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Researchers at the University of Maryland, Baltimore have discovered a gene in the brain that might have some link to certain disorders ranging from depression to schizophrenia.

Valencia McLeod, Buddha Mali and Pauline Samuel, from left, all students at Baltimore City Community College, do a chemical analysis of sodium hydroxide at the college's new Life Sciences Institute at the University of Maryland's biotechnology research park.

It has been 10 years since Dr. Michael Murphy, president of Archbishop Spalding High School, began asking parents, alumni, staff and students what could be done to make the school better.

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Scientists at the Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease and Stanford University School of Medicine will collaborate in a new consortium funded by the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute to develop stem cell and regenerative medicine therapies.

A new electronic voting system being used today for the first time in a government election in the U.S. will allow voters and elections auditors in Takoma Park, Md.

Open Solutions Inc. , a leading provider of integrated, enterprise-wide data processing technologies for banks and credit unions throughout the United States, Canada and other international markets, has appointed John W. Frederick executive vice president and chief financial officer, effective Nov.

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Schools in the University System of Maryland will move forward with Gov. Martin O'Malley's initiative to encourage students to pursue degrees and careers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, according to a Board of Regents meeting Friday.

At the University System of Maryland Board of Regents meeting Friday, a student representative from USM Student Council expressed concerns over the proposed film policy.

Rather, we support the right of students and student groups to host entertainment events on their campuses without the fear of censorship by a university administrator or a state politician.

Increased use and promotion of psychotropic drugs to U.S. children and adolescents in the past 20 years has led to a "welcomed" set of new guidelines for clinicians to insure better child safety and reduce the risk of inappropriate prescriptions, according to a professor at the University of Maryland, Baltimore.

Recently, it has been reported, using type-specific antibodies, that the PrPSc type 1 is present in all cases of sCJD carrying PrPSc type 2. The consistent co-occurrence of both PrPSc types complicates the diagnosis and the current classification of sCJD, and has implications for the pathogenesis of naturally occurring prion diseases.

The agency said Tuesday it had purchased two of the $10,000 vehicles. Officers will use them to patrol some of Metroa TMs larger parking lots.

The University of Maryland, College Park and the University of Maryland, Baltimore combined in fiscal 2009 to bring in more than $1 billion in research money for the first time.

President Barack Obama toured a Maryland cancer lab Wednesday to promote the awarding of $5 billion in new government health science grants, which he described as the "largest single boost to biomedical research in history." The National Institutes of Health grants, distributed in recent weeks to more than 12,000 projects around the country, are ...

Retinopathy and focal retinal arteriolar narrowing in middle age are associated with significant declines in cognitive decline later in life, research indicates.

Political cartoonist Kevin "Kal" Kallaugher sketches his typical caricature of President George W. Bush as Wheaton High social studies students follow along with pencil and paper last week.

H1N1 or swine flu remains a threat and so does the seasonal flu. That's why the University of Maryland, Baltimore is making sure faculty and students are vaccinated.

The University of Maryland, Baltimore officially opened its $58 million student center on Wednesday, with hopes that the building will provide a unifying point for a campus long composed of highly independent schools.