New York women's economic equality and political participation lag behind other states, says a new report, "The Status of Women in the States 2000," released by the Washington-based Institute for Women's Policy Research and the Institute for Women and Work at Cornell University
Don't give your teeth the brush-off in 2001. Start the New Year off by treating yourself to a resolution that will help keep those choppers chopping and looking good, too.
Cornell University researchers have developed a method for creating comparative gene maps on a computer, reducing a process that sometimes takes months by hand to a few hours.
Despite some warnings of a recession next year, the economy will continue to grow at a healthy but moderate pace, growing at 3 percent before rebounding to 3.5 percent in 2002.
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has awarded Wake Forest University School of Medicine Department of Psychiatry a $400,000 grant to assess the scope and adequacy of adult day services in the United States.
In the wake of NASA's successful Near-Earth Asteroid Rendezvous space mission, a University of Arkansas researcher is putting together a team of scientists to take asteroid research to the next level -- bringing asteroid samples back to Earth.
Recently, two LSU geology professors took their research to new depths -- 7,000 feet down into the Gulf of Mexico, to be exact -- to study hydrocarbon seeps, gas hydrates and the single-celled micro-organisms called foraminifera that live in those environments.
Heavy cigarette smokers who cut back their smoking -- rather than quit -- might not see any health benefits, according to a Mayo Clinic study published in the December 15 issue of Nicotine and Tobacco Research. (Nicotine and Tobacco Research, 12-15-00)
Researchers at Whitehead Institute and Corning Inc. have invented a powerful new microarray technique that can decipher the function of master switches in a cell by identifying the set of genes they control. The technique allows researchers to unravel in a week what takes years to achieve by conventional methods. (Science, 12-22-00)
1- Large study shows more comprehensive investigation needed to uncover more close contacts of infectious tuberculosis patients; 2- Canadian researchers uncover high rate of occupational asthma; 3- Asthmatic children show large lung deficits from exposure to maternal smoking in the womb. (American J. of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, 12-00)
Certain types of bacteria on Earth are atomic engineers -- atom by atom they build tiny magnetic crystals to help themselves follow our planet's magnetic field.
The use of tocolytics during an episode of preterm labor is an effective means of extending the length of the pregnancy. In contrast, continued use of these medications after contractions have subsided offers no apparent further benefit, according to new research from AHRQ.
Recent books from the National Center for Atmospheric Research offer insights into a range of environmental issues, including the challenge of translating environmental science into policy and the state of our knowledge about El Nino, severe storms, the carbon cycle, and the weather impacts of a changing climate.
A hormone similar to insulin prevents heart muscle from dying by initiating a series of cellular biochemical interactions, a UC Irvine College of Medicine research team has found. (J. of Biological Chemistry, 12-22-00)
Scientists at The University of Texas at Austin presented a report offering new geophysical clues to a cataclysmic event that may have killed off the dinosaurs.
There is limited evidence on technologies to diagnose patients with acute cardiac ischemia in emergency departments. But an Acute Cardiac Ischemia Time-Insensitive Predictive Instrument -- an electrocardiogram add-on -- can allow emergency departments to appropriately diagnose ACI and reduce unnecessary hospitalizations.
Two astronomers at The University of Texas at Austin, working with an international team of collaborators, have shown that they can provide reliable measurements of black hole masses for active galactic nuclei such as quasars even at great distances.
Professor of engineering at The University of Texas at Austin, has received the $450,000 Japan Prize for his discoveries of the materials critical to the development of lightweight rechargeable batteries.
Bioinformatics experts from the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute (USA) and the European Media Laboratory (Germany) have joined forces to develop a software for simulating biochemical networks. It will be offered free to academic researchers and also available to businesses.
Like a computer virus eating away software, chronic alcohol abuse can change the programming of critical areas of the human brain on the molecular level, researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have discovered. (Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research, 12-00)
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