Long hours contribute to divorce but the evidence that long working hours are responsible for a couple divorcing is far from conclusive, according to a University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign professor.
Scientists have succeeded in using choloroplasts for manufacturing therapeutic proteins in tobacco plants, which may represent a more effective approach for containing foreign genes in the environment.
Cholesterol levels may reflect a person's diet, but they say little about cardiac health, according to University of Illinois researchers.
Scientists show that transgenic insecticidal Bt crop fields containing isolated refuges of non-Bt plants are far more effective at suppressing insect resistance than fields in which non-Bt crops are mixed among Bt plants.
The 1990s are barely behind us, but already the art of the 20th century's final decade has been chronicled in a second edition of Jonathan Fineberg's "Art Since 1940: Strategies of Being."
Innovative methods for visualizing the wealth of data associated with the power system network, with an emphasis on the use of interactive animation techniques, is being developed by University of Illinois researchers.
Chandra X-ray Observatory has pictures of a cosmic "weather system" produced by the collision of galaxies.
Chandra X-ray Observatory may have spied a supermassive black hole in the center of the Milky Way.
About 80 percent of Americans drive a motor vehicle daily; most of them fear an automobile wreck more than they fear being a crime victim.
The discovery by University of North Carolina scientists of a distinct family of proteins that bind to human sperm may offer important new clues to male fertility and possible male contraception (Endocrinology, 3-00).
Teachers seeking higher-paying positions should look in areas with lots of public and private schools, where they could earn as much as $1,000 more a year, according to an Ohio University study on school competition and teacher salaries (Journal of Labor Research, 3-00).
Schizophrenia typically runs a far nastier course in men than in women; now a new Hopkins study suggests that basic differences between men and women in the way the disease rearranges the brain may be responsible (American Journal of Psychiatry, 3-00).
Scientists have taken the first steps to being able to follow the expression of any gene in a living organism no matter where in the organism that expressed gene is located using magnetic resonance imaging.
The survival rates for kidney transplants from both living donors and cadavers has improved significantly over time, according to Medical College of Wisconsin researchers (NEJM, 3-2-00).
Researchers have developed an implanted device that converts inactive clotting proteins in a hemophiliac's blood into active clotting factors.
Veterans Affairs and University of California at San Diego researchers have discovered new information about the body's molecular response to hypoxia, which may lead to new therapeutics that could diminish the severity of heart attacks (NEJM, 3-2-00).
The cabbage looper caterpillar has become an important tool to a MU Dalton Cardiovascular Research Center scientist who uses the caterpillar to create more of a protein, found in the human heart, that is responsible for muscle relaxation (Journal of Protein Expression and Purification).
Countries are looking at their own systems of health care reform and that of others as they search for the best way to provide health care; a University of Missouri-Columbia professor is working hard to provide a framework for the health care puzzle.
Indiana State University scientists are working with a common bacterium that can quickly infect and cause blindness in extended-wear contact lens users and which many popular cleaning solutions aren't strong enough to fight.
A minimally invasive surgical technique offers a life-changing solution to patients with nerve-related bladder disorders who must often find alternative ways to manage their bladders.
Biomedical tele-immersion will be introduced by the University of Illinois at Chicago into the curriculum of surgical residents beginning in July, measuring if virtual reality technology, high-performance computing and high-speed networking can improve medical education.
A new line of transgenic mice, created by University of Michigan and the Hospital for Sick Children/University of Toronto researchers, will help scientists understand genetic and biochemical changes that cause basal cell carcinoma (Nature Genetics, 3-00).
Recovery after coronary artery bypass surgery depends as much on the patient's state of mind as it does on the condition of the patient's heart, according to University of Maryland Medical Center and Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons researchers.
Chromosome 22 yielded a few more secrets to The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia genetics researchers who analyzed details of the chromosome's structure and found evidence that sites with repetitive DNA sequences are prone to rearrangements that delete important genes (Human Molecular Genetics, 3-00).
Researchers at Stanford University Medical Center and colleagues in Philadelphia have announced preliminary results for a gene therapy trial designed to test a new treatment for hemophilia B. (Nature Genetics, 3-00).
Linking Hypoxia-inducible factor to heart disease and heart attack in human patients suggests a defensive molecular mechanism launched by the body to protect against the damaging effects of oxygen deprivation on the heart, as reported by UCSD School of Medicine researchers in the March 2 NEJM.
Encouraging early results for a novel gene therapy designed to improve the clinical course of the bleeding disorder hemophilia B. was reported by The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and Stanford University Medical Center researchers (Nature Genetics, 3-00).
Measurements of sulfur isotopes in five Martian meteorites have enabled University of California researchers to determine that the abundant sulfur on the surface of Mars is due largely to chemical reactions in the Red Planet's atmosphere that are similar to those that occur in Earth's atmosphere (Nature, 3-2-00).
Two magnetically complex sunspots near the sun's central meridian are pointed toward our planet.
For children born with chest wall deformities, a new UCLA study shows that surgical intervention can improve their long-term health, with excellent physical and cosmetic results and a low complication rate.
The gap in death rates between blacks and whites was as large five years ago as it was 50 years ago, according to a University of Michigan study (Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences).
In his most recent and exhaustive study, a Stanford Business School social scientist adds to the debate about how technological change affects employment and finds that technology has exacerbated wage inequality.
The lessons from California's aggressive tobacco control intervention program, which has resulted in a continuing decline in adult smoking, may help to decrease adult smoking throughout the U.S., according to a study in the March American Journal of Public Health.
While America's crackdown on juvenile crime has nearly doubled the number of young people serving time in adult prisons, it hasn't solved any problems, says a Ball State University educator.
The American Society of Human Genetics and The American College of Medical Genetics Social Issues Committees urge great caution prior to subjecting adoptive children to predictive genetic tests (American Journal of Human Genetics, 3-00).
Research conducted by a Stanford Business School associate professor examines how negotiations are affected by different communications media such as email; successful email negotiators punctuate messages with signals of positive emotion.
Female cancer patients and other women at risk of losing their fertility because of medical treatments can now help preserve their childbearing options through a new egg-freezing program at Stanford University Medical Center.
A new company, ePO, helps entrepreneurs draft regulatory filings at budget prices using a custom data base of federal and state filing requirements, and it does it quick.
"The Tempest," as produced by the University of Georgia's Interactive Peformance Laboratory, will push the boundaries of live theater by combining actors and digitally-created characters using motion capture technology.
University of Iowa Health Care researchers found that for treating depression in individuals who had a stroke and did not have heart conditions, the tricyclic antidepressant nortriptyline is more effective than fluoxetine (American Journal of Psychiatry, 3-00).
The very adult members of Slow Food see the pervasiveness of American fast food as the enemy, and themselves as champions of meals as communal and social gatherings.
Because AIDS is the leading cause of death among Latino women between the ages of 25 and 44 in Chicago, a University of Illinois at Chicago associate professor has launched an AIDS prevention program based on a social learning model.
A Michigan State University multidisciplinary team is collaborating to design and build adaptable, reconfigurable micro-robots for use in law enforcement, intelligence gathering, and search and rescue.
Nanotubes, once considered the waste material that sat at the bottom of chambers used for making bucky balls, are being looked at with newfound respect by physicists, electrical engineers, and computer and materials scientists.
High levels of credit card debt and debt stress may be bad for a person's health, a new Ohio State study suggests (Social Science & Medicine, 2-00).
An international team of researchers has discovered that inheriting certain genetic variants from both parents significantly increases the risk for developing Alzheimer's Disease (Annals of Neurology, 3-00).
The American Society for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics is marking its centennial with cutting edge research that reveals the array of human responses to pharmacologic agents.
A brain steroid called allopregnanolone is likely an important mediator of alcohol's well-known effects on anxiety and sedation, report University of North Carolina School of Medicine scientists (Journal of Neuroscience, 3-00).
Teenagers who are regularly exposed to anti-smoking messages on television are half as likely to start smoking than those not exposed, reports an article in the March 2000 American Journal of Public Health.
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