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Mayo Clinic Researchers Discover Genetic Glitch in Heart's Electrical System That Leads to Drowning.
May 02, 2005 ... Byline: Mayo Clinic ROCHESTER, Minn., May 2 (AScribe Newswire) -- Mayo Clinic researchers have identified defects in a second gene called RyR2 that causes malfunctions in the heart's electrical system and contributes to what were previously unexplained drownings. ...
Report Shows Concentration of Bars, Liquor Stores Linked to Neighborhood Violence; Government Role in Solving Problem Also Outlined.
May 02, 2005 ... Byline: Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation BERKELEY, Calif., May 2 (AScribe Newswire) -- When bars, liquor stores and other businesses that sell alcohol are located close together in neighborhoods, more assaults and other violent crimes occur in those neighborhoods, ...
Findings Reinforce Theories About How Viruses Evolve.
May 02, 2005 ... Byline: Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., May 2 (AScribe Newswire) -- Two viruses that split from a common ancestor possibly a billion years ago still have the same protein "fold" in their outer shells, shedding light on how viruses evolved, Purdue University researchers ...
Astronomers Confirm the First Image of a Planet Outside of Our Solar System.
May 02, 2005 ... Byline: UCLA LOS ANGELES, May 2 (AScribe Newswire) -- An international team of astronomers reports April 29 the confirmation of the discovery of a giant planet, approximately five times the mass of Jupiter, that is gravitationally bound to a young brown dwarf. This discovery ...
Gamma Rays From Thunderstorms?
May 02, 2005 ... Byline: Duke University DURHAM, N.C., May 2 (AScribe Newswire) -- Duke University engineers have led the most detailed analyses of links between some lightning events and mysterious gamma ray emissions that emanate from earth's own atmosphere. Their study suggests that this ...
Researchers Induce Heart Cells to Proliferate; Findings Could Lead to Strategies to Regenerate Tissue After Heart Attack.
May 02, 2005 ... Byline: Children's Hospital Boston BOSTON, May 2 (AScribe Newswire) -- In the best documented effort to date, researchers from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at Children's Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School have successfully induced adult heart-muscle cells to ...
Metal Stents Are Safe and Effective for Treatment of Obstructions From Pancreatic Cancer.
May 02, 2005 ... Byline: University of Virginia Health System CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., May 2 (AScribe Newswire) -- One key goal of treating pancreatic cancer, which is often fatal within a year, is making sure patients have a good quality of life with as few complications as possible. This is ...
Major Advance Made on DNA Structure.
May 02, 2005 ... Byline: Oregon State University CORVALLIS, Ore., May 2 (AScribe Newswire) -- Oregon State University researchers have made significant new advances in determining the structure of all possible DNA sequences -- a discovery that in one sense takes up where Watson and Crick left ...
New Prostate Cancer Vaccine to Be Tested at University of Maryland Greenebaum Cancer Center; Goal Is to Prevent Recurrence of Cancer Following Surgery to Remove Prostate.
May 04, 2005 ... Byline: University of Maryland Medical System BALTIMORE, May 4 (AScribe Newswire) -- Doctors at the University of Maryland Greenebaum Cancer Center have started a Phase II clinical study of a new prostate cancer vaccine to harness the body's immune system to prevent recurrence ...
Scalpel-Free Surgery Could Reduce Risk of HIV, Hepatitis Exposure for Health Care Workers in City Hospitals.
May 04, 2005 ... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BALTIMORE, May 4 (AScribe Newswire) -- While the incidence of disease from HIV and hepatitis is increasing in the United States, little is known about their prevalence in patients undergoing surgery. Now, researchers have shown that ...
Keeping Cancer in Check: Penn Researchers Demonstrate That a Metabolic Enzyme Works Through the Tumor-Suppressor Protein p53 to Control Cellular Replication.
May 04, 2005 ... Byline: University of Pennsylvania Health System PHILADELPHIA, May 4 (AScribe Newswire) -- Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have identified in normal cells that a common metabolic enzyme, which acts as a rheostat of cellular conditions, also ...
Jefferson Medical College Scientists Create Plant Factories That Churn Out Antibodies Against Tumor Cells.
May 04, 2005 ... Byline: Thomas Jefferson University PHILADELPHIA, May 4 (AScribe Newswire) -- Scientists at Jefferson Medical College are using tobacco plants to produce monoclonal antibodies - tiny guided protein missiles - that can target and hunt down cancer cells. The plants promise to ...
Small Glaciers in Northern California Buck Global Warming Trend.
May 05, 2005 ... Byline: University of California, Santa Barbara SANTA BARBARA, Calif., May 5 (AScribe Newswire) -- While glaciers around the world are shrinking and disappearing, presumably due to global warming, two small glaciers in the Trinity Alps of Northern California are holding their ...
UC Davis Cancer Center Takes Part in National Effort to Build 'World Wide Web' of Cancer Research; Faster Exchange of Information Will Benefit Patients.
May 05, 2005 ... Byline: Univ. of California, Davis, Medical Center SACRAMENTO, Calif., May 5 (AScribe Newswire) -- UC Davis Cancer Center is partnering with the National Cancer Institute to build the cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid (caBIG), a virtual network intended to link individuals and ...
Physicists Shake and Stir to Make Granular Materials Change Phases.
May 05, 2005 ... Byline: Duke University DURHAM, N.C., May 5 (AScribe Newswire) -- In an experiment originally planned for the International Space Station, physicists at Duke University have devised a controlled, measurable method to make a container of granules -- in this case plastic beads -- ...
Canadian and U.S. Researchers Have Identified Important New Genetic Information That Could Improve Diagnosis, Treatment of High Blood Pressure.
May 05, 2005 ... Byline: Medical College of Wisconsin MILWAUKEE, May 5 (AScribe Newswire) -- Canadian and U.S. researchers at the Medical College of Wisconsin today announced important new information on the genetics of hypertension, offering hope for improved diagnosis and treatment of high ...
Earth Lightens Up: After 30 Years of Dimming, the Planet's Surface Is Brightening, an International Collaboration Concludes This Week in Science Magazine.
May 05, 2005 ... Byline: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory RICHLAND, Wash., May 5 (AScribe Newswire) -- Earth's surface has been getting brighter for more than a decade, a reversal from a dimming trend that may accelerate warming at the surface and unmask the full effect of greenhouse ...
Scientists Discover Pluto Kin Is Member of Saturn Family.
May 06, 2005 ... Byline: Jet Propulsion Laboratory PASADENA, Calif., May 6 (AScribe Newswire) -- Saturn's battered little moon Phoebe is an interloper to the Saturn system from the deep outer solar system, scientists have concluded. The new findings appear in the May 5 issue of the journal ...
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Seeks Maxi Space Exploration Via Mini Technology; Lab to Develop More Economical, Reliable Space Travel.
May 06, 2005 ... Byline: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory RICHLAND, Wash., May 6 (AScribe Newswire) -- Images of deep space exploration in old sci-fi movies will take one giant leap toward reality as Battelle scientists manipulate microtechnology to produce rocket propellant in space and ...
African Americans, Caucasians Have Similar Emotional Brain Activity When Seeing African Americans, UCLA Psychologists Find.
May 08, 2005 ... Byline: UCLA LOS ANGELES, May 8 (AScribe Newswire) -- African Americans and Caucasians viewing African American faces display extremely similar changes in the activity of brain structures that respond to emotional events, a new UCLA study finds. The changes occur in ...
Embryonic Law and Order; Team of Scientists at Weizmann Institute of Science Reveals How Fruit Fly Embryos Impose Order in Early Development.
May 09, 2005 ... Byline: American Committee for the Weizmann Institute of Science NEW YORK, May 9 (AScribe Newswire) -- Soon after fertilization, the cells in an embryo, which have been dividing furiously from the start, begin to take on different forms and to separate into layers that will ...
Side Effects of Colon Cancer Drug Explained.
May 09, 2005 ... Byline: American Committee for the Weizmann Institute of Science NEW YORK, May 9 (AScribe Newswire) -- A team of scientists at the Weizmann Institute of Science, working in collaboration with scientists at St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tenn., has shown ...
Live Reporting: Iron Storage Molecule Could Play 'Spy' Role in Future Gene Therapy.
May 09, 2005 ... Byline: American Committee for the Weizmann Institute of Science NEW YORK, May 9 (AScribe Newswire) -- New findings show an iron storage molecule in the cell can serve as an advanced tool for mapping gene expression. Future gene therapy may use a technique in which non-invasive ...
MIT Professors, Colleagues Propose Plan for Nuclear Energy.
May 09, 2005 ... Byline: MIT CAMBRIDGE, Mass., May 9 (AScribe Newswire) -- MIT faculty members and colleagues, all former senior energy or security advisors in Democratic and Republican administrations from Carter to Clinton, have proposed a pragmatic plan that would allow the world to develop ...
Gold Nanoparticles May Simplify Cancer Detection.
May 09, 2005 ... Byline: Georgia Institute of Technology ATLANTA, May 9 (AScribe Newswire) -- Binding gold nanoparticles to a specific antibody for cancer cells could make cancer detection much easier, suggests research at the Georgia Institute of Technology and the University of California at ...
Previously Unknown Geological Fault Provides New Insights on Himalayan Mountain Building.
May 09, 2005 ... Byline: MIT CAMBRIDGE, Mass., May 9 (AScribe Newswire) -- Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Dartmouth College scientists have identified a previously unrecognized, active fault in the Nepalese Himalayas. The discovery, published in the April 21 issue of Nature, provides ...
Scientists Find Unusual Use of Metals in Ocean.
May 09, 2005 ... Byline: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution WOODS HOLE, Mass., May 9 (AScribe Newswire) -- Cadmium, commonly considered a toxic metal and often used in combination with nickel in batteries, has been found to have a biological use as a nutrient in the ocean, the first known ...
As World Warms, Vegetation Changes May Influence Extreme Weather.
May 09, 2005 ... Byline: Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., May 9 (AScribe Newswire) -- A Purdue University climatologist has found that vegetation can significantly affect extreme weather, a discovery that could add a new piece to the global warming puzzle. Noah S. Diffenbaugh ...
Archeoseismological Investigation Uncovers Evidence for Strong Rhine Valley Earthquake; Most Severe Earthquake Damage Ever Described for Region; Temblor of Intensity IX Likely Struck Germany Sometime in 4th Century A.D.
May 10, 2005 ... Byline: Seismological Society of America EL CERRITO, Calif., May 10 (AScribe Newswire) -- An archeoseismological investigation of Roman ruins near Cologne, Germany, indicates that a record-setting earthquake of Mw 6.4 struck the region probably around 350 A.D., according to an ...
Shared Computing Grid Cuts Data Mountains Down to Size.
May 10, 2005 ... Byline: University of Wisconsin - Madison MADISON, Wis., May 10 (AScribe Newswire) -- Although University of Wisconsin-Madison professors Wesley Smith and David Schwartz operate in completely different scientific spheres - one seeking to explore the fundamental properties of ...
UCLA Cancer Researchers Find Way to Shake Loose 'Hidden' Biomarker in Prostate Cancer Cells; Discovery May Pave Way for Immunotherapy Treatments.
May 10, 2005 ... Byline: UCLA LOS ANGELES, May 11 (AScribe Newswire) -- Using a common chemotherapy agent, researchers at UCLA's Jonsson Cancer Center and the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine found a way to move an important biomarker expressed in prostate cancer, shaking it loose ...
Mayo Clinic Study Determines Surgery Is Best Remedy for Hammer Hand Hypothenar; Hammer Syndrome, Known for Affecting Laborers, Gets Relief From Bypass Grafting.
May 11, 2005 ... Byline: Mayo Clinic ROCHESTER, Minn., May 11 (AScribe Newswire) -- The hand pain, tingling, numbness and cold sensitivity of hypothenar hammer syndrome, also known as hammer hand, are best alleviated by bypass grafting surgery, according to a new study by Mayo Clinic plastic ...
Study Shows Positive Economic Impact of Iowa Farmers' Markets.
May 11, 2005 ... Byline: Iowa State University AMES, Iowa, May 11 (AScribe Newswire) -- Farmers' markets not only are a great place to get fresh produce, flowers and baked goods, they also may generate an estimated $20.8 million in sales and more than 325 jobs for the Iowa economy. ...
National Institutes of Health Funding Helps Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Researchers Study Bacteria That Commonly Attack Cystic Fibrosis Patients, Tumor Development.
May 11, 2005 ... Byline: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory RICHLAND, Wash., May 11 (AScribe Newswire) -- Two National Institutes of Health grants, totaling nearly $3 million, aim to alleviate painful conditions that affect millions of Americans. For cystic fibrosis patients, the research ...
Atherosclerosis Boosts Risks of Depression in Elderly, According to Study Released at American Geriatrics Society's Annual Meeting.
May 12, 2005 ... Byline: American Geriatrics Society ORLANDO, Fla., May 12 (AScribe Newswire) -- According to a study presented today at the American Geriatrics Society Annual Meeting, atherosclerosis -- the accumulation of fatty plaque in the blood vessels -- not only sets the stage for heart ...
Gene 'Archeology' Gets Easier Using Carnegie Mellon University Software.
May 12, 2005 ... Byline: Carnegie Mellon University PITTSBURGH, May 12 (AScribe Newswire) -- Comparing genomes of different species can tell you when new genes evolved and what they do for their respective hosts. But pinpointing the ancestry of any given gene is a complex computational task ....
San Diego Supercomputer Center Boosts Data Capabilities; Center Now Provides 1.1 Petabytes of On-Line Disk Storage.
May 12, 2005 ... Byline: San Diego Supercomputer Center SAN DIEGO, May 12 (AScribe Newswire) -- The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at University of California, San Diego recently added new on-line disk storage, offering 1.1 petabytes to users, complementing its 6+ petabytes of tape ...
Black Children More Likely to Die From Traumatic Injury Than White Children.
May 12, 2005 ... Byline: Ohio State University COLUMBUS, Ohio, May 12 (AScribe Newswire) -- A new study of nearly 6,000 children suggests that black youth are more than twice as likely to die from a traumatic injury as are white children. "Trauma has a far greater impact on minority ...
Atmosphere May Cleanse Itself Better Than Previously Thought.
May 12, 2005 ... Byline: Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., May 12 (AScribe Newswire) -- A research team from Purdue University and the University of California, San Diego has found that the Earth's atmosphere may be more effective at cleansing itself of smog and other damaging hydrocarbons ...
Barriers Prevent Many Hispanics From Participating in Research Studies; Providing Health Services, Showing Benefit to the Community, Speaking Spanish Help in Recruitment of Hispanic Research Participants.
May 12, 2005 ... Byline: University of Michigan Health System ANN ARBOR, Mich., May 12 (AScribe Newswire) -- At a time when the Hispanic population in the United States is growing at a rate faster than any other minority group, Hispanics still represent only a small portion of participants in ...
Left- or Right-Brain? Genes May Tell the Story.
May 12, 2005 ... Byline: Howard Hughes Medical Institute CHEVY CHASE, Md., May 12 (AScribe Newswire) -- Subtle differences in how a single gene behaves on opposite sides of the growing brain may explain how various intellectual talents -- language, math skills, imagination -- arise in specific ...
High Overnight Blood Pressure Linked to Increased Blood Sugar Levels; Research Presented at American Geriatrics Society Meeting Suggests Doctors Closely Monitor Glucose Levels of Patients Whose Blood Pressure Doesn't Dip at Night.
May 13, 2005 ... Byline: University of Michigan Health System ANN ARBOR, Mich., May 13 (AScribe Newswire) -- People whose blood pressure doesn't drop significantly overnight tend to have more cardiovascular problems. Now, new research at the University of Michigan Health System and ...
University of North Carolina Wilmington Acquires Underwater Glider to Provide State-of-the-Art Undersea Equipment, Data for Ocean Science.
May 13, 2005 ... Byline: University of North Carolina at Wilmington WILMINGTON, N.C., May 13 (AScribe Newswire) -- As part of its continuing efforts to provide state-of-the-art undersea equipment and data for ocean science, the NOAA Undersea Research Program (NURP) Center at the University of ...
Blocking Tumor Blood Vessels Represents New Option for Group of Advanced Lung Cancer Patients.
May 13, 2005 ... Byline: Vanderbilt Medical Center ORLANDO, Fla., May 13 (AScribe Newswire) -- Patients with a particular type of advanced lung cancer may have a new option based on data presented here at the 2005 annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology showing that combining ...
Nature Study Explains Mystery of Mars Icecaps.
May 13, 2005 ... Byline: Oregon State University CORVALLIS, Ore., May 13 (AScribe Newswire) -- An interdisciplinary team of scientists thinks it has an answer to a long-standing mystery of why the permanent icecap on Mars' South Pole is offset from the pole itself. Simply put, it's colder and ...
Speed-of-Processing Training May Cut Car Crashes Involving Elderly, Study Presented at American Geriatrics Society's Annual Meeting Suggests.
May 14, 2005 ... Byline: American Geriatrics Society ORLANDO, Fla., May 14 (AScribe Newswire) -- According to a study released at the American Geriatrics Society Annual Meeting today, special training that enhances visual information processing ability could help prevent automobile accidents ...
Response Rate for New Kidney Cancer Drug is More than Double that of Standard Treatment.
May 14, 2005 ... Byline: Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center ORLANDO, Fla., May 14 (AScribe Newswire) -- Recent studies of a new anticancer drug show continued response for patients with late-stage kidney cancer. Robert Motzer, MD, attending physician at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center ...
Mayo Clinic Researchers Use Pharmacogenetic Test Prior to Chemotherapy to Reduce Toxic Side Effects, Determine Best Dose of Three-Drug Treatment for Various Cancers.
May 14, 2005 ... Byline: Mayo Clinic ROCHESTER, Minn., May 14 (AScribe Newswire) -- Mayo Clinic researchers report that using a genetic screening blood test prior to the start of chemotherapy can decrease the toxicity of a three-drug chemotherapy regimen, thus helping patients tolerate markedly ...
New Test for Early Detection of Prostate Cancer Shows Promise.
May 14, 2005 ... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BALTIMORE, May 15 (AScribe Newswire) -- In the first clinical study of a new blood protein associated with prostate cancer, researchers have found that the marker, called EPCA or early prostate cancer antigen, can successfully detect ...
Mayo Clinic Researchers Report on Effectiveness of Treatments for Hot Flashes; Findings Presented at American Society of Clinical Oncology.
May 15, 2005 ... Byline: Mayo Clinic ROCHESTER, Minn., May 15 (AScribe Newswire) -- Mayo Clinic researchers, working with North Central Cancer Treatment Group (NCCTG) investigators, will present new study findings about treatments to reduce hot flashes in women. The research will be outlined ...
Still Have to Swab Those Tonsils, Mayo Clinic Study Finds.
May 15, 2005 ... Byline: Mayo Clinic ROCHESTER, Minn., May 15 (AScribe Newswire) -- Mayo Clinic ear, nose and throat surgeons hoped to find a more user-friendly test for strep throat than swabbing the tonsils directly, but instead discovered that the swab has to touch the tonsils to accurately ...
Heart Scan Surprises: CT Images Reveal Serious Problems Outside the Heart in 44 Percent of Heart Patients Scanned, University of Michigan Researchers Find; Trained Eyes Needed to Spot Small Cancers, Blood Clots, Aneurysms Early.
May 16, 2005 ... Byline: University of Michigan Health System NEW ORLEANS, May 16 (AScribe Newswire) -- Nearly half of all patients who get their hearts scanned with a high-speed CT scanner may get a shocking surprise: a diagnosis of a serious problem that has nothing to do with their heart. ...
Berkeley Lab Technology Dramatically Speeds Up Searches of Large Databases.
May 16, 2005 ... Byline: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory BERKELEY, Calif., May 16 (AScribe Newswire) -- In the world of physics, one of the most elusive events is the creation and detection of "quark-gluon plasma," the theorized atomic outcome of the "Big Bang" which could provide insight ...
Mayo Clinic Researchers Develop New Treatment for Incurable Recurring Form of Adult Brain Cancer; Early Results Promising.
May 17, 2005 ... Byline: Mayo Clinic ROCHESTER, Minn., May 17 (AScribe Newswire) -- A study led by Mayo Clinic researchers and conducted by the North Central Cancer Treatment Group (NCCTG) reports that a new "smart" drug treatment for an incurable form of recurrent brain cancer slowed tumor ...
Math Suggests Homeland Security Committee Most Partisan in House.
May 17, 2005 ... Byline: Georgia Institute of Technology ATLANTA, May 17 (AScribe Newswire) -- The Select Committee on Homeland Security is one of the most partisan in the U.S. House of Representatives. No, that's not the latest finding of a Washington think-tank, it's the results of a new ...
MIT Student Studies Disaster Relief Logistics.
May 17, 2005 ... Byline: MIT CAMBRIDGE, Mass., May 17 (AScribe Newswire) -- The devastation caused by last December's tsunami prompted an unprecedented outpouring of global aid that presented disaster relief providers with innumerable logistical challenges. Now an MIT graduate student has ...
Glacier Geology Still Cleaning Iowa Groundwater.
May 17, 2005 ... Byline: Iowa State University AMES, Iowa, May 17 (AScribe Newswire) -- The geology left by the last glacier to advance into Iowa is helping to clean nitrate from Iowa groundwater and producing methane gas, according to research by William Simpkins, an Iowa State professor of ...
Diesel Emissions Research to Look at Particulate Matter.
May 17, 2005 ... Byline: Kettering University FLINT, Mich., May 17 (AScribe Newswire) -- Researchers at Kettering University in Flint, Mich., will use a National Science Foundation grant to determine levels of particulate matter emitted by diesel engines, spark ignited engines, jet engines and ...
Hypertension Drug Combination Yields High Rate of Blood Pressure Control in Hard-to-Treat Patients; Researchers Studied Irbesartan and a Diuretic Combined in One Tablet.
May 17, 2005 ... Byline: University of Maryland Medical System COLLEGE PARK, Md., May 17 (AScribe Newswire) -- A multi-center study of a pill that combines two drugs for hypertension shows significant benefit for people with hard-to-control high blood pressure. The study, conducted at the ...
Same Fold in Viral Shells Point to Common Ancestry.
May 18, 2005 ... Byline: Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., May 18 (AScribe Newswire) -- New findings in research led by Purdue University biologists provide further evidence that the protein envelope protecting DNA in viruses evolved billions of years ago from a common ancestor and uses ...
Brain May Be Less Plastic Than Hoped.
May 18, 2005 ... Byline: Howard Hughes Medical Institute CHEVY CHASE, Md., May 18 (AScribe Newswire) -- The visual cortex of the adult primate brain displays less flexibility in response to retinal injury than previously thought, according to a new study published in the May 19, 2005, issue of ...
To Stop Evolution: New Way of Fighting Antibiotic Resistance Demonstrated by Scripps Research Scientists.
May 18, 2005 ... Byline: The Scripps Research Institute LA JOLLA, Calif., May 18 (AScribe Newswire) -- A team of scientists at The Scripps Research Institute and the University of Wisconsin have demonstrated a new way of fighting antibiotic resistance: by stopping evolution. In the ...
With A Little Help From Your Friends: A New Way to Block Spam.
May 19, 2005 ... Byline: University of Florida GAINESVILLE, Fla., May 19 (AScribe Newswire) -- Friends can help friends block spam -- or at least their computers can. So says a University of Florida computer engineer who has pioneered a new approach to zapping the junk e-mail that ...
Researchers Find First Gene for Inherited Testicular Cancer in Mice; Findings May Offer Clues to Cancer in Male Infants.
May 19, 2005 ... Byline: Case Western Reserve University - School of Medicine CLEVELAND, May 19 (AScribe Newswire) -- In this week's journal Nature, researchers report finding the first gene responsible for inherited susceptibility of testicular cancer in mice. The gene, which is called "dead ...
Disease Progression Model of Pancreatic Cancer Developed by Penn Researchers.
May 19, 2005 ... Byline: University of Pennsylvania Health System PHILADELPHIA, May 19 (AScribe Newswire) -- Building on previous work, researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have developed an animal model of pancreatic cancer that closely mimics disease progression in ...