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New Research Shows Toxic Birds, Poison-Dart Frogs Likely Acquire Their Toxins From Beetles; Dr. Jack Dumbacher Finds Elusive Toxin Source in New Guinea.
November 1, 2004... Byline: California Academy of Sciences SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 1 (AScribe Newswire) -- In the mid-1960s, scientists identified a potent neurotoxin in the skin of a Colombian poison-dart frog. This toxin, called a batrachotoxin, was so powerful...

Study Demonstrates New Treatment Option for Patients With Moderately Active Ulcerative Colitis; Higher Dose Delivered Effectively With New 800 mg Tablet.
November 1, 2004... Byline: Mayo Clinic ORLANDO, Fla., Nov. 1 (AScribe Newswire) -- Results of a study being presented on Tuesday, Nov. 2, 2004, by a Mayo Clinic physician at the 69th Annual Scientific Meeting of the American College of Gastroenterology (ACG)...

Climate Uncertainty With CO2 Rise Due to Uncertainty About Aerosols.
November 1, 2004... Byline: Brookhaven National Laboratory UPTON, N.Y., Nov. 1 (AScribe Newswire) -- Climate scientists agree that atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) has increased about 35 percent over the industrial period and that it will continue to rise so...

Research Points to Easier Treatment for Amblyopia, or 'Lazy Eye'.
November 1, 2004... Byline: Indiana University BLOOMINGTON, Ind., Nov. 1 (AScribe Newswire) -- A study conducted by the Pediatric Eye Disease Investigator Group has found that children with moderate amblyopia, often called "lazy eye," benefit as much from...

Vanderbilt Economists Receive NIH Grant to Study Long-Term Health Effects of Head Start.
November 1, 2004... Byline: Vanderbilt University NASHVILLE, Tenn., Nov. 1 (AScribe Newswire) -- James E. Foster, senior fellow with the Vanderbilt Institute for Public Policy Studies (VIPPS) and professor of economics, has received a grant from the National...

News Tips From the 44th Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, Oct. 30 - Nov. 2, Washington, D.C.
November 1, 2004... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions WASHINGTON, Oct. 30 (AScribe Newswire) -- Listed below are several key presentations surrounding the 2004, 44th ICAAC from researchers affiliated with Johns Hopkins. ---- SOME ANTIBIOTIC...

Joslin Diabetes Center Awards First Mary K. Iacocca Faculty Fellowship to World-Renowned Cell Imaging Researcher at Harvard Medical School; New Fellowship Designed to Introduce New Ideas Into Diabetes Research.
November 1, 2004... Byline: Joslin Diabetes Center BOSTON, Nov. 1 (AScribe Newswire) -- Joslin Diabetes Center announced today that Ulrich H. von Andrian, M.D., Ph.D, is the first scientist to receive the new Mary K. Iacocca Faculty Fellowship at Joslin...

Carving New Frontiers for Ion-Beam Technology: An Imprinter That Combines Electron and Ion Beams Opens the Way to Numerous Applications.
November 1, 2004... Byline: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory BERKELEY, Calif., Nov. 1 (AScribe Newswire) -- An ion-beam system that simultaneously combines focused beams of electrons and positive ions promises to improve the versatility, efficiency, and...

Mayo Clinic Successfully Uses Anticancer Drug to Fight Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis.
November 1, 2004... Byline: Mayo Clinic ROCHESTER, Minn., Nov. 1 (AScribe Newswire) -- Mayo Clinic researchers have identified a treatment for the fatal lung disease idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF). They found that the anti-cancer drug imatinib mesylate...

Medical College of Wisconsin Researchers Find Gene Mutations Increase Risk for Surgery in Children With Crohn's Disease.
November 1, 2004... Byline: Medical College of Wisconsin MILWAUKEE, Nov. 1 (AScribe Newswire) -- A new study by Medical College of Wisconsin researchers has found that children with Crohn's disease who have a certain genetic make up are more likely to develop...

Molecular Clock Genes Influence Metabolism of Sugar and Dietary Fats Implications for Better Understanding of Diabetes, Metabolic Syndrome, Obesity.
November 1, 2004... Byline: University of Pennsylvania Health System PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 1 (AScribe Newswire) -- Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have discovered that components of the internal molecular clock of mammals have an...

Advanced, Precise Radiation May Boost Limb-Sparing Therapy for Sarcoma; USC Study Shows Brachytherapy Holds Promise as Treatment for Once-Debilitating Cancers.
November 2, 2004... Byline: USC Health Sciences LOS ANGELES, Nov. 2 (AScribe Newswire) -- Brachytherapy, the administration of radiation therapy locally through radioactive seeds, holds promise as part of a limb-sparing treatment program for patients with...

Air Pollution and Heart Problems: Recent Research.
November 3, 2004... Byline: Harvard School of Public Health BOSTON, Nov. 3 (AScribe Newswire) -- Exposure to air pollution may lead to increased resting blood pressure among individuals with cardiovascular disease and increased blood pressure during exercise...

Link Between Immune Protein and Longer Survival in Melanoma Patients Identified.
November 4, 2004... Byline: University of Virginia Health System CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., Nov. 4 (AScribe Newswire) -- Immune responses to prevent or delay the spread of melanoma, a deadly form of skin cancer, are more likely to prolong survival in patients if...

Powerful 'Toolkit' Developed for Functional Profiling of Yeast Genes.
November 4, 2004... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BALTIMORE, Nov. 4 (AScribe Newswire) -- Johns Hopkins researchers have built a powerful "toolkit" designed to quickly uncover how yeast's genes interact with each other. Because 60 percent of...

Spirit Adds Clues About History of Rocks in Martian Hills.
November 4, 2004... Byline: Jet Propulsion Laboratory PASADENA, Calif., Nov. 4 (AScribe Newswire) -- All the scientific tools on NASA's two Mars Exploration Rovers are still working well, a full 10 months after Spirit's dramatic landing. The ones on...

Underwater Robot Makes History Crossing Gulf Stream.
November 5, 2004... Byline: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution WOODS HOLE, Mass., Nov. 5 (AScribe Newswire) -- Like the sailing vessel used by Captain Joshua Slocum to sail solo around the world 100 years ago, another ocean-going vehicle is making history. A...

Genetic Testing Can Identify Ischemic and Nonischemic Heart Failure.
November 6, 2004... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BALTIMORE, Nov. 6 (AScribe Newswire) -- Researchers at Johns Hopkins have shown that genetic testing can be effectively used to distinguish between heart failure patients who suffer from ischemic...

Medical College of Wisconsin Researchers Show ResQ-Valve With CPR Improves Survival Rate in Cardiac Arrest Patients.
November 8, 2004... Byline: Medical College of Wisconsin MILWAUKEE, Nov. 8 (AScribe Newswire) -- A Medical College of Wisconsin research team, led by emergency physicians Tom P. Aufderheide and Ronald G. Pirrallo, has found that adding a simple device called...

Unseen Colorado Mountain Aquifers Throw Water on 'Teflon Basin' Myth.
November 8, 2004... Byline: University of Colorado, Boulder BOULDER, Colo., Nov. 8 (AScribe Newswire) -- New University of Colorado at Boulder research shows high-altitude aquifers honeycomb parts of the Colorado Rockies, trapping snowmelt and debunking the...

Sea Change: Skeletons of Ancient Corals Different From Today's.
November 8, 2004... Byline: Johns Hopkins University BALTIMORE, Nov. 8 (AScribe Newswire) -- A Johns Hopkins graduate student may have solved a problem that has been baffling marine biologists and paleontologists for years: Why do coral reefs disappear from...

Cassini Observations Show Dynamic Dance at Saturn.
November 8, 2004... Byline: University of Colorado, Boulder BOULDER, Colo., Nov. 8 (AScribe Newswire) -- A University of Colorado at Boulder professor involved with the Cassini-Huygens mission is reporting an ever-changing vista at the frontiers of Saturn,...

Study Shows NCAA Rule Change Did Not Reduce Big Ten Injury Rates.
November 8, 2004... Byline: University of Iowa IOWA CITY, Iowa, Nov. 8 (AScribe Newswire) -- A new study conducted by the Big Ten Sports Medicine Committee finds that a National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) rule change, instituted in 1998, limiting...

Florissant Tops Amber Deposits for Fossil Beetle Richness, According to CU-Boulder Study.
November 8, 2004... Byline: University of Colorado, Boulder BOULDER, Colo., Nov. 8 (AScribe Newswire) -- Despite its popularity fueled in part by the blockbuster movie "Jurassic Park," amber nevertheless trails the Florissant Fossil Beds in Colorado when it...

Method Developed to Replicate Stem Cells From the Heart.
November 8, 2004... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BALTIMORE, Nov. 8 (AScribe Newswire) -- In human and animal studies, scientists at Johns Hopkins have developed a fast and safe method for collecting heart stem cells from remarkably small amounts...

Injury From Epileptic Seizures Relatively Rare, Mayo Clinic Study Finds Injuries That Occur Tend to Be Minor.
November 8, 2004... Byline: Mayo Clinic ROCHESTER, Minn., Nov. 8 (AScribe Newswire) -- A new Mayo Clinic study has found a low risk of major injury from epileptic seizures. Thus, the researchers say that most patients who have epilepsy do not need to...

UC Santa Barbara Researchers Discover Living Nanoscale 'Necklace'.
November 8, 2004... Byline: University of California, Santa Barbara SANTA BARBARA, Calif., Nov. 8 (AScribe Newswire) -- In an interdisciplinary endeavor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, a team of researchers in physics and biology have made a...

'Outgrown' a Peanut Allergy? Eat More Peanuts! Monthly Ingestion Appears to Boost Peanut Tolerance.
November 9, 2004... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BALTIMORE, Nov. 9 (AScribe Newswire) -- Children who outgrow peanut allergy have a slight chance of recurrence, but researchers from the Johns Hopkins Children's Center report that the risk is much...

African-American Heart Attack Patients Fare Worse Long Term.
November 9, 2004... Byline: Duke University DURHAM, N.C., Nov. 9 (AScribe Newswire) -- In the largest analysis of its kind, researchers from the Duke Clinical Research Institute (DCRI) found that African-American heart attack patients have a 1.7 times higher...

Stem Cell Therapy Effectively Treats Heart Attacks in Animals.
November 9, 2004... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BALTIMORE, Nov. 9 (AScribe Newswire) -- Results from an animal study conducted at Johns Hopkins show that stem cell therapy can be used effectively to treat heart attacks, or myocardial infarcts,...

Genetic Variant Linked to Weakened Heart Pumping.
November 9, 2004... Byline: Duke University DURHAM, N.C., Nov. 9 (AScribe Newswire) -- Duke Clinical Research Institute researchers, in collaboration with the Duke Department of Genetics and the Duke Center for Human Genetics, have discovered that a variant...

Taking Pills, Even If Placebo, Predicts Better Survival in Heart Failure.
November 9, 2004... Byline: Duke University DURHAM, N.C., Nov. 9 (AScribe Newswire) -- In findings that can not totally be explained but are sure to lead to future research, Duke Clinical Research Institute investigators have found that adherence to medical...

Percutaneous Edge-to-Edge Mitral Valve Repair Shows Favorable Preliminary Results; Cath Lab Procedure Could Replace Major Heart Surgery in Some Patients.
November 9, 2004... Byline: University of Pennsylvania Health System PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Nov. 9 (AScribe Newswire) -- The Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania (HUP) is participating in a nationwide clinical trial of a new valve repair device that could...

Cassini Spacecraft Images Objects, Density Waves in Saturn's Rings.
November 9, 2004... Byline: University of Colorado, Boulder BOULDER, Colo., Nov. 9 (AScribe Newswire) -- A University of Colorado at Boulder-built instrument riding on the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft is being used to distinguish objects in Saturn's rings...

U.S. Nuclear Power Workers Show No Unexpected Radiation-Related Cancer, Mailman School of Public Health Study Finds.
November 9, 2004... Byline: Columbia University Health Sciences Division NEW YORK, Nov. 9 (AScribe Newswire) -- A first-of-its-kind study of more than 53,000 U.S. nuclear power workers has found that employees in the commercial nuclear industry are less likely...

Bowdoin College Arctic Experts Contribute Findings to Arctic Climate Impact Assessment.
November 9, 2004... Byline: Bowdoin College BRUNSWICK, Maine, Nov. 9 (AScribe Newswire) -- A four-year study documenting accelerated climate changes in the Arctic released this week raised major concerns about global warming and its immediate effect on...

Morphine for Chest Pain Increases Death Risk.
November 10, 2004... Byline: Duke University DURHAM, N.C., Nov. 10 (AScribe Newswire) -- While patients hospitalized for a heart attack have long been treated with morphine to relieve chest pain, a new analysis by researchers from the Duke Clinical Research...

Drug-Eluting Stents Adopted Quickly, With Early Disparities.
November 10, 2004... Byline: Duke University DURHAM, N.C., Nov. 10 (AScribe Newswire) -- In the first comprehensive survey of its kind, Duke Clinical Research Institute researchers have documented that while the adoption of new drug-eluting stents has been...

Joslin and Stanford Researchers Find Key Clues to Muscle Regeneration; Discovery May One Day Lead to New Ways to Treat Degenerative Diseases.
November 11, 2004... Byline: Joslin Diabetes Center BOSTON, Nov. 11 (AScribe Newswire) -- Scientists at Stanford University and Joslin Diabetes Center are providing new insights into how muscle cells regenerate - leading to powerful tools to help scientists...

Common Antidepressant May Affect Youth's Bone Development.
November 11, 2004... Byline: Indiana University School of Medicine INDIANAPOLIS, Nov. 11 (AScribe Newswire) -- A common class of drugs prescribed to children with depression may have an adverse effect on bone growth, according to a study published online in the...

Rethinking New Therapies for Crohn's Disease.
November 11, 2004... Byline: University of Virginia Health System CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., Nov. 11 (AScribe Newswire) -- In a Perspective article in the Nov. 11 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, Dr. Fabio Cominelli, chief of the division of...

Extinction in Ocean's Mud Presages Key Ecological Changes.
November 11, 2004... Byline: University of Wisconsin - Madison MADISON, Wis., Nov. 11 (AScribe Newswire) -- The loss of seemingly inconsequential animal species in the marine benthos -- the top 6 inches or so of mud and sediment on the floors of the world's...

In a Tiny Squid, Bacterial Toxin Governs Organ Development.
November 11, 2004... Byline: University of Wisconsin - Madison MADISON, Wis., Nov. 11 (AScribe Newswire) -- In a tiny Pacific Ocean squid, a toxic molecule that causes whooping cough and gonorrhea in humans has been found to be a critical catalyst for organ...

Trading Places Nanostyle: Nanocrystals Show a Quick Route to Change.
November 11, 2004... Byline: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory BERKELEY, Calif., Nov. 11 (AScribe Newswire) -- Just as the Microtechnology Age was built upon the introduction of impurities into crystals of semiconductor materials, so, too, will crystalline...

New Bilingual Memoir Takes Readers on Lyrical Multicultural Journey.
November 11, 2004... Byline: Pomona College CLAREMONT, Calif., Nov. 11 (AScribe Newswire) -- Susana Chavez-Silverman, a woman living and communicating in multiple lands, conveys her cultural and linguistic displacement in a humorous, bittersweet, and even...

Online Education is Entering the Mainstream; New Study Shows Growth Rate Is Accelerating; Confirms Quality Is As Good Or Better; U.S. Academic Leaders Say Online Education Is Critical to Long Term Strategy.
November 12, 2004... Byline: Babson College ORLANDO, Fla., Nov. 12 (AScribe Newswire) -- The 2004 Sloan Survey of Online Learning, Entering the Mainstream: The Quality and Extent of Online Education in the U. S. (www.sloan-c.org/resources/survey.asp), was...

Indiana University Survey: College Students Benefit From Civic Engagement, Study Less Than Expected.
November 15, 2004... Byline: Indiana University BLOOMINGTON, Ind., Nov. 15 (AScribe Newswire) -- According to findings released today (Nov. 15) from the 2004 National Survey of Student Engagement conducted by Indiana University, college students who are more...

University of Virginia Health System to Develop New Approaches to Treat Type 1 Diabetics With Islet Cell Transplants.
November 15, 2004... Byline: University of Virginia Health System CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., Nov. 15 (AScribe Newswire) -- The University of Virginia Health System has won a $1.2 million grant over five years from the National Institutes of Health to take islet cell...

New MicroMRI Facility Expands Lab's Brain-Imaging Capabilities.
November 15, 2004... Byline: Brookhaven National Laboratory UPTON, N.Y., Nov. 15 (AScribe Newswire) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory will host a ribbon-cutting ceremony on November 16, 2004, for the latest addition to its Center...

New Book on Alexander the Great Holds Lessons for Today's Leaders: How To Win in War and Peace.
November 15, 2004... Byline: Wellesley College WELLESLEY, Mass., Nov. 15 (AScribe Newswire) -- Alexander the Great died more than 2,300 years ago, but his life remains a source of fascination and speculation to this day. The subject of a new movie, Alexander,...

New Results From Anti-Neutrino Studies at KamLAND.
November 15, 2004... Byline: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory BERKELEY, Calif., Nov. 15 (AScribe Newswire) -- First they were seen to go away, now, for the first time, they've been seen coming back. An international team of researchers at KamLAND, an...

New Tool Highlights Activity of Key Cellular Signal.
November 15, 2004... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BALITMORE, Nov. 15 (AScribe Newswire) -- Scientists at Johns Hopkins and the University of Texas Medical Branch have created a new tool that easily reveals when and where a key cellular signal is...

Study Suggests Ways to Reduce Widespread Aggressive Dating Behavior Among Teenagers.
November 16, 2004... Byline: Burness Communications WASHINGTON, Nov. 17 (AScribe Newswire) -- Aggressive dating behavior which can often lead to dating violence is quite common among teenagers, but it may be reduced if high school kids are shown the difference...

Bio-Inspired Modules Open New Horizons for Robotics.
November 17, 2004... Byline: Pending BRUSSELS, Belgium, Nov. 17 (AScribe Newswire) -- Inspired by cell biology, European researchers have created the world's first shape-shifting robot made of many modules, which could lead to new applications in fields...

Chemist Breaks 50-Year-Old Barrier to Better Electron Representation in Molecular Computations.
November 17, 2004... Byline: University of Chicago CHICAGO, Nov. 17 (AScribe Newswire) -- University of Chicago quantum chemist David Mazziotti has proposed a new research tool that could help scientists more rapidly solve problems in atmospheric chemistry,...

A 'Repulsive' Protein Guides Blood Vessel Development.
November 18, 2004... Byline: Howard Hughes Medical Institute CHEVY CHASE, Md., Nov. 18 (AScribe Newswire) -- In a developing embryo, the growth of nerves cannot outpace the establishment of life-giving blood vessels. Now, researchers have found that a protein...

New Protein 'Stop Sign' Alters Blood Vessel Growth.
November 18, 2004... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BALTIMORE, Nov. 18 (AScribe Newswire) -- In experiments with mice, a research team led by Johns Hopkins scientists has discovered an unusual protein pair that stops blood vessels' growth in the...

Scientists From U. T. Dallas and Australia Achieve Breakthrough by 'Downsizing' Ancient Technology.
November 19, 2004... Byline: University of Texas at Dallas RICHARDSON, Texas, Nov. 19 (AScribe Newswire) -- Scientists at The University of Texas at Dallas (UTD) NanoTech Institute, along with an Australian collaborator, today announced they have achieved a...

Academy Meeting Examines Global Warming, Abrupt Climate Change, Next Ice Age; Atmospheric Sciences & Geology Section Meeting Set for Tuesday, Nov. 30, 7 p.m.
November 19, 2004... Byline: New York Academy of Sciences NEW YORK, Nov. 19 (AScribe Newswire) -- The beginning of the 21st century has witnessed some of the most violent weather patterns ever recorded. From the triple hurricanes that smashed into Florida this...

Detecting the Genes That Contribute to Transplant Rejection.
November 19, 2004... Byline: The Scripps Research Institute LA JOLLA, Calif., Nov. 19 (AScribe Newswire) -- A group of physicians and scientists led by Associate Professor Daniel Salomon, M.D., of the Department of Molecular and Experimental Medicine at The...

Elizabethtown College Professor Develops System to Monitor Cement Curing.
November 19, 2004... Byline: Elizabethtown College ELIZABETHTOWN, Pa., Nov. 19 (AScribe Newswire) -- An Elizabethtown College professor has developed an embedded sensor that functions in cement much like a thermometer in the Thanksgiving turkey. "The...

Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Professor, Student Begin Antarctic Research Adventure.
November 22, 2004... Byline: Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology TERRE HAUTE, Ind., Nov. 22 (AScribe Newswire) -- Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Chemistry Professor Penney Miller and senior chemistry student Jennifer Guerard are spending the winter quarter...

Stem Cells' Repair Skills Might Be Link to Cancer.
November 22, 2004... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BALITMORE, Nov. 22 (AScribe Newswire) -- Johns Hopkins researchers say there is growing evidence that stem cells gone awry in their efforts to repair tissue damage could help explain why long-term...

Medical College of Wisconsin and Children's Hospital of Wisconsin Study Finds Farm Children Have Lower Asthma Rates.
November 22, 2004... Byline: Medical College of Wisconsin MILWAUKEE, Nov. 22 (AScribe Newswire) -- Researchers at the Medical College of Wisconsin and Children's Hospital of Wisconsin have recently completed the largest and most comprehensive study of asthma...

Studies Suggest Promising New Directions for Gallstone Treatment.
November 22, 2004... Byline: Howard Hughes Medical Institute CHEVY CHASE, Md., Nov. 22 (AScribe Newswire) -- A promising experimental compound prevents cholesterol gallstone disease in mice by stimulating the biochemical pathway that controls bile acid...

Stem Cell Transplants From Disposable Umbilical Cord Blood Provide New Hope for Leukemia Patients.
November 24, 2004... Byline: Medical College of Wisconsin MILWAUKEE, Nov. 24 (AScribe Newswire) -- A new study published in the Nov. 24, 2004 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine confirms that stem cells derived from the umbilical cords of newborn...

Stanford Business School Study: Use Weighted Averages to Determine Transfer Pricing.
November 29, 2004... Byline: Stanford Graduate School of Business STANFORD, Calif., Nov. 29 (AScribe Newswire) -- How should companies price goods that they ship between their own divisions or related companies? Internationally, that quandary confronts the...

Improved Molecular Switch Could Serve as Sensor, Medical Tool; 'Device' Made of Fused Protein Partners Is Shown to Be Reversible, Highly Sensitive.
November 29, 2004... Byline: Johns Hopkins University BALTIMORE, Nov. 29 (AScribe Newswire) -- Improving significantly on an early prototype, Johns Hopkins University researchers have found a new way to join two unrelated proteins to create a molecular switch,...

Marine Biological Laboratory Scientists Embark on International Effort to Uncover Microbial Diversity in World's Oceans; First Global Effort to Acquire Information About Diversity, Distribution of Single-Celled Organisms, Associated Viruses.
November 29, 2004... Byline: Marine Biological Laboratory WOODS HOLE, Mass., Nov. 29 (AScribe Newswire) -- In an unprecedented effort to catalog the Earth's known marine microbes, and explore the ocean's yet untold microbial diversity, Mitchell L. Sogin,...

Values Integral Part of Science Instruction.
November 29, 2004... Byline: Bowling Green State University BOWLING GREEN, Ohio., Nov. 29 (AScribe Newswire) -- When people think of values and ethics in terms of science, they typically think of researchers' responsibility to be honest and not falsify or steal...

Resistin Integral Part of the Inflammatory Response; Findings Further Link Inflammation, Obesity, Type-2 Diabetes.
November 30, 2004... Byline: University of Pennsylvania Health System PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 30 (AScribe Newswire) -- Chronic inflammation is being implicated in diseases as widespread as cancer, heart disease, Alzheimer's disease and, most recently, diabetes and...

Fragmented Habitats No Ultimate Refuges for Forest-Dwelling Tropical Birds.
November 30, 2004... Byline: Duke University DURHAM, N.C., Nov. 30 (AScribe Newswire) -- Deep-woods bird species that manage to hang on in remaining patches of a deforested area of Brazil gain no real advantage in avoiding extinction, Duke University...

Academy Meeting to Examine Vaccine Crisis, Challenges of Avian Influenza Virus: Emergining Infectious Diseases Discussion Group.
November 30, 2004... Byline: New York Academy of Sciences NEW YORK, Nov. 30 (AScribe Newswire) -- Effective vaccinations against influenza were established many years ago. However, the morbidity and mortality due to this virus has never been well controlled....

Horwitz Prize to Be Shared by Tony Hunter, Anthony Pawson; Researchers Honored for Work on Signal Transduction in Cells That Has Led to Therapies for Stopping Cancer Cell Proliferation.
November 30, 2004... Byline: Columbia University NEW YORK, Nov. 30 (AScribe Newswire) -- Columbia University has announced that its 2004 Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize will be shared by two researchers whose scientific contributions to the understanding of signal...

Shark Cartilage Cancer 'Cure' Shows Dangers of Pseudoscience; Biologist Says Public's Scientific Illiteracy Has Frightening Repercussions.
November 30, 2004... Byline: Johns Hopkins University BALTIMORE, Dec. 1 (AScribe Newswire) -- The rising popularity of shark cartilage extract as an anti-cancer treatment is a triumph of marketing and pseudoscience over reason, with a tragic fallout for both...

Astronomers Uncover a Baby Galaxy in a Grown-Up Universe.
November 30, 2004... Byline: University of Virginia CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., Dec. 1 (AScribe Newswire) -- The baby galaxy, I Zwicky 18, might represent the only opportunity for astronomers to study the building blocks from which galaxies are formed. Using the...

Parenthood in Pterodactyls: New Research Shows Extinct Flying Reptiles Cared for Their Young After Birth.
November 30, 2004... Byline: Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County LOS ANGELES, Nov. 30 (AScribe Newswire) -- Up until now, science knew virtually nothing about the breeding behavior and parental care of pterodactyls. Contrary to popular belief, these...