Although it is widely believed that lungs cannot safely be preserved beyond four to six hours until transplanted, a review of more than 350 cases at the University of Pittsburgh suggests otherwise. Results are being reported at the Society of Thoracic Surgeons Annual Meeting.
Scientists from Johns Hopkins and two Israeli universities have discovered another likely benefit of the much-touted legume, soybeans: They may bring pain relief. A new study shows that laboratory rats fed a diet containing soy meal develop far less pain after nerve injury than their counterparts on soy-free diets.
The National Science Foundation honored 338 outstanding new science and engineering faculty members nationwide in fiscal year 1998 with Faculty Early Career Development awards totaling approximately $80 million.
Highlights of clinical findings being presented by University of Pittsburgh Medical Center researchers at the Society of Thoracic Surgeons Thirty-Fifth Annual Meeting Jan. 25-27, in San Antonio.
In a world where scientists have traditionally remained behind the lines that delineate disciplines there are researchers who are able to look beyond their own expertise into the worlds of others and in doing so make exciting connections. Geoffrey West, a theoretical high energy physicist at Los Alamos National Laboratory, is one such researcher.
One of life's simplest organisms -- a mud-dwelling photosynthetic bacterium -- is helping scientists unlock the complex structural makeup that occurs when proteins come together to perform important biological duties--as is the case in diseases of the central nervous system such as Alzheimer's disease and bovine spongiform encephalopathy (Mad Cow Disease).
Dietary soy may reduce the risk of cancer by counteracting the cell-proliferating effect of estrogen-replacement therapy, a Wake Forest University researcher reported Jan. 25, 1999 at the meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
"General Hospital" does a better job portraying AIDS than does network news. That observation should tell scientists and physicians that getting significant messages to the public requires a greater respect for and cooperation with popular mass media, says a University of Illinois researcher.
Electronic publishing system will soon supercede traditional, hide-bound, printed scientific journals.
Although it seems we live in a "classical" world, truth is we live in a quantum mechanical world. Decoherence, though, keeps us out of a world ruled by quantum conundrums.
A few of the more than 30,000 non-indigenous species in the United States cost $123 billion a year in economic losses, Cornell University ecologists estimate. Alien weeds (cost: $35.5 billion), introduced insects ($20 billion), human disease-causing organisms ($6.5 billion) and even the mongoose ($50 million ).
In two studies featured in this month's American Psychological Association's journal of Health Psychology, researchers discovered that people carrying a particular version of the dopamine transporter gene are less likely to start smoking before the age of 16 and are more likely to be able to quit smoking if they start.
Proteins are helping physicists understand more about complxity, and complexity is helping biologists understand more about proteins.
Why Smart People Make Big Money Mistakes by Cornell University psychologist Thomas Gilovich and financial journalist Gary Belsky is about "behavioral economics," including the cognitive and motivational shortcomings that make even smart people act unwisely with their money.
A powerful exhibition of photography from the Civil Rights movement opens Friday, January 15, 1999, in the Prints and Drawings Galleries at the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College and will run through Sunday, March 7, 1999.
Vassar loyalty is bringing a number of previously unexhibited masterpieces to public attention at the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center (FLLAC). Seven decades worth of collectors -- Vassar alumni and several friends of the college -- have brought some of their finest works together for an exhibition which will open in April. The exhibition will include works of painting, drawing, sculpture, decorative arts, printmaking, and photography from 65 private collections.
As part of a national effort to speed progress in the scientific understanding and treatment of neurological damage from AIDS, researchers at University of California, San Diego, in collaboration with scientists at University of Southern California and UCLA, are establishing a tissue bank of brain and other neurological tissue from AIDS patients following death.
Dendritic Cell Immunotherapy -- A new type of cancer vaccine is being tested at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center's Maxine Dunitz Neurosurgical Institute, giving new hope to patients with malignant brain tumors.
A team of physicists led by the University of California, San Diego has taken a major step forward in the evolving story of superconductors, the materials that lose resistance to electricity.
Studies at the University of California, San Diego on metabolism using rat liver enzymes offer insight into why a promising new class of anti-tumor drugs--derived from a toxin of the poisonous jack-o'-lantern mushroom--could show selectivity and effectiveness in destroying cancer cells without harming healthy ones
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