• NEC's Sasaki to deliver distinguished Sheffield lecture at Yale Engineering
• Moth Man's prophecies at global warming conference
• UC Santa Barbara and Intel develop world's first Hybrid Silicon Laser
• Structure determined for key molecular complex involved in long-term gene storage
• '1491' wins 2006 Best Book Award from the National Academies
• Institute of Medicine advisory: Drug safety news conference September 26
• CIESE awarded three-year, $1.2 million National Science Foundation ITEST grant
• Researcher lights the way to better drug delivery
• Paleontologists find 67 dinosaurs in one week
• MBL scientists to present results of long-term ecological research at NSF meeting
• Envisat Symposium 2007 highlights EO satellite achievements
• DFG receives 261 draft proposals for the second round of the Excellence Initiative
• Plastic Surgery 2006 spotlights the future of plastic surgery
• Academy allocates 7.5 million euros for research on sustainable production
• More New Yorkers with AIDS died of 'common' causes in 2004 than in 1999
• REG1A and its receptor EXTL3 are prognostic markers for colorectal cancer recurrence
• Large European survey reveals critical gaps in breast cancer patient education and communication
• Many urinary stones can be treated without surgery
• Study identifies part of brain responsible for tone deafness
• UI teams up with Cubs star, Celtics owner to fight eye disease
• UGA researchers discover cell-wall carbohydrate that is crucial to anthrax bacterium
• Manganese can keep toxic hydrogen sulfide zones in check in aquatic systems
• IUFRO conference on forest landscape restoration
• Swedish researcher launches unique search engine for the Web
• Bacteria for better ice cream and artificial snow no longer depends on trek to poles
• 'Living While Black' index measures variety of stress factors for African Americans
• NSF awards Texas Advanced Computing Center $59 million for high-performance computing
• NJIT researchers help Texans employ transportation technology
• Robot wheelchair may give patients more independence
• Model homes offer national IAQ impact results
• Firefighter radios may fail during high-temp fires
• Emergency tests focus on lab radioactivity analyses
• Einstein's magnetic effect is measured on microscale
• Thermal imaging shatters arousal gender gap myth
• Medical College of Wisconsin secures key contract from US HRSA
• Preventive ovary removal linked to early death in younger women
• Large collaborative effort provides first publicly available genetic data for Parkinson's research
• New treatment for severe malaria
• Hold the Hookah: Researcher warns against trendy tobacco use
• Efficacy of once-daily Avelox for complicated abdominal infections highlighted at ICAAC
• Close-up on highlands near crater Pentland
• Study defines effective microbicide design for HIV/AIDS prevention
• Australia, South Africa, short-listed for giant telescope
• Tamiflu significantly reduces the risk of death from influenza
• Tests may help answer questions about GMOs and allergies
• Using contrast enhanced sonography improves diagnosis of liver and spleen injuries
• Survey: Insecurity, Xenophobia extremely high in Iraq
• Dr. Robert Hatcher to receive AGI's Ian Campbell Award for 2006
• Study calls for 39 percent more family physicians
• Leptin has powerful effect on reward center in the brain
• Digital tags provide evidence that narwhals may produce signature vocalizations for communications
• New angiogenesis finding may help fight cancer growth
• UVA researchers find that hotel guests with colds can leave their germs behind after checkout
• UF study: Live oak trees struggle for survival in growth areas
• Winds trigger increases in ozone destroying gases in upper stratosphere
• Science of Learning Center comes to UC San Diego
• Studying membranes at the nanoscale
• Improbable 'buckyegg' hatched
• Genetic links to schizophrenia focus of international study
• Ecology center awarded $21-million by National Science Foundation
• Researchers show maps can be powerful tools in fighting poverty
• Cancer drug may be remedy for rheumatoid arthritis, Stanford study finds
• Springer debuts Journal of Robotic Surgery
• Peter Deuflhard awarded the ICIAM Maxwell Prize 2007
• Texas dropout conference will bring national researchers to Rice University
• Chronic diseases and injuries now number one killer in rural India
• Alberto Bressan awarded Antonio Feltrinelli Prize
• Common cold may be just a fingertip away due to environmental contamination
• Study shows internet to be resilient against terror attack
• Minister Lunn speaks about mining and exploration in British Columbia
• Mouse study reveals new clues about virulence of 1918 influenza virus
• NHGRI funds assessment of public attitudes about population-based studies on genes and environment
• The CNT-DNA wrap: A hefty hybrid for carbon nanotubes
• Loma Linda University research confirms antioxidant-rich pecans protect against unhealthy oxidation
• New study reports on attacks against US abortion clinics
• IU, Purdue selected for major NCI biomarker tools initiative
• Psychologist increases preschooler compliance in study
• Watching how planets form
• Tibotec Therapeutics announces start of largest US study on HIV treatment in women
• Gene key to taste bud development identified
• An infectious agent of deception, exposed through proteomics
• Gene transfer using mutant form of good cholesterol cuts vascular plaque and inflammation
• 'The Pathological Export Boom and the Bazaar Effect': How to solve the German puzzle
• Scientists use an 'ice lolly' to find polar bacteria in their own backyard
• Waiting for trial results sometimes unethical
• Twins have similar school performance to single-born children
• Steroid injections do not provide long-term relief from tennis elbow
• Criminalizing HIV transmission is a threat to public health, say experts
• High-resolution CT accurately diagnoses shin splints
• Early results indicate radiofreqency ablation useful in treating ovarian cancer metastasis
• Kluessendorf to be presented with AGI award
• American Chemical Society calls green chemistry bill a 'smart step'
• ACP says Congress must take action to reform dysfunctional Medicare payment system
• AACR CEO Margaret Foti receives cancer service award
• Research aims for more efficiency in harvest and handling
• Glue made from ethanol-production leftovers may be worth more than the fuel itself
• University of Virginia health system wins $5.5 million grant to help detect atherosclerosis
• $20 million to expand seafloor observatory
• Fire ant-attacking fly spreading rapidly in Texas
• Rochester study shows ethnic disparities in medicare claims
• Rochester researchers join federal initiative to improve drug safety
• Pitt combines tiny science, tiny tech in multidisciplinary NSF-funded course
• UGA scientists engineer root-knot nematode resistance
• Tarantulas produce silk from their feet
• Major cancer study aims to identify protein markers for early-stage disease
• Research could lead to dramatic improvement in scanning for serious diseases
• With record resolution and sensitivity, tool images how life organizes in a cell membrane
• ABCB6 is key to production of heme in hemoglobin
• Professor Heinz-Otto Peitgen awarded German Start-up Prize
• Spinal cord stimulators tested as treatment for patients with migraine headaches
• Improving the patient experience one meal at a time
• Study of toxins in Houston air warrants new standards
• Alliance aims to rethink network computing and communications
• Study: Airbags, antilock brakes not likely to reduce accidents, injuries
• FDA approves Vectibix to treat patients with metastatic colorectal cancer
• Amgen introduces comprehensive financial assistance programs for cancer patients
• New details about Alzheimer's detection, secret transmissions over public networks, more
• NASA launches hurricane data portal for scientists, educators and application users
• As ozone hole approaches annual peak, NASA scientists reveal latest information and images
• Embryo tests give parents the choice
• Researchers announce results of study on genetic variation in Parkinson's disease
• Blunt smokers link dependence potential to nicotine
• Telebriefing on NCI's Network of Clinical Proteomic Technology Assessment for Cancer Teams
• Long-term outcomes for prostate cancer show IMRT Curative: 89 percent disease-free 8 years later
• Estate of fashion designer Geoffrey Beene donates funds to Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
• Urgent and sustain action needed to prevent obstetric fistula
• Mothers who gain weight between pregnancies may experience pregnancy complications
• Reforms to gun dealer sales practices reduce supply of new guns to criminals
• Landmark study of islet transplantation reveals potential benefits in uncontrolled type 1 diabetes
• Solved: The mystery of flesh-eating bacteria's relentless attack
• Inheriting a tendency to brain infection
• October GEOLOGY and GSA TODAY media highlights
• Earth Science Week kicks off at International EarthCache Day, Washington, D.C.
• Heart Rhythm Society publishes final recommendations for heart patients
• FSU study: Abortion notification, consent laws reduce risky teen sex
• New scientific challenges and goals for ESA's Living Planet Program
• TU Delft and Shell jointly invest in sustainable mobility
• Silver anomalies found in Jerusalem pottery hint at wealth during second Temple period
• Berkeley lab life scientists are leaders in team to detect cancer by studying proteins in the blood
• Binge-drinking teenagers at greater risk of violence
• Arctic Meltdown, Global Effects: Transatlantic Research Conference
• Women given liver transplants outlive male recipients by around 4 years
• Restricted fetal growth increases risk of irritable bowel syndrome
• Living close to heavy industry may increase risk of lung cancer
• Finger length ratio may predict women's sporting prowess
• Physics of small business success, dark matter gravitation, fibers for secret messages
• 'Aqueous Humor Outflow' featured in Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science
• AZoNano/NanoVic release podcast of Nanotech -- A review with an Australian perspective
• Program to train corporate directors on climate change
• NIH funding renewed for VA study of alcohol and HIV/AIDS interactions
• Elevated testosterone kills nerve cells
• Controlling behavior of children with tourette and tic disorders
• Flemish biotechnology is flourishing
• UW researchers link deadliness of 1918 flu to severe immune system response
• Entanglement unties a tough quantum computing problem
• UNH space scientists to build sensor for next-generation weather satellites
• Computer-aided detection could help breast cancer screening
• Safer suntans through science
• Astronomers discover two new planets, both among the hottest ever
• Stereotypes contribute to older men seeking, receiving depression care less frequently
• Beauty and the brain
• IARC scientists document warm water surging into Arctic
• Solvent exposure linked to birth defects in babies of male painters
• Raising awareness of global drinking water crisis
• Reconstructed 1918 influenza virus induces immune response that fails to protect
• Men, women have similar rates of compulsive buying, Stanford study shows
• Bruno to co-chair 2006 ASBPA National Conference
• Springer to publish Revue de synthèse as of 2007
• Parasitic plants sniff out hosts
• 55,000 tiny Thomas Jeffersons show power of new method
• LANL/NIST team sends quantum encryption 'keys' over record distances
• Clinical trial shows islet transplantation is a promising procedure
• NCI creates network of Clinical Proteomic Technology Centers for cancer research
• MIT's intelligent aircraft fly, cooperate autonomously
• Call for global action over continued huge burden of maternal deaths in poor countries
• Health facility births key to substantially reducing maternal mortality worldwide
• Molecules dress for success
• Mesh can make weight-loss surgery safer
• Model predicts colon cancer inheritable genetic defects
• Urgent call to action issued to protect world's most vulnerable populations from influenza pandemic
• Economic crisis, civil war and tsunami no problem if reefs well managed
• Meteorites record past solar activity
• Iowa State researchers helping to take the natural gas out of ethanol production
• Gaining weight between pregnancies could lead to pregnancy complications
• Human factors researchers help to avoid runway incursions and errors
• Magnet lab wins $11.7-million grant to build next-generation magnet
• You can't scare people into getting fit or going green
• The 'Vicious Triangle' affecting productivity in our public services
• Small satellites take center stage at international symposium
• Mars Express successfully powers through eclipse season
• EO service industry maps out its future
• Scientists use gene signatures to match cancer and other diseases with potentially effective drugs
• Solar flares could seriously disrupt GPS receivers
• Explaining the methane mystery
• World's largest scientific Grid sustains a million jobs per month
• High risk of migraine, depression and chronic pain for IBS sufferers, large study shows
• Ethnic disparities in Medicare claims?
• Mind the gap: Space scientists uncover causes of gap in Van Allen belts
• Study explores political disorganization among Muslims in Europe
• Mathematical tools for predicting facial surgery results
• Blazing the Trail receives the IAA Luigi Napolitano Award
• Depressed stroke patients often not treated for depression
• Dr. M. Ray Thomasson to receive the 2006 William B. Heroy Jr. Award for Distinguished Service to AGI
• Study explores 'manic' thinking
• New study finds a positive association between periodontal disease and coronary heart disease
• Yale scientists to hold press conference on planetary discoveries, extraterrestrial life
• USGS at The Wildlife Society: From sea-ice change to contaminants to predators and prey
• UW-Madison to help steer five-year, $30 million 'Open Science Grid'
• Stock analysts likely punished for unfavorable recommendations
• Recycled paper and compost could both be key tools to control plant disease
• Montessori education provides better outcomes than traditional methods, study indicates
• New path from estrogen to survival in breast cancer cells described
• Why Popeye only has eyes for spinach
• International team analyzes human genetic variation in key immune region
• University of Georgia study finds far-reaching enrollment effects of HOPE Scholarship
• Mother birds give a nutritional leg up to chicks with unattractive fathers
• UC develops new approach to Web-based drug withdrawal warnings
• Bacterial protein shows promise in treating intestinal parasites
• Worries of injuries, errors, top list for world's best rugby players
• Edmonton Protocol clinical trial shows islet transplantation shows promising results
• AIDS study challenges conventional treatment guidelines for HIV patients
• Music helps patients tune out test anxiety
• Sen. Alexander honored with 'Friend of Science' award
• Integrative Cancer Therapies journal accepted into prestigious ISI index
• Stevens awarded US Commerce Department's Export Achievement Certificate
• Henri Poincaré Prize goes to Ludvig Faddeev
• Study: Air travelers don't mind delays if security checks consistent
• Acorda announces positive Phase 3 Fampridine-SR study in people with multiple sclerosis
• Breakthrough offers new tool for studying degenerative disease
• NASA study finds world warmth edging ancient levels
• National Science Board to meet Sept. 27-28, 2006
• Report highlights change in Canada's forests
• NIAID awards $4 million to develop anti-radiation treatments
• H9N2 avian flu vaccine paired with adjuvant provokes strong human immune response at low doses
• Blood transfusion-transmitted infections: A global perspective
• MIT tool aids cost estimates for complex projects
• MIT finds most complex protein knot ever seen
• MIT: engine on a chip promises to best the battery
• Jumping gene could provide non-viral alternative for gene therapy
• When nerve cells can't make contact
• Stroke survivors and caregivers to benefit from Kent State study
• Learning to discern
• Weight training does not increase strength but may slow progression in OA patients
• Exercise prior to hip and knee replacement reduces need for inpatient rehabilitation
• New study: Why CEO pay matters
• Bird flu vaccine additive may stretch supply
• Ga. Tech, BellSouth, Internet Security Systems initiate VoIP security research partnership
• Groundbreaking study by Field Museum scientists explains mane variation in lions
• Bose-Einstein condensation in the solid state
• How nature tinkers with the cellular clock
• Hair-pulling disorder caused by faulty gene in some families
• Laser probe of a brain pigment's anatomy may offer insight into Parkinson's disease
• Open Science Grid receives $30 million award
• It might be…it could be…it is!!!
• Better sludge through metagenomics
• NIH funds Berkeley Lab research on defense against radiological attack
• Multitasking is no problem, but double talk overwhelms us
• Hearts or tails?
• Chemical genomic screening identifies novel therapeutic strategies for cancer
• 58 percent of older hospital patients have problems eating, 31 percent leave most of their meal
• OREXIGEN reports positive 24-week results for Contrave phase III obesity treatment study
• Resistant bacteria increasing source of muscle infection
• Gene therapy study takes aim at prostate cancer
• Real-time Plant Physiology: ASPB extends 'open access' benefit for members
• What animals can tell us about hemorrhage, organ transplants and aging
• Heartburn drug may help to slow progression of chronic heart failure
• September/October Annals of Family Medicine tip sheet
• European public research performs better than thought
• Copper circuits help brain function -- could tweaking the circuits make us smarter?
• Roger Kornberg to present Dickson Prize lecture at U of Pittsburgh's SCIENCE2006: Feel the Power
• Crickets on Hawaiian Island develop silent wings in response to parasitic attack
• 'The next generation of IS pros: Where will they come from?' Stevens workshop, October 4
• HydroGlobe patent wins Thomas Alva Edison Award
• Dobbs to give plenary keynote at Drug Information Association conference in Philadelphia, Sept. 26
• St. Jude finds clues to hearing loss from chemotherapy
• Study by LIJ obstetrician confirms taller women are more likely to have twins
• New approaches to airport security
• Minister Lunn to speak at 10th National Forest Congress
• All intravascular devices pose risk of bloodstream infection to patients, study finds
• Rheumatoid arthritis and sex differences
• Predictors of undergoing joint replacement surgery among patients with severe osteoarthritis
• $36.4 billion a year: Cost of HIV/AIDS highlights racial and ethnic disparities
• Hubble finds hundreds of young galaxies in the early universe
• ESA's microsatellite playing major role in scientific studies
• From zero to a billion electron volts in 3.3 centimeters
• FDA approves new epilepsy indication for Lamictal®
• Sorting facts and opinions for homeland security
• Researchers use multiphoton microscopy to watch chromosomes in action
• New device tests uncertainty principle with new precision
• Household levels of mold following Hurricane Katrina surpass some agricultural environments
• What affects the survival of patients with tuberculosis?
• Is Clostridium difficile-associated disease linked to use of common stomach medication?
• Genetic 'roadmap' charts links between drugs and human disease
• Risk factors linked to pain after breast cancer surgery
• Disease of older adults now seen in young, obese adults
• Senior academic officers oppose 'public access' legislation
• American Academy of Family Physicians Scientific Assembly to convene in Washington, D.C.
• Can high schoolers solve climate change problems?
• Scientists find popular acne drug leads to depression-related behavior in mice
• Lower income means higher risk for heart disease
• Marc Levine, M.D., of Penn, wins Eminent Scientist of the Year award from the IRPC
• Blacks with bladder cancer have more aggressive tumors, worse survival, U-M study finds
• A world first in the treatment of a young patient with a completely blocked yet vital heart artery
• One protein, two channels: Scientists explain mechanism in aquaporins
• Ancient birds flew on all-fours
• Watching DNA repair in real time
• Wild bees make honeybees better pollinators
• UCSB's College of Engineering to present 'Engineering Insights' Oct. 17 and 18, 2006
• Research looks at how open source software gets written
• Pregnant prehistoric fossil offers clues to past
• Jefferson scientists find boosting protein levels staves off heart failure
• NASA study: Alaskan fires affected Houston air quality in 2004
• Nanocar inventor named top nanotech innovator
• Rutgers College of Nursing professor to be inducted into RAAA Hall of Fame
• 'Imported' pollution tied to poor air quality in Texas in 2004
• Virtual reality simulator lands at McMaster University
• New target for cancer therapy identified
• The Starr Foundation launches multi-institutional cancer consortium
• Meet the earliest baby girl ever discovered
• Insulin receptor stops progression of Alzheimer's disease
• Use of antibiotic to treat infectious eye disease trachoma may increase risk for reinfection
• Study suggests menthol cigarette smokers may have more difficulty quitting smoking
• Physicians often do not communicate important medication information
• Prediction models help identify increased risk of gene mutation linked with colorectal cancer
• Japanese adults with diabetes have increased cancer risk
• HIV measurement appears to be less reliable than thought in predicting loss of CD4 cells
• Early statin therapy for patients with acute coronary syndromes reduces death, cardiovascular events
• Lucky find off Galapagos
• Georgetown leads effort to study safety of 'alternative' tobacco products
• Self-aligning liquid crystal technique could simplify manufacture of display devices
• Video games: Medicine for the body
• Field Museum gives Parker/Gentry Award to missionary turned biologist, José 'Pepe' Alvarez
• Cydonia -- the face on Mars
• Handling HPV vaccines and screening: The views of 100 authors
• Like a snail through the intestinal canal
• Web tool helps gauge risk of having genetic mutation linked to colon cancer
• NSF awards $3.3 million grant to Cornell to bolster the percentage of women faculty members
• Report says cardiologists need guidelines for diagnosing, treating depression
• Dixie Chicks and CI partner to offset climate footprint of band's 2006 world tour
• Stabbings are increasing
• Is psychiatry racist?
• Doctors must debate hospital closures
• Better training needed to reduce emergency caesareans
• New research detects human-induced climate change at a regional scale
• Fires in Alaska and Canada caused sharp increase in Houston's ozone level
• 'Meth mouth' can leave users toothless
• Renewed dolphin slaughter prompts new campaign
• Invasive sea squirts persist on Georges Bank
• Researchers reveal how air pollutant helps pregnant women with hypertension
• New technology helping foster the 'democratization of cartography'
• Most widely used organic pesticide requires help to kill
• UVa receives $35.7 million grant renewal from NIH
• 'Killer' B cells demonstrate evolutionary link between fish and mammal immune systems
• Study shows how herpes infects cornea, evades immune cells
• University of Florida study shows leptin could combat type 2 diabetes
• For super-obese patients, duodenal switch beats gastric bypass
• Researchers use statistical technique to find mix of biomarkers predicting mortality
• Walking not enough for significant exercise benefits
• The point of icicles
• Perfectionism and parents push young hockey players to anger, study shows
• Pregnancy and lactation may affect maternal behavior and coping skills
• L'Oréal accepting applications for 2007 USA fellowships for Women in Science
• Obesity crisis in insects? Not a problem, says expert
• Study details structural changes of a key catalytic enzyme
• Stevens' Disruptive Technologies Roundtable discusses Attila Technologies, LLC
• News tips from the Journal of Neuroscience
• Researchers set benchmarks for screening mammography
• Microscopic brain damage detected in early Alzheimer's disease
• 'Magic formula' accurately predicts fracture risk in osteoporotic women
• Predicting species abundance in the face of habitat loss
• How butterflies got their spots: A 'supergene' controls wing pattern diversity
• NASA's TRMM satellite tracks 2006 hurricane rainfall
• NASA technology captures massive hurricane waves
• Robot infantry ready for the battlefield
• NSET to release EHS research needs assessment for engineered nanoscale material
• NSET releases document: EHS research needs for engineered nanoscale materials
• Gene offers new lead in cleft lip and palate research
• Fruit fly aggression studies have relevance to humans, animals
• Search on for treatment of slow-healing wounds
• Squid skin reveals hidden messages
• Political commitment and strong health systems needed to control tropical worm disease
• Health facility births key to substantially reducing maternal deaths worldwide
• Building trust among communities will be key in eradicating polio
• Are we prepared?
• Fatty fish protects against cancer
• Race influences uterine cancer survival
• Cancer survival compromised by poor staging methods
• Hopkins study reveals white blood cells can both hurt and help transplanted kidneys
• Skeletal microdamage stable after first year
• Dinosaurs' climate shifted too, reports show
• Iowa State corn/soy plastics to be made into hog feeders
• HHMI hosts international scientists at Janelia Farm Research Campus
• NIH director announces 2006 Pioneer Award recipients
• Field Museum receives $5 million grant from the Grainger Foundation
• To be or not to be: Is it all about spinning?
• Solar-B -- a new solar mission to study the dynamic sun
• The New England Journal of Medicine reports data on eculizumab for the treatment of PNH
• Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust to host press conference call/webcast on data published in NEJM
• Coronary surgery -- keeping the way clear
• New research puts 'killer La Palma tsunami' at distant future
• Can Immunology Help Win the War on Cancer?
• The weirdest Type Ia supernova yet
• Cell Press announces new partnership with the ISSCR
• Earth's most diverse marine life found off Indonesia's Papua Province
• Conservationist and actor Harrison Ford honored by Congressional Foundation
• Prenatal vitamins may reduce risk of brain tumors in children
• Smokers may be at greater risk of HIV infection
• 'Egg on your face' may be more dangerous than you think
• High hourly air pollution levels more than double stroke risk
• Very low birth weight linked to reduced quality of life in pre-school children
• Study shows men with ED favor treatment with Vardenafil
• Hard-wiring the fruit fly's visual system
• Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs use associated with higher gastrointestinal complications
• Surveys find outright hunger among Latino immigrants in North Carolina
• Researchers examine why food tastes bad to chemotherapy recipients
• ActoGenix raises €11.5 million in series A stock financing
• You don't need a big lottery win for long term happiness ... but a few thousand helps
• A spicy solution for colon cancer?
• UTSA receives $225,000 National Science Foundation grant to support doctoral students in physics
• Penn critical-care physicians recommend strategies when facing requests to end supplemental oxygen
• At the core
• Ceramic microreactors developed for on-site hydrogen production
• Greenland ice sheet still losing mass, says new University of Colorado study
• UCI scientists discover a new healthy role for fat
• Red is for hummingbirds, yellow for moths
• Researchers establish scientific link between acne treatment and depression
• Lighting up the heart
• Same mortality but higher suicide rate among women with breast implants
• Eating soy protein helps control cholesterol
• National Academies advisory: Science in grades K-8
• Dr. Jerry Luftman releases results of 2006 CIO Survey
• A wolf in sheep's clothing: Plague bacteria reveal one of their virulence tricks
• Imaging technology restores 700-year-old sacred Hindu text
• Children, their mental health and war, 9/11, graffiti, autism and more
• First evidence that musical training affects brain development in young children
• Mouse strain with gene stutter will help leukemia research
• Better grades and greater incentives help explain why women outpace men in college degrees
• Breakthrough in computer chip design eliminates wires in data transmission
• Deep sea explorer and marine conservationist wins MacArthur Fellowship
• University, VA hospital launch nation's first comprehensive meth research center
• Feinstein Institute's top scientist weighs in on mind-body medicine at conference with Dalai Lama
• NASA's Earth observing system receives 2006 Space Systems Award
• Growth in Amazon cropland may impact climate and deforestation patterns
• NIH grants $117 million in institutional development awards to underserved states
• 'No time to exercise' is no excuse, study shows
• Preconception care crucial to improving maternal and infant health
• Outpatient thyroid surgery safe for most patients, study shows
• Wiley to assume publication of Mount Sinai Journal of Medicine
• Walgreens and Joslin Diabetes Center form broad alliance to improve diabetes outcomes
• Bioethics program in predictive health established at Indiana University
• Making the grade: Immigrant children keep academic pace with peers
• China's environmental challenges
• MetOp launch campaign resumed
• Arctic summer ice anomaly shocks scientists
• Hubble finds hundreds of young galaxies in the early universe
• Emotional control circuit of brain's fear response discovered
• MacArthur Foundation genius grant recipient develops 'Game With a Purpose'
• Scientists discover new ring and other features at Saturn
• Top jaundice experts present latest treatment information during live Web cast from Pittsburgh
• Brown University advancing women in science, engineering
• Risks of gastrointestinal ulcers linked to aspirin use might outweigh its benefits for the heart
• Diabetes, not obesity, increases risk of developing critical illness and early death
• Clinton Foundation joins efforts in the fight against AIDS in Ukraine
• Study assesses impact of economic status for racial and ethnic minorities in US
• Perceived facial similarity in children is an estimate of kin recognition
• ACS News Service Weekly PressPac -- Sept. 20, 2006
• In stroke, negative studies less likely to get published
• Republic of Congo announces two massive protected areas
• Cellular traffic backups implicated in skeletal malformations
• Doctors cut repeat LASIK visits dramatically
• Cardiologist's 'living chip' changes science of disease monitoring
• Preeclampsia, fetal development problems may be linked to low levels of hormone
• More kidney cancer is detected and treated early, yet death rate rises
• Evolutionary software to be released free of charge
• UCI scientists use near real-time sensor data to detect coastal ocean pollution
• UCLA mathematician Terence Tao, chemist Omar Yaghi named to the 'Brilliant 10'
• Global view shows strong link between kidney cancer, sunlight exposure
• UA awarded $3.3 million to increase participation by women in science and engineering
• Boat paint to blame for Norfolk Broads' desolation
• 'Safe' blood levels need redefining, Tulane University study says
• Staffing Standards for Aviation Safety Inspectors
• Cabernet sauvignon red wine reduces the risk of Alzheimer's disease
• Michio Kaku and Stevens panel to debate 'The End of Science'
• Planning ahead: Having the healthiest baby possible
• Scientists snap images of first brown dwarf in planetary system
• Road wends its way through stomach
• Targeting wolbachia, doxycycline reduces pathology of lymphatic filariasis
• On airplanes, fiber optics poised to reach new heights
• Over 1.6 million Americans use CAM for insomnia or trouble sleeping
• MIT tames tricky carbon nanotubes
• MIT designs 'invisible,' floating wind turbines
• Karolinska Institutet prize for innovations in medical pedagogics
• Wiley-VCH and EFIS expand collaboration
• MRIs made safe for people with modern defibrillators and pacemakers
• Iowa State researchers developing more powerful solar cells
• Fatty acids and caveolin-1 are essential in liver regeneration
• Where global warming meets the faucet
• Kidney disease increases risk of sudden cardiac death for ICD patients
• Professor earns carbon sequestration research grant
• Space, defense and European security discussed at Europe's spaceport
• Understanding food nutrition labels challenging for many people
• Is there a relationship between a mother prompting her child to eat and obesity?
• Metal deformation studies lead to new understanding of materials at extreme conditions
• No guts, no worries
• New evidence links stellar remains to oldest-recorded supernova
• Carbon capture, water filtration, other boreal forest ecoservices worth estimated $250 billion/year
• Paramecia adapt their swimming to changing gravitational force
• 'No time to exercise' is no excuse
• Therapeutic role found for carbon monoxide
• Oldest juvenile skeleton discovered will help piece together human development
• Use of helical MDCT better at detecting abnormal airways
• Sports medicine journal available to journalists
• AGU Journal Highlights -- Sept. 18, 2006
• In new survey, men call themselves straight but have sex with men
• 2006 Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge winners announced
• Metals in China: Protecting the environment
• Teenage alcohol and drug use: At best, parents know about it only half of the time
• Heavy drinking can hasten the progression of the simian immunodeficiency virus disease
• Decision-making impairment appears greater in alcoholics with coexisting personality disorders
• Alcoholics Anonymous membership may decrease alcohol-related homicides
• NSF awards Subbalakshmi a grant for cryptography research
• Concussion in athletes: Can they accurately evaluate their own condition?
• Implanted wireless device alerts patients and physicians to dangerous conditions
• Brain's action center is all talk
• Rochester launches Cancer Stem Cell Research Program
• Aquaculture Accolades
• Symposium 'Environmental Change in Siberia -- Insights From Earth Observation and Modeling'
• UCLA neuroscience research leads to a possible treatment for type 1 diabetes
• Patients can report statins' adverse effects on new web site
• Single molecular 'mark' seen as pivotal for genome compaction in spores and sperm
• Charles M. Vest nominated to be next National Academy of Engineering president
• Calorie restriction in non-human primates may prevent and reduce Alzheimer's disease neuropathology
• New drug target might sidestep gleevec resistance, Jefferson scientists show
• New study pinpoints unique genetic susceptibility for viral encephalitis
• Sage's Crime, Media, Culture scoops international award for Best New Journal
• A better diet through online shopping?
• Scientists get best look ever at water-life connection
• Northwestern biologists demote Southeast Asia's 'forest ox'
• Small, low-noise oscillator may help in surveillance
• Prozac exposure found to disrupt mussel reproduction
• New reference materials support industrial zeolites
• Study identifies potential new marker for heart failure diagnosis, prognosis
• New international guidelines for heart transplant candidates standardize patient care
• Droughts and reservoirs: Finding storage space underground
• Mars mission Risk 29: Scientists research ways to reduce radiation-induced brain damage
• Researchers watch seeds in 3-D and discover an unknown air path
• ESA astronauts, including Reiter live from space, meet the press at the European Astronaut Centre
• Symposium will explore science's next great ideas
• Newly discovered behavior in cancer cells signals dangerous metastasis
• Uniform tungsten trimers stand and deliver
• New insight into skin-tanning process suggests novel way of preventing skin cancer
• How the brain keeps emotions at bay
• Enzyme shreds Alzheimer's protein
• Survey: Caregivers of people with mental illness say treatment disruption has serious consequences
• Early hearing tests improve children's recovery from meningitis
• Survey of biomedical funders shows widespread support for open access
• Common garden plant threatened by climate change
• Access to science enhanced by new NIH-ASH agreement
• ICSU hosts conference on hazards and disasters
• Exercise improves quality of life for patients with severe chronic pulmonary hypertension
• 'Safe' blood lead levels linked to risk of death
• Yale BioHaven Entrepreneurship Seminars begin with TheraLogics
• UT Southwestern scientist receives NIH Director's Pioneer Award
• M. D. Anderson, BCM, launch research effort targeting asthma and allergic diseases
• New 'superlens' reveals hidden nanostructures
• UNC receives $21.3 million Gates Foundation grant
• Ferns provide model for tiny motors powered by evaporation
• Existing vaccine facilities can handle flu pandemic
• Molecule helps cells plug leaks following lung injury
• UC Davis study finds distinct genetic profiles
• Slow brain waves play key role in coordinating complex activity
• Researchers find evidence of the earliest writing in the New World
• New advances in borderline personality disorder
• Top NIH prize goes to three pioneering Stanford scientists
• Hope for significant new diabetes treatment in Stanford discovery
• The Scripps Research Institute, McDonald's® align to fight childhood obesity and type 2 diabetes
• 'Ticking time bomb': Prisons unprepared for flu pandemic, says new SLU research
• News tips from the Journal of Neuroscience
• Protein folding: Building a strong foundation
• Rodent's bizarre traits deepen mystery of genetics, evolution
• Colon Cancer Alliance launches interactive support program
• Public Library of Science to launch new, open access journal on neglected tropical diseases
• Double quantum dots control Kondo effect in nanoscience study
• Study shows Darfur deaths in hundreds of thousands
• MIT team describes unique cloud forest
• Two-faced protein can stop metastasis or promote it, researchers say
• Lancet's coverage of the World Health Organization Director-General election
• Time for a debate in the USA on health care
• Effective treatments for panic disorder not reaching patients
• Drug could prevent type 2 diabetes in high-risk individuals
• Kansas State research team receives $1 million grant
• ACTOS® (pioglitazone HCl) demonstrates significant improvements in cardiovascular outcomes
• Form determines function
• Other highlights in the September 20 issue of JNCI
• 'Treatment disconnect' in kidney cancer: Rising mortality despite more small tumors, more surgery
• Aromatase inhibitors: A treatment of choice for advanced breast cancer patients
• JCI table of contents: September 21, 2006
• Calcineurin helps newborns breathe easy
• Psst! Coffee drinkers: Fruit flies have something to tell you about caffeine
• Transfusion-free surgical program reduced use of blood products for all liver transplant patients
• Short-term topical corticosteroid use may offer relief for patients with acute form of psoriasis
• Risk factors identified for hearing loss in children with bacterial meningitis
• Nasal plastic surgery improves airway function
• Insufficient sleep associated with poorer blood glucose control in African Americans with diabetes
• Editorial: Incorporate sleep evaluation into routine medical care
• Breathing problems during sleep increase risk of depression
• Allergic rhinitis associated with impaired sleep quality
• About 5 percent of adults with insomnia use alternative therapies
• Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia inaugurates ICSU's Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific
• IAU names dwarf planet Eris
• Independent evaluation finds GAVI funding to poor countries can boost childhood vaccine coverage
• Prostate cancer treatment increases risk of diabetes and heart disease
• Getting real: Drought as the 'New Normal'
• Genomatix wins BioChance grant worth $1.6 million
• Planning guidebook to help make walking safer and more convenient
• New tool for biology students teaches biosecurity awareness by example
• Mediterranean neurosciences in Albania
• Field Museum receives $5 million grant from John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
• New launch date for Europe's first polar-orbiting weather satellite
• A new understanding of how cells defend themselves against bacterial pore-forming toxins
• American Chemical Society honors PNNL scientist
• Ames Laboratory to share in $60 million DOE award money
• Ames lab chemist receives ACS Distinguished Service Award
• New lunar meteorite found in Antarctica
• Sniffing out relatives, bluegill sunfish use self-referencing to recognize kin
• Researchers identify taste receptor responsible for caffeine detection
• Mirrors in the mind: New studies elucidate how the brain reflects onto itself the actions of others
• Don't care for broccoli? A receptor gene's variation suggests an evolutionary excuse
• UTC and CI partner to support reforestation in China
• Cartoons help measure hostile assumptions, risk of aggression in urban girls
• Can a vitamin alleviate chronic, progressive multiple sclerosis?
• Burroughs Wellcome Fund to support Project Suc-SEED at CIIT Centers for Health Research
• General relativity survives gruelling pulsar test
• World-wide warning of highly drug-resistant tuberculosis
• Emergency contraception fails to halt abortions
• Calcium supplements fail to prevent bone fractures in children
• Acupuncture relieves low back pain and is cost-effective
• P.A.D. Coalition press briefing
• VIRTUE clinical trial opens to primary immunodeficiency patients across the U.S.
• Poplar DNA code cracked -- new possibilities for sustainable energy
• New treatments for epilepsy may benefit patients at University of Virginia
• Bath falls common among older adults, but can be prevented
• Study to forecast side effects of pollution policy
• Can hearing voices in your head be a good thing?
• Mutation plays key role in hypertension
• The sweet science: Viruses switch grip to gain upper hand
• Study adds to links between sleep loss and diabetes
• Molecular medicine comes to the rescue
• Biologists probe the machinery of cellular protein factories
• Expedition allows teachers to participate in polar research
• Cassini's Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer detects vast polar ethane cloud on Titan
• Bird moms manipulate birth order to protect sons
• Tulane researcher reports on origin of deadly fever outbreak
• Short duration of depressive symptoms in teens may affect evaluation of drug treatment responses
• Dieting danger: Female athletes limiting calories more likely to get stress fractures
• Stolkin, a Stevens professor, publishes paper in elite journal
• National study: Patients poorly prepared for end-of-life decisions
• Researchers reveal 'extremely serious' vulnerabilities in e-voting machines
• General relativity survives gruelling pulsar test -- Einstein at least 99.95 percent right
• Diabetics see dramatic increase in lower limb amputations
• OHSU research demonstrates possible health risks for children born to overeating mothers
• Warming climate may put chill on arctic polar bear population
• Arctic ice meltdown continues with significantly reduced winter ice cover
• Mega-dams back on the agenda
• Jerome Groopman wins 2006 Victor Cohn Prize for Excellence in Medical Reporting
• MIT's molecular sieve advances protein research
• Political party policies to reduce social inequalities have better health outcomes
• A potential new affordable diagnostic test for TB
• Wiley expands partnership with Skyscape
• Bacteria get off easy in sinus infections
• Anemia affects body ... and maybe the mind
• Improvement seen in fetal survival following preeclampsia
• High levels of lipoprotein(a) in women associated with increased risk for cardiovascular events
• Fatty fish consumption associated with lower risk of kidney cancer in women
• Barcelona University, ESF to host nanomedicine conferences
• Researchers image molecular motor structural changes
• People often forgo using lifesaving beta blockers despite health insurance
• Clemson research cleans up with edible oil
• Early to bed, early to rise
• Metals in China: Protecting the environment
• Aussie team makes landmark insulin discovery
• Brown engineers build a better battery -- with plastic
• South Asian men suffer more urinary problems than white men but are less likely to seek help
• Motorola researchers develop selective sensors based on carbon nanotubes
• New tool helps blood specialists improve patient care
• International Council for Industrial and Applied Mathematics announces 2007 prizewinners
• Arctic sea ice diminished rapidly in 2004 and 2005
• Annals of Internal Medicine tip sheet for Sept. 19, 2006
• Long-term lead exposure linked to cognitive decline in older adults
• Raloxifene reduces breast cancer risk in postmenopausal women at all risk levels
• Quantum dots reviewed -- Could these nanoparticles hold the cure to cancer?
• Transplant cures rats' type 2 diabetes without need for immune suppression drugs
• Test can predict spread of eye cancer to liver
• Violence in the home leads to higher rates of childhood bullying
• Team depression care reduces suicidal thoughts in older adults
• Penn to host Herbal Medicine Symposium
• Penn study suggests a new type of pain reliever that may benefit the heart
• Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania selected to '25 Most Influential' list in radiology
• Weight worries affect women's motivation to stay smoke-free after pregnancy
• New University of Leicester study identifies links between musical tastes and lifestyle
• Hope for major advance in fighting world killer disease
• Round-the-clock monitoring by UH contributes to air quality study
• Do green markets actually lead to improvements in environmental quality?
• UC Davis researchers find added benefit of statins in those at high risk for heart disease, diabetes
• UCSD researchers create roadmap to integrin activation
• UCR's Douglas Altshuler to receive the 2006 George A. Bartholomew Award
• New study of solar system speculates about life on other planets
• Define 'precautionary principle' to avoid clashes over biotechnology under World Trade rules
• More Americans reject war as policy tool
• Data lacking on psychiatric drugs for kids
• International Genomics Consortium, TGen to lead Biospecimen Core for Cancer Atlas pilot project
• A plastic pill for periodontal problems
• UK e-Science Program wins award for leadership in grid computing
• Scientists and engineers simulate jet colliding with World Trade Center
• Ecological change, climate variation addressed at international conference, September 20-24
• Chemical tests of cell growth enter third dimension
• Partnership between NIAID and Sequella yields promising new TB drug for clinical testing
• National Institutes of Health to map genomic changes of lung, brain and ovarian cancers
• Stratospheric injections could help cool Earth, computer model shows
• High-tech equipment may help reduce wildlife-vehicle collisions
• MIT forges greener path to iron production
• MIT device could prevent epileptic seizures
• MRI can track survival of pancreatic islets after transplantation
• Bitter taste identifies poisons in foods
• National study compares delivery methods of schizophrenia medicines
• International conference to highlight latest LCD research and technology
• 'Telomere' expert Carol Greider shares 2006 Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research
• Genomatix appoints distributor for the growing Chinese market
• Spam filter design to benefit from internet routing data
• Faculty member earns $300,000 grant for hurricane damage research
• Regular aerobic exercise significantly reduces markers of increased colon-cancer risk in men
• A 'genetic study' of the galaxy
• ESA experiments with spaceflight participant Ansari to ISS
• Nicotine lessens symptoms of depression in nonsmokers
• Story tips from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, September 2006
• Sandia fingerprinting technique demonstrates wireless device driver vulnerabilities
• Reducing side effects of painkillers
• Nearly nine of 10 who seek individual market health insurance never buy a plan
• Brown team creates uncanny cell replicas for treatment, research
• Experimental cancer drugs counter muscle deterioration seen in muscular dystrophy
• ASTRO awards $240,000 to four cancer researchers
• Black-white IQ gap has narrowed
• ACS News Service Weekly PressPac -- Sept. 13, 2006
• AAFP, ACP and AOA meet with Congress on Medicare reimbursements to physicians
• Salivary melatonin may decrease periodontal disease severity according to new study findings
• tNOX serves as a serum marker for detection and monitoring of disease progression in prostate cancer
• Test helps identify patients with breast cancer who will likely benefit from chemotherapy
• Single genetic assay could help physicians decide when to switch patients from Gleevec to Sutent
• Sensitive and specific biomarker for early detection of prostate cancer identified
• Potential diagnostic marker indicates effectiveness of anti-angiogenic drugs
• New technique detects early metastasis of breast cancer
• Novel biomarker for prediction of survival in colorectal carcinomas revealed
• Molecular markers signal early metastases from ocular melanoma
• High-throughput oncogene mutation detection in human cancers by mass spectrometry-based genotyping
• Biomarkers of response to VEGF pathway-targeted therapy discovered for renal cell carcinoma
• A tNOX-based protocol for early detection of lung cancer in smokers and nonsmokers
• Abnormal overexpression of p53 is a predictive molecular biomarker
• UW-Madison work on stem cells, cardiac health to be presented at ACS
• Robots find regular teeth brushing helps them munch through 50,000 aluminium spot welds
• New VEE virus protein structure marks first step to developing effective therapy
• Doctors warn: Do not rely only on what young athletes say when managing concussions
• Clean water project hit by funding drought
• Minnesota and Michigan reseachers discover new insights for antibiotic drug development
• Wearing a helmet puts cyclists at risk, suggests research
• Researchers discover that sheep need retroviruses for reproduction
• Scientists discuss new frontiers in single-molecule research at American Chemical Society
• Study shows enzyme builds neurotransmitters via newly discovered pathway
• Barrow receives a $382,869 grant from the National Institutes of Health
• Immigrant children's verbal development varies based on race/ethnicity
• NSF gives $12M to Rice to study nanotech's impact on health, environment
• Study considers auto industry and consumer behavior in reducing greenhouse gas emissions
• Scent of father checks daughter's maturity
• Effect of direct-to-consumer drug ads unexpected
• Solar-B
• OSA 'Frontiers in Optics' annual meeting celebrates 90th anniversary of innovation in optics
• Why Don't Penguins' Feet Freeze?
• Live H5N1 avian flu virus vaccines show protection in animal studies
• Changes in solar brightness too weak to explain global warming
• Preventive ovary removal linked to early death in younger women, Mayo Clinic discovers
• Electric jolt triggers release of biomolecules, nanoparticles
• Unpublished papers reveal lesser-known, but significant research of Sir Isaac Newton
• An advanced genetic diagnostic method for multiple myeloma
• Study finds safety test results on children's drugs not always reaching physicians
• Human activities found to affect ocean temperatures in hurricane formation regions
• Dairy is necessary, even for lactose-intolerant children
• IOS Press presents commemorative volume on Alzheimer's Disease to her majesty, Queen Sofia of Spain
• Biodegradable napkin -- featuring sensitive nanofibers -- may quickly detect biohazards
• Funding to tackle hospital superbugs
• Census of Marine Life US National Committee hosts 2006 Marine Biodiversity Workshop
• Carnegie's Joseph G. Gall wins 2006 Lasker Award
• Stubborn ulcerative colitis responds to arthritis drug, review finds
• Oldest writing in the New World discovered in Veracruz, Mexico
• Mysteries of Kilimanjaro
• Animal physiology conference sheds light on human physiology
• Updated sleep apnea screening recommended for commercial drivers
• High chemical levels in blood stream indicate need for action to avoid heart attack, death
• Ethnicity and cancer susceptibility
• Before dementia's first signs appear, weight-loss rate doubles in elderly
• Compounds in cranberry juice show promise as alternatives to antibiotics
• Pregnant drivers, football players safer thanks to a top Virginia Tech researcher
• Sex and the heart: It's not what you think
• Drug could change the standard treatment during procedures to clear blocked arteries
• Breast discomfort during hormone therapy may indicate increased risk for breast cancer
• Astronomers trace the evolution of the first galaxies in the universe
• Allocating HIV drugs to South African cities would prevent the greatest number of infections
• UAF to host AAAS Arctic Division conference
• An artificial cornea is in sight, thanks to biomimetic hydrogels
• Consortium for Functional Glycomics awarded $40.7 million 'glue' grant
• New Jersey's telecom industry needs new growth strategy, report says
• Reading friendship stories can change children's attitudes towards stigmatized groups
• Racial discrimination can affect adolescents' development
• Neighborhood affects impact of messages about race on children
• Multi-racial adolescents change their racial identification over time
• Children's racial attitudes may be related to ethnic composition of their school
• Children of immigrants pursue math and science as pathways to upward mobility
• Most Katrina evacuees in Houston plan to stay here
• OHSU lab links gene to aged skin problems, cancer
• NASA hosts Arctic sea ice media teleconference
• MIT uses sound to search for gas, oil
• Two copies of G2019S Parkinson's gene mutation doesn't lead to more severe disease
• Mayo Clinic finds what causes men pain in prostate biopsy and best method to alleviate it
• Child Survival Symposium: Urgent action needed to reduce child mortality worldwide by 2015
• Kansas State professor uses geography and geospatial technology to study patterns of seized meth lab
• 'Allergy cells' can aggravate cancer and psoriasis
• Craig Mello named winner of The Dr. Paul Janssen Award for Biomedical Research
• US clinical researchers resist full financial disclosure, according to Conflicts-of-Interest Study
• Studies provide new evidence on risks associated with Cox-2 inhibitors and NSAIDs
• Conference Costs/Benefits of HIV/AIDS Interventions Developing Countries
• 'World's smallest controlled heat source' studies explosives at the nanoscale
• High-value chemicals produced from ethanol feedstocks could boost biorefinery economics
• Chemical screening system helps evaluate PEM fuel cell materials
• Childless women risk poorer health in later life
• Planet or failed star? One of smallest stellar companions seen by Hubble
• Leading-edge technology program announcement of opportunities
• Ground movement risks identified by Terrafirma
• Frank Uhlmann of London Research Institute wins 'EMBO Gold'
• Planet or failed star?
• The first tree genome is published: Poplar holds promise as renewable bioenergy resource
• Public confidence in government drops as 5th anniversary of 9/11 approaches
• Cold Spring Harbor Protocols features methods for analyzing protein interactions
• Asteroids and meteorites reveal family resemblance
• Chemistry Central Journal announced at ACS National meeting
• Unusual three-drug combo inhibits growth of aggressive tumors
• Reconstructive surgeon aims for rejection-free limb transplantation
• Pediatric neurosurgeons recommend banning children from ATVs
• Drug can quickly mobilize an army of cells to repair injury
• Modern humans, not Neandertals, may be evolution's 'odd man out'
• Work-family conflict common among registered nurses, study shows
• Pre-clinical study suggests how steroid can reverse post-traumatic stress
• Pre-clinical study finds Parkinson's cell death blocked by stopping inflammatory factor
• Gamma Knife offers non-invasive treatment for vascular disorders, tumors in the brain
• Researchers identify key step in cocaine-induced heart enlargement, sudden death
• JAMA study provides clues to cause of sudden cardiac death in teens
• Genetic surprise confirms neglected 70-year-old evolutionary hypothesis
• Pitt scientists help bring world's smallest test tubes 'From the Lab to the Fab'
• Pitt professor designs less-risky reactor for clean, safe energy
• Fast-freeze snapshot yields new picture of nerve-muscle junction
• US educators review Jordan's nursing programs
• Seeing two figures in coordinated action helps brain pick out movements of one
• Spleen may be target of successful therapy for lupus
• New sunscreen ingredient to heal sunburn and help prevent skin cancer
• Siberian lakes burp 'time-bomb' greenhouse gas
• Jefferson researchers find potential biomarket for heart failure
• Scientist's persistence sheds light on marine science riddle
• Engineer ramps up protein production, develops versatile viral spheres
• Improved treatment raises medulloblastoma survival rate
• Distinguishing friend from foe in the battle against cancer
• News tips from the Journal of Neuroscience
• Rice awarded $10million for Department of Energy computer research center
• Physicists trap, map tiny magnetic vortex
• Anti-inflammatory drugs following hip replacement surgery could harm rather than help
• Amgen launches Aranesp prefilled Sureclick™ autoinjector for treatment of anemia
• Oxford review of economic policy
• Hot dust and moisture collide to fuel Asian summer rainy season
• Meeting America's Competitive Challenge
• New National Institute of Mental Health research program launches autism trials
• Human activities are boosting ocean temperatures in areas where hurricanes form, new study finds
• Liver diagnosis breakthrough with Mayo Clinic MRI development
• From bubbles to capsules
• JCI table of contents: September 14, 2006
• Can Gleevec help patients with rheumatoid arthritis?
• AM: A gene that affects female fertility
• Closing in on lethal heart rhythm in young athletes
• Weightlifting increases pressure within the eye
• Progression of diabetic retinopathy among African-Americans with diabetes
• Migraine treatment also appears effective for cluster headaches
• Factors linked with increased risk of cardiac arrest for adolescents with certain heart condition
• Consumption of green tea associated with reduced mortality in Japanese adults
• Accelerating weight loss may signal development of Alzheimer's disease
• 'Wait-and-see' approach for treating ear infections substantially reduces use of antibiotics
• Amateur boxing linked to brain cell injury
• Malaria treatment efficacy compromised in certain HIV-positive patients
• Diversity training fails to boost minorities into management
• DoD awards $10.7 million Center of Excellence Grant to Fox Chase's V. Craig Jordan
• Study finds healthcare usage significantly altered after September 11 attacks
• Parents want concrete support not parenting lessons
• SMART-1 impact flash and debris: Crash scene investigation
• ESA steps towards a great black hole census
• New EMBL/CRG Research Unit for Systems Biology launched today
• Voice and signature for the identification of persons
• Precision climate modeling forecast by ORNL researchers
• ORNL researchers winners of five DOE SciDAC awards
• Search for natural, safe and abundant chelator may be a 'shell game'
• New computer model could solve real-world problems on a small, porous scale
• Continuous, real-time analysis of radioactive waste achieved at PNNL
• Ames laboratory scientist receives 2006 IBM Faculty Award
• DOE announces $60 million in projects to accelerate scientific discovery through advanced computing
• Organic semiconductors make cheap, flexible photovoltaics and LEDs
• Study of twins finds genetic link to fatigue
• Researchers tackle problem of data storage for next-generation supercomputers
• Carnegie Mellon receives NIMH/NSF grant to examine mechanisms that underlie neuronal synchronization
• Need to pull an all-nighter?
• Boston University awarded $42.5 million from NASA to study space radiation
• Medical education must adapt to society's changing attitudes
• Frontline NHS staff should be trained to tackle alcohol misuse
• Claiming diagnostic tests for diabetes genes is misleading, say experts
• Ageism endemic in health services
• Upgrading donor lung quality to improve availability
• Shorter distance on six-minute walk test points up a greater risk of death
• Newsbriefs from the journal CHEST, September 2006
• Inhaled corticosteroids reduce death in patients with COPD
• Vitamin D may cut pancreatic cancer risk by nearly half
• Yale Geologist Mark Brandon honored for second time with Kirk Bryan Award
• Two at Yale named outstanding new environmental scientists by NIEHS
• Nobel Laureate keynote speaker at conference on nanomedicine, geriatric care, brain injury
• Decompression-driven crystallization warms pathway for volcanic eruptions
• Environmental toxins may cause body's defenses to worsen lung disease
• Cronin Fest activities to honor Nobel Laureate September 8-9 on his 75th birthday
• Mechanism to organize nervous system conserved in evolution
• Computer science, engineering Ph.D. student on leave from UCSD makes 'Top 35 Young Scientist' list
• Mount Sinai researcher finds drinking water safe to drink
• Gropep launches new product to support cell culture products business
• Will stem cell-based treatments make a difference to the developing world?
• SARS: No evidence that any of the treatments worked
• Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors antidepressants and risk of violent behavior
• Promising preclinical results with live attenuated H5N1 vaccines
• Life and death in the USA: New study concludes there are 'Eight Americas'
• Islands spark accelerated evolution
• Do patients in teaching hospitals get better care?
• Did 'ABCs' cause Uganda's fall in HIV rates?
• Air travel and flu: Post-9/11 restrictions delayed start of season
• Keep slapping on that sunscreen
• Dark matter 'proof' called into doubt
• Wounds may one day heal better, faster, due to new NIH-funded wound healing centers
• Statement from the NIH on cancer genetics findings at Johns Hopkins University
• NIH launches Knockout Mouse Project
• Migraine treatment and prevention in women
• How did our ancestors' minds really work?
• Academia and industry will discuss the future of recommender systems
• Using nature's most primitive anti-viral defense system to find new approaches to cancer research
• New strategy improves outcome for children with most common type of brain tumor
• New SSRI effective for the treatment of moderate-to-severe premature ejaculation
• Mexico's health-system reforms showing encouraging results
• Wiley announces partnership with NASPGHAN and AASLD
• New breast cancer screening tool helps general practitioners
• Exercisers may have better breast cancer survival
• Anti-inflammatory drug prevents liver cancer in at-risk liver patients
• Hopkins scientists link immune response to 'ghost' parasites and severely congested sinuses
• Journal Management Science introduces new 'Management Insights,' digest of leading new research
• Study shows antibiotic-resistant bacteria responsible for increase in muscle infections
• Reports, studies shatter myth that H-1B visa holders are paid same wages as U.S. citizens
• Harvard University engineers demonstrate laser nanoantenna
• Report: Economic freedom key to lifting poor nations out of poverty
• Greenhouse gas bubbling from melting permafrost feeds climate warming
• Cold shot
• Case and Cleveland Clinic researchers identify molecule in age-related macular degeneration
• Flipping the angiogenic switch
• Battling breast cancer
• Virus may control Australia's "river rabbit"
• CSIRO signs international coal research agreement in Japan
• State health department Web sites inaccessible to many, study finds
• Researchers create mouse lacking key inflammation gene
• Scientists explore how complex organs develop from a simple bud
• Recent study confirms warning signs of painkiller abuse
• Playing field leveling in media coverage of political candidates
• Issues of privacy at the forefront of concerns for U.S. citizens
• Epilepsy medication proving ineffective over time
• Thirty percent of nurses report both verbal and physical abuse in the last four working weeks
• ASU will host conference on sustainability in higher education
• Excellence in scholarship recognized at annual meeting of political scientists
• ACS National Meeting blog
• By analyzing and targeting specific germs, hospital hopes to improve pneumonia treatment
• What's next for gene therapy? Plastic
• Virginia Tech trauma expert crusades for changes in disaster preparedness and recovery
• Virginia Tech chemists create new polymers by adding DNA base pairs
• Particle size matters to bacteria ability to immobilize heavy metals
• Latest fuel cell material advance overcomes low humidity conductivity problem
• Focus on functional materials development shortchanges opportunities for discovery
• Fuel cell membrane materials offer solution for removing salt from water
• Recycling technology
• New research could help women facing high risk of stillbirth
• Clue found to Epstein-Barr virus' ability to form and sustain tumors
• Researchers find not all drugs are equal in treating teen drivers with ADHD
• Replacing insulin is top-ranked breakthrough foreseen for health in developing world
• Hormone-replacement therapy hurts hearing, study finds
• Studies find general mechanism of cellular aging
• White on white: Nation's first ever 'whiteness' survey provides new insight on race
• U of MN researchers develop mouse model for muscle disease
• New catalyst removes harmful perchlorate from groundwater
• Music -- the key to feeling good?
• Earth-like planets may be more common than once thought, says new U. of Colorado-Penn State study
• UCLA study uncovers new risk factor for schizophrenia
• Proteins necessary for brain development found to be critical for long-term memory
• Childhood obesity briefing on Sept. 13
• Licensing arrangement reached for antiepileptic drug
• Hebrew University ranked among top 100 universities
• The subtleties of tropical forest demise
• Society of Nuclear Medicine offers free access to Journal of Nuclear Medicine
• Diabetes slows nerve recovery after heart transplant
• Young brainy students create world first
• Elder's death at airstrip: Research exposes deeper issues
• Carbon monoxide may help prevent debilitating pregnancy condition
• Scientists crack genetic secrets of human egg
• Pall system to detect blood bacteria given CE mark
• Nanoscientists create biological switch from spinach molecule
• What is it like to be on a NASA hurricane mission?
• NHLBI and NIH statements on totally implanted permanent artificial heart
• Radical surgery for kidney cancer is risk factor for chronic kidney disease
• Pine tree bark reduces diabetic leg ulcers
• Mayo researchers discover HIV dependence on a human protein
• After insects attack, plants bunker sugars for later regrowth
• Protein splicing upsets the DNA colinearity paradigm
• More aggressive treatment warranted in patients with metabolic syndrome
• Early trial shows H5N1 influenza vaccine safe and effective in humans at low doses
• Depression, risky sex behavior linked in African-American youth
• ACTOS reduces stroke by almost 50 percent
• Switchable lotus effect
• Bone mass continues to increase in liver transplant patients, despite early loss
• Presentation of the first The Dr. Paul Janssen Award For Biomedical Research
• Hopkins-led study finds that chronic form of depression runs in families
• Genome code cracked for breast and colon cancers
• Architects of the envelope
• New approaches needed to promote worker health and well-being
• Unique laboratory could make pavements more user-friendly
• Predicting an answer to the threat of flooding
• Journal of Evidence-Based Dental Practice joins the curriculum at NYU College of Dentistry
• Defects in crucial brain protein implicated in memory loss
• Second graders dig into Healthy Choices, Healthy Me!
• Study uncovers mechanism of drug resistance in form of lung cancer
• Dartmouth and GlycoFi report full humanization of therapeutic proteins from yeast
• MRI on the cheap and on the go
• BC catalyst discovery promises faster, cheaper drug production
• Protein folding physics, nanohandles, sunscreen for algae and classical quantum weirdness
• AGI publishing the Geoscience Handbook
• ACS Weekly PressPac -- September 6, 2006
• Forgetful? You may be losing more than just your memory
• Drug improves memory loss for traumatic brain injury patients
• Mind the gap! Discrimination contributes to science pay disparity
• Fishing trade helps Africa
• Designer babies - what would you do for a 'healthy' baby?
• Cracking the real Da Vinci Code -- what happens in the artist's brain?
• Climate change rocked cradles of civilization
• Feelings matter less to teenagers
• Study points to improvements needed in China heart care
• GlycoFi and Dartmouth report full humanization of yeast glycosylation pathway in Science
• Research shows how ultrasound can deliver therapeutic molecules into living cells
• Don't rely on cold reason - trust your intuition as well
• SMART-1 swan song: valuable data until final moments
• Who gives stem cells their marching orders?
• Edible coatings will be the packaging of the future
• Sound understanding of indoor acoustics could make hearing easier
• 'Environmental Forensics' could cut the cost of brownfield development
• Otter research gives insight into lead pollution
• 'Extreme rainfall' incidents increasing in parts of UK
• Stevens honors cybersecurity experts at Convocation 2006
• Heart smart: new drug improves blood flow
• Impact landing ends SMART-1 mission to the Moon
• Physical Interpretations of Relativity Theory conference
• Impact of forest certification in developing countries examined
• New evidence shows Antarctica has warmed in last 150 years
• Anticipation plays a powerful role in human memory, brain study finds
• Key study offers hope to patients with lung and joint disease
• Why are there so many weeds in your garden this year?
• Spread of plant diseases by insects can be described by equations that model interplanetary gravity
• Power emerges from consensus in monkey social networks
• Mother deer cannot recognize the calls of their own offspring but sheep and reindeer can
• Empty nesters can't let go
• UA strengthens commitment to Arctic research
• Workshop suggests turning problems into biofuels
• Global changes alter the timing of plant growth, scientists say
• A seat on the aisle, please!
• NYU biologists identify gene that coordinates two cellular processes
• High-flying balloons track hurricane formation
• Genome info from 'plant destroyers' could save trees, beans and chocolate
• Prevention programs for young rural teens can reduce methamphetamine abuse years later
• Molecules in blood foretell development of preeclampsia
• A new clinical report from the AAP recommends dairy for children with lactose intolerance
• Uninsured Latino children more likely not to get medical care
• Physician burnout associated with increase in perceived medical errors
• 'Stress and the city': Urban birds keep cool
• New findings could lead to vaccine for severe malaria
• Increase in drug development for killer diseases is not enough
• Are genomic technologies the answer to world hunger?
• Lost in the labyrinth
• Determining the state of the human arterial system
• Eastern Europe, Middle East tops in cardiovascular disease deaths
• Innovative projects help ORNL win 3rd straight DOE Pollution Prevention Award
• Study suggests a second dimension to Alzheimer's disease
• Study illuminates how the plague bacteria causes disease
• Over the edge: New therapeutic strategy takes advantage of stressed cancer cells
• Reducing contrast material injection in elderly patients can lower cost of exam and risks
• MRI more accurately determines cancer spread into breast ducts
• Fight weeds with plant pathogens
• When preventing pre-eclampsia, a little carbon monoxide goes a long way
• Mature muscle fibers can revert to become cancerous, researchers find
• Drazner to lead UT Southwestern heart failure and transplant program
• Good times ahead for dinosaur hunters, according to U of Penn scientist's dinosaur census
• Hispanics will top all U.S. minority groups for purchasing power by 2007
• UCLA/LSU study details nutritional value of salad
• Science says Kandinsky was right -- paintings can be heard
• News tips from the Journal of Neuroscience
• 'Portion distortion' may contribute to expanding waistlines, study reports
• The lower the blood pressure the better
• Plants give up answers in the war on bacteria
• Many resident physicians not trained in the use of medical interpreters
• Other highlights in the September 6 JNCI
• Gene signature assesses breast cancer outcomes
• Breast density helps predict breast cancer risk
• PNP gets a pass to enter cells
• JCI table of contents: September 7, 2006
• Televised movie trailers expose youth to images of tobacco use
• Short-term intervention programs have potential to reduce teen methamphetamine use
• Physicians may have limited ability to accurately self-assess their own CME needs
• Programs help increase number of minority and disadvantaged students admitted to medical schools
• Older fathers more likely to have autistic children
• Medical interns often work longer hours than mandated, at increased risk for injuries
• Injured, ill children treated at U.S. military hospital in Iraq
• Distress from self-perceived medical errors common among resident physicians
• Drinking during pregnancy linked to offspring's risk of alcohol disorders in early adulthood
• New model emphasizes breast density as a predictor of breast cancer risk, large study shows
• Harvard scientists identify compounds that stimulate stem cell growth in the brain
• Untangling a pathology of Alzheimer's
• Single genetic defect produces specific cognitive deficit in mice
• Combined therapies may boost immune response and long-term protection against brain tumors
• Knockout Mouse Project
• The Antarctic Canary -- the human impact on climate change
• Ocean seep mollusks may share evolutionary history with other deep-sea creatures
• Katie Lee Joel joins Kidney Friendly Comfort Foods program
• Why we need better estimates of global demand for an HIV vaccine
• How can advances in biology be translated into better health?
• Dipstick test for meningitis culprits
• Chronic diseases and injuries in Latin America and the Caribbean: Time for action
• A new approach to rheumatoid arthritis
• Overweight in early childhood increases chances for obesity at age 12
• Depressed patients experience excessive inflammation during stressful situations
• Soldiers' wives are tougher than their husbands think
• Understanding the chemistry of ionic liquids for nuclear fuel reprocessing
• Using microbes to fuel the US hydrogen economy
• Study offers clues to brain's protective mechanisms against alcoholism
• Modeling the movement of electrons at the molecular scale
• Developing radiotracers for imaging studies in addiction
• Researchers identify neurons that assign value during learning
• Road-crossing in chimpanzees: A risky business
• 'Empty nester' parent birds use recruitment calls to extend offspring care
• A 'recent' embosymbiont -- a rare evolutionary example -- offers clues to how plants came to be
• A cognitive strategy shared by human infants and our great-ape kin
• Global changes alter plant growth schedule
• Methamphetamine use restricts fetal growth, study finds
• Identifying risk for obesity in early childhood
• Social imitation in neonatal monkeys
• Lay health advisers improve women's use of mammography
• Mayo Clinic finds effective test to determine treatment for chronic cough
• Smoothing the path from community colleges to four-year colleges
• A public health lesson from 9/11: To curb the flu, limit flights
• New parks to protect animals seen as feasible
• Solar energy: Charged for the future
• Stem cells: Chemistry paves way toward promising therapies
• Nanotechnology propels advances in regenerative medicine research
• New Orleans 'toxic soup' a less serious problem than initially believed
• Kitchen chemistry provides distance learners with quality laboratory experiences
• 'Crabby' compound that skewers bacteria could prevent medical implant infections
• ACS News Service Weekly PressPac -- August 30, 2006
• Tip sheet Annals of Internal Medicine, Sept. 5, 2006
• The mind-body connection -- How CNS regulates arthritis
• Cell-regulating gene may predict survival outcomes for breast cancer patients
• Bipolar disorder exacts twice depression's toll in workplace
• Early alcohol dependence linked to reduced treatment seeking and chronic relapse
• Eating protein boosts hormone that staves off hunger
• Cholesterol implicated in progression of fatty liver disease
• Tiny fuel cell might replace batteries in laptop computers, portable electronics
• 'Conversation stoppers' fight deadly bacterial infections
• Pesticide exposure could increase risk of early onset of Parkinson's disease
• Of rice and hen: Fashions from the farm
• Ingredient in Prozac increases risk of extinction for freshwater mussels
• Health effects of 'functional foods' featured during four-day symposium, Sept. 10-13
• California vineyard uses high-tech chemistry to choose optimum picking time for grapes
• California scientists find natural way to control spread of destructive Argentine ants
• Black-Bone Silky Fowl: An odd bird with meat to crow about
• Brown seaweed contains promising fat fighter, weight reducer
• Biodegradable 'napkin' could help quickly detect, identify biohazards
• Drug combo may reduce protease inhibitor-related hardening of the arteries
• JCI table of contents: September 1, 2006
• Is liver damage down the TRAIL for a promising cancer therapy?
• Estrens might not be the answer for osteoporosis
• Highlights from the September 2006 Journal of the American Dietetic Association
• Parents describe their spiritual needs when facing a child's death
• Women on oxygen therapy for COPD more likely to die than men
• Low vitamin E intake during pregnancy can lead to childhood asthma
• Mayo clinic discovers new type of sleep apnea

Last reviewed: By John M. Grohol, Psy.D. on 21 Feb 2009