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Seasonal Cycling: Freshwater, Saltwater Interactions in Coastal Groundwater Systems May Provide Clues to Chemicals Entering Coastal Waters.
September 1, 2005... Byline: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution WOODS HOLE, Mass., Sept. 1 (AScribe Newswire) -- Scientists have recently recognized an imbalance in the flow of salty groundwater into the coastal ocean: considerable saltwater discharge into...

Beneath Katrina's Wake: Expedition Team Dodges Storm, Returns to Explore Deep Gulf Waters.
September 1, 2005... Byline: Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution PANAMA CITY, Fla., Sept. 1 (AScribe Newswire) -- Despite having to evade hurricane Katrina, a team of scientists from Harbor Branch and other institutions is returning to port this Sunday with...

Mayo Clinic Research Shows Promise for Myeloma Patients Using New Combination of Drugs.
September 1, 2005... Byline: Mayo Clinic ROCHESTER, Minn., Sept. 1 (AScribe Newswire) -- Mayo Clinic Cancer Center investigators report that combination therapy with lenalidomide (Revlimid^TM) and dexamethasone (combination is called Rev/Dex) looks like a...

NASA's Durable Spirit Sends Intriguing Images From Mars.
September 1, 2005... Byline: Jet Propulsion Laboratory PASADENA, Calif., Sept. 1 (AScribe Newswire) -- Working atop a range of Martian hills, NASA's Spirit rover is rewarding researchers with tempting scenes filled with evidence of past planet environments....

Transplant Rejection Drug Holds Promise for Inflammatory Eye Disease.
September 1, 2005... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BALTIMORE, Sept. 1 (AScribe Newswire) -- The immunosuppressive drug mycophenolate mofetil, used to prevent rejection of transplanted hearts, kidneys and livers, may also be effective in controlling...

Immune Cells Known as Macrophages Linked to Growth of Lymph Vessels in Eyes, Scientists Discover; Holds Promise for Treating Eye Disease, Cancer and for Healing Injuries.
September 1, 2005... Byline: Schepens Eye Research Institute BOSTON, Sept. 1 (AScribe Newswire) -- Scientists at Schepens Eye Research Institute have discovered that a particular immune cell contributes to the growth of new lymph vessels, which aid in healing....

Cochlear Implant Performance Not Affected by Amount of Hearing Loss in Implanted Ear.
September 1, 2005... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BALTIMORE, Sept. 1 (AScribe Newswire) -- Hearing-impaired individuals with severe to profound hearing loss and poor speech understanding who possess some residual hearing in one ear may experience...

The Role of Titanium in Hydrogen Storage.
September 2, 2005... Byline: Brookhaven National Laboratory UPTON, N.Y., Sept. 2 (AScribe Newswire) -- As part of ongoing research to make hydrogen a mainstream source of clean, renewable energy, scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven...

Adult Stem Cells From Adipose Tissue Could Save Lives; Scientists to Present Findings at National Meeting.
September 2, 2005... Byline: University of Virginia Health System CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., Sept. 2 (AScribe Newswire) -- National and international scientists, including those from the University of Virginia Health System, will announce findings from a significant...

Katrina and Urban Infrastructure: By Matthias Ruth.
September 2, 2005... Byline: University of Maryland, College Park COLLEGE PARK, Md., Sept. 2 (AScribe Newswire) -- Following Katrina's terrible devastation, cities around the country need to ask serious questions about the adequacy of their many infrastructure...

Kansas State University Researchers Study Insects' Immune System.
September 2, 2005... Byline: Kansas State University MANHATTAN, KAN., Sept. 2 (AScribe Newswire) -- How insects avoid getting diseases they can carry and spread to humans is the focus of research at Kansas State University. Mike Kanost, university...

Kansas State University Establishes Institute to Study Stem Cells.
September 2, 2005... Byline: Kansas State University MANHATTAN, Kan., Sept. 2 (AScribe Newswire) -- Scientists at Kansas State University have established the Midwest Institute for Comparative Stem Cell Biology to expand research around stem cells derived from...

Davidson College, in Davidson, North Carolina, Joins Institutions Nationwide to Assist College Students Displaced by Temporary Closure of Their Institutions Due to Hurricane Katrina.
September 2, 2005... Byline: Davidson College DAVIDSON, N.C., Sept. 2 (AScribe Newswire) -- President Robert F. Vagt announced today that the college is working to identify students whose studies have been disrupted because of Hurricane Katrina and its...

California State University Bakersfield Helps Students Affected by Hurricane Katrina.
September 2, 2005... Byline: California State University, Bakersfield BAKERSFIELD, Calif., Sept. 2 (AScribe Newswire) -- In an effort to assist college students displaced by Hurricane Katrina, California State University, Bakersfield along with the entire CSU...

Keck Graduate Institute of Applied Life Sciences Offers Working Space to Scientists Displaced by Hurricane Katrina.
September 2, 2005... Byline: Keck Graduate Institute CLAREMONT, Calif., Sept. 2 (AScribe Newswire) -- As the magnitude of the tragedy in New Orleans and the Mississippi Gulf Coast unfolds, Keck Graduate Institute of Applied Life Sciences (KGI), a member of The...

Embryonic Stem Cells Accrue Genetic Changes.
September 4, 2005... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BALTIMORE, Sep. 4 (AScribe Newswire) -- An international team of researchers has discovered that human embryonic stem cell lines accumulate changes in their genetic material over time. The...

Hopkins Researchers Develop New Way to Track Migration of Stem Cells Used to Treat Damaged Hearts.
September 5, 2005... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BALTIMORE, Sept. 5 (AScribe Newswire) -- A team of scientists from the Johns Hopkins Department of Radiology and Institute of Cell Engineering has used a non-invasive imaging technique, called...

One Shot: Researchers Capture Pictures of Fusion Events That Enable Sperm to Penetrate Egg's Coating.
September 5, 2005... Byline: Howard Hughes Medical Institute CHEVY CHASE, Md., Sept. 5 (AScribe Newswire) -- Researchers have capitalized on the unique properties of a sperm cell to follow cell membrane fusion as it occurs during fertilization, tracking the...

New Book Aims to Bring Scientific Light to Today's Divisive Bioethics Debates; 'Bioethics and the New Embryology,' by Swarthmore Biologist, Two Former Students, Lays out Science of Stem Cells, Other Issues.
September 6, 2005... Byline: Swarthmore College SWARTHMORE, Pa., Sept. 6 (AScribe Newswire) -- People arguing over the ethics of stem cells, cloning, and related issues ought to know something about the relevant science, say the authors of a new volume on...

Dickinson College Takes in Displaced Students, Donates to Aid Damaged Universities.
September 6, 2005... Byline: Dickinson College CARLISLE, Pa., Sept. 6 (AScribe Newswire) -- Dickinson College has extended visiting-student status for the fall semester to undergraduates from New Orleans's Dillard and Xavier universities, the college's...

AACSB International Report Urges Change in Media Business School Rankings.
September 6, 2005... Byline: AACSB International - The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business TAMPA, Fla., Sept. 6 (AScribe Newswire) -- The world's first and largest business school accrediting association has called for the media to change the...

Katrina and Urban Infrastructure: By Matthias Ruth.
September 6, 2005... Byline: University of Maryland, College Park COLLEGE PARK, Md., Sept. 6 (AScribe Newswire) -- Following Katrina's terrible devastation, cities around the country need to ask serious questions about the adequacy of their many infrastructure...

Art Professor Finds 'Priceless' Artifact in Turkey.
September 6, 2005... Byline: Earlham College RICHMOND, Ind., Sept. 6 (AScribe Newswire) -- It turns out the 500-year-old Ottoman Empire coin that Earlham College art history professor Julia May found during her May term course in Turkey this year isn't worth...

University of Chicago Welcomes Students Uprooted in Katrina's Aftermath.
September 6, 2005... Byline: University of Chicago CHICAGO, Sept. 6 (AScribe Newswire) -- Students displaced by Hurricane Katrina and the ensuing flooding can apply to the College of the University of Chicago, the Law School, the Graduate School of Business,...

NASA's Deep Impact Adds Color to Unfolding Comet Picture.
September 6, 2005... Byline: Jet Propulsion Laboratory PASADENA, Calif., Sept. 6 (AScribe Newswire) -- Painting by the numbers is a good description of how scientists create pictures of everything from atoms in our bodies to asteroids and comets in our solar...

Cal State San Bernardino Opens Admissions to Students Affected by Hurricane Katrina, Its Aftermath.
September 6, 2005... Byline: Calif. State University, San Bernardino SAN BERNARDINO, Calif., Sept. 6 (AScribe Newswire) -- Cal State San Bernardino will admit students displaced by Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath as well as California students who planned...

Lewis & Clark College Responds to Hurricane Katrina.
September 6, 2005... Byline: Lewis & Clark College PORTLAND, Ore., Sept. 6 (AScribe Newswire) -- Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Ore. has opened its doors to students displaced by Hurricane Katrina. By Tue., Sept. 6, nearly a dozen students had arrived on...

Probing the Modularity of Cellular Machinery; Keck Graduate Institute of Applied Life Sciences Awarded $4.88 Million Grant to Study Structure, Origins of Functional Modules.
September 7, 2005... Byline: Keck Graduate Institute CLAREMONT, Calif., Sept. 7 (AScribe Newswire) -- Modules are all around us in our everyday lives. A bookcase with three shelves, for example, is a module with the repetition of three flat surfaces. A stereo...

University of Texas at Dallas and U. T. Arlington Presidents To Switch Jobs For a Day in Symbol of Cooperation, Solidarity; Spaniolo, Daniel Hope Greater Understanding, Collaboration Result From Experience, Hint at Important Announcement(s).
September 7, 2005... Byline: University of Texas at Dallas RICHARDSON, Texas, Sept. 7 (AScribe Newswire) -- Presidents James Spaniolo of The University of Texas at Arlington and David Daniel of The University of Texas at Dallas - two schools often thought of as...

Beltway Bound: Music School Takes Kennedy Center Stage Sept. 28.
September 7, 2005... Byline: James Madison University HARRISONBURG, Va., Sept. 7 (AScribe Newswire) -- Newly minted as an All-Steinway School, the James Madison University School of Music takes its show on the road to the nation's capital Sept. 28 for the first...

Nanotechnology Confronts the "Bad Hair Day," Tests New Conditioner.
September 7, 2005... Byline: Ohio State University COLUMBUS, Ohio, Sept. 7 (AScribe Newswire) -- Ohio State University researchers have just completed the first comprehensive study of human hair on the nanometer level. Special equipment enabled Bharat...

NASA's Spitzer and Deep Impact Build Recipe for Comet Soup.
September 7, 2005... Byline: Jet Propulsion Laboratory PASADENA, Calif., Sept. 7 (AScribe Newswire) -- When Deep Impact smashed into comet Tempel 1 on July 4, 2005, it released the ingredients of our solar system's primordial "soup." Now, astronomers using...

University of the Sciences in Philadelphia Offers Support for Displaced Students From Hurricane Katrina.
September 8, 2005... Byline: University of the Sciences in Philadelphia PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Sept. 8 (AScribe Newswire) -- University of the Sciences in Philadelphia is opening its doors to students who are affected by the hurricane crisis. Students who would...

Impact of Prayer on Couples' Relationships to Be Explored by University of Georgia, Athens Researcher.
September 8, 2005... Byline: University of Georgia ATHENS, Ga., Sept. 8 (AScribe Newswire) -- Can prayer strengthen couples' relationships? That's the fundamental question of a $1.1 million, three-year study beginning this fall by University of Georgia...

Worcester Polytechnic Institute Responds to Students Displaced by Katrina.
September 8, 2005... Byline: Worcester Polytechnic Institute WORCESTER, Mass., Sept. 8 (AScribe Newswire) -- Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) has established a special admissions process for students currently enrolled at colleges and universities that...

Concordia University to Assist Students Affected by Hurricane Katrina.
September 8, 2005... Byline: Concordia University - Montreal MONTREAL, Sept. 8 (AScribe Newswire) -- In response to the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina, Concordia University will assist students from the affected area by admitting them as visiting...

Penn Awarded $1.8 Million to Search for New Mood-Disorder Drugs, in Collaboration With Wyeth Research Laboratories.
September 8, 2005... Byline: University of Pennsylvania Health System PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 8 (AScribe Newswire) -- The National Institutes of Mental Health (NIMH) has awarded the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine $1.8 million over the next three...

Research Shows Where Brain Interprets 'Pitch'.
September 8, 2005... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BALTIMORE, Sept. 8 (AScribe Newswire) -- Johns Hopkins researchers have discovered a discrete region of the monkey brain that processes pitch, the relative high and low points of sound, by...

Material May Demonstrate Long-Sought 'Liquid' Magnetic State.
September 8, 2005... Byline: Johns Hopkins University BALTIMORE, Sept. 8 (AScribe Newswire) -- A novel material that may demonstrate a highly unusual "liquid" magnetic state at extremely low temperatures has been discovered by a team of Japanese and U.S....

Closing in on Quantum Chemistry; Chemists Simulate Quantum-Computer Calculations of Molecular Energies.
September 8, 2005... Byline: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory BERKELEY, Calif., Sept. 8 (AScribe Newswire) -- Researchers in the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of California at Berkeley have simulated the...

Bill McKibben to Mark Anniversary of His Landmark Book 'The End of Nature' at Climate Crisis Symposium Sept. 22-24; Speakers Include Author, Scientist Bill Ruddiman, Representatives of Indigenous Communities on Front Line of Crisis.
September 8, 2005... Byline: Middlebury College MIDDLEBURY, Vt., Sept. 8 (AScribe Newswire) -- What is the state of the climate crisis on the 16th anniversary of the publication of Bill McKibben's "The End of Nature," one of the earliest books for a general...

Pets Suffer Effects of Aging, Says Iowa State University Veterinarian.
September 8, 2005... Byline: Iowa State University AMES, Iowa, Sept. 8 (AScribe Newswire) -- Pets, like people, are spending more years as seniors. And, like people, they're feeling it. Just as human life expectancies in the United States have increased,...

Notre Dame to Inaugurate Rev. John Jenkins as President Sept. 22-23.
September 9, 2005... Byline: University of Notre Dame SOUTH BEND, Ind., Sept. 9 (AScribe Newswire) -- An academic forum of world leaders, musical performances, a Mass and an academic procession will be among the events that mark the inauguration Sept. 22 and...

Hispanics in Hollywood: More Roles, But More of Same.
September 9, 2005... Byline: University of Wisconsin - Madison MADISON, Wisc., Sept. 9 (AScribe Newswire) -- This story contains some good news, and some bad. The good news is that times have never been better, in terms of available roles, for Hispanic...

University of Texas at El Paso Named Nation's Top Engineering School for Hispanics; Hispanic Business Magazine Ranks Top 10 Graduate Schools.
September 9, 2005... Byline: University of Texas at El Paso EL PASO, Texas, Sept. 9 (AScribe Newswire) -- The University of Texas at El Paso has been named the top engineering school for Hispanics by Hispanic Business magazine. The magazine's September...

Rare Eye-Movement Disorder May Shed Light on Brain, Cardiovascular Development; Unexpected Findings May Lead to New Research Directions in Developmental Biology.
September 11, 2005... Byline: Children's Hospital Boston BOSTON, Sept. 11 (AScribe Newswire) -- Researchers at Children's Hospital Boston, who specialize in studying the genetics of rare eye-movement disorders, have found a rare genetic syndrome whose...

Hate Math? This Book Is for You! -- 'Coincidences, Chaos, and All That Math Jazz'.
September 12, 2005... Byline: Williams College WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass., Sept. 12 (AScribe Newswire) -- "Coincidences, Chaos, and All That Math Jazz: Making Light of Weighty Ideas" by mathematicians Edward B. Burger and Michael Starbird is "irreverent, entertaining,...

Research at University of Georgia College of Veterinary Medicine Focuses on Preventing Worldwide Flu Epidemic.
September 12, 2005... Byline: University of Georgia ATHENS, Ga., Sept. 12 (AScribe Newswire) -- Leading influenza virus researchers at the University of Georgia College of Veterinary Medicine are developing a new option for preventing and treating respiratory...

Researchers at University of Arizona's Steele Children's Research Center and Harvard University Clone Gene That Causes Athabaskan Brainstem Dysgenesis.
September 12, 2005... Byline: University of Arizona TUCSON, Ariz., Sept. 12 (AScribe Newswire) -- Genetic diseases can be devastating. Finding the gene that causes such an illness offers hope for prevention and treatment. The mutated gene that causes...

Discovery Confirms Explosive Prediction Made by Astrophysicists in 1999; Data Reveal Insights Into Formation of Stars in Early Universe.
September 12, 2005... Byline: University of Chicago CHICAGO, Sept. 12 (AScribe Newswire) -- NASA's Swift satellite and ground-based telescopes have discovered the most distant exploding star on record, confirming a 1999 prediction made by University of Chicago...

PSA Remains Best Indicator of Prostate Cancer Progression.
September 12, 2005... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BALTIMORE, Sept. 12 (AScribe Newswire) -- Despite recent claims by some urologists that measuring the blood protein prostate-specific antigen (PSA) may not be effective in predicting risk of...

Researcher: American Marketplace Important Player in American Literacy.
September 12, 2005... Byline: University of Wisconsin - Madison MADISON, Wis., Sept. 12 (AScribe Newswire) -- If you came of age at any point in the 20th century, you were part of a profound change in the way that Americans learn to read and write, according to...

Squandered 'Second Chance' for Central Asia Region: Expert Author's Bold Analysis of Failed Leadership, Escalating Security Risks, Post-Soviet Corruption.
September 12, 2005... Byline: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace WASHINGTON, Sept. 12 (AScribe Newswire) -- The first decade of Central Asian independence was disappointing for those who envisioned a transition from Soviet republics to independent states...

Cancer Gene MYC Shown to Activate Gene Involved in Metastasis; Study Points to Importance of Pathway in Cancer Progression.
September 12, 2005... Byline: The Wistar Institute PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 12 (AScribe Newswire) -- The cancer gene MYC is among the most commonly overexpressed oncogenes in human cancers. Most human cancers demonstrate high levels of MYC or its biological partners,...

Research Study Provides First Whole Genome Map of Genetic Variability in Parkinson's Disease; Findings Highlight 12 Potential 'Susceptibility' Genes.
September 12, 2005... Byline: Mayo Clinic ROCHESTER, Minn., Sept. 12 (AScribe Newswire) -- Mayo Clinic researchers in collaboration with scientists at Perlegen Sciences, Inc. and funded by the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research have produced the...

Exercise Stress Testing Helps Identify People at Risk of Developing Coronary Heart Disease; Testing for Exercise Capacity, Heart Rate Recovery Improves on Traditional Risk-Factor Scoring.
September 13, 2005... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BALTIMORE, Sept. 13 (AScribe Newswire) -- Performing cardiac stress tests that measure exercise capacity and heart rate recovery can improve dramatically on existing techniques that predict who is...

Engineers Report to National Science Foundation: Earthquake Deaths Preventable.
September 13, 2005... Byline: Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., Sept. 13 (AScribe Newswire) -- Researchers analyzing damage from a 2003 earthquake in Turkey conclude in a recent report that the deaths of 168 people, many of them children, could have been...

Harmless Virus May Aid in Knocking Out Deadly Bird Flu.
September 13, 2005... Byline: Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., Sept. 13 (AScribe Newswire) -- A harmless virus used as a delivery vehicle may help set a roadblock for a potentially catastrophic human outbreak of bird flu, according to researchers at...

Purdue Scientists Treat Cancer With RNA Nanotechnology.
September 13, 2005... Byline: Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., Sept. 14 (AScribe Newswire) -- Using strands of genetic material, Purdue University scientists have constructed tiny delivery vehicles that can carry anticancer therapeutic agents directly to...

Black Hole in Search of a Home.
September 14, 2005... Byline: European Space Agency - Hubble GARCHING, Germany, Sept. 14 (AScribe Newswire) -- The detection of a super massive black hole without a massive host galaxy is the surprising result from a large Hubble and VLT study of quasars. This...

New Plant Finds in Andes Reveal Ancient Climate Change.
September 14, 2005... Byline: Ohio State University COLUMBUS, Ohio, Sept. 14 (AScribe Newswire) -- For the third time in as many years, glaciologist Lonnie Thompson has returned from an Andean ice field in Peru with samples from beds of ancient plants exposed...

Purdue University Scientists See Biochemistry's Future -- With Quantum Physics.
September 15, 2005... Byline: Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., Sept. 15 (AScribe Newswire) -- Chemists who have trouble predicting how some large, complex biological molecules will react with others may soon have a solution from the world of...

'Quasicrystal' Metal Computer Model Could Aid Ultra-Low-Friction Machine Parts.
September 15, 2005... Byline: Duke University DURHAM, N.C., Sept. 15 (AScribe Newswire) -- Duke University materials scientists have developed a computer model of how a "quasicrystal" metallic alloy interacts with a gas at various temperatures and pressures....

Hurricanes Are Getting Stronger, Study Says.
September 15, 2005... Byline: National Center for Atmospheric Research ATLANTA, Sept. 15 (AScribe Newswire) -- The number of Category 4 and 5 hurricanes worldwide has nearly doubled over the past 35 years, even though the total number of hurricanes has dropped...

University of Central Florida Researchers Studying Storm Surge Effects of Hurricanes on Florida Cities.
September 15, 2005... Byline: University of Central Florida ORLANDO, Sept. 15 (AScribe Newswire) -- A Category 4 hurricane could cause a storm surge of as much as 25 feet in Tampa Bay, according to a University of Central Florida researcher who is looking at the...

Mayo Clinic Researchers Invent "Hitchhiking" Viruses as Cancer Drug Delivery System.
September 18, 2005... Byline: Mayo Clinic ROCHESTER, Minn., Sept. 18 (AScribe Newswire) -- A Mayo Clinic research team has devised a new virus-based gene therapy delivery system to help fight cancer. Researchers say their findings will help overcome hurdles...

Hurricane Data to Improve Shelters and Evacuations.
September 19, 2005... Byline: Texas Tech University LUBBOCK, Texas, Sept. 19 (AScribe Newswire) -- Teams of Texas Tech University wind researchers continue to study the areas devastated by Hurricane Katrina. Two teams of researchers have visited the region...

Researcher: Toxic Flood Lifts Lid on Common Urban Pollution Problem.
September 19, 2005... Byline: University of Florida GAINESVILLE, Fla., Sept. 19 (AScribe Newswire) -- Broken sewers, flooded industrial plants and dead bodies are all likely to blame for poisoning the waters being drained from New Orleans. But the water -...

Survey Examines Why Pro-Environmental Views Don't Always Translate Into Votes.
September 20, 2005... Byline: Duke University WASHINGTON, Sept. 20 (AScribe Newswire) -- Eight in 10 Americans say they support pro-environmental policies, but a new national survey by the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions at Duke University...

Sugar Helps Control Cell Division.
September 20, 2005... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BALTIMORE, Sept. 20 (AScribe Newswire) -- Johns Hopkins scientists have discovered that a deceptively simple sugar is in fact a critical regulator of cells' natural life cycle. The discovery...

Purdue Civil Engineers Test Earthquake Resistance of Army Buildings.
September 20, 2005... Byline: Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., Sept. 20 (AScribe Newswire) -- Civil engineers at Purdue University are using a specialized laboratory to test a 32-foot-tall structure resembling a portion of one type of U.S. Army barracks...

San Diego Supercomputer Center Expands Its DataStar Supercomputer to Support Researchers' Extreme Data-Intensive Needs; DataStar Now Offers 15.6 Teraflop Capacity and More Than 2048 Processors for Unprecedented Capability at SDSC.
September 21, 2005... Byline: San Diego Supercomputer Center SAN DIEGO, Sept. 21 (AScribe Newswire) -- As part of a continuing effort to serve the broad community of science and engineering researchers and educators, the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at...

Nature Gives MIT a Lesson in Armor Design.
September 22, 2005... Byline: MIT CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Sept. 22 (AScribe Newswire) -- The ocean is a perilous environment for a soft-bodied creature like a sea snail, so nature gives it an advanced nanostructured armor system that is stiff and strong yet...

Big, Green Invaders Gaining Root-Hold on Lake Huron's Mackinac Island.
September 22, 2005... Byline: Michigan Technological University HOUGHTON, Mich., Sept. 22 (AScribe Newswire) -- Mackinac Island could be on the verge of being overrun by an exotic European import. No, Ferraris aren't allowed on this car-free resort getaway...

Land Surface Change on Alaska Tundra Creating Longer, Warmer Summers in Arctic, Study Indicates.
September 22, 2005... Byline: University of Virginia CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., Sept. 22 (AScribe Newswire) -- A gradual lengthening of the snow-free season in Alaska's tundra, and a corresponding northward progression of the growth of shrubs and trees, may be...

Scientists Attempt to Answer the Question, Who's Number One? Rochester Institute of Technology Study Uses New Mathematical Models to Create Better Ranking System for Sports Teams.
September 22, 2005... Byline: Rochester Institute of Technology ROCHESTER, N.Y., Sept. 22 (AScribe Newswire) -- Every year, there is endless debate in the press and in living rooms across the country concerning sports rankings, particularly when it comes to...

Mayo Clinic Cancer Center Receives SPORE Grant for Breast Cancer Research From National Cancer Institute.
September 22, 2005... Byline: Mayo Clinic ROCHESTER, Minn., Sept. 22 (AScribe Newswire) -- Mayo Clinic Cancer Center has received a Specialized Programs of Research Excellence (SPORE) grant from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) for breast cancer research....

Magnetic Insoles Do Not Provide Pain Relief, Mayo Clinic Study Reports.
September 23, 2005... Byline: Mayo Clinic ROCHESTER, Minn., Sept. 23 (AScribe Newswire) -- Magnetic shoe insoles did not effectively relieve foot pain among patients in a study, researchers report in the current issue of Mayo Clinic Proceedings. And the results...

Voyager 1 Sends Messages from the Edge.
September 23, 2005... Byline: University of Maryland, College Park COLLEGE PARK, Md., Sept. 23 (AScribe Newswire) -- NASA's Voyager 1 has passed into the border region at the edge of the solar system and now is sending back information about this...

Emergency-Room Visits Dip During Key Red Sox Games; 'Emergency' Care Is Sometimes Optional.
September 25, 2005... Byline: Children's Hospital Boston BOSTON, Sept. 26 (AScribe Newswire) -- When is a medical emergency really an emergency? Not during key Boston Red Sox games, report investigators from Children's Hospital Boston in a letter published in...

Cancer Drug Might Help Kids With Fatal 'Aging' Syndrome.
September 26, 2005... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BALTIMORE, Sept. 26 (AScribe Newswire) -- Johns Hopkins scientists have discovered that a drug currently being tested against cancers might help children with a rare, fatal condition called...

Johns Hopkins Geneticist Discovers Mutations in Cancer Cells That Suggest New Forms of Treatment.
September 26, 2005... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BALTIMORE, Sept. 26 (AScribe Newswire) -- Researchers at Johns Hopkins have identified three new genetic mutations in brain tumors, a discovery that could pave the way for more effective cancer...

Spitzer, Hubble Find 'Big Baby' Galaxy in Newborn Universe.
September 27, 2005... Byline: European Space Agency - Hubble GARCHING, Germany, Sept. 27 (AScribe Newswire) -- Two space observatories, NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope and the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, have teamed up to "weigh" the stars in several very...

Berkeley Lab Technology Could Help Areas Flooded by Katrina, Rita; DNA 'Phylochip' Scans for Thousands of Disease-Causing Microbes.
September 27, 2005... Byline: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory BERKELEY, Calif., Sept. 27 (AScribe Newswire) -- The flood waters that filled the streets of New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita are now heavily populated with bacteria,...