• Will aid to poor put wildlife at risk?
• Pitt marks 50th anniversary of its Salk polio vaccine with reunion, scientific symposium
• UNH launches 2nd spinout company with NIH grants
• U of M researcher says Viagra may cause permanent vision loss in some men
• University of Manchester awarded £826k for brain science and mental health research
• National Academies advisory: May 3 Einstein in the 21st Century
• National Academies advisory: May 2 Symposium on International Science Policy
• NHGRI targets 12 more organisms for genome sequencing
• Honorary doctors, 2005
• 2005 Research in Oral Biology Award
• 2005 Research in Prosthodontics and Implants Award
• TAT2005 - 3rd International Symposium on Targeted Anticancer Therapies
• Greece becomes 16th ESA Member State
• DFG awards 2005 Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize
• DFG awards 2004 Bernd Rendel Prize
• Faculty of 1000 Biology launch ecology faculty
• APS announces 2005 Young Investigators Awards
• Media Advisory 3 - Joint Assembly in New Orleans
• Media Advisory 2 - 2005 Joint Assembly in New Orleans
• Legendary Siberian tiger, Olga, killed by poachers
• As the protein folds: The tail of the gene tells the tale of Machado-Joseph disease
• UNC study: Most N.C. family practitioners engage in unrecognized community service
• Unique library of plant genes germinates, takes root at UNC
• UMaine study looks at infants and chronic nighttime crying
• UIC professor receives international humanitarian award
• Study shows soy is well accepted in school lunches
• Exercise-induced shortness of breath not always caused by asthma
• Nanotech experts gather for national meeting hosted by UH
• Gladstone building honored with San Francisco Business Times award
• Community MRSA is re-emergence of 1950s pandemic, study suggests
• Forsyth scientists find blue light fights gum disease culprits
• Natural disaster hotspots: A global risk analysis
• Tapia named one of tech's top 50 Hispanics
• Drezek wins Beckman Young Investigator Award
• Chronic pain treatments more effective when taken together, new study shows
• Psychological interventions can reduce child abuse and neglect
• New protocol can defuse turf wars over information sharing among federal agencies
• Fuel-cell cars: Canada's first hit the streets of British Columbia
• New fuel cell drives around hydrogen economy roadblocks
• First fuel-cell cars in Canada hit B.C. streets
• Inexpensive treatment stops multi-drug resistant TB in its tracks
• New hope for Chagas disease treatment
• The transparent organism: EMBLEM and Carl Zeiss give labs a unique look at life
• Follow the energy
• Researchers bridge superconductivity gap
• Grass makes environmentally friendly biofuel
• Targeting tumor growth
• CERN confirms commitment to Open Access
• Boston University chemists probe secrets in ancient textile dyes from China, Peru
• Research breakthrough in the understanding of the spread of cholera
• The trust game: Measuring social interaction
• Hormonal treatment improves survival in high-risk prostate cancer patients
• Introductory geoscience enrollments in the United States
• Scientists seek answers on what activates deadly anthrax spores
• Glowing hearts shine light on heart disease
• Virginia Tech wildlife specialist helping to protect state's new official bat
• Hausman to give keynote address at 'Breastfeeding, Motherhood and Feminism' symposium
• Separate genes influence speed, accuracy in decoding written words in dyslexia
• Immigration has become hallmark of America's image at home and abroad
• U of T researchers map role of Epstein-Barr virus in cancer
• To train the eye, keep it simple
• UO-ONAMI researcher gets patent for nanoparticle-based electronic devices
• U of M researcher examines newly emerging deadly disease
• Engineers protect coastlines from threat of ocean waves
• Solving sleep problems helps epileptic children
• Scripps global climate change pioneer to receive Tyler Prize
• Brain activity prior to treatment flags vulnerability to antidepressant side effects
• National Academies advisory: May 1 Symposium on Understanding Social Networks
• Violent crime surges hurt businesses most in low-crime areas
• See yourself as outsiders do to measure progress toward goals, study says
• Alberta solar-heating project first in North America
• Sexual lifestyles vary among ethnic groups in Britain
• Strategy effective against drug resistant tuberculosis
• New marker for early diagnosis of kidney failure identified
• MRSA: Political point-scoring over hospital cleanliness ignores the real issue
• Early onset of puberty – the EU gets serious
• Urine helps infectious yeast stick
• Patients newly diagnosed with HIV are more likely to enter outpatient care with case management
• HIV testing should be routine part of primary health care for sexually active
• Satellite survey enhances knowledge of Tuscan landslides
• 'Free-for-all' illegal logging of mahogany in Peruvian parks, says Duke-based monitoring group
• Study shows patch therapy may be as effective as oral medications
• First head-to-head study to compare lidoderm patch and Celebrex in treating pain
• Study shows promise in identifying kidney failure
• Geodon effective in psychiatric emergencies; Sharply reduces time in restraints
• Global team member comments on landmark ecosystem report
• Wolfowitz is the wrong choice for the World Bank
• Not enough evidence that multivitamins prevent infections in the elderly
• British hospitals need clinical ethicists
• More evidence of cannabis-induced psychosis
• Scientists find missing enzyme for tuberculosis iron scavenging pathway
• Mouse model reveals potential way to reduce cardiac deaths in kidney patients
• Changes in Earth's tilt control when glacial cycles end
• UW study shows blacks and Latinos are more satisfied with physicians of the same race
• Ecologist plays critical role in first global ecosystem study
• Study reveals potential new target for cholesterol-lowering drugs
• Unexpected benefit seen in treating HER-2 breast cancer with new preoperative drug combo
• Southern California tsunami could cause $42 billion damage
• Physicians may not be accurate in their confidence levels of their diagnoses, says Pitt study
• Weather forecasts may be predictors for prevalence of West Nile virus
• Improved dielectric developed for chip-level copper circuitry
• Components in grapes inhibit enzyme key to proliferation of cancer cells
• The power of pride
• The cult of consumerism
• Selling your self and losing your memory
• Research into how consumers pick from a host of product features
• Playing the game
• New study into how consumers weigh the costs and benefits of promotions and rewards
• New research reveals how repeated product warnings are remembered as product recommendations
• How important is sexual conflict?
• Enticing the bilingual consumer
• Does wooing work?
• Challenging the Venus and Mars theory
• Being resolute with resolutions
• UCSF study offers insight into human circadian rhythms
• Autism linked to mirror neuron dysfunction
• Earth Institute launches New York area climate change information portal
• Carrots of color
• 'Color-blind' method opens new doors in DNA sequencing
• Oaxacan migrants support family and community
• Solar heating: Large-scale project to be launched in Alberta
• AAAS CEO Alan I. Leshner welcomes proposed Washington state legislation on stem cell research
• Earth's services in peril, report concludes
• OHSU scientists test medication to treat involuntary weight loss
• Prominent North Shore-LIJ physician-researcher brings science to the masses with new book
• Charcoal and forest management could reduce greenhouse gas levels & save lives in Africa
• AAAS CEO Alan I. Leshner registers 'strong concerns' over suppression of science films
• The Medusa Fossae formation on Mars
• Last hardware needed for ATV arrival installed during ISS spacewalk
• From galaxy collisions to star birth: ISO finds the missing link
• International breast cancer prevention study launches in the United States and Canada
• Trans-European freight corridor drives rail transformation
• Software to manage CGI animation helps Europe achieve feature film first
• Monaco formalises its EUREKA membership in Paris
• Gearing up for the next generation of Europe's cars
• EUREKA supports European Council commitment to R&D investment
• 'Chemical dynamic' duo aids Navy
• Nonproliferation, nuclear industry experts to discuss fuel cycle issues at DC conference
• Harald Lesch wins the 2005 Communicator Award
• Doctoral students' dreams come true
• Culture forms a bridge between Japan and Germany
• Rare historical psychoanalysis of Hitler available online
• New findings about protection against pneumococcal disease
• Sea skate experiment sheds light on human cell transport
• Public morally obliged to take part in scientific research, says leading ethicist
• Late developers may run higher risk of infection than sexually mature younger teens
• It's winning, not losing, that triggers violence at sports events
• First UK cases of previously rare disease reported in gay men
• Petroleum and the Environment
• Fat may promote inflammation, new study suggests
• Protein protects kidneys from damage caused by chronic renal disease and injury
• Study of energy and health in Africa focuses spotlight on charcoal and forest management
• Nobel Laureate Sydney Brenner receives 2005 UCSD/Merck Life Science Achievement Award
• Bullying among sixth graders a daily occurrence, UCLA study finds
• Acupuncture found to lower elevations in blood pressure
• Institute of Medicine advisory: Spinal cord injury treatment
• Scientists collaborate to assess health of global environment
• Aldo Leopold leadership program moves to Stanford University and awards new fellowships for 2005
• Organizational traits associated with quality patient care are essential to home care nursing
• Nanotechnology could promote hydrogen economy
• Europe faces brain drain and declining patient care unless cancer research funding is doubled
• Corrected metabolism leads to health benefits and weight loss
• Wiley author awarded the 2005 Abel Prize by the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters
• Indiana University researchers closer to helping hearing-impaired using stem cells
• Britain's top climatologist backs global warming claims
• Researchers identify cause of 'early bird' sleep disorder
• Muscle-targeted gene therapy reverses rare muscular dystrophy in mice
• 'You can't buy conservation,' suggests survey of Africa's rain forest parks
• Poplar trees redirect resources in response to simulated attack
• New study in 'Nature' demonstrates protection against cell death during heart attack
• Modular Genetics, Inc., strikes deal with Monsanto
• Discovery of gene will likely lead to new treatments for inflammatory diseases, cancer
• Consumers with disabilities empowered by American Disabilities Act
• Police officers' racial bias can be eliminated
• Do you know where you are? Body and self not the same
• Blind more accurate at judging size than sighted
• Do minorities survive hospitalization better than others?
• Raw food vegetarians have low bone mass
• New evaluation tool reliably predicts recovery from coma
• BRCA1 causes ovarian cancer through indirect, biochemical route
• Vital step in cellular migration described by UCSD medical researchers
• Natural tumor suppressor in body discovered by UCSD medical researchers
• Genetically modified natural killer immune cells attack, kill leukemia cells
• Tyler Prize For Environmental Achievement taps Lonnie Thompson
• Aspirin is safer than warfarin and just as effective for treating blocked arteries in the brain
• Novel therapy tested in mice could chase away cat allergies
• Optical technique identifies vulnerable plaques in cardiac patients
• Researchers search for first sign of congestive heart failure
• New study links colic, maternal depression to family problems
• Hepatitis C and health-related quality of life
• Hepatotoxicity and statins
• Some brain cells 'change channels' to fine-tune the message
• Hopkins begins human trials with donor adult stem cells to repair muscle damaged from heart attack
• Software to manage CGI animation helps Europe achieve feature film first
• Advertising by academic medical centers may risk eroding public trust, says study
• Highly adaptable genome in gut bacterium key to intestinal health
• Underwater robot launched from Bermuda to cross Gulf Stream
• Elephants imitate sounds as a form of social communication
• Deep-sea tremors may provide early warning system for larger earthquakes
• DOE provides $12 million to advance separation technologies
• Fish oil holds promise in Alzheimer's fight
• Researchers call for expanding the repertoire in studying birdsong
• Fewer fish discarded after individual transferable quotas offered
• Economist: Cuba's state-run baseball doesn't go to bat for players
• Winners of Tyler Environmental prize announced
• New imaging method gives early indication if brain cancer therapy is effective, U-M study shows
• UF science discovery raises questions about origin of African mammals
• New study will push forward understanding of post-natal illnesses
• Researchers discover molecule that causes secondary stroke
• The Gerontological Society of America announces Hartford Fellowship recipients
• Scientists develop new color-coded test for protein folding
• Researchers reveal the infectious impact of salmon farms on wild salmon
• Wine, music and schizophrenia genes
• Cancerous or harmless? Three genes might tell the tale
• NIH state-of-the-science panel calls for 'demedicalization' of menopause
• Where's Waldo's DNA? New NIST SRM joins search
• Noisy pictures tell a story of 'entangled' atoms, JILA physicists find
• Billions in cost estimated for firefighter injuries
• NC State scientist finds soft tissue in T. rex bones
• Babies born preterm cost businesses big money: Hospital charges estimated at $7.4 billion annually
• Study provides new estimates of the causes of child mortality worldwide
• Yeast finding links processes in heart disease and cancer
• Primary care office strategies may increase colon cancer screening
• Professionalism and professional ethics in medicine
• Child care may affect entire community's risks of infection
• Trans-European freight corridor drives rail transformation
• Monaco formalises its EUREKA membership in Paris
• EUREKA supports EU summit conclusions
• Trio of leukemias share a single mutation
• GSA South-Central section to meet in San Antonio next week
• April GEOLOGY and GSA TODAY media highlights
• 'Back to the future': Countdown to Shuttle return to flight
• Proba workshop: Small satellite yielding beautiful results
• Monster super star cluster discovered in Milky Way
• Smart borders may be failing the people and countries they seek to protect
• NHS target driven culture is failing patients
• Improving access to healthy food has little effect on diet
• Research offers hope of new treatments for liver damage
• New study will push forward understanding of post-natal illnesses
• Hi-tech support helps Mt. Everest climber
• Salk polio vaccine celebrates 50th anniversary
• Yale technology translates to sonic golf training tool
• Some deep-sea earthquakes send out early-warning signals, seismologists say
• Student work in human subjects protection sought for FDA conference at UH
• Researchers add new tool to tumor-treatment arsenal
• UCLA researchers first to capture elusive lightning-quick waveforms
• Harvard, Texas A&M scientists develop new laser
• Stanford patient is first to test new treatment for peripheral arterial disease
• Opponents of needle-exchange programs should think about their message to drug users
• RIT takes eye-tracking research to next level
• Mental health service costs offset by savings in other public sectors
• Uric acid and heart disease
• Suppressing the cells that trigger cat allergy
• Protecting children from industrial chemicals in the environment
• A marker for new blood vessel formation in tumors
• Regular exercise helps protect muscles in elderly from soreness, injury
• NASA study finds soot may be changing the Arctic environment
• NJIT team designs driverless vehicle to enter the grand challenge
• NIAID initiates trial of experimental avian flu vaccine
• It's a taxing time for air travelers, researchers from MIT, Daniel Webster College discover
• Climate change poorly understood by US public, MIT survey finds
• African students get web link to MIT labs
• Scientists identify genetic pathways essential to RNA interference
• Vaccine against childhood pneumonia shows promise
• US attempting to flout ethical practice for patient trials abroad
• New estimates for the causes of child deaths worldwide
• Hospital acquired infections present major problem for infants in developing countries
• Lack of clinical trial participation may contribute to lower survival rates
• Cultural and social factors influence prostate cancer treatment
• New studies suggest airborne SARS transmission is possible
• New noble gas chemical compounds created as result of Hebrew University research
• When it comes to information overload, two heads may not be better than one
• Everybody wins from short term eastern European migration
• Treatment of cardiac lesions without anaesthesic
• Gene variations explain drug dose required to control seizures
• Novel ultrafast laser detection of cancer cells also may improve understanding of stem cells
• Retirement communities need to do more to help residents cope with loneliness and depression
• Cranfield leads development of next generation anti-land mine device
• Balancing act at chromosome ends
• Plant hemoglobins: Oxygen handlers critical for nitrogen fixation
• In the sea slug's defense against lobsters, confusion is key
• 'Invisible' influences reveal unconscious pathways used in visual perception
• Essential mangrove forest threatened by cryptic ecological degradation
• Can you read my mind? W.M. Keck Foundation funds innovative brain research at Carnegie Mellon
• Understanding how vulnerabilities may keep women in abusive relationships
• Simple question from your doctor can help identify your risk for breast cancer
• Single mothers at higher risk for depression
• Risky surgery not always necessary to treat cervical disease
• Pregnant women should exercise to keep depression away
• Government wasting your taxpayer money on ineffective drug cure
• Massive weight loss conference Dallas April 1-2
• AGU Journal highlights - 23 March 2005
• March/April 2005 Annals of Family Medicine tip sheet
• Monsanto fund awards $3.7 million to Washington University for school science van program
• Study finds that coordinating care of chronically ill patients does not increase liability
• Deficiency of growth hormone and IGF-1 reduces cancer and kidney disease, but creates other problems
• UT Southwestern researchers uncover gene variant that appears to predict type 2 diabetes
• From gene discovery to preventing eye disease in retinitis pigmentosa
• New research indicates a 'troubled' greenhouse is brewing
• UCSD researchers maintain stem cells without contaminated animal feeder layers
• First real-time view of developing neurons reveals surprises, say Stanford researchers
• Study finds majority of women willing to accept cervical cancer vaccine for self and children
• African-American women with endometrial cancer have more aggressive cancer than Caucasian women
• Benefits of lung cancer screening with CT questioned
• Targeting mutant B-Raf protein reduces melanoma development
• Unveiling the high energy Milky Way reveals 'dark accelerators'
• A bacterial genome reveals new targets to combat infectious disease
• Tiny scaffolding allows stem cells to become working fat cells
• Naturejobs/NY Academy of Sciences Career Fair & Symposium
• Kandel pays tribute to Hubel's and Wiesel's 25-year partnership and work in neurobiology & vision
• NJIT Presidential Award winner takes stem cell research another step
• Abuse and HIV status linked to suicide risk
• Joslin Diabetes Center scientists find genetic defects
• HIV and ID doctors oppose ideologically driven STI prevention policies
• Flu pandemic coming, US not prepared
• Researchers trace evolution to relatively simple genetic changes
• Emory scientists find new prostate cancer suppressor gene
• ESC releases the first European Guidelines on Percutaneous Coronary Interventions (PCI)
• Young and exotic stellar zoo
• New device allows safe and fast access to Large Space Simulator
• NASA changes Spitzer science update to today
• Tsunami disaster: NRCan scientists report findings
• Leading experts weigh-in on the interpretation of quantum theory: Lectures available on-line
• Aurora: Mars mission options - Press briefing in London
• X-Rays signal presence of elusive intermediate-mass black hole
• Aussie ingenuity helps NASA search for new planets
• Congressional constraints on federal judges deemed unnecessary
• American Society for Microbiology to host 105th General Meeting in Atlanta
• Infant vernier acuity is comparable to that of adults
• Oral bacteria may predict pregnancy outcomes
• Definition of persistent vegetative state available from American Academy of Neurology
• World's largest rainforest drying experiment completes first phase
• Scientist works on innovative treatments for brain tumors
• Photos show jaguar vamping for camera
• Exotic physics finds black holes could be most 'perfect,' low-viscosity fluid
• Researchers at U. Va. discover how body regulates most abundant type of white blood cell
• Research warns against sleeping in contact lenses
• Brain research to help in fight against cardiovascular disease
• DNA 'packaging' linked with cancer
• New self-help technology set to combat eating disorders
• Revealing a secret in plain sight: air makes liquids go splash
• Mystery minerals formed in fireball from colliding asteroid that destroyed the dinosaurs
• Wolves alleviate impact of climate change on food supply, finds new UC Berkeley study
• Octopuses occasionally stroll around on two arms, UC Berkeley biologists report
• Introduced foxes transformed vegetation on Aleutian Islands from lush grasslands to tundra
• Welfare-to-work reform didn't help children, study shows
• Same mutation aided evolution in many fish species, Stanford study finds
• TEL2 gene cooperates with MYC gene to provoke B-cell lymphomas
• Tell children racial prejudice is wrong: They'll be less likely to be prejudiced
• The best way to get teens to learn
• Scratch a nurturing mom, find a mom who was nurtured herself
• Quality of mom's time, not quantity, most important in early infant development
• Nearly half of middle schoolers report daily incidents of harassment
• News tips from the Journal of Neuroscience
• Mice with defective sperm offer clues to infertility in men
• Study supports use of aspirin in treating pregnancy disorder
• Plants defy Mendel's inheritance laws, may prompt textbook changes
• Employment prospects good for most cancer survivors -- but not all
• MICE to go ahead
• Researchers pursue blast-resistant steel using new tomograph
• Energy-saving community unveiled in Ontario
• Mailman School of Public Health receives Manhattan Tobacco Cessation Center grant
• Study finds anticonvulsant drug poses greater birth-defect risk than suspected
• Cardiac deaths peak in sleep hours for patients with sleep apnea
• TB Alliance announces new drug discovery program with GlaxoSmithKline
• Wiley forms book publishing partnership with American Institute of Chemical Engineers
• Donor age has no affect on long-term liver transplant survival
• Alcohol relapse adversely affects 10-year liver transplant survival
• Light may arise from relativity violations
• Key target for Foot and Mouth drug revealed
• Recovered king of beasts returns to his home, thanks to unique operation
• Leslie Roberts, Science Deputy News Editor, wins prize for 'first-rate' polio story
• Can Vancouver become a zero carbon city?
• Can San Francisco become a zero carbon city?
• Can Los Angeles become a zero carbon city?
• Rural America vulnerable to bioterrorism and natural disaster threats
• Sediments in northern Gulf of Mexico not right for methane gas hydrate formation
• WISE study starts in Toulouse: 60 days of bed-rest for terrestrial female astronauts
• ESA Council give go-ahead to Europe's cooperation with India in a lunar exploration mission
• ICPB locks in license to improve plastics with corn
• Researchers develop fingerprint detection technology
• Light is detected from two confirmed extrasolar planets
• Love at first … smell
• Mitsubishi offsets carbon footprint through investment in Madagascar's rain forest
• Leaders in sickle cell research meet in Cincinnati
• National Academy of Sciences taps techno-savvy Lia as animated star of new website
• Boston University team finds link between high cholesterol and better cognitive performance
• Traffic fumes damage DNA
• Pushy parents can be bad for their children's health
• New generation contact lenses cut risk of severe eye infection
• Hospitals may now be more willing to partner up with former adversaries
• RNA project to create language for scientists worldwide
• Use of inhaled corticosteroid led to fewer hospitalizations for young children with asthma
• Study shows use of budesonide reduced the risk of asthma related events by 40% in children
• Scientists solve structure of key protein in innate immune response
• Scientists discover that host cell lipids facilitate bacterial movement
• Strengths and failings of U.S. health care 'system' are driven by embedded vested interests
• Energy and sports drinks attack enamel
• Dental erosion
• Cavity prevention tips for pre-school age children
• Aloe vera: Natural, home remedy treats canker and cold sores
• Energy efficiency: Canadians honoured
• Energy ambassadors find energy efficiency pays
• Institute for OneWorld Health awarded Skoll Foundation's Social Entrepreneurship Award
• National technology study shows universities are accelerators for new business and job growth
• Genomic analysis to become tool for studying trauma patients
• UW research shows risk factors for relapse among health care professionals who abuse drugs
• Research says your happiness makes your partner happy – but only if you are married
• Ice core 'dipstick' indicates West Antarctic ice has thinned less than believed
• UVM geologists explore link between human action and landscape change
• Scientists discover how fish evolved to float at different sea depths
• A regulatory network analysis of phenotypic plasticity in yeast
• Two UCSF scientists receive top funding honor from medical institute
• Tufts University's Andrew Camilli named Howard Hughes Medical Investigator
• The Norwegian Fund for Research and Innovation to be increased to 8,2 billion USD
• NIH should take decisive steps to promote independence, originality
• Storage time and temperature effects nutrients in spinach
• Scientists identify new model Of NK cell development
• NJIT taps into solar energy to power new campus center
• College alcohol problems exceed previous estimates
• NIH skate choice follows MDI Bio Lab white paper
• Eating seafood that contains toxic substances can affect the nervous system
• US government agency's approval of unauthorized visas cuts US jobs
• 'Hourglass' shaped craters filled traces of glacier
• Giant iceberg B-15A edges past floating ice pier
• Envisat enables first global check of regional methane emissions
• Researchers go into action after Tsunami
• Taking the terror out of terror: Sandia team re-thinks physical security for homeland defense
• Tiny porphyrin tubes developed by Sandia may lead to new nanodevices
• HHMI taps two Long Island researchers as among the nation's most promising scientists
• LISE 5: The 5th annual Leadership Initiative in Science Education
• CDC: Rubella, a major cause of birth defects, no longer a health threat in US
• Physicists find patterns within seemingly random events of physiological systems
• Tips from the Journals of the American Society for Microbiology
• Leslie Roberts of Science wins ASM Public Communications Award
• New colorectal cancer screening recommendations for African Americans
• Yale scientists find microRNA regulates Ras cancer gene
• Yale authors raise concerns regarding regionalized heart attack care
• Virginity pledges do not reduce STD risk: May encourage high risk sexual behavior
• Red wine protects the heart
• VUMC researchers find drug-resistant bacteria MRSA a growing threat
• PillCam enables study of esophagus by swallowing a pill
• First mouse model for multiple system atrophy points to new treatment targets for brain diseases
• Theories of high-temperature superconductivity violate Pauli principle
• Point-contact spectroscopy deepens mystery of heavy-fermion superconductors
• Countywide forecasts of water use available for Illinois, Midwest
• Protecting human subjects focus of national FDA conference at UH
• UC Berkeley researchers working on ouchless injections
• Neuroscientists locate 'imaginary' colors
• New machines could turn homes into small factories
• Genes for alcohol consumption identified
• South America's vast pantanal wetland may become next everglades, UNU experts warn
• Pall prion removal technology presented to FDA blood products advisory committee
• Energy ambassadors: Canadian University students honoured in Ottawa
• Canada's wind power capacity jumps almost 25 percent
• 2005 Energy Efficiency Awards: Winners honoured in Ottawa
• New insights into skin blistering disease pop up
• How HDL keeps the heart healthy
• Waist size linked to diabetes risk in adult men
• Tracking trends in cochlear implant complications using a federal database
• Three-year cervical cancer screening recommendations may be applicable for certain women with HIV
• Sudan surveys show high rates of death and malnutrition among displaced population
• Success of liver transplantation may be most influenced by three risk factors
• Simple intervention encourages sun protection behaviors
• Study finds factors linked to substance use disorder relapse among health care professionals
• New technique shows promise for improved straightening of crooked nose
• HIV and ID doctors oppose ideologically driven STI prevention policies
• Epidemiologist Trichopoulos receives $5.8 million Department of Defense 'Innovator Award'
• Invasive pneumonia and antibiotic resistance decreased after childhood vaccine introduced
• Devolution has meant growing policy differences between Scotland, Wales and England
• Test-drive ESA technology
• Big hopes for tiny, new hydrogen storage material
• Gay adolescent? No, normal teenager, new book says
• New insight into people who 'see' colors in letters and numbers
• Beyond lithium for bipolar disorder
• Extreme exertion, emotion can spark repeat heart attacks
• Depression linked to insomnia in HIV patients
• Chronic fatigue patients show lower response to placebos
• Elizabeth Blackburn and Janet Rowley awarded
• Consortium to create comprehensive tools for uncovering the functions of human, mouse genes
• Researchers find evidence of dark energy in our galactic neighborhood
• Harnessing microbes, one by one, to build a better nanoworld
• UU scientists issue Indonesia earthquake warning
• Two UT Southwestern researchers named Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigators
• Brain imaging study may hold clues to onset of schizophrenia in people at high risk
• Leptin: A 'missing link' between obesity and diabetes?
• Liverpool to lead £20M Department of Health initiative to develop medicines for children
• Membraneless fuel cell is tiny, versatile
• UF researcher: Ideas about fossil horses undergo evolution in thinking
• University seeks recruits for arthritis study
• Classical subject underpins new biomedical advances
• UC Davis researchers discover new link between C-reactive protein, and heart disease and stroke
• Survey of Iraqi teens: The more unsafe they feel, the higher their self-esteem
• Specialist care gives better rate of survival
• New thrust needed to tackle health inequalities globally says UCL scientist
• Mountaineering doctors hike medicine to new heights with Xtreme Everest
• Study of genomic DNA leads to new advances in cancer diagnostics
• Marine researchers deliver blueprint for rescuing America's troubled coral reefs
• World's largest computing grid surpasses 100 sites
• The Bacteria's guide to survival
• Neutralizing a protein linked to tumor development
• Specific test key to determine whether or not allergy symptoms are really allergy-related
• NYU study reveals how brain's immune system fights viral encephalitis
• NYU College of Dentistry study equates poor oral health with preterm birth risk
• Institute for Medical Research scientists identify gene critical to type 1 diabetes
• NASA announces Sun-Earth Day activities
• Mechanism of RNA recoding: New twists in brain protein production
• Superflares could kill unprotected astronauts
• Pay up, you're being watched
• NIH holds conference to assess evidence on management of menopause–related symptoms
• Witchcraft, God's punishment or just malaria in West Papua?
• Search technique for images recognises visual patterns
• Loss of sulphur atom reduces activity of catalyst
• Indigenous initiation ceremonies in Catholic Papua community
• Green pigment in old masters a myth
• Employees with diabetes are not more tired
• Doctor suggested cannabis for pain relief, says one in six medicinal users in the UK—MUHC study
• Patient with drug-resistant form of HIV identified
• Public policy should address the social factors behind ill health
• Men with severe sleep breathing disorder have higher risk of heart problems
• Medically supervised drug injection facilities safer for users
• Diagnostic test for range of blood disorders on the horizon
• Drug-resistant bacteria on poultry products differ by brand
• Italian, US cosmologists present explanation for accelerating expansion of the universe
• Unique cooperation for air pollution study between Hebrew University, Palestinians
• Mutant protein developed by Hebrew University scientists
• From lobster flock to lobster feast?
• The European Society of Cardiology launches Women at Heart
• Vega on track to meet 2007 deadline
• Snow brings green machining to laboratory
• Vampire bats keep out of trouble by running
• Small schools make rural communities more prosperous
• Teenage highs and lows
• White blood cell 'waste disposal' system plays critical regulatory role
• Children's Hospital & Research Ctr. at Oakland's DNA library helps to map the sex chromosome
• Bayer donates equipment to Children's Hospital, Oakland for infectious disease research
• High cholesterol levels accelerate growth of prostate cancer
• Explosion of child obesity predicted to shorten us life expectancy
• A view from Tehran: Iran's perspective on national security
• Obtaining patient consent for clinical audit is unworkable without extra resources
• NHS stop-smoking services are insufficient to deliver national smoking targets
• Costs of antidepressants could have funded effective alternatives
• Acupuncture relieves pelvic pain during pregnancy
• Massive weight loss patients create mass appeal for body contouring procedures
• Half-million cosmetic plastic surgery procedures for Hispanics in 2004 - up 49% from 2000
• Disfigured patients may be forced to forego surgery
• 9.2 million cosmetic plastic surgery procedures in 2004 - up 5%
• Treated fabric kills anthrax spores
• No serious adverse events found with next-generation smallpox vaccine
• Influenza vaccine uses insect cells to speed development
• Food preservative neutralizes anthrax spores
• Breath may help diagnose infection
• Antibodies from plants protect against anthrax
• Prostate cancer screening practices examined
• Euroscience Open Forum 2006 launches call for proposals
• Ethical discussion should come before research
• Surprisingly complex behaviors appear to be 'hard-wired' in the primate brain
• Plan to protect soybean crop is ready
• New winter hulless barley has high protein
• Computer program helps farmers make decisions about pastureland
• Beef feeding research studies pasture vs. grain
• Epstein-Barr virus protein crucial to its role in blood cancers
• Dealing with conflict in caring for the dying patient
• U-M team makes synthetic mother of pearl
• Polymers with copper show promise for implanted sensors
• Probing the promise and perils of nanoparticles
• In emergency, flu vaccine could be made quickly in existing facilities
• British academics to benefit from world's first national text mining service
• America will gain 4 million jobs by the end of next year
• Cure no quick fix for cancer survivors on long road to recovery
• Researchers discover chemical compounds that affect plant growth
• New ways to design safer & more effective topical (transdermal) drug delivery announced in the PNAS
• Fasting intermittently reduces cell proliferation, a marker for cancer risk, study finds
• Biologist's findings on fertility and status in monkeys generate scientific, media interest
• More reliable and secure telecommunications via the Internet
• Purdue finding could help develop clean energy technology
• Study challenges claim that the Internet promotes price competition
• Researchers devise way to mass-produce embryonic stem cells
• No relief for Pacific Northwest drought
• Environmentally safer catalyst proves more active in hydrogen production
• Desert plant may help treat insidious tropical diseases
• New hand-held information system for emergency responders
• Studies expand understanding of X chromosome
• US Exports nitrogen pollution beyond its borders, Europe's nitrogen deposited close to sources
• Experts gather at Mount Holyoke to consider water's crucial role in human life
• Past lessons as an obligation to the future
• Defensins neutralize anthrax toxin
• Balance and better interactions between primary-care and specialist physicians improve US health
• Earlier use of prostate cancer vaccines urged by Hopkins scientists
• Helping answer needs by developing specialists in autism
• Determining the fate of cells in the human body
• How voters rated Blair affected Holyrood votes much more than attitudes to McConnell
• A tale of two populations
• Fixing of the lumbar column aided by simple radiological techniques
• Advances in the characterisation of the oyster mushroom genes
• Researchers recognize 'lower-energy' varieties of coastal islands
• Duke chemists isolating individual molecules of toxic protein in Alzheimer's, Parkinson's disease
• 'Few-walled' carbon nanotubes said cheap and efficient option for certain applications
• Dropping nano-anchor
• Neuronal death and processing of Tau protein in Alzheimer's disease
• SAM on the favorable recommendation by FDA Advisory Committee for Boostrix
• GlaxoSmithKline receives unanimous favorable recommendation by FDA Advisory Committee for Boostrix
• Robot-based system developed at Carnegie Mellon detects life in Chile's Atacama desert
• Carnegie Mellon study: Adults' baby talk helps infants learn to speak
• World's largest computing grid surpasses 100 sites
• X-chromosome tells the tale
• Liposome finding implies electrical effect on cell development
• High risk of major tsunami in northern Caribbean
• USC chemist wins national award for lifetime achievements in chemistry
• New studies show mixed results on epilepsy drugs and birth defects
• Rhesus monkeys reason about perspectives of others in obtaining food
• Understanding biological foundation of human behavior critical to improving laws
• Neurobehavioral function during coma, stroke rehabilitation effective for elderly
• Answer from 'dusty shelf' aids quest to see matter as it was just after big bang
• Teen tooth trauma prevalent in Ontario
• Orchestra pit no danger to hearing
• Inflammatory condition doubles heart attack, stroke risk
• Environmental crisis forging strange bedfellows
• Canada lags behind in learning from 9/11 attack: Expert
• New £6m biocentre to revolutionise the production of safer medicines
• Staying positive when helping a child with homework stimulates motivation
• Hey, guys, they're not girlie-man portions, they're healthy portions
• Multi-center study shows direct link between residential radon exposure and lung cancer
• Brain imaging studies investigate pain reduction by hypnosis
• Father of double helix visits UH
• Scottish scientists win £800,000 to boost research into fighting killer viruses
• Brain imaging reveals secrets of love, fear and betrayal
• New lab technique identifies high levels of pathogens in therapy pool
• UCLA launches $20 million stem cell institute to investigate HIV, cancer and neurological disorders
• Survey finds silver contamination in North Pacific waters
• HIV-1 spread through six transmission lines in the UK
• 'Tree-power' could be future energy source
• Protein that helps skin cancer spread identified by Stanford researchers
• New technology for navigating without GPS
• Anti cancer virotherapy well tolerated in first human administration, research finds
• Rutgers math, physics professor honored by APS for human rights activism
• Men and women: The differences are in the genes
• Bevacizumab combined with chemotherapy prolongs survival for some patients with advanced lung cancer
• Climate change inevitable in 21st century
• Does the college experience damage your brain?
• Short-term effects of spit tobacco suggest long-term health risks
• Reducing hostility in young coronary artery disease patients is important piece of rehabilitation
• Treating depression helps slow physical decline in older adults, study shows
• Study shows acrylamide in baked and fried food does not increase risk of breast cancer in women
• March-April GSA Bulletin media highlights
• A new look at the emerging earth system processes paradigm
• National Academies Advisory: March 18 public briefing on biomedical investigators
• Florida Tech scientist earns $1.7 million NSF grant
• ESMO Scientific & Educational Conference (ESEC)
• Light therapy may combat fungal infections, new evidence suggests
• Newly patented system fights corrosion
• Spintronic materials show their first move
• Quasiparticle behavior in bose quantum liquids
• Increasing charge mobility in single molecular organic crystals
• Fossil records show biodiversity comes and goes
• Face to face – in realistic 3D
• Researchers rein in regulatory RNAs
• 2005 Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory meetings
• Carnegie Mellon scientists develop tool that uses MRI to visualize gene expression in living animals
• Sleeping Through the Night: Children's sleep expert advises parents
• SciFinder scholar now in use at more than 1000 schools
• CAS science spotlight identifies most requested article
• Fire and ice: Mars images reveal recent volcanic and glacial activity
• Nature helps create religious adults
• New factor affects fertility
• APS awards $63,000 in travel fellowships to minority scientists
• Antioxidant blood levels key to MnSOD gene
• Acid rain likely stunts US forests
• What are little boys made of?
• Molecule that usually protects infection-fighting cells may cause plaque deposits inside arteries
• Unique weather a factor in record 2004 Midwest crop yields
• US life expectancy about to decline, researchers say
• Disease diagnosis, biodefense among UH chemical research projects
• Cornea transplants can be improved
• Chemical engineer Kao explores antibiotic synthesis with DNA chips
• Domesticated pig's wild origin mapped
• News tips from the Journal of Neuroscience
• Defenseless plants arm themselves with metals
• Company Web sites need re-design to lure job searchers
• Nursing mothers having surgery -- How long a wait to breastfeed safely?
• Aspirin's potential ability to prevent colon polyps may not apply equally to all
• Mayo Clinic discovers 'new pathway' against pancreatic cancer
• Women lag behind men in academic leadership positions worldwide
• JCI table of contents April 1, 2005
• Birthing a new model of aspirin therapy in preeclampsia
• Newly discovered pathway might help in design of cancer drugs
• Artificial antenna helps 'cockroach robot' scurry along walls
• Community care tops medical care at preventing heart disease in black Americans
• Philanthropist Paul F. Glenn launches labs for aging research at Harvard Medical School
• Growth hormone treatment improves symptoms of metabolic disorder in postmenopausal women
• ENDO 2005 - The Endocrine Society's 87th annual meeting
• Consensus on childhood obesity recommends classification as disease
• AACC and The Endocrine Society partner to promote patient education
• Mountain life spells longer life
• Depression may explain higher risk of heart attack associated with antidepressants
• Launch of Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry announced
• Forthcoming wealth transfer among African-Americans projected in new report
• Nobel laureates to open ASBMB annual meeting in San Diego
• Grassroots astrophysics project Einstein@Home takes off in time for Einstein's birthday
• New study shows how very low-carb diets take off the pounds
• Using molecular technique, researcher identify hospital pool bacterial pathogen
• Study shows risk of cardiac death after radiation for breast cancer has dramatically decreased
• New class of tuberculosis-fighting antibiotics suggested by biochemical-pathway study
• Study: Soap and water work best in ridding hands of disease viruses
• Fractured leg bone not the end of Tutankhamen mystery
• Biologists discover why 10% of Europeans are safe from HIV infection
• Sex selection popular among infertile women
• UCLA Medical Center becomes first hospital to introduce remote presence robots in ICU
• Researchers unlock mechanism creating jigsaw puzzle-like plant cells
• Drug abuse treatment slashes HIV-related sex behaviors in urban meth addicts
• A reformed social security can help families and economic growth
• Researchers identify gene that plays major role in age-related blindness disease
• Study: Turkey hunting most dangerous, deer hunting most deadly
• Black holes influence knowledge of the universe
• Drug companies and governments must act on fake drug problem
• Tumor-targeted immune cells cure prostate cancer in mice without causing systemic immune suppression
• New technique uses seismic 'garbage' to view Earth's interior
• Eight to receive President's 2003 National Medal of Science
• New Web site 'drills down' into government standards
• Aggressive aquatic species invading Great Lakes
• Risk of cardiac death after radiotherapy for breast cancer has declined, study finds
• Other highlights in the March 16 JNCI
• Antiretroviral therapy may prevent excess risk of some cancers in people with HIV
• Blocking neurodegeneration by radiation and bone marrow transfer prevents inherited glaucoma in mice
• Simple blood test may help to predict cardiovascular risk in older women
• Postmenopausal breast cancer survivors at increased risk for bone fractures
• Obesity among African-American stroke survivors increases risk factors for recurrent stroke
• Genetics important in age-related macular degeneration
• Effects of education level on rates of obesity differ by race
• Study examines lessons learned at Africa's first public antiretroviral treatment clinic
• Houston meeting kicks off collaboration to advance cancer research
• Scientists discuss tsunamis, other coastal and marine issues
• Molecular wires & corrosion control boost performance of conductive adhesives
• VLTI first fringes with two auxiliary telescopes at Paranal
• Double volcanic eruption in Eastern Russia
• Variation in women's X chromosomes may explain differences among individuals, between sexes
• MINOS neutrino experiment launched at Fermilab
• Carnegie Mellon researchers develop new software to detect viruses
• Survivors to revisit the polio scare
• Bush record on human rights
• Physiological effects of reduced gravity on bacteria
• If not land, then water for expelled Arabs
• American Thoracic Society Journal news tips for March 2005 (second issue)
• International physiologists mark post-genomic resurgence March 31-April 5 in San Diego
• World's largest scientific society backs green chemistry bill
• To control germs, scientists deploy tiny agents provocateurs
• Study: Post-9/11 TV news drove liberals toward a harder line
• In solution, tiny magnetic wires scatter light
• Researchers develop mouse model for studying blinding diseases in humans
• Gene variation could be responsible for age-related macular degeneration
• Genetic therapy reverses nervous system damage in animal model of inherited human disease
• Women less likely to get quality heart attack care
• JENAM 2005 - Distant worlds
• Comets and astrobiology
• Scientists discover that three overlapping signals in embryo help get the backbone right
• Biochemists report discovery of structure of major piece of telomerase; implications for cancer
• Ability to detect explosives boosted one thousand-fold by new device
• Cassini images reveal an active, Earth-like world
• Cassini images discover a windy, wavy Titan atmosphere
• Cooperation is key—a new way of looking at MicroRNA and how it controls gene expression
• New tumor-suppressor gene discovered
• Heart repair gets new muscle
• Gray wolves maintain the food chain in winter
• NYU and MSKCC research provides model for understanding chemically induced cancer initiation
• New scale predicts recovery of consciousness from coma after brain injury
• Canada's shrinking ice caps
• Advanced research aircraft to arrive at Colorado facility this week
• Grizzlies set to invade high Arctic?
• There's one rule for the rich...
• Colour profile exposes stolen gems
• 3D animation gives evidence more bite
• Northwestern Memorial Hospital honored with one of the nation's top awards for quality
• NJIT chemists modify carbon nanotubes using microwaves
• Drug that hinders blood vessel growth under study in ovarian cancer
• Sharing clinical trial results with participants may be beneficial
• Rasagiline reduces disability for patients with advanced Parkinson's disease
• Aircraft cabin ventilation influences the transmission of diseases in-flight
• Researchers say breast cancer in Africa may provide clues to the disease in African-Americans
• Medicaid enrollment at late stages may partly explain poor outcomes for cancer
• Study examines consequences of Thailand's 'war on drugs'
• Vitamin E may not prevent cancer or cardiovascular events, but may increase risk for heart failure
• Use of potentially inappropriate medications among elderly common in some European countries
• Most hospital executives have substantial concerns about mandatory error reporting systems
• Drug therapy may be comparable to invasive cardiac procedures for elderly patients with heart attack
• Geoscientists meet next week in Saratoga Springs
• Researchers study how to make nanomaterial industry environmentally sustainable
• Silence the gene, save the cell: RNA interference as promising therapy for ALS
• Breakthrough in medical research: New chemotherapy gives hope to brain tumour patients
• Insight into DNA's 'weakest links' may yield clues to cancer biology
• Viking sagas read through the lens of climate change
• Ames Laboratory's John Corbett wins Spedding award
• Steady rise in HIV among heterosexuals in the UK
• Openness is key to winning the war over MMR
• New NHS payment system 'is no panacea'
• New guideline tackles leading cause of mother and child death
• Failure to count Iraqi casualties is irresponsible, say experts
• European folic acid policies are not effective enough
• Researchers report new pro-inflammatory role for anti-inflammatory enzyme
• Stroke awareness low among women, especially minorities
• Minorities, poor, uneducated bear the burden
• Health care report cards may increase racial/ethnic disparities in bypass operations
• Cardiologists underestimate racial and ethnic disparities in care
• Cardiovascular health disparities must be eradicated
• Community-based care beats standard clinic in lowering heart
• Blacks less likely to get expensive, newer heart treatments
• AGU journal highlights - 9 March 2005
• American Academy of Neurology presents 57th Annual Meeting in Miami Beach
• Researchers close in on breast cancer vaccine
• Cigarette smoke worsens respiratory infections in infants
• Oldest fossil human protein ever sequenced
• Husbands' careers trump wives in relocation quest
• Medical molecules designed to respond to visible light that can penetrate tissue
• Benign separation process being advanced for pharmaceutical industry
• Study finds indoor allergen levels vary, cockroach allergens cause more asthma symptoms
• Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellowships for Manchester academics
• Dig Manchester!
• Endowments to bring new courses, foster research in geosciences at UH
• UF-developed detectors help guard against foam flaws in shuttle's fuel tank
• U. of Colorado researchers pioneer new technique for imaging Earth's interior
• UCLA scientists store materials in cells' natural vaults
• Is your job giving you a heart attack? Occupational health conference answers that, and more
• Pet scanning better for heart disease diagnosis, management
• National Academies Advisory: April 22 Science Cafe on Alternative Energy
• Earth Institute announces results of global mapping project
• NJIT researcher creates opportunities for studying chiral ionic liquids
• Powerful tool crunches commutes
• MUHC researchers make cancer target breakthrough
• Father of regenerative medicine pushes M prize over the $1 million mark
• Emergency clopidogrel could save thousands of lives–46,000-patient heart attack trial results
• New way to make human embryonic stem cell therapy safer
• Mouse gene shows new mechanism behind cardiac infarction in man
• Could microbes solve Russia's chemical weapons conundrum?
• Charles Townes wins 2005 Templeton Prize
• Why asthma sufferers struggle with the common cold
• Norovirus found to cause traveler's diarrhea
• Student identifies electrical changes preceding heart failure
• End AIDS drug waiting lists, HIV care providers tell policymakers
• Novel, computer-assisted method for colorization developed at Hebrew University
• Will your kids grow up to be fat?
• New system for the analysis of facial movement in three dimensions
• Common anesthetics appear safe for developing fetal brain
• Emotional memory study reveals evidence for a self-reinforcing loop
• Superglue of planet formation: Sticky ice
• Sampling 'small atmospheres' in the tiny new worlds of MEMS
• Karlheinz Schmidt awarded the Carl Duisberg Medal
• Tumor individuality useful for guiding rational chemotherapeutic decisions
• Scientists identify molecule that regulates well-known tumor suppressor
• New drug shows promise as powerful anticancer agent
• Insight into natural cholesterol control suggests novel cholesterol-lowering therapy
• Iron exporter revealed that may explain common human disorder
• Computational tool predicts how drugs work in cells, advancing efforts to design better medicines
• Bad news for employment can be good news for the stock market
• Northwestern Memorial physicians encourage screenings during colon cancer awareness month
• Combining PET and CT scans leads to more accurate radiation therapy for lung cancer patients
• William C. Rose Award lecture will focus on cytochrome P450
• How much can your mind keep track of?
• DNA with three base pairs - A step towards expanding the genetic code
• Nanotechnology's progress and challenges addressed during ACS meeting
• Highlights of chemical society national meeting in San Diego, March 13-17
• Schering-Plough honored for contributions to chemistry scholarships
• New fingerprint visualization method uses X-rays to reveal missing clues
• Microbial forensics: The next great forensic challenge
• Annals of Internal Medicine tip sheet for March 15, 2005
• Proteins found in urine of pregnant women could help diagnose preeclampsia
• Non-invasive and invasive breast cancers share the same genetic mutations
• Gene for age-related macular degeneration discovered by Yale researchers
• Research suggests possible blood test for multiple sclerosis
• Age shouldn't be a factor in kidney transplantation
• Seekers of what is lost
• Dental researchers answer key enamel question
• Researchers make surprise discovery that some neurons can transmit three signals at once
• American Chemical Society lauds 'coach' of women scientists
• University of Manchester pioneers study to support teenage mums' bone health
• Doctors closer to using gene analysis to help trauma patients
• Enriched environment delays onset of Alzheimer's in mice
• Researcher describes new type of strong, lightweight metallic material
• Scientists solve mystery of Meteor Crater's missing melted rocks
• Fungus-friendly scientists meet in Tucson
• Discovery may lead to better Candidiasis drug
• Temple University researchers develop new targeted cancer therapy
• Study of obese diabetics explains why low-carb diets produce fast results
• Society of Nuclear Medicine Annual Meeting
• Pioneering PET/CT research widens applications of imaging for diabetic foot
• More elderly residents do not necessarily reduce school tax base
• Curious female rats survive tumors longer
• Jupiter: A cloudy mirror for the Sun?
• Conference examines political and economic challenges of Scottish devolution
• Man-made wetland's effectiveness similar to natural marsh
• Compound inhibits one critical pathway in breast cancer growth
• New data on Orqis Medical's Cancion® CRS™ to be reported at ACC
• NJIT chemistry professor edits text outlining best laboratory practices
• NJIT authority on e-learning takes prestigious Sloan honor
• Incubator company at NJIT develops lifesaving MRI coil for small animals
• Brain Awareness Week teaches kids how their brains work
• Cockroach allergens have greatest impact on childhood asthma in many US cities
• From farm-to-fork - Canadian researcher part of new American food-safety initiative
• Neanderthal reconstructed
• Simulations reveal surprising news about black holes
• Portable system offers dialysis patients 'liberating' changes
• Prime Minister visits Imperial College London, underlines commitment to British science funding
• Blood pressure treatment could cut risk of strokes and heart attacks
• Foundation to honor joint German-Hebrew University project
• Asian countries gain prominence in science and technology as US loses ground
• Emory Study finds HIV is not an independent risk factor for severe heart disease
• Satellites guide world's top yachts through Southern Ocean 'iceberg alley'
• Rosetta's view of Earth
• Microwires: Replacement for the CD-ROM?
• eDocAmerica launches Hispanic Website for members
• Gene variant increases risk of age-related macular degeneration
• Duke University engineers join 'Red Team' robotic vehicle team
• Heart Center cardiologist performs rare liver catheter intervention on teen
• Sandia underground geo-tools aid in earthquake research
• Scientists create, study methane hydrates in 'ocean floor' lab
• Moving electrons at the molecular and nanometer scales
• Ceria nanoparticles catalyze reactions for cleaner-fuel future
• Dartmouth researchers find where musical memories are stored in the brain
• 'Cyber trust' at lowest point for a decade, warn internet security experts
• Common schizophrenia symptoms often overlooked by physicians, according to expert panel
• LHC magnets: The great descent
• Democracy increases education spending in Africa
• Breast implant Website launched by leading plastic surgery societies
• Brain imaging suggests how higher education helps to buffer older adults from cognitive decline
• Study shows faces are processed like words
• Compound may help prevent diabetes in fast-food fans
• Chemicals in tattoo inks need closer scrutiny
• Chemists identify key gene in development of type 1 diabetes
• Chemists identify immune system mechanism for methamphetamine binges
• Chemical decoy shows promise for slowing Alzheimer's by acting as decoy
• American Chemical Society broadens access to its articles
• 'Chemistry and Flavor of Hispanic Foods' — one-day symposium, March 15
• Malt liquor beers, and the people who drink them, are different
• Histamine, anxiety and alcoholism
• Childhood deficits in the cerebellum may be linked to adult alcoholism
• Binge drinking can impair both mood and cognitive performance
• Oceans more vulnerable to agricultural runoff than previously thought, study finds
• Protein delivers selenium for normal sperm development
• Mood elevating hormone may trigger depression and heart problems
• Shutting down the HIV assembly line
• Study: Two brain systems regulate how we call for help
• Study: Eye contact triggers threat signals in autistic children's brains
• Beta-blockers may help broader group of patients with heart problems
• St. John's wort amplifies effect of blood thinner Plavix
• The circadian clock: Understanding nature's timepiece
• UCSD-Utah team develops mouse model to test therapies for macular degeneration
• UCSD medical/bioengineering reseachers show titanium debris satobtage artificial joints
• Stealth worms may improve insect pest control
• Study finds Seroquel effective and well tolerated
• Conserved amino acids play both structural and mechanistic roles in sandwich-like protein
• New pediatrics study shatters milk myth-news Conf. 3/07, noon EST, Natl. Press Club
• New trials for counseling caregivers and patients with Alzheimer's begin
• Hydrogen and methane sustain unusual life at sea floor's 'Lost City'
• Serum sodium level is a major predictor of a poor prognosis for heart failure patients
• Statement on the findings of the Women's Health Study
• Galaxies in motion
• Florida Tech to host Disaster Recovery Construction Symposium
• Florida Tech earns $260,000 environmental grant to protect coral reefs
• Three anti-platelet drugs used in combination are safe
• Study says rare allergic reactions to drug-eluting stents may raise risk for heart attack
• Study finds drug eluting stents as effective as vascular brachytherapy in preventing restenosis
• Story tips from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, March 2005
• Scientists work to detect mysterious neutrinos
• Unique global light source Website launched
• Jefferson Lab medical imager spots breast cancer
• Columbia researchers receive $3 million to combat genetic killer of infants & toddlers
• Busy brains may stave off Alzheimer's signs
• Conservation International and AF&PA join forces to form 'Alliance to Combat Illegal Logging'
• $150 M funding opportunities DoD breast cancer research
• Gene therapy cures inherited liver disease in rats
• Report highlights diseases from the environment
• York study tests enhanced care for depression patients
• Researchers discover a good side to cholesterol in controlling cell signals
• Panacea or Pandora's box
• Tobacco industry pays scientists to challenge secondhand smoke's link to infant death risk
• Two chemicals boost immune cells' ability to fight HIV without gene therapy
• Researchers find three major beetle groups coming up one testis short
• Research may provide ways to inhibit cancer's ability to resist treatments
• Orthodontists must brace against back pain
• NASA satellite sees ocean plants increase, coasts greening
• Important discovery about second most fatal cancer
• Mayo Clinic develops first genomic-based test to predict stroke from ruptured brain aneurysm
• Inflammation elevates risk of cardiac death in rheumatoid arthritis patients
• Three out of the four million newborn babies who die each year could be saved
• Sunflower seed oil can protect low birth weight babies from infection
• Medical technologies may hinder rather than help newborn survival
• Daily supplement may boost birthweight of babies in the developing world
• Leading journalists named for new Templeton-Cambridge fellowships
• Preventing SCD1 expression prevents obesity
• JCI table of contents, April 1, 2005
• Blocking PLK-1 to beat bladder cancer
• News tips from the 2005, 54th Annual Scientific Sessions of the American College of Cardiology
• Study suggests smoking while pregnant may increase chromosomal abnormalities in fetal cells
• Many children are undervaccinated or have delayed vaccinations in their first 2 years of life
• English-speaking Hispanic youth more likely to have sex early
• College students at no greater risk of alcohol-related problems than peers
• Computerized order entry systems can increase risk of medication errors
• Current daily smoking may be associated with increased risk for suicidal thoughts and attempts
• Cognitive behavioral therapy and medication is effective in the treatment of panic disorder
• Surf's up in the solar nebula
• US technical employment falls by more than 220,000 workers from 2000 to 2004
• IADR & GSK announce 2005 Innovation in Oral Care Awards
• Eureka! Presentation to the European Parliament
• Undercover stars among exoplanet candidates
• European communication equipment for the ATV and the Eneide mission reaches the ISS
• Top honor for head of Epilepsy Foundation
• Texas police, border agents using Labs' sniffer to nab drug traffickers
• Symbiotic bacteria protect hunting wasps from fungal infestation
• Rhesus monkeys can assess the visual perspective of others when competing for food
• Geography predicts human genetic diversity
• Basis for DNA ejection from single phage particles
• Study examines racial differences among children to environmental tobacco smoke exposure
• Two years after gene therapy treatments, severe angina patients showed prolonged clinical benefit
• MRI proves useful in assessment of suspected breast cancer patients
• MRI better than current standard in assessing neoadjuvant chemotherapy for breast cancer
• CAD detects breast cancers that are most challenging to detect
• Allergen exposure in inner cities varies throughout the U.S.
• Ten-minute emergency room intervention for problem drinkers
• Discovery clarifies role of peptide in biological clock
• Weizmann Institute scientists discover how substitutions are made for injured genes
• Molecular messengers perform a crucial role in the ability of injured nerve cells to heal themselves
• A new 'strategic partner' in cancer development
• $3.5 million for computer simulation of molecules
• Secrets of the cilia: Kidney disease and blindness share common genetic defect
• Men more likely to get screened for prostate cancer than colon cancer, U-M study finds
• $4 million grant boosts University of Michigan campaign for a new children's hospital
• New slant on vision research: Neurons sensitive to viewing angle
• New drugs for bad bugs
• Finger length predicts physically aggressive personalities, study shows
• Routine dental panoramic X-rays not necessary, study shows
• 'Grubby' research promises environmental/economic benefits
• Researchers investigate 'whole farm' approach to reduce dairy pollution
• New clover could spell good luck for livestock producers
• 'Pyramiding' genes leads to better wheats and TAMU Regents Award
• Fine-tuning calf nutrition could reduce nitrogen pollution
• Molecular thermometers on skin cells detect heat and camphor
• Brain tumor with dismal prognosis in infants can be cured in older children
• Both inherited traits and tumor mutations affect response to treatment of leukemia
• Wetlands clean water and may control neighborhood flood problems
• Meditation may reduce heart disease risk
• Yeast network prevents damage by oxygen radicals
• Researchers discover link between insulin and Alzheimer's
• Most advanced CT scanner improves imaging of heart, avoids need for surgical inspection
• Innovation prize finalists announced in 'Science of Better'
• Teen athletes continue tobacco use, despite severe consequences
• Study finds direct association between cardiovascular disease and periodontal bacteria
• Radiography used to identify teens with sleep apnea
• Put culture in your life and reduce bad breath: Eat yogurt!
• Lip piercing can lead to receding gums
• Lectures, keynoters, symposia highlight International Dental Research meeting
• Growing your own replacement teeth? Not science fiction!
• Guide to releases
• Forensic dentistry key in identifying victims of tsunamis, other disasters
• Dental practitioners can be instrumental in preventing their patients' eating disorders
• 'Speaker's cramp', a new type of involuntary mouth-, lip-muscle movement
• Access to oral health care: Not a level playing field
• Alcohol intervention attempted for violent males
• Awards & fellowships at the International & American Association for Dental Research General Session
• 83rd General session & exhibition of the IADR
• 2005 Young Investigator Award
• 2005 Wilmer Souder Award
• 2005 Salivary Research Award
• 2005 Research in Dental Caries Award
• 2005 Pharmacology, Therapeutics, & Toxicology Research Award
• 2005 Pulp Biology Research Award
• 2005 Oral Medicine and Pathology Research Award
• 2005 H. Trendley Dean Memorial Award
• 2005 Geriatric Oral Research Award
• 2005 Craniofacial Biology Research Award
• 2005 Behavioral Sciences & Health Services Research Award
• 2005 Basic Research in Periodontal Disease Award
• 2005 Award for Basic Research in Biological Mineralization
• FSU anthropologist leads incredible journey through 'hobbit' brain
• Telemedicine revolution is 'disappearing' from the NHS
• Public-private partnerships may not always be the best solution
• Job satisfaction? Not much for Britain's hard slog 'robot' workers
• New substance that improves the photodetection of bladder cancer gains market approval
• Combining technologies leads to safer, more efficient crane
• Implanted devices detect high-risk heart failure patients
• New lab delves into plants for fuels
• UK lecture series features Susan Blackmore
• Ames Laboratory research may lead to hotter-running engines
• Case psychologist Exline studies relationship of narcissistic personality, forgiveness
• Scientists link gene to dyslexia
• Finding hidden invaders in a Hawaiian rain forest
• Linking brain to mind in a common genetic disease
• Severe injuries on the rise among children and adolescents riding motorbikes
• Radio-tracking associated with 'dramatic shift' in water vole sex ratio
• Gender a factor in who gets bypass surgery
• Some HIV patients at risk of exhausting treatment options
• HIV testing should no longer be accorded any special status
• Heart surgeons publish death rates
• Chest radiographs can predict risk of death in SARS patients
• Cryoablation is effective in treating cancer patients' pain
• Low socioeconomic status is a risk factor for mental illness
• Violence exposure and traumatic stress reactions can lead to poor health in children
• How effective are herbal supplements in reducing illnesses in children?
• Decreased levels of 'good' cholesterol in children with Progeria may cause premature heart disease
• Tim Appenzeller and Jeffrey Kluger win AGU journalism awards
• Molecule important in cell construction also critical in learning and memory
• African-Americans receive less aggressive heart attack treatment
• Hydrogen and methane provide raw energy for life at 'Lost City'
• Potential treatment for Fragile X Syndrome demonstrated in fruit fly model
• Protein analysis of amniotic fluid reveals clues about preterm birth
• One step closer to prediction: Baltimore to host international scientific meeting
• Natural mentors help mold lives of teens, study says
• Insects, viruses could hold key for better human teamwork in disasters
• Chemists synthesize molecule that helps body battle cancers, malaria
• Bugs, even 'bad' ones, can be educationally beneficial, new book says
• UI study examines hazing on college campus
• Helping the body heal itself: Regenerative medicine to be discussed at UH
• UCI researchers identify trigger for onset of Alzheimer's, aiding search for new therapies
• Teenagers find information about sex on the internet when they look for it – and when they don't
• In the mating game, male wild turkeys benefit even when they don't get the girl
• Gladstone scientists announce new version of bioinformatics software program
• National Academies news: two reports on radioactive waste at DOE sites
• Asian interest provides opportunities for US hard white wheat
• One year after groundbreaking, desert research center takes shape on the Israeli-Jordanian border
• Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry Journal presents the first Best Paper Award
• Purdue researchers use enzyme to clip 'DNA wires'
• Crime prevention and detection technologies dissemination event: Identification and authentication
• Astronomers detect powerful bursting radio source
• Quantum computers may be easier to build than predicted
• Study reveals frequent non-guideline treatment of late-life depression
• Mount Sinai researchers identify key to controlling HIV
• Mount Holyoke's role in shaping women's contributions to science examined
• LA BioMed medical/research briefs – March 2005
• Society of Hospital Medicine to launch new medical journal
• US cancer researchers launch first American-Israeli cancer conference
• Hopkins convenes 'consensus' conference to develop blueprint for nationwide matching program
• Parents who quit smoking may influence their offspring to quit as young adults
• Fred Hutchinson announces 2005 Harold M. Weintraub Graduate Student Awardees
• Emory study finds monarch health tied to migration
• Surprise discovery of highly developed structure in the young universe
• First habitat design workshop
• Chandra probes high-voltage auroras on Jupiter
• Becoming an adult takes longer these days
• Textbook details the economics of aging
• Spitzer Space Telescope finds bright infrared galaxies
• Chemicals in apples could reduce the risk of breast cancer, Cornell study in rats suggests
• Columbia study shows widely used artery clearing device does not help patients during heart attack
• Training could remove racial bias from police reactions
• Internet viruses help ecologists control invasive species
• Immersion in virtual world alleviates pain from injury
• Media advisory: ASM Beneficial Microbes Conference -- April 2005
• ASBMB Schering-Plough Award lecture to focus on histone modifications in transcription
• News briefs from the journal CHEST, March 2005
• Gender gap for lung cancer rates narrowing
• Asthma relapse in children common, possible risk factors identified
• Stroke warning signs often occur hours or days before attack
• New patient magazine from American Academy of Neurology to launch in April
• 'Hobbit' fossil likely represents new branch on human family tree
• New treatment options for some difficult cancers improve survival and quality of life
• VCU researchers identify networks of genes responding to alcohol in the brain
• New laparoscopic hysterectomy offers quicker recovery time than traditional surgery
• UNC findings may help explain cause of most common movement disorder
• Laughter helps blood vessels function better
• Temperature inside collapsing bubble four times that of sun
• Huge 2004 stratospheric ozone loss tied to solar storms, Arctic winds
• Fewer false alarms when mammographers have greater experience screening healthy breasts
• What the eye doesn't see
• Most older people with mild cognitive impairment have AD or cerebral vascular disease
• Mayo Clinic study sets threshold for valve repair surgery
• Exercise tolerance is good screening test for chest pain patients
• The impact of cruciate ligament rupture on osteoarthritis of the knee
• A shallow hip socket predicts osteoarthritis of the hip
• School-based smoking prevention programs ineffective
• Consigned to Cern the last component of Cms solenoid
• First step towards a non-invasive screening test for early signs of testicular cancer
• Even mild depression increases long-term mortality in heart failure
• Depression predicts heart rhythm abnormalities in heart attack patients
• DOE JGI launches IMG public online microbial genome data clearinghouse
• Fruit fly study points to treatment for fragile X syndrome
• Studies underscore genetic involvement in nicotine addiction & aggressive hostility
• Studies address issues of risk and survival in rapidly increasing GI cancers
• Celebrex provides a two pronged attack against prostate cancer
• Acting techniques may help doctors empathize with their patients
• Researchers uncover mutated genes involved in lung cancer; one affects nonsmokers
• Astronomers eclipse record for most distant massive object
• News tips from the Journal of Neuroscience
• MGH study identifies potential Alzheimer's risk gene
• 'Smart' immune cells kill more cancer
• Future diabetes drugs may target new protein interaction
• New treatment for inflammatory bowel disease
• Olfactory receptor cells may provide clues to psychiatric disease
• K-State professor examines practical ways to use PDAs in classroom
• Study examines role of EGFR gene mutations in lung cancer development
• Other highlights in the March 2 JNCI
• Increasing physician volume requirement could improve mammogram accuracy, study concludes
• Eating oily fish may reduce inflammation
• New ways to ease liver disease
• JCI table of contents April 1, 2005
• Older women can benefit from chemotherapy to treat breast cancer
• Folic acid and vitamin B12 decrease risk of hip fracture in stroke patients
• 'Artery clearing' system does not provide benefit for patients undergoing PCI
• First ever estimate of cod fishery in 1850s reveals 96% decline on Scotian Shelf
• American Thoracic Society Journal news tips for March 2005 (first issue)
• Finances, not having a dentist are primary barriers to seniors receiving needed dental care
• Duke researchers uncover genetic link to kidney damage after heart surgery
• Licorice licks herpes virus infection
• JCI table of contents March 1, 2005
• Boosting blood vessels with BDNF
• A new route for treatment of IBD

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