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New Forecasting Tool Could Reduce Drug Development Costs; Authors Call on Pharmaceutical Industry to Share More Data.
Feb 01, 2007 ... Byline: Children's Hospital Boston BOSTON, Feb. 1 (AScribe Newswire) -- It now costs more than $800 million to develop a new drug. But what if pharmaceutical companies had a way to predict which experimental drugs will ultimately get FDA approval, giving them the confidence to ...
Another Case for Index Funds: New Research Shows Individual Investors Who Buy Shares in Local Companies Fail to Enjoy Superior Returns; Overall, Trades of Individual Investors Perform Poorly.
Feb 01, 2007 ... Byline: Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley BERKELEY, Calif., Feb. 1 (AScribe Newswire) -- The idea of "local knowledge" - or "investing in what you know" - is popular stock-picking advice that doesn't appear to hold true for individual investors, according to new research from ...
Emergency Departments Test Chest Pain Patients Differently, Based on Race, Gender, Insurance.
Feb 01, 2007 ... Byline: Medical College of Wisconsin MILWAUKEE, Feb. 1 (AScribe Newswire) -- A new study by researchers at the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee and Johns Hopkins University has found that race, gender and insurance differences factor strongly in the evaluation of ...
Targeting Tau: Inflammation Study Suggests New Approach for Fighting Alzheimer's.
Feb 01, 2007 ... Byline: University of Pennsylvania Health System PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 1 (AScribe Newswire) -- Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have shown that impaired function and loss of synapses in the hippocampus of a mouse form of Alzheimer's disease (AD) is ...
When Lap Dogs Become Attack Dogs: UCLA Study Isolates Triggers for D.C. Press Corps.
Feb 01, 2007 ... Byline: UCLA LOS ANGELES, Feb. 1 (AScribe Newswire) -- Presidents don't enjoy a honeymoon period with the White House press corps. But neither do reporters turn on presidents just because their popularity has tanked. Still, that doesn't mean that the relationship is without ...
Molecular Motors and Brakes Work Together in Cells: Interaction Sheds Light on How Cell's Inner 'Skeleton' Is Organized.
Feb 01, 2007 ... Byline: University of Pennsylvania Health System PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 1 (AScribe Newswire) -- Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have discovered that microtubules - components responsible for shape, movement, and replication within cells - use ...
Scientists Develop Portable Generator That Turns Trash Into Electricity.
Feb 01, 2007 ... Byline: Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., Feb. 1 (AScribe Newswire) -- A group of scientists have created a portable refinery that efficiently converts food, paper and plastic trash into electricity. The machine, designed for the U.S. military, would allow ...
Tiny 'Gas-Flow' Sensor Has Industrial, Environmental Applications.
Feb 02, 2007 ... Byline: Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., Feb. 2 (AScribe Newswire) -- Researchers at Purdue University have shown how to create a new class of tiny sensors for applications ranging from environmental protection to pharmaceutical preservation. Although similar ...
Examining Media Bias: Lewis & Clark Political Science Professor Finds No Ideological Labeling Bias in Major U.S. Newspapers.
Feb 02, 2007 ... Byline: Lewis & Clark College PORTLAND, Ore., Feb. 2 (AScribe Newswire) -- Do the media have a liberal bias? According to a new study by Robert Eisinger, associate professor and chair of political science at Lewis & Clark College, the notion that major U.S. newspapers have an ...
World's Oldest Sedimentary Rocks Show How Earth May Have Avoided Becoming Giant Snowball; Carbon Dioxide May Have Acted as Planet's 'Thermostat' Since Earliest Times.
Feb 05, 2007 ... Byline: University of Chicago CHICAGO, Feb. 5 (AScribe Newswire) -- A greenhouse gas that has become the bane of modern society may have saved Earth from completely freezing over early in the planet's history, according to the first detailed laboratory analysis of the world's ...
Aerospace Group Advances 'Structural Health Monitoring' Technology; Intelligent Sensor Networks on Planes Can Reduce Maintenance Cost, Downtime.
Feb 05, 2007 ... Byline: Stanford School of Engineering STANFORD, Calif., Feb. 5 (AScribe Newswire) -- Aircraft and spacecraft are complex vehicles whose maintenance requires time-consuming and expensive manual inspections. But a suite of new technologies, such as sensor-actuator networks, can ...
Scripps Research Scientists: Compounds Show Significant Promise Against Potential Bioweapon Toxins; Small Molecules Could Fill Therapy Gap in Nation's Bioterrorism Defense.
Feb 05, 2007 ... Byline: The Scripps Research Institute LA JOLLA, Calif., Feb. 5 (AScribe Newswire) -- Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute and the University of Wisconsin have identified two small molecules with promising activity against neurotoxins produced by the Clostridium ...
Severe Form of 'Enlarged Prostate' Disease Discovered; Blood Test Developed to Detect Problems Long Before Middle Age.
Feb 05, 2007 ... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BALTIMORE, Feb. 5 (AScribe Newswire) -- Millions of middle-aged and older men experience the symptoms of an enlarged prostate multiple times during the day and night. What they may not know is that the disease known as BPH (benign ...
New Take on Affirmative Action, According to Stanford Business School Research.
Feb 05, 2007 ... Byline: Stanford Graduate School of Business STANFORD, Calif., Feb. 5 (AScribe Newswire) -- Affirmative action remains one of the most contentious issues in American society. Researchers typically suggest that that people who oppose it do so either because they think it's ...
Dutch Adopt Managed Competition in Health Care Proposed by Stanford Business School Researcher.
Feb 05, 2007 ... Byline: Stanford Graduate School of Business STANFORD, Calif., Feb. 5 (AScribe Newswire) -- The Netherlands has become the first nation to inaugurate a system of universal health insurance based on regulated competition in the private sector. Their program, adopted in January ...
University of Maryland Study: Hackers Attack Computers Every 39 Seconds; Clark School's Cukier Stresses Strong Passwords as Defense Against Harm.
Feb 06, 2007 ... Byline: University of Maryland, College Park COLLEGE PARK, Md., Feb. 6 (AScribe Newswire) -- Are hackers trying to get into your computer right now? And what are they up to? A study by the University of Maryland's A. James Clark School of Engineering is one of the first to ...
Immigration Slows Rate of Racial, Ethnic Intermarriages.
Feb 06, 2007 ... Byline: Ohio State University COLUMBUS, Ohio, Feb. 6 (AScribe Newswire) -- Immigration has played a key role in unprecedented declines in interracial and inter-ethnic marriage in the United States during the 1990s, according to a new study. The findings suggest that ...
Major Population Centers May Be at Risk; Building Codes Must Reflect New Seismic Data.
Feb 06, 2007 ... Byline: Seismological Society of America EL CERRITO, Calif., Feb. 6 (AScribe Newswire) -- Earthquakes in stable continental regions lack sufficient understanding to prepare local populations for future seismic activity, according to a paper published in the February issue of the ...
Penn Study Suggests New Model for Testing and Discovery of Anti-HIV Drugs.
Feb 07, 2007 ... Byline: University of Pennsylvania Health System PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 7 (AScribe Newswire) -- Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine are the first to show that a mouse protein, whose human equivalent is related to defense against HIV-1, inhibits the ...
Discovery Could Lead to Better Control of Hemorrhagic Fever Viruses; New World Arenaviruses Enter Cells Through a Well-Known Iron-Uptake Receptor.
Feb 07, 2007 ... Byline: Children's Hospital Boston BOSTON, Feb. 7 (AScribe Newswire) -- Researchers report discovering the receptor through which a group of life-threatening hemorrhagic fever viruses enter and attack the body's cells, and show that infection can be inhibited by blocking this ...
Hamilton College Youth Poll Finds That American High School Students Do Not Understand Climate Change Issues.
Feb 07, 2007 ... Byline: Hamilton College CLINTON, N.Y., Feb. 7 (AScribe Newswire) -- It's an inconvenient truth that would make Al Gore shudder: Despite an increasing emphasis at school and in the media on the causes and effects of global climate change, most American high school students don't ...
New Data Shakes Accepted Models of Collisions of Earth's Crust.
Feb 07, 2007 ... Byline: Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., Feb. 7 (AScribe Newswire) -- New research findings may help refine the accepted models used by earth scientists over the past 30 years to describe the ways in which continents clash to form the Earth's landscape. Eric ...
Forensic Photography Brings Color Back to Ancient Textiles.
Feb 08, 2007 ... Byline: Ohio State University COLUMBUS, Ohio, Feb. 8 (AScribe Newswire) -- Archaeologists are now turning to forensic crime lab techniques to hunt for dyes, paint, and other decoration in prehistoric textiles. Although ancient fabrics can offer clues about prehistoric ...
Love, Not Money, Inspires Immigrants to Become U.S. Citizens; UC Irvine Research Shows Welcoming Attitudes Double Naturalization Rates.
Feb 08, 2007 ... Byline: University of California, Irvine IRVINE, Calif., Feb. 8 (AScribe Newswire) -- Love, more than money, inspires legal immigrants to go through the naturalization process to become American citizens, according to new research from UC Irvine. Naturalization rates ...
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Scientists Discover New Gene That Prevents Multiple Types of Cancer; Cell Publishes Study Titled 'CHD5 Is a Tumor Suppressor at Human 1p36'.
Feb 08, 2007 ... Byline: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory COLD SPRING HARBOR, N.Y., Feb. 8 (AScribe Newswire) -- A decades-old cancer mystery has been solved by researchers at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL). "We not only found a critical tumor suppressor gene, but have revealed a master ...
Master Switches Found for Adult Blood Stem Cells.
Feb 08, 2007 ... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BALTIMORE, Feb. 8 (AScribe Newswire) -- Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center scientists have found a set of "master switches" that keep adult blood-forming stem cells in their primitive state. Unlocking the switches' code may one day ...
Enceladus, a Moon of Saturn, Is a 'Cosmic Graffiti Artist,' Astronomers Discover.
Feb 08, 2007 ... Byline: University of Virginia CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., Feb. 8 (AScribe Newswire) -- Astronomers from the University of Virginia and other institutions have found that Enceladus, the sixth-largest moon of Saturn, is a "cosmic graffiti artist," pelting the surfaces of at least 11 ...
Johns Hopkins University Nursing News and Research Briefs, February 2007.
Feb 09, 2007 ... Byline: School of Nursing, Johns Hopkins University BALTIMORE, Feb. 9 (AScribe Newswire) -- Following are news and research briefs from Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing. For media inquiries, contact Lynn Schultz-Writsel at lwritsel@jhmi.edu, (000)-000-0000, or Ron ...
Rochester Institute of Technology Researchers Developing 'Micropump' for Hearing-Loss Treatments; Project Funded by $900,000 Grant From National Institutes of Health.
Feb 09, 2007 ... Byline: Rochester Institute of Technology ROCHESTER, N.Y., Feb. 9 (AScribe Newswire) -- Hearing aids have existed, in one form or another, for hundreds of years. Wearable, electrical hearing aids have been around for about 75 years. More recently - over the past 50 years - ...
Scientists Use Nanoparticle to Discover Disease-Causing Proteins.
Feb 12, 2007 ... Byline: Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., Feb. 12 (AScribe Newswire) -- A complex molecule and snake venom may provide researchers with a more reliable method of diagnosing human diseases and developing new drugs. Purdue University researchers bound a complex ...
Scientists Find Method to Pick Non-Competitive Animals, Improve Production.
Feb 12, 2007 ... Byline: Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., Feb. 12 (AScribe Newswire) -- A new statistical method of determining genetic traits that influence social interactions among animals may provide for more productive livestock. Scientists from Purdue University, the ...
Johns Hopkins Scientists Uncover Cause of Antipsychotic Drug Weight Gain.
Feb 12, 2007 ... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BALTIMORE, Feb. 12 (AScribe Newswire) -- Johns Hopkins brain scientists have hit on how and why some powerful drugs used for treating mental illnesses cause patients to gain so much weight that they often develop life-threatening ...
Wealth Gap Between Blacks and Whites Has Grown Larger, Scholars Find.
Feb 12, 2007 ... Byline: University of California, Santa Barbara SANTA BARBARA, Calif., Feb. 12 (AScribe Newswire) -- Disparities in wealth - or net worth - have shaped the financial inequality existing between blacks and whites for generations even as racial income differences have somewhat ...
RAND Study Identifies Ways Shopping Centers Can Sharply Reduce Terrorism Risk.
Feb 12, 2007 ... Byline: RAND Corporation SANTA MONICA, Calif., Feb. 12 (AScribe Newswire) -- A RAND Corporation report issued today identifies and prioritizes 39 security measures that can substantially reduce the risk of terrorist attacks at enclosed shopping centers. The study ...
Macarthur Foundation to Invest $25 Million in New Research on the Impact of Housing.
Feb 12, 2007 ... Byline: MacArthur Foundation CHICAGO, Feb. 12 (AScribe Newswire) -- The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation will invest $25 million in new research that builds and deepens our knowledge about the ways that housing matters to children, families, and communities. ...
Human Stem Cell Transplants Mature Into Neurons and Make Contacts in Rat Spinal Cord.
Feb 13, 2007 ... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BALTIMORE, Feb. 13 (AScribe Newswire) -- Human nerve stem cells transplanted into rats' damaged spinal cords have survived, grown and in some cases connected with the rats' own spinal cord cells in a Johns Hopkins laboratory, ...
Call Made for Changes in Women's Heart Disease Risk-Factor List: Family History, Blood C-Reactive Protein Should Be Added to Traditional Risk Factors for All Older Women.
Feb 13, 2007 ... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BALTIMORE, Feb. 13 (AScribe Newswire) -- Johns Hopkins cardiologists are calling for an expansion of the criteria widely used by physicians to detect and assess a postmenopausal woman's chances of developing cardiovascular disease, the ...
University of Florida Study: World Shark Attacks Rise Slightly But Continue Long-Term Dip.
Feb 13, 2007 ... Byline: University of Florida GAINESVILLE, Fla., Feb. 13 (AScribe Newswire) -- Shark attacks edged up slightly in 2006 but continued an overall long-term decline as overfishing and more cautious swimmers helped take a bite out of the aggressive encounters, new University of ...
Military Enlistment of Felons Has Doubled; Murder and Other Serious Crimes Are Allowable Offenses.
Feb 14, 2007 ... Byline: Michael D. Palm Center SANTA BARBARA, Calif., Feb. 14 (AScribe Newswire) -- The number of convicted felons who enlisted in the U.S. military almost doubled in the past three years, rising from 824 felons in fiscal year 2004 to 1,605 in fiscal year 2006, according to a ...
Winter Colds, Over-Wrapping Raise Risk of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, Doctors Warn.
Feb 14, 2007 ... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BALTIMORE, Feb. 14 (AScribe Newswire) -- Sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) - the leading cause of death in infants under 1 year of age can happen at any time. But parents and caregivers should be extra careful during the cold winter ...
Catalyst Magazine Targets Autonomy and Accountability in Chicago's Schools; Catalyst Special Edition Eyes Major Challenges on Key Issues Here, Details Big Changes in New York City Schools.
Feb 14, 2007 ... Byline: Community Renewal Society CHICAGO, Feb. 14 (AScribe Newswire) -- While New York city's public school system undergoes radical restructuring designed to empower individual schools, the Chicago Public Schools (CPS) face major challenges in the coming months as it tackles ...
University of Virginia Researchers Unveil www.relemed.com, New Search Engine for MEDLINE Providing the Most Relevant Results; Free Site Facilitates Rapid Search for Relevance of Medical Topics.
Feb 14, 2007 ... Byline: University of Virginia Health System CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., Feb. 14 (AScribe Newswire) -- Researchers at the University of Virginia School of Medicine have created a new online search engine - www.relemed.com - that provides medical professionals, researchers and the ...
Just Part of the Job: City Workers 'Donate' Thousands Of Dollars and 'Volunteer' To Support Their Bosses.
Feb 14, 2007 ... Byline: Community Renewal Society CHICAGO, Feb. 14 (AScribe Newswire) -- More than 1800 city workers contributed nearly $2.2 million over a seven-year period to Chicago aldermen and ward organizations, including those run by their own bosses, according to the February issue of ...
Motors, Not Slime, Power Bacterial 'Wolf Packs' According to University of Idaho Scientist.
Feb 14, 2007 ... Byline: University of Idaho MOSCOW, Idaho, Feb. 14 (AScribe Newswire) -- Forget the slime gun. New evidence shows a bacterium that forms "wolf packs" capable of cooperative predation and may yield powerful new cancer drugs appears to move using motors, actually a sophisticated, ...
Idaho Oilseed and Biodiesel Researchers at University of Idaho Working to Grow Alternative Fuel Supply.
Feb 14, 2007 ... Byline: University of Idaho SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 14 (AScribe Newswire) -- An oil patch that keeps growing will be the focus of a University of Idaho research team's exhibit during Family Science Days sponsored by the American Association for the Advancement of Science Feb. 17-18 ...
Power Breeds Power In Politics, According To New Study Of Us Congress.
Feb 15, 2007 ... Byline: Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley BERKELEY, Calif., Feb. 15 (AScribe Newswire) -- Today's political landscape is peppered with examples of political dynasties: President George W. Bush, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Former Vice President Al Gore, and Senator Edward ...
Coldest Lab in Chicago to Simulate Hot Physics of Early Universe.
Feb 15, 2007 ... Byline: University of Chicago CHICAGO, Feb. 15 (AScribe Newswire) -- Cheng Chin will make a vacuum chamber in his laboratory the coldest place in Chicago in order to simulate the impossibly hot conditions that followed the big bang during the earliest moments of the universe. ...
New Observations Show Sun-Like Star in Earliest Stage of Development.
Feb 15, 2007 ... Byline: University of Colorado, Boulder BOULDER, Colo., Feb. 15 (AScribe Newswire) -- Members of a research team led by the University of Colorado at Boulder have used NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory to peer at the embryo of an infant star in the nearby Eagle Nebula, which they ...
Europeans' Understanding of Science, Evolution, More Advanced Than Americans.
Feb 15, 2007 ... Byline: Michigan State University SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 15 (AScribe Newswire) -- When it comes to scientific literacy, Americans aren't nearly as evolved as they may think. In fact, only about 40 percent of American adults accept the basic idea of evolution, a figure much lower ...
UC Santa Barbara Study on Sibling Detection Mechanism Highlighted in Journal Nature.
Feb 15, 2007 ... Byline: University of California, Santa Barbara SANTA BARBARA, Calif., Feb. 15 (AScribe Newswire) -- Fundamental theories in evolutionary biology have long proposed that biological kinship is the foundation of the family unit. It not only creates the sense of altruism that ...
Googling Brain Proteins With 3-D Goggles: PNNL-UCLA Team Takes First Deep Dive Into Brain's Molecular Machinery.
Feb 15, 2007 ... Byline: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory RICHLAND, Wash., Feb. 15 (AScribe Newswire) -- The Allen Brain Atlas, a genome-wide map of the mouse brain on the Internet, has been hailed as "Google of the brain." The atlas now has a companion of the brain's working molecules, a ...
Computer Tool Helps Pinpoint Risky Gene Mutations; Mathematical Analysis Could Aid in Predicting Cancer Cases.
Feb 15, 2007 ... Byline: Johns Hopkins University BALTIMORE, Feb. 15 (AScribe Newswire) -- Certain cancer risks can be passed down through families, the result of tiny changes in a family's genetic code. But not all genetic changes are deadly. To help medical counselors and physicians identify ...
Power Breeds Power in Politics, According to New Study of U.S. Congress.
Feb 15, 2007 ... Byline: Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley BERKELEY, Calif., Feb. 15 (AScribe Newswire) -- Today's political landscape is peppered with examples of political dynasties: President George W. Bush, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Former Vice President Al Gore, and Senator Edward ...
Primitive Yeast Yields Secrets of Human Cholesterol, Drug Metabolism; Regulator of Cholesterol Production Identified.
Feb 16, 2007 ... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BALTIMORE, Feb. 16 (AScribe Newswire) -- By first probing the way primitive yeast make cholesterol, a team of scientists has discovered a long-sought protein whose human counterpart controls cholesterol production and potentially drug ...
Old Food Meets New Technologies, Leaves Food for Thought.
Feb 16, 2007 ... Byline: Michigan State University SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 16 (AScribe Newswire) -- There are big changes driven by small forces in two of the oldest industries of the U.S. economy - agriculture and agricultural production. From the fields to the grocery store shelves, ...
University of Idaho Aquaculture Expert: Farming Fish No Longer Relies Only on Fish Meal Feeds.
Feb 16, 2007 ... Byline: University of Idaho SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 16 (AScribe Newswire) -- The world's farmed fish industry no longer relies entirely on fish meal to feed its most valuable products such as salmon and trout, a University of Idaho aquaculture expert says. A big reason ...
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Researchers Show RNA Splicing Factor May Be New Target for Cancer Therapy; Nature Structural & Molecular Biology Publishes 'The Gene Encoding the Splicing Factor SF2/ASF Is a Proto-Oncogene'.
Feb 18, 2007 ... Byline: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory COLD SPRING HARBOR, N.Y., Feb. 18 (AScribe Newswire) -- New results in the field of RNA research establish that the RNA splicing factor SF2/ASF can act as a cancer-causing protein by changing the alternative splicing of other genes critical ...
Swarthmore College Linguist Calls Attention to Dying Languages.
Feb 19, 2007 ... Byline: Swarthmore College SWARTHMORE, Pa., Feb. 19 (AScribe Newswire) -- Speakers of thousands of the world's languages are now abandoning their ancestral tongues at an unprecedented rate. What is lost when a language dies? And what are the implications? "Languages ...
Study Links Attempted Suicide With Genetic Evidence Identified in Previous Suicide Research.
Feb 19, 2007 ... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BALTIMORE, Feb. 19 (AScribe Newswire) -- A Johns Hopkins-led study has found evidence that a genetic tendency toward suicide has been linked to a particular area of the genome on chromosome 2 that has been implicated in two additional ...
Big Bang Was Not a Fiery Chaotic Explosion, But an Orderly High-Velocity Dispersion of Relativistic Protons That Became Dark Matter, New Scientific Paper Posits.
Feb 19, 2007 ... Byline: The Drexler Foundation LOS ALTOS HILLS, Calif., Feb. 19 (AScribe Newswire) -- A new scientific paper published and available on the Internet, posits that the Big Bang was not a fiery, chaotic, disordered explosion but an orderly ultra-high velocity dispersion of ...
Vanderbilt Center for Human Genetics Research Investigators Join International Team of Experts to Find Genetic Links to Autism; Results Published in Nature Genetics.
Feb 19, 2007 ... Byline: Vanderbilt Medical Center NASHVILLE, Tenn., Feb. 19 (AScribe Newswire) -- A team of Vanderbilt Center for Human Genetics Research investigators and colleagues from around the world are releasing findings from the largest study to date seeking to identify genes that might ...
Orthopaedic Surgery Team Successfully Creates Anterior Cruciate Ligament Tissue Using Synthetic Scaffolds.
Feb 19, 2007 ... Byline: University of Virginia Health System CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., Feb. 19 (AScribe Newswire) -- A research team led by Cato T. Laurencin, M.D., Ph.D., at the University of Virginia Health System has created a synthetic matrix on which the ACL (anterior cruciate ligament) can be ...
National Association for College Admission Counseling Releases Research Paper on Standardized Tests in Undergraduate Admission.
Feb 20, 2007 ... Byline: National Assn. for College Admission Counseling ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 20 (AScribe Newswire) -- Will changes in the content and administration of the SAT and ACT reduce the degree of controversy surrounding college admissions tests? "In a word: no," according to a new ...
Fetal Heart-Cell Enzyme Important in Onset of Heart Failure; Findings Provide New Targets for Treatment.
Feb 20, 2007 ... Byline: University of Pennsylvania Health System PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 20 (AScribe Newswire) -- In almost all forms of heart failure, the heart begins to express genes that are normally only expressed in the fetal heart. Researchers have known for years that this fetal-gene ...
Gene Hunters Close in on Lou Gehrig's Disease.
Feb 20, 2007 ... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BALTIMORE, Feb. 20 (AScribe Newswire) -- In the first genome-wide search for the genetic roots of the most common form of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), Johns Hopkins scientists have newly identified 34 unique variations in the ...