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Existing Diuretic May Suppress Seizures in Newborns; Drug Targets Pathways Unique to Newborn Brain.
November 1, 2005... Byline: Children's Hospital Boston BOSTON, Nov. 1 (AScribe Newswire) -- A diuretic drug called bumetanide may serendipitously help treat seizures in newborns, which are difficult to control with existing anticonvulsants, according to a...

Traffic Safety Model Can Help Authorities Prepare for Avian Flu Outbreak.
November 1, 2005... Byline: Bloomberg School of Public Health BALTIMORE, Nov. 1 (AScribe Newswire) -- As the threat of a potential influenza pandemic looms, researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Ben-Gurion University of the...

Plant Derivative May Protect Against Liver Cancer.
November 1, 2005... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BALTIMORE, Nov. 1 (AScribe Newswire) -- The following news tip is based on an abstract prepared for the American Association for Cancer Research 4th International Conference on Frontiers in Cancer...

Characteristic Cardiac Scar Pattern Predicts Risk of Fatal Arrhythmias; Pattern Could Also Help Rule Out Need for Defibrillators in Other Patients.
November 1, 2005... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BALTIMORE, Nov. 1 (AScribe Newswire) -- Using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans of the heart wall, researchers at Johns Hopkins have found that people whose muscle wall thickness contained...

New Screen-and-Treat Methods for Cervical Cancer Significantly Reduce Cancer Precursor Lesions; Columbia-Led Study of Nearly 7,000 Women Overcomes Traditional Barriers to More Expensive, Cumbersome Pap Tests for Highly Preventable and Treatable Cancer.
November 1, 2005... Byline: Columbia University Medical Center NEW YORK, Nov. 1 (AScribe Newswire) -- A new study led by Columbia University Medical Center researchers demonstrates the safety and efficacy of two low-tech diagnostic tools to significantly...

Mayo Clinic: Sinusitis Is Common Yet Often Overlooked Cause of Chronic Cough; Study Moves Sinusitis Into Top Three Reasons for Chronic Cough.
November 2, 2005... Byline: Mayo Clinic ROCHESTER, Minn., Nov. 2 (AScribe Newswire) -- In a new Mayo Clinic study, researchers found that more than one-third of chronic cough patients given a CT scan had sinusitis, inflammation of the sinuses. Findings will...

Mayo Clinic Finds Chronic Cough Patients Report Miserable Existence; Large Series of Patients Surveyed for How Chronic Cough Affects Them.
November 2, 2005... Byline: Mayo Clinic ROCHESTER, Minn., Nov. 2 (AScribe Newswire) -- Troubles with incontinence and spouses moving out of the bedroom only start the list of common troubles for patients who suffer with chronic cough, according to a new...

Proteins Take on New Roles in Malaria Parasite.
November 2, 2005... Byline: Howard Hughes Medical Institute CHEVY CHASE, Md., Nov. 2 (AScribe Newswire) -- While searching for new targets for malaria drugs and vaccines, a team including a Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) medical student fellow reached...

San Diego Supercomputer Center Scientist Investigates How Drifting Icebergs Impact Global Warming; Multi-Institution Study Focuses on Antarctic Peninsula's Weddell Sea.
November 2, 2005... Byline: San Diego Supercomputer Center SAN DIEGO, Calif., Nov. 2 (AScribe Newswire) -- San Diego Supercomputer Center scientist John Helly is set to study the influence of free-drifting icebergs on global warming trends. Comprised of 11...

Venus Mission May Hold Surprises for Scientists and Public, Says University of Colorado Professor.
November 2, 2005... Byline: University of Colorado, Boulder BOULDER, Colo., Nov. 2 (AScribe Newswire) -- University of Colorado at Boulder planetary scientist Larry Esposito, a member of the European Space Agency's Venus Express science team, believes the...

Twin Molecular Scissors Link Creation of MicroRNAs With Gene-Silencing; New Insights Into Vital Genome Regulation Strategy Provided.
November 3, 2005... Byline: The Wistar Institute PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 31 (AScribe Newswire) -- One of the body's primary strategies for regulating its genome is a kind of targeted gene silencing orchestrated by small molecules called microRNAs, or miRNAs. First...

Ratcheting, Swiveling, Opening the Groove: Highest Resolution Yet of Intact Ribosome Reveals Machinery of Protein Assembly Line.
November 3, 2005... Byline: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory BERKELEY, Calif., Nov. 3 (AScribe Newswire) -- Proteins are encoded in the genomes of every living thing, but how is this information translated into protein structures? Cellular organelles...

Big Sky Partnership to Bury Greenhouse Gas in Lava Rock.
November 4, 2005... Byline: Idaho National Laboratory IDAHO FALLS, Idaho, Nov. 4 (AScribe Newswire) -- Below the plains of the Big Sky states, where the Columbia and Snake rivers wind their way to the Pacific, might lie a geologic answer to one of our most...

Common Viruses May Cause Cancer; Study Implicates Viral-Mediated Cell Fusion as Possible Engine of Tumor Formation.
November 7, 2005... Byline: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory COLD SPRING HARBOR, N.Y., Nov. 7 (AScribe Newswire) -- In some cases, the fusion of human cells is a normal process that leads, for instance, to the formation of muscle and bone. Viral infections can...

Sometimes a Kiss Is More Than Just a Kiss: Mount Holyoke Professor Publishes Groundbreaking Work on Role of Kissing in Early Christianity.
November 7, 2005... Byline: Mount Holyoke College SOUTH HADLEY, Mass., Nov. 7 (AScribe Newswire) -- In his new book, "Kissing Christians: Ritual and Community in the Late Ancient Church," just published by the University of Pennsylvania Press, Michael Penn,...

MIT Closes in on Bionic Speed.
November 7, 2005... Byline: MIT CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Nov. 7 (AScribe Newswire) -- Robots, both large and micro, can potentially go wherever it's too hot, cold, dangerous, small or remote for people to perform any number of important tasks, from repairing leaking...

New University of Colorado at Boulder 'Flu Chip' May Help Combat Future Epidemics, Pandemics.
November 7, 2005... Byline: University of Colorado, Boulder BOULDER, Colo., Nov. 7 (AScribe Newswire) -- A novel "Flu Chip" developed at the University of Colorado at Boulder that can determine the genetic signatures of specific influenza strains from patient...

RNA Splicing Occurs in Nerve-Cell Dendrites; Penn Discovery May Provide Better Understanding of Memory, Learning, Diseases of Cognition.
November 7, 2005... Byline: University of Pennsylvania Health System PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 7 (AScribe Newswire) -- Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have discovered that nerve-cell dendrites have the capacity to splice messenger RNA...

Discovering First Steps in Transcription-Coupled Repair: Important DNA Repair Mechanism Linked to Premature Aging Yields Its Secrets.
November 8, 2005... Byline: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory BERKELEY, Calif., Nov. 8 (AScribe Newswire) -- A team of scientists led by Priscilla Cooper, a senior staff scientist in the Life Sciences Division of the Department of Energy's Lawrence...

Purdue, Vanderbilt Scientists Develop New Cancer Detection Technique.
November 9, 2005... Byline: Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., Nov. 9 (AScribe Newswire) -- Purdue scientists who recently streamlined a common chemistry lab tool have joined forces with a biomedical group at Vanderbilt University to make the invention...

UCLA Discovery of Molecular Signature Will Aid in Treatment of Patients With a Deadly Brain Cancer; Researchers Can Identify Patients Likely to Respond to Drug Therapy, Saving Some From Undergoing Harsh Procedures With Little Chance Of Success.
November 9, 2005... Byline: UCLA LOS ANGELES, Nov. 9 (AScribe Newswire) -- Researchers at UCLA's Jonsson Cancer Center have identified key characteristics in certain deadly brain tumors that make them 51 times more likely to respond to a specific class of...

Association Between Sleep Apnea and Death Points to Need to Examine Treatments, Modify Devices.
November 9, 2005... Byline: Mayo Clinic ROCHESTER, Minn., Nov. 9 (AScribe Newswire) -- In the current issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, two studies draw attention to the newly recognized association between sleep disorders and heart trouble. The...

Preventing Another Vioxx: Fundamental Flaws in Many Medical Studies Must Be Fixed in Order to Catch Signs of Harm, University of Michigan/Veterans Affairs Team Says.
November 10, 2005... Byline: University of Michigan Health System ANN ARBOR, Mich., Nov. 10 (AScribe Newswire) -- The arthritis drug Vioxx eased the pain of millions of patients -- but it also greatly increased the risk of heart attack and stroke among some of...

Software Fills in Missing Data on Satellite Images.
November 10, 2005... Byline: Ohio State University COLUMBUS, Ohio, Nov. 10 (AScribe Newswire) -- New software is helping scientists get a more complete view of the environment from satellites that orbit the earth. Maps that depict the thickness of the...

Mayo Clinic Cancer Center Finds Better Predictors for Outcomes After Radical Prostatectomy; Speed of PSA Increase Matters More Than PSA Level.
November 10, 2005... Byline: Mayo Clinic ROCHESTER, Minn., Nov. 10 (AScribe Newswire) -- In the largest study of its kind to date, Mayo Clinic researchers report that prostate specific antigen (PSA) kinetics, both velocity and doubling time, can be used to...

TeraGrid's Education, Outreach and Training Program Builds on Strong Foundation for Engaging Diverse Communities.
November 10, 2005... Byline: National Science Foundation ARLINGTON, Va., Nov. 10 (AScribe Newswire) -- TeraGrid is pleased to announce the appointment of Scott Lathrop as the Director of Education, Outreach and Training. In this position, Lathrop will be...

St. Lawrence University Professor Writes Landmark Biography of Writer Alice Munro.
November 11, 2005... Byline: St. Lawrence University CANTON, N.Y., Nov. 11 (AScribe Newswire) -- A new biography of acclaimed author Alice Munro, by St. Lawrence University Professor of Canadian Studies and Molson Research Fellow Robert W. Thacker, is the...

Mayo Clinic Researchers Lead Team That Discovers Role of Immune System's Dendritic Cells in Childhood Autoimmune Disease; Findings Provide New Strategy for Designing Better Treatments.
November 13, 2005... Byline: Mayo Clinic ROCHESTER, Minn., Nov. 13 (AScribe Newswire) -- Mayo Clinic researchers, working with colleagues at the University of Minnesota and University of Pittsburgh, are the first to describe a new role for a specialized cell...

'Sharp' Older Brains Are Not the Same As Younger Brains.
November 13, 2005... Byline: Johns Hopkins University BALTIMORE, Nov. 13 (AScribe Newswire) -- Researchers working with rats have found the first solid evidence that still "sharp" older brains store and encode memories differently than younger brains. This...

Heart Mapping Technique Safely Guides Catheter Repair of Arrhythmia.
November 13, 2005... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BALTIMORE, Nov. 13 (AScribe Newswire) -- In experiments with dogs, Johns Hopkins researchers successfully used a 3D map of the heart and sensor-guided catheter to perform cardiac ablation, a...

U.S. Sees Slowing Decline in International Student Enrollment in 2004/05; More Than 565,000 International Students Enrolled in U.S. Institutions of Higher Education; India Remains Leading Sending Country.
November 13, 2005... Byline: Halstead Communications WASHINGTON, Nov. 14 (AScribe Newswire) -- In 2004/05, the number of international students enrolled in U.S. higher education institutions remained fairly steady at 565,039, off about 1 percent from the...

U.S. Study Abroad Increases by 9.6 Percent, Continues Record Growth; More Interest in Non-Traditional Destinations; Study Abroad in China Up by 90 Percent.
November 13, 2005... Byline: Halstead Communications WASHINGTON, Nov. 14 (AScribe Newswire) -- With a growing recognition of the importance of international experience, U.S. students are heading abroad in record numbers. The number of American students...

Genes Contribute to Patriotism, Group Loyalty.
November 14, 2005... Byline: Charles Darwin Research Institute LONDON, Ontario, Nov. 14 (AScribe Newswire) -- Research showing the importance of genetic similarity to group loyalty and patriotism was published in the October issue of Nations and Nationalism...

Team Led by Carnegie Mellon University Scientist Finds First Evidence of Living Memory Trace; Results Show Neural Reorganization Occurs During Short-Term Memory.
November 14, 2005... Byline: Carnegie Mellon University PITTSBURGH, Nov. 14 (AScribe Newswire) -- An international team of scientists for the first time has detected a memory trace in a living animal after it has encountered a single, new stimulus. The...

Kansas State University Professor's Research Could Possibly Identify 'Face' of Terrorism.
November 14, 2005... Byline: Kansas State University MANHATTAN, Kan., Nov. 14 (AScribe Newswire) -- Grumpy, sleepy, happy and bashful may sound like the names of some of the vertically-challenged mine workers from "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs," but to a...

Early Results Using Therapeutic Pancreatic Cancer Vaccine Show Promise.
November 15, 2005... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BALTIMORE, Nov. 15 (AScribe Newswire) -- Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center researchers are encouraged by early results of a treatment vaccine for pancreatic cancer, a disease with few options and...

Hopkins Study May Change Rules for Treating Heart Failure; Discovery Suggests That Some Patients on Beta Blockers Should Not Be.
November 15, 2005... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BALTIMORE, Nov. 15 (AScribe Newswire) -- A Johns Hopkins study has raised doubts about a long-accepted notion of what's going on in many cases of heart failure, suggesting that nearly half of...

UCLA Researchers Observe How Immune System Recognizes, Responds to Cancer; Research in Animal Models May Provide New and Faster Ways to Test Effectiveness of Immune-Based Therapies for Cancer and Other Diseases.
November 15, 2005... Byline: UCLA LOS ANGELES, Nov. 15 (AScribe Newswire) -- Using positron emission tomography (PET) imaging, researchers at UCLA's Jonsson Cancer Center were able to observe - in real time - how the immune system initially recognizes cancer...

Mayo Clinic Study: People With Heart Failure at Significant Increase for Death From Stroke.
November 15, 2005... Byline: Mayo Clinic DALLAS, Nov. 15 (AScribe Newswire) -- People with heart failure are twice as likely to die from a stroke as the general population, new research at Mayo Clinic has found. This research will be presented today at the...

Mayo Clinic Researchers Discover Molecule Allowing Cancer to Spread 'Armor' May Keep Immune System From Attacking Kidney Tumors.
November 15, 2005... Byline: Mayo Clinic ROCHESTER, Minn., Nov. 15 (AScribe Newswire) -- Mayo Clinic researchers have discovered that a molecule -- B7-H1 -- may serve as "molecular armor," protecting kidney cancer tumors and repelling assaults by the immune...

College Job Market Poised to Expand in 2005-06.
November 15, 2005... Byline: Michigan State University EAST LANSING, Mich., Nov. 16 (AScribe Newswire) -- Job growth for college graduates is poised to expand at between 6 and 14 percent for 2005-06, based on information provided by 878 employers who responded...

University of Florida Study: Women Increasingly Pick Husbands' Surnames Over Their Own.
November 16, 2005... Byline: University of Florida GAINESVILLE, Fla., Nov. 16 (AScribe Newswire) -- What's in a name - or two names? Quite a bit, says a University of Florida professor, whose research finds that a growing number of brides are returning to...

California Agriculture Magazine, October-December 2005: Managed Grazing, Seedling Shelters Enhance Oak Regeneration on Rangelands.
November 16, 2005... Byline: University of California Division of Agriculture OAKLAND, Calif., Nov. 16 (AScribe Newswire) -- For at least a century, scientists have been concerned that some of California's 20 native oak species are not regenerating adequately,...

California Agriculture Special Focus: Testing Times Follow Two Cases of Mad Cow Disease.
November 16, 2005... Byline: University of California Division of Agriculture OAKLAND, Calif., Nov. 16 (AScribe Newswire) -- While only two cases of mad cow disease (bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or BSE) have been confirmed in the United States since late...

Scientists Create New Way to Study T Cell Signaling.
November 17, 2005... Byline: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory BERKELEY, Calif., Nov. 17 (AScribe Newswire) -- An experiment that began as a "fantasy pipe dream" just three years ago is now a reality. Researchers with the Lawrence Berkeley National...

Mouse and Man Differ in Immune Response to Viruses.
November 17, 2005... Byline: Howard Hughes Medical Institute CHEVY CHASE, Md., Nov. 17 (AScribe Newswire) -- Patients who were born with a rare and life-threatening susceptibility to certain bacterial infections are revealing idiosyncrasies in their immune...

When Parasites Kill Pests: Two Innovative 'Biocontrol' Programs Lowering Glassy-Winged Sharpshooter, Eucalyptus-Feeding Psyllid Populations in California.
November 18, 2005... Byline: University of California Division of Agriculture OAKLAND, Calif., Nov. 18 (AScribe Newswire) -- Without any natural enemies to keep them in check, nonnative pest insects often have a field day feeding on California crops and plants....

Mayo Clinic Study Finds Occupation, Education Influence Risk for Parkinson's Disease; No Need to Change Career Or Educational Plans to Lower Risk, However, Researchers Say.
November 21, 2005... Byline: Mayo Clinic ROCHESTER, Minn., Nov. 21 (AScribe Newswire) -- Mayo Clinic researchers have found that an individual's educational and career paths impact Parkinson's disease risk later in life. This report will appear in the Nov. 22...

Study by Hopkins Researchers Reveals How Certain Chemicals Produced by Enzyme Cox-2 Protect Brain Against Cell Damage; Study Could Lead to Better Treatments for Alzheimer's Disease.
November 21, 2005... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BALTIMORE, Nov. 21 (AScribe Newswire) -- A study by Johns Hopkins scientists has revealed that stimulating brain cell receptors for certain hormone-like chemicals in brain cells called...

University of Virginia Research Findings Mark Shift in Understanding Role of Stem Cells: Adult Stem Cells Act as Construction Supervisors in Tissue Repair.
November 21, 2005... Byline: University of Virginia CHARLOTTESVILLE, Nov. 21 (AScribe Newswire) -- For years, it was believed that adult stem cells, under conditions of reduced oxygen -- such as that found in victims of a heart attack or stroke -- acted as...

Ancient Mammoth Fossil Arriving at CSU San Bernardino Tuesday Morning; Digital Images of Fossil Available.
November 21, 2005... Byline: Calif. State University, San Bernardino SAN BERNARDINO, Calif., Nov. 21 (AScribe Newswire) -- Discovered at an Irvine construction site this past July, the skull, tusks and several other bones of a mammoth will arrive at California...

Brain Morphing Technology Simplifies Surgical Treatment for Movement Disorders.
November 21, 2005... Byline: Vanderbilt University NASHVILLE, Tenn., Nov. 21 (AScribe Newswire) -- Tens of thousands of people who experience movement disorders associated with Parkinson's and a variety of other neurological conditions stand to benefit from a...

Iowa State University Plant Scientist Leads National Effort to Use Metabolomics to Unlock Gene Functions.
November 21, 2005... Byline: Iowa State University AMES, Iowa, Nov. 21 (AScribe Newswire) -- An Iowa State University plant scientist is leading a national research team that will develop a new tool to decipher the functions of plant genes. By advancing the...

Iowa State University Scientists Explore Frontiers of NASA Science.
November 21, 2005... Byline: Iowa State University AMES, Iowa, Nov. 21 (AScribe Newswire) -- The science is tiny as carbon nanotubes and the silica shells that cover single-cell algae. And it's as practical as finding a leak in a spacecraft and understanding a...

Daycare Illness Guidelines Exist, But Largely Unknown.
November 22, 2005... Byline: Children's Hospital Medical Center of Cincinnati CINCINNATI, Nov. 22 (AScribe Newswire) -- A new Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center study shows that parents, pediatricians and child care providers are equally...

Tobacco Control Could Save Hundreds of Thousands in Vietnam; Heavy Smoking Among Men a Severe Health Threat.
November 22, 2005... Byline: Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation WASHINGTON, Nov. 22 (AScribe Newswire) -- Vietnam could save more than 230,000 lives over the next three decades through tobacco control policies common in other countries, such as...

Study Finds U.S. Math Students Consistently Behind Their Peers Around the World; Findings Challenge Conventional Wisdom About U.S. Math Success in Early Grades.
November 22, 2005... Byline: American Institutes for Research WASHINGTON, Nov. 22 (AScribe Newswire) -- Despite a widely held belief that U.S. students do well in mathematics in grade school but decline precipitously in high school, a new study comparing the...

Plant Gene Related to Cancer Treatment May Foster New Oncology Drugs.
November 22, 2005... Byline: Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., Nov. 22 (AScribe Newswire) -- Two proteins involved in the process that controls plant growth may help explain why human cells reject chemotherapy drugs, according to an international team of...

For Many Buildings, Form Doesn't Follow Function, Study Finds.
November 28, 2005... Byline: Ohio State University COLUMBUS, Ohio., Nov. 28 (AScribe Newswire) -- When you look at the exterior of a building, can you tell whether the building is a city hall, an art museum, a library, or a live theater? Most people can't,...

Biotechnology's Newest Chemical Tool.
November 28, 2005... Byline: Howard Hughes Medical Institute CHEVY CHASE, Md., Nov. 28 (AScribe Newswire) -- Exploiting biology's own chemical toolbox, researchers have developed a new technique that will allow them to modify specific sequences within a DNA...

MIT Sleuths Discover Quick Way To New Materials.
November 28, 2005... Byline: MIT CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Nov. 28 (AScribe Newswire) -- In work that could radically change how engineers search for new materials, MIT researchers have developed a way to test the mechanical properties of almost 600 different...

What Price Rankings? University of California, Irvine Business Dean Challenges Media in BizEd Article.
November 29, 2005... Byline: AACSB International - The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business TAMPA, Fla., Nov. 29 (AScribe Newswire) -- As more and more periodicals publish their latest rankings of business schools and MBA programs, the debate...

University of Florida Study First to Quantify Validity of DNA I.D. Tool Using Marine Snails.
November 29, 2005... Byline: University of Florida GAINESVILLE, Fla., Nov. 29 (AScribe Newswire) -- A trendy holiday gift within a decade may be a hand-held device that instantly identifies any species from a snippet of animal tissue, says a University of...

Dendritic Cells Offer New Therapeutic Target for Drugs to Treat Multiple Sclerosis, Other Autoimmune Diseases.
November 29, 2005... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BALTIMORE, Nov. 29 (AScribe Newswire) -- Scientists at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center have found that a gene pathway linked to a deadly form of leukemia may provide a new way to treat...

NASA Rover Helps Reveal Possible Secrets of Martian Life.
November 29, 2005... Byline: Jet Propulsion Laboratory PASADENA, Calif., Nov. 29 (AScribe Newswire) -- Life may have had a tough time getting started in the ancient environment that left its mark in the Martian rock layers examined by NASA's Opportunity rover....

Scientists Develop Protein-Sequence Analysis Tool; Technique Identifies Candidate Amino Acid Sites That Control Protein Functions.
November 30, 2005... Byline: Brookhaven National Laboratory UPTON, N.Y., Nov. 30 (AScribe Newswire) -- With more and more protein sequence data available, scientists are increasingly looking for ways to extract the small subset of information that determines a...

Brookhaven Lab Celebrates New Supercomputer; Attendees Honor 25th Anniversary of Groundbreaking Work in Computational Physics.
November 30, 2005... Byline: Brookhaven National Laboratory UPTON, N.Y., Nov. 30 (AScribe Newswire) -- In honor of the 25th anniversary of a scientific paper describing the first use of Monte Carlo methods and lattice gauge calculations in the study of quantum...

MUHC and McGill University Scientists Identify Gene for Debilitating Vitamin B12 Disease.
November 30, 2005... Byline: McGill University MONTREAL, Nov. 30 (AScribe Newswire) -- Scientists at the MUHC and McGill University have identified a gene responsible for a disease that impairs the body's ability to handle vitamin B12 and that may contribute...

Purdue 'Metamaterial' Could Lead to Better Optics, Communications.
November 30, 2005... Byline: Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., Nov. 30 (AScribe Newswire) -- Engineers at Purdue University are the first researchers to create a material that has a "negative index of refraction" in the wavelength of light used for...

Interactive 3-D Atlas of Mouse Brain Now Available on Web.
November 30, 2005... Byline: Brookhaven National Laboratory UPTON, N.Y., Nov. 30 (AScribe Newswire) -- Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory have just launched a web-based 3-D digital atlas browser and database of the...

Studying Substitute Animals Will Not Save Endangered Species.
November 30, 2005... Byline: University of California, Davis DAVIS, Calif., Nov. 30 (AScribe Newswire) -- The reasons behind endangerment of one species cannot easily be applied to another, University of California at Davis conservation biologists warn in a new...

New Book on Rain Forests, Slash-and-Burn Agriculture.
November 30, 2005... Byline: University of California, Davis DAVIS, Calif., Nov. 30 (AScribe Newswire) -- University of California at Davis economist Stephen Vosti is co-editor and co-author of a new book assessing the environmental, economic and social impacts...

Give an Ant a Nice Place to Stay and It Might Stick Around.
November 30, 2005... Byline: University of California, Davis DAVIS, Calif., Nov. 30 (AScribe Newswire) -- Many alien insects enter the United States as hitchhikers on imported plants. But how many live long and prosper? Although conventional thinking says...