Three physicians at the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center are major architects of new prostate cancer detection and treatment guidelines released today by the National Comprehensive Cancer Network and the American Cancer Society.
If chloroplasts are the power plants in which photosynthesis works its magic, then scientists at Michigan State University have opened the door to one of the engine rooms by isolating a gene they reported in this week's "Science."
The mainstay of the semiconductor revolution -- silicon-based transistor technology -- may not run out of steam for roughly a dozen years, instead of the previous estimate of fewer than six years.
Looking deep within the genes of three very different kinds of animals, scientists have found enough molecular evidence to finally fell the animal kingdom's old family tree.
Many urban Kansans arrange their vacations around the wheat harvest so that they can help on a family's or friend's farm. A handful of University of Kansas faculty and staff members with roots entrenched in farming return to homesteads each summer to help in the fields.
A hundred years ago, John Philip Sousa was the most popular musician in America, and not just because marches were more popular then. "Sousa's secret," says the leader of the Blawenburg Band, and a professor of music at Rider University in Lawrenceville, NJ, "is simple, but often lost on people who people who put together programs of orchestral music today."
A genetically altered vaccine developed by a researcher in the Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine has received the final green light from the United States Department of Agriculture and is now being commercially marketed as an agent to prevent pneumonia in pigs.
Novel genetic factors contribute to the incidence of colorectal cancer among a percentage of African-Americans, according to the results of a pioneering study conducted by a research team headed by Thomas K. Weber, MD, FACS, of the Division of Surgery, Roswell Park Cancer Institute. Their report will appear in the June 23, 1999 edition of the Journal of the American Medical Association.
In this month's Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, scientists at Johns Hopkins and the National Institutes of Health describe an important piece in the puzzle of what can go wrong in nerve-damaging disorders such as multiple sclerosis and Guillian-Barre syndrome.
The behavioral health delivery system for people suffering from mental and addictive disorders continued to evolve at a rapid pace in 1997, according to data released by the National Association of Psychiatric Health Systems.
All the elements on earth were made in a furnace of stars. Now researchers are beginning to understand how they were made.
The incidence of serious knee injuries among female athletes at the high school and college level is four to six times higher than that of their male counterparts. Most of these injuries involve tears of the anterior cruciate ligament, or ACL, which is the central ligament in the knee and provides strength and stability to the joint.
Dallas -- A simple 30-minute test may soon be a safer and more convenient way to diagnose coronary heart disease, the cause of heart attacks, than the widely used invasive technique of X-ray angiography, researchers report today in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association.
In 1996, uninsured people with HIV waited up to four and one-half months longer, than privately insured patients to begin AIDS cocktail drugs; HIV patients covered by Medicaid waited three months longer, blacks started nearly three months after whites, and women began about two months later than men. But disparities are narrowing.
Expanding educational and sports opportunities for girls and women around the world is the theme of the 50th anniversary conference of the International Association of Physical Education and Sport for Girls and Women (IAPESGW), a conference expected to draw 100 of the world's most influential women in sports and physical education to Smith College July 7
Green watermelons--a serious economic threat to farmers and a disappointment for consumers--may be quickly and automatically rejected by a new machine invented by four University of Delaware engineering students. The computer-controlled ripeness sensor ultimately could result in huge savings for the global watermelon industry.
Over the past twenty years, the annual incidence of hockey related spinal injuries has increased markedly. The most common injury is to the cervical spine, which can result in paralysis or even death.
Texas Tech Medical Center researchers have discovered that interrupting bacteria cell communication may significantly reduce infections in burn wounds.
Scientists at the International Conference on Atmospheric Electricity last week discussed statistics, biology, and safety concerning lightning strikes.
1) Scientists Head to Japan Trench for Earthquake Studies, 2) Touring Evolution Theory's Land of Origin Through a "Virtual Galapagos", 3) "Robofly" Solves Mystery of Insect Flight
LEARNING: 1. Why Good Kids Have Bad Study Habits 2. Key to Early School Success 3. Fun and Easy Teaching Tips for Parents 4. Why Some Kids Hate School 5. DonÃt Raise a Bully 6. Teaching Children Self-Esteem HEALTH AND SAFETY: 7. Breakfast Is Brain Food 8. Vision Care Important for Learning 9. Finding the Right School Shoes
Results from the MORE trial show that the osteoporosis prevention drug raloxifene (Evista) reduced the incidence of breast cancer in postmenopausal women with osteoporosis.
From survey results and in-depth interviews, three BYU professors studying media use by women with eating disorders concluded that pointing a finger at the media for causing eating disorders is overly simplistic.
Six years ago, an economics journal suggested that milk producers who pay "check-off" allocations may be better served spending that money on research, rather than on milk promotion and marketing. Now, Cornell University agricultural economists say that the mathematical model used in that study may be incorrect due to erroneous assumptions, and in some cases money spent on consumer promotion will pay off better.
Researchers from Brigham Young University and the University of California, San Diego recently set off their own mini-earthquake in the middle of the San Francisco Bay to test exactly what happens to buildings, homes and bridges when the soil beneath them turns to quicksand.
Researchers at Michigan State University announce in the June 18 edition of Science that they have cloned one of the genes that creates a plant's cell wall.
W. H. Freeman and Company has announced publication of Context is Everything: The Nature of Memory, by Susan Engel. The book explores how the context of a recollection--place, company, purpose, and situation--affects the essence and experience of the memory.
Illegal access and misuse of online medical or psychiatric data, whether in transit or stored, could lead to job turndowns, insurance refusals, blackmail, scandal and even death. Sandia researchers, interested in protecting Web-sent medical information during a natural disaster or terrorist-caused emergency, have devised a unique and inexpensive computer "architecture" to minimize hacking risks.
While great strides have been made through the years in treating the human side of epilepsy, it's only recently that progress has been made in diagnosing and treating epilepsy in the animal world.
Purdue University research into computer-related technology has yielded unexpected results that could lead to better oxygen sensors for car exhaust systems and medical devices. A paper about the findings will be published June 28.
Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have found that responses to stress during early adulthood could help predict one's risk for high blood pressure 10 years later.
In a review article published in this week's issue of The New England Journal of Medicine, researchers discussed significant and potentially fatal side-effects of nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drug (NSAID) use. NSAIDs include medications such as aspirin, ibuprofen (Advil, Motrin), naproxen sodium (Aleve, Naprosyn, Naprox), diclofenac (Voltaren), indomethacin (Indocin), and many others.
1. Smoking marijuana causes oxidative stress, cell injury and lung dysfunction; 2. doctors demonstrate poor understanding of asthma severity; 3. Normal lung growth takes place in lung transplant recipients less than 3 years old.
Honeybees are pretty tight with their families, but how can they tell who's kin? Research published in Nature identifies a chemical that increases a bee's ability to identify nestmates. It also makes bees more aggressive to bees they aren't related to.
Researchers at Iowa State University and the USDA have confirmed that Bt corn reduces two threats to corn plants: corn borers and toxic fungi. The genetically altered corn is designed to ward off the corn borer.
The most precise measurement to date of the carbon monoxide to water ratio in a comet is reported by a team of astrophysicists in the June 17 issue of Nature. The article suggests that the comet Hale-Bopp was likely formed in the region between Jupiter and Neptune some 4 billion years ago.
Investigation of two important cell systems has revealed that a large protein complex, previously thought to mainly regulate protein degradation, also plays a significant role in sensitivity to cancer-causing ultraviolet light.
Researchers at the Department of Energy's Sandia National Laboratories have pushed the Z machine, the world's most powerful X-ray source, to new limits using it to test effects of radiation on materials in experiments designed to mimic the response that would occur near a hostile nuclear explosion.
1- 3D lightning imaging using interferometry, 2- Hurricanes suppress lightning, and 3- Getting up close and almost too personal with a tornado.
Four of the nation's top health organizations have banded together to endorse an eating plan designed to help stave off the diseases that kill most people: heart disease, stroke, cancer and diabetes. The guidelines will be published in Circulation.
Experimental testosterone patch shows promise for treating diminished sexual function in surgically menopausal women.
1) MEDICAL -- Focusing on brain injuries, 2) LAW ENFORCEMENT -- Semi-lethal force, 3) ENERGY -- New climate technology gets tryout, 4) BIOLOGY -- Predicting protein shapes
Moving closer to dramatic improvements in finding natural, biochemical tools for environmental waste clean up, researchers at the University of California, San Diego have discovered a gene that gives plants the powerful ability to detoxify heavy metals that are hazardous to human health and the environment.
A new study of growth hormone by scientists at the Ohio University College of Osteopathic Medicine suggests it plays a role in the onset of Type I diabetes-induced kidney disease. Called diabetic nephropathy, the disease affects 10 percent to 21 percent of all people with diabetes.
Nearing the June 18 release date for the final report of the National Gambling Impact Study Commission, a new, non-sponsored university study concludes that counties with casino gambling have an 8 percent higher crime rate on average than counties without casinos. The study found that higher crime rates donÃt occur immediately, but typically begin emerging in the third year after a casino opens in a community.
A genetic trait can predispose people to Gulf War syndrome, a new study has found.
Until now scientists have found it hard to predict which summer days would produce giant, flood-prone storm systems in the nation's midsection. Now they may have found two keys: the strength of intense downdrafts from mountain storms upstream, and the formation of small- scale low-pressure areas that can help trigger flooding rains for days.
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