Not every wrong deserves a lawsuit. Sometimes an apology will do. Common sense perhaps, but not to the American legal system, according to a law professor at Southern Methodist University School of Law. (Judicature)
Using satellite images of city lights at night, NASA scientists are mapping the spread of urban areas around the globe and monitoring their impact on our planet's ecosystem.
The results of a long-term study on transmyocardial revascularization were presented Nov. 15, 2000, at the American Heart Association Scientific Sessions 2000. TMR is a breakthrough laser therapy that provides significant pain relief to severe angina patients.
A new web site, developed by Cornell University health educators and the Drowsy Driving Coalition of Tompkins County, offers up-to-date prevention information, including simple steps that can save lives when drivers start to feel sleepy.
In a recent series of studies, Cornell University neurobiologists are showing why females of some avian species choose suitors with the most elaborate courtship songs. (Proceedings of the Royal Society)
Researchers from five Ohio universities and colleges unveiled plans for the next phase of the Olentangy River Wetland Research Park on the campus of Ohio State University. This phase - the construction of the $2.8M Ohio Center for Wetland and River Restoration - is scheduled to begin in April 2001.
Despite studies that indicate benefits of soy isoflavones, a report finds insufficient data to draw any definitive conclusions in the use of soy isoflavones as an alternative to estrogen for hormone replacement in postmenopausal women. (Mayo Clinic Proceedings, 11-00)
The history of the calamitous World Trade Organization protests nearly one year ago is starting to be written. The WTO History Project has collected more than 100 interviews and boxes of everything from protest signs to turtle costumers.
The complicated population interactions of predator and prey species have long intrigued scientists. A team of scientists at Cornell University and NC State University has now demonstrated that a mathematical model reflects the reality of such population dynamics. (Science, 11-16-00)
In their new book, Radical Innovation: How Mature Companies Can Outsmart Upstarts (Harvard Business School Press), six Rensselaer management professors lay out a manifesto for managing corporate innovation.
By combining high-tech computer design and elements of traditional Shaker furniture, Purdue University wood scientists are filling a need for economical, functional school furniture in developing countries.
Detailed nutritional counseling by dieticians achieves better short-term reduction of high blood cholesterol than when counseling is carried out by physicians, according to a study in Israel's Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. (American Journal of Medicine, 11-00)
Guidelines for getting pregnant usually assume an average woman is fertile between days 10 and 17 of her menstrual cycle. But researchers at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences have demonstrated that only about 30 percent of women actually have their fertile window entirely within that timespan. (British Medical Journal)
The UI team has found that two molecules, perforin and interferon gamma, already known to participate in the fight against infections, are also responsible for regulating the size and nature of both the initial immune response and the residual protective immunity. (Science, 11-17-00)
Trizivir, a new product that combines three anti-HIV medicines into one single tablet, has been approved by the Food and Drug Administration. This marks an important advance for dosing of combination drug regimens.
Cornell University and the University of Southern California will use a seed grant of $175,000 from the U.S. Department of Commerce to launch the new National Center for Eco-Industrial Development to promote community development without trashing the environment.
Patients with aspirin-induced asthma, who constitute from 10% to 20% of the approximately 15 million U.S. asthma sufferers, can be successfully desensitized if they must take the product. (Chest, 11-00)
Antiprotease augmentation therapy reduces lung infection in patients with Alpha 1-Antitrypsin deficiency, the most prevalent, potentially lethal hereditary disorder among the white adult population in the United States. (Chest, 11-00)
Genetic research by the Bronx Zoo-based Wildlife Conservation Society, American Museum of Natural History, and other organizations has revealed that right whales living in the North Pacific Ocean are actually a unique species. (Molecular Ecology)
Scientists from across North America will gather in Nashville this week for the first national toxicological forum that specifically addresses reptiles, the least considered class of vertebrates with regard to environmental contaminants.
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