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DNA enzyme may be factor in natural mutagenesis and in process by which mutant bacteria are formed, according to a University of Nebraska-Lincoln scientist.

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Entomologists operate the world's only screwworm research rearing facility at a USDA Agricultural Research Unit at the University of Nebraska.

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Researchers have created the world's first mouse model to explain how folic acid protects against human birth defects. This will enable researchers to understand how folic acid protects against birth defects such as neural tube defects and cleft lip and palate.

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To explore the impact of technology on surveys and market research at the fourth annual symposium on surveys, sponsored by Gallup Organization and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, April 13-15, 2000.

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The World premiere of an opera based on "O Pioneers!", Willa Cather's epic novel of life on the Nebraska prairie, will be presented on the Kimball Hall stage at University of Nebraska-Lincoln in November.

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More than 265 transplant experts from around the world will be in Omaha Oct. 6 to 9 for the International Small Bowel Transplant Symposium hosted by the University of Nebraska Medical Center and Nebraska Health System.

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Slower-growing but more robust lawns and healthier rice plants with larger grains could be among the benefits of research results published in the Oct. 7 edition of Nature.

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A new genetic "fingerprinting" method developed by University of Nebraska food scientists is revealing surprising insights about potentially deadly E. coli 0157:H7 bacteria.

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University of Nebraska-Lincoln veterinary science research is helping reveal how herpes viruses cause disease and perpetuate themselves in humans and is offering hope for new herpes vaccines and treatments (Science, 2-25-00).

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Scientists looking for evidence of the way New England's glacial Lake Hitchcock drained at the end of the last Ice Age found evidence of El Nino effects in New England's climate 17,500 to 13,500 years ago during the late Pleistocene era (Science, 5-12-00).

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University of Nebraska agronomists have zeroed in on what they believe is a single, major gene responsible for yield in wheat.

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A group of University of Nebraska electrical engineers has patented a technique that produces quantum dots, tiny structures that are 10,000 times smaller than the thickness of a human hair, but whose potential is staggering. In the next few decades, they could make binary computers obsolete and in a few years could make satellites safer from laser attacks.

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Water turns to two-dimensional glass and shrinks under extreme pressure, temperature and confinement, researchers discover. (Nature, 11-30-00)

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Omega Eggs look, taste, and cook like regular white eggs. It's what's inside that's different. Omega Eggs are high in beneficial Omega 3 fatty acids and contain less saturated fat than conventional eggs. These eggs are produced by hens fed a patented diet that includes flax seed, a rich source of Omega 3 fatty acids.

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To biologists, they have been one of the most enigmatic groups of animals in the world. They're the parasitic horsehair worms of the phylum Nematomorpha. Until last year, no one had a clue about their life cycle, which has been unraveled by research to indicate a cyst carries the worm from larva to host.

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It's not the "juiced ball," it's not cozy ballparks and it's not expansion that caused the explosion of offense in Major League Baseball in the 1990s. Rather, the root causes are a new, free-swinging hitting style, combined with a new relationship between hitters and pitchers, lighter bats and stronger players, two University of Nebraska-Lincoln historians report.

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Researchers studying the USS Arizona anticipate the release of the blockbuster movie "Pearl Harbor" will have a renewing effect on nostalgia and interest in the future of the sunken battleship.

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Researchers at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln discovered that monsoon rains fell in a vast desert dunefield, and helped create the fabulous Navajo sandstone deposits in Utah, Arizona, Nevada and Wyoming.

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Working with large-scale computer simulations, a team of scientists at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln modeled four new kinds of crystalline ice, all by adjusting the diameter of a carbon nanotube by less than one-quarter of a nanometer.

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The luminous green lasers in Herman Batelaan's laboratory are more than just pretty. They are the critical element in Batelaan's team becoming the first to observe the Kapitza-Dirac effect, the diffraction of a beam of particles by a standing wave of light.

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A team of chemists at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln have created the world's first plastic magnets.

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The Reconciliation Quilt, a famous piece thought to be the world-record quilt sold at auction, is a recent donation to the International Quilt Study Center at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

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The use of Internet resources in college classes has blossomed. But as the practice has grown, so has an accompanying problem known as link rot. It's a problem educators have been aware of, but no one really knew its extent until two University of Nebraska-Lincoln professors started tracking it.

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After more than three years research and painstaking documentation of 20 crashes, researchers at the Midwest Roadside Safety Facility at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln are at Indianapolis Speedway this week to see the first installation of an energy-absorbing wall.

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Sales taxes are widely regarded by economists as regressive in that lower-income families generally pay a higher percentage of their income in sales taxes than high-income families.

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Teen-age runaways in the Midwest report that physical and sexual abuse were often the reason that they left home, according to the most comprehensive ongoing survey to-date of homeless runaway youths in eight Midwestern cities.

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A highly sensitive, fingertip-sized neutron detection device developed by University of Nebraska-Lincoln researchers could be used for locating hidden nuclear materials, monitoring nuclear weapons storage and other national security applications.

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The dean of the College of Journalism and Mass Communications at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln is fearful that the media may take its Sept. 11 anniversary coverage a bit too far.

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"The nearest human equivalent (to a lek) would be a singles bar," said Robert Gibson, a behavioral ecologist and a professor of biological sciences at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, who has studied the lekking behavior of birds at Nebraska's Valentine National Wildlife Refuge and other sites around the world. While Gibson acknowledges the significant role of mate selection in lek formation, he said he's convinced there's more going on than just that.

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In 1971, Jonathan Holstein and the Whitney Museum of American Art turned heads with an exhibition of something new that ignited a renaissance. "žAbstract Design in American Quilts"° brought quilts into art museums. This ground-breaking Whitney exhibition collection, together with more than 350 Lancaster County, Penn., and Amish quilts are now at a new home at the International Quilt Study Center at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

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A new vaccine and a beneficial bacterial feed additive each significantly reduced E. coli O157:H7 in feedlot cattle, and using both may offer added protection, research shows.

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Much as a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step, the journey to a quantum computer begins with a single qubit - a single bit of quantum memory. A first step in that journey was taken, when a team captured polarized light in a cell containing a vapor of atoms of the metal rubidium.

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When newly elected leader Mikhail Saakashvili takes over the presidency of the former Soviet republic of Georgia, hopes will be high that the new leader will root out corruption, restore Georgia's prosperty and free the republic from Russian domination.

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Xiao Cheng Zeng and a team modeled silicon nanotubes in hexagonal, pentagonal, and square configurations and found the thinnest known nanotube -- the square configuration at less than 0.5 nanometer in diameter -- and found that they are very likely to be conductors.

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Nearly a third of American women will experience fertility problems during their reproductive years. Although medical science has made advances in treatment, a variety of social and psychological questions have remained unanswered.

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Scientists have discovered a new vaccine approach that successfully prevents the death of brain cells in a mouse model of Parkinson's disease.

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As many as two-thirds of families who care for a dying loved one at home experience financial strain. Although only 1 percent of those surveyed in a recent study were without Medicare or private health insurance, the financial burden is high for their family caregivers.

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How authentic do Americans perceive the leadership of their organizations? A first-ever poll by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln revealed that many believe their leaders are doing quite well.

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Imagine a cholesterol-lowering hot fudge sundae. A nutrition scientist has developed a compound that packs more cholesterol-lowering power than similar commercially available plant-based food additives and should be easier to incorporate into foods.

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The discovery of a new type of microscopic interstellar dust could lead to new ways of quantifying quasars and the amount of light they produce, a University of Nebraska-Lincoln research team said.

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Parents eating low-fat and non-fat products may be depriving their children of essential vitamins and nutrients if they don't alter food offerings for their children. Research at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln showed children are receiving inadequate intake of vitamins E and C.

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A new articulated grasping tool will revolutionize laparoscopic surgery, those responsible for the design at the University of Nebraska say.

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Robert A.M. Stern has revealed his firm's winning design for the museum and academic home for the University of Nebraska-Lincoln International Quilt Study Center. The university hopes to break ground next spring on the privately funded $10.5 million project, with an opening planned for fall 2007.

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An international study by food scientists confirmed that highly refined soybean oil does not cause reactions in people who are allergic to soybeans, said food toxicologist Sue Hefle, who headed this research with food scientist Steve Taylor.

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Revving up an amino acid that plants already contain might protect them from a host of environmental stresses, such as heat, salt, drought or herbicides. Plant Pathologist Marty Dickman and colleagues discovered by chance a previously unrecognized protective power of proline, an amino acid, while studying what regulates cell death in plants.

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The ANtarctic geological DRILLing project will be a focal point during International Polar Year, a worldwide campaign of polar education and analyses. Researchers will probe deeper than ever before into geological strata beneath the frozen sea to help scientists better understand contemporary global warming trends.

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A project at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln funded by nearly $10 million from the National Institutes of Health -- involving transgenic animal research to create a blood protein called Factor IX -- could lead to development of a low-cost treatment for Hemophilia B.

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Researchers have found that a common anticonvulsant drug improved cognitive function and appeared to restore nerve cells in the brains of patients with HIV-related dementia.

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University of Nebraska-Lincoln scientists looking to fill gaps in basic understanding about gold's structure at the nanoscale have turned up a full-sized and surprising discovery -- hollow cage-like structures made of pure gold atoms. These structures, many of which look somewhat like bird cages, can host an atom inside.

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Nebraska's Sandhills, a region of gently rolling sand dunes blanketed with prairie grasses and wetlands that cover a quarter of the state, provide ideal habitat for wildlife and livestock. During medieval times 800 to 1,000 years ago, however, the region was a swirling desert. If these weather conditions return, UNL scientists predict, the tranquil Sandhills could again return to an unlivable desert.