happened about 11.5 billion years ago, when the...

Corporate Foundation Giving Remained Flat in 2008, Foundation Center Report Shows; Declines Expected in 2009.
May 11, 2009... Byline: The Foundation Center NEW YORK, May 11 (AScribe Newswire) -- Charitable giving by the nation's nearly 2,500 corporate foundations remained virtually unchanged in 2008, according to the Foundation Center's "Key Facts on Corporate...

Wichita State Gets $6.6 Million Grant for Fertility Research.
May 11, 2009... Byline: Wichita State University WICHITA, Kan., May 11 (AScribe Newswire) -- Wichita State University has been awarded a $6.6 million federal grant for research that could help older women improve their chances of a healthy pregnancy. ...

Carnegie Mellon's Peter Adams Finds No Link Between Cloud Coverage and Global Warming.
May 11, 2009... Byline: Carnegie Mellon University PITTSBURGH, May 11 (AScribe Newswire) -- With the U.S. Congress beginning to consider regulations on greenhouse gases, a troubling hypothesis about how the sun may impact global warming is finally laid to...

Brains Come Before Beauty in Boosting One's Career Earnings.
May 11, 2009... Byline: University of Florida GAINESVILLE, Fla., May 11 (AScribe Newswire) -- Nice guys may finish last, but it's the smart ones that come in first with the lookers close behind, according to a University of Florida study that finds people...

Scientists Map West Coast Areas Most Affected by Humans.
May 11, 2009... Byline: University of California, Santa Barbara SANTA BARBARA, Calif., May 11 (AScribe Newswire) -- Climate change, fishing, and commercial shipping top the list of threats to the ocean off the West Coast of the United States. "Every...

Preliminary Research Shows That Older Adults Want Grocery Stores to Carry Smaller Portions and Packages, Place Items Lower on Shelves.
May 11, 2009... Byline: Kansas State University MANHATTAN, Kan., May 11 (AScribe Newswire) -- A Kansas State University student has been accompanying older adults on their grocery shopping trips to learn more about their shopping habits and decisions. Her...

Twenty-Two-Year Study Finds Canadian Adults Aren't Active Enough; Universite de Montreal and Sainte-Justine Hospital Research Center Lead Research Published in International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity.(Clinical report)
May 12, 2009... Byline: Universite de Montreal MONTREAL, May 12 (AScribe Newswire) -- A new study has sounded the alarm that the majority of Canadian adults are inactive over their lifespan and don't exercise enough during their leisure time. Published in...

In Retinal Disease, Sight May Depend on Second Sites.
May 12, 2009... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BALTIMORE, May 12 (AScribe Newswire) -- If two people have the same genetic disease, why would one person go blind in childhood but the other later in life or not at all? For a group of genetic...

Embryo's Heartbeat Drives Blood Stem Cell Formation; Clues About How Blood Forms Could Yield New Strategies for Treating Blood Diseases.
May 13, 2009... Byline: Children's Hospital Boston BOSTON, May 13 (AScribe Newswire) -- Biologists have long wondered why the embryonic heart begins beating so early, before the tissues actually need to be infused with blood. Two groups of researchers from...

Cold Water Ocean Circulation Doesn't Work as Expected.
May 13, 2009... Byline: Duke University DURHAM, N.C., May 13 (AScribe Newswire) -- The familiar model of Atlantic ocean currents that shows a discrete "conveyor belt" of deep, cold water flowing southward from the Labrador Sea is probably all wet. ...

UC Santa Barbara Scientists Document Fate of Huge Oil Slicks From Seeps at Coal Oil Point.
May 13, 2009... Byline: University of California, Santa Barbara SANTA BARBARA, Calif., May 13 (AScribe Newswire) -- Twenty years ago, the oil tanker Exxon Valdez was exiting Alaska's Prince William Sound when it struck a reef in the middle of the night....

Self-Identified Multiracial Individuals Realize Real Benefits; According to Stanford Business School Research.
May 13, 2009... Byline: Stanford Graduate School of Business STANFORD, Calif., May 13 (AScribe Newswire) -- In drafting questionnaires probing ethnicity, educational and governmental organizations are under increasing pressure to include a multiracial...

Kansas State Psychology Researchers Find That Even in Hostile Working Environments, Employees Are Reluctant to Leave Their Jobs.
May 14, 2009... Byline: Kansas State University MANHATTAN, Kan., May 14 (AScribe Newswire) -- She never gets invited to lunch with the rest of her co-workers. He always gets publically criticized for his mistakes. But according to research by Kansas...

Old Diabetes Drug Teaches Experts New Tricks.
May 14, 2009... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BALTIMORE, May 14 (AScribe Newswire) -- Research from the Johns Hopkins Children's Center reveals that the drug most commonly used in type 2 diabetics who don't need insulin works on a much more...

Experimental Immunotherapy Markedly Improves Cure Rate for Children With Neuroblastoma.(Clinical report)
May 14, 2009... Byline: Children's Oncology Group BETHESDA, Md., May 14 (AScribe Newswire) -- Researchers from the Children's Oncology Group (COG) have demonstrated that a new experimental immunotherapy treatment using the chimeric monoclonal antibody...

New Lead on Malaria Treatment: Variation of Natural Compound Cures Malaria in Mice.
May 15, 2009... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BALTIMORE, May 15 (AScribe Newswire) -- Approximately 350 million to 500 million cases of malaria are diagnosed each year mostly in sub-Saharan Africa. While medications to prevent and treat...

Drexler's Dark Matter Essentially Predicts Lyman-Alpha Blob, Himiko, Just Discovered by Carnegie Institution.
May 18, 2009... Byline: The Drexler Foundation SILICON VALLEY, Calif., May 18 (AScribe Newswire) -- A group of recent science articles about the discovery of the most distant and largest Lyman-alpha blob, dubbed Himiko, has the intriguing titles...

Mock CPR Drills in Kids Show Many Residents Fail in Key Skills, Hopkins Study Reveals; 'Staged' CPR Drills Quickly Close the Training Gaps.
May 18, 2009... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BALTIMORE, May 18 (AScribe Newswire) -- Research from the Johns Hopkins Children's Center exposes alarming gaps in training hospital residents in "first response" emergency treatment of staged...

Research: Mockingbirds, No Bird Brains, Can Recognize a Face in a Crowd.
May 18, 2009... Byline: University of Florida GAINESVILLE, Fla., May 18 (AScribe Newswire) -- The birds are watching. They know who you are. And they will attack. Nope, not Hitchcock. It's science. University of Florida biologists are...

University of Florida Study Provides Insight Into Evolution of First Flowers.
May 18, 2009... Byline: University of Florida GAINESVILLE, Fla., May 18 (AScribe Newswire) -- Charles Darwin described the sudden origin of flowering plants about 130 million years ago as an abominable mystery, one that scientists have yet to solve. ...

Why Do People With Down Syndrome Have Less Cancer? Research in Mice and Human Stem Cells Suggests New Therapeutic Targets.
May 20, 2009... Byline: Children's Hospital Boston BOSTON, May 20 (AScribe Newswire) -- Most cancers are rare in people with Down syndrome, whose overall cancer mortality is below 10 percent of that in the general population. Since they have an extra copy...

Earth's Bombardment by Asteroids 3.9 Billion Years Ago May Have Enhanced Early Life, Says University of Colorado Study.
May 20, 2009... Byline: University of Colorado, Boulder BOULDER, Colo., May 20 (AScribe Newswire) -- The bombardment of Earth nearly 4 billion years ago by asteroids as large as Kansas would not have had the firepower to extinguish potential early life on...

Study Reveals Role of Evolutionary Processes in Species Coexistence, Diversity.
May 20, 2009... Byline: University of California, Santa Barbara SANTA BARBARA, Calif., May 20 (AScribe Newswire) -- A team of researchers, addressing longstanding conflicts in ecology and evolutionary science, has provided key directions for the future of...

New 'Broadband' Cloaking Technology Simple to Manufacture.
May 20, 2009... Byline: Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., May 20 (AScribe Newswire) -- Researchers have created a new type of invisibility cloak that is simpler than previous designs and works for all colors of the visible spectrum, making it...

Limiting Work Hours for Medical Residents Would Cost $1.6 Billion Annually, RAND/UCLA Study Finds.(Report)
May 20, 2009... Byline: RAND Corporation SANTA MONICA, Calif., May 20 (AScribe Newswire) -- New recommendations to limit the work hours of medical residents and improve their educational conditions would cost the nation's teaching hospitals about $1.6...

Research to Restore the Fertility of Earth's Soils.
May 20, 2009... Byline: Nutrition Security Institute BELLEVUE, Wash., May 20 (AScribe Newswire) -- In keynote addresses at the FAO Workshop on Sustainable Agriculture in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on April 28 and April 29, 2009, soil fertility experts from the...

CT Scan to Help Scientists Diagnose Role of Clouds in Climate; Extensive Field Study May Offer Clues to Climate Change, Weather.
May 21, 2009... Byline: Brookhaven National Laboratory UPTON, N.Y., May 21 (AScribe Newswire) -- During May and June 2009, scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory, Argonne National Laboratory, and the University...

Specialty Care Costs for Patients With Bipolar Disorder Are Higher Than Diabetes and Other Chronic Diseases.
May 21, 2009... Byline: Mayo Clinic SAN FRANCISCO, May 21 (AScribe Newswire) -- Mayo Clinic researchers have found that bipolar disorder is more costly than other chronic conditions such as diabetes, depression, asthma or coronary artery disease. These...

Mayo Clinic Researchers Examine the Psychological Impact of Child Abuse.
May 21, 2009... Byline: Mayo Clinic SAN FRANCISCO, May 21 (AScribe Newswire) -- According to a new Mayo Clinic study, a history of child abuse significantly impacts the wide range of challenges facing depressed inpatients. Included are an increase in...

LSU Health Sciences Center Research Describes Function of Key Protein in Cancer Spread.
May 21, 2009... Byline: LSU Health Sciences Center NEW ORLEANS, May 21 (AScribe Newswire) -- Research led by David Worthylake, PhD, Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans, may help lay the...

Land Value Tax Assessed by Lincoln Institute of Land Policy.
May 22, 2009... Byline: Lincoln Institute of Land Policy CAMBRIDGE, Mass., May 22 (AScribe Newswire) -- The land value tax, an increased tax rate on land and a reduced tax rate on buildings and improvements, can spur urban development and help contain...

Alzheimer's Discovery Could Bring Early Diagnosis, Treatment Closer; McGill and Lady Davis Institute Findings Help Pinpoint Molecular Cause of the Disease.
May 22, 2009... Byline: McGill University MONTREAL, May 22 (AScribe Newswire) -- A discovery made by researchers at McGill University and the affiliated Lady Davis Research Institute for Medical Research at Montreal's Jewish General Hospital offers new...

Waxy Plant Substance Key for Absorption of Water, Nutrients.
May 22, 2009... Byline: Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., May 22 (AScribe Newswire) -- While proving a long-held theory that suberin blocks water and nutrient absorption in plants, a Purdue University scientist learned more about manipulating the...