International business students represent real companies in new foreign markets. Generated $10 million in real sales in last two years. Expanding statewide (FL) other colleges want to take part.
The mortality rate of invasive cervical cancer can be reduced by up to 50 percent by treating patients using a combination of radiation and platinum-based chemotherapy, according to researchers at Albany Medical Center, other major centers and the National Cancer Institute.
(RTOG) clinical study has concluded that adding two chemotherapy agents to radiation therapy significantly improves the survival rate of women treated for locally advanced cervical cancer.
Researchers say that taking images of the heart using radioactive material after a traditional treadmill test may better identify those who are able to exercise for long periods of time, but are still at increased risk for heart attack, death, or the need for bypass surgery or balloon angioplasty.
Physical activity does more than tone up the heart and reduce the risk of heart attacks. Moderate physical activity -- aerobic as well as pumping iron -- fortifies various segments of the cardiovascular system.
Scientists discuss results from the US Microgravity Payload 4, which flew on the space shuttle last year. Highlights include microgravity crystal growth experiments and low-gravity fluid dynamics.
A study of bottlenose dolphins that stranded and died in Texas' Matagorda Bay has found toxic levels of PCBs in their tissues, leaving scientists wondering what effects these pollutants might have on dolphins and people living in the area.
A team of astronomers studying supernova remnants has found direct evidence linking the pattern of their X-ray emission to the size -- and therefore, age -- of the remnants, according to a University of Illinois researcher.
1) DNA "Fingerprints" May Help Make Sustainable Squid Fishery, 2) Researchers Examine Ways To Monitor Freshwater Impacts On Marshes, 3) Lower Water Levels Forecast Boater Problems On Lake Erie
While overt discrimination against female professors has diminished in U.S. colleges and universities, subtle forms of bias persist in promotion and tenure, causing a persistent gap in the proportion of male and female faculty members who reach senior rank, according to a University of Illinois study.
The spread of oyster disease in Chesapeake and Delaware Bays, and northward along the Atlantic Coast, may be triggered by climate change reports an Old Dominion University researcher.
With the help of fruit flies and jellyfish, Johns Hopkins scientists have proved they can quiet firing nerve cells -- at least temporarily -- by inserting the genetic version of an off switch.
A new private/public partnership, organized by NOAA to restore damaged marine habitat and increase lobster populations in Rhode Island's Narragansett Bay may prove to be an important model in fostering sound fisheries resource restoration projects across the nation.
A voluntary, emergency department-based program to test patients' blood for HIV was well accepted at Johns Hopkins, as about half the patients approached consented. Study results were published in the February issue of the Annals of Emergency Medicine.
A measurement technique originally designed for studying interactions within molecules of DNA has been used to examine muscle movement at the molecular level, says a University of Illinois researcher who developed the procedure.
Hitching a ride on a comet may be like latching onto a bus's tailpipe. A recent Arizona State University study, published in the February 10 issue of The Astrophysical Journal, found that comet gas tails, previously thought to be mostly water, actually contain high concentrations of ionized carbon monoxide .
The National Science Foundation is unveiling an innovative $7.5-million educational program that will enable talented graduate students and advanced undergraduates to serve as teaching fellows in K-12 science, mathematics and technology-based education.
The Purdue University Network Computing Hubs, or PUNCH, provide access to research-grade computer simulation laboratories. From almost anywhere in the world, students and researchers can use the World Wide Web to access these computer tools that typically are unavailable commercially.
A 20-member team at The University of Arizona Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering Department are building an Oxygen Generating Subsystem. In January 2002, it will suck in Martian atmospheric gases-predominately carbon dioxide-and process them to produce pure oxygen.
After analyzing hundreds of high-resolution pictures of the Martian surface taken by the orbiting Mars Surveyor spacecraft, a team of researchers finds that weathering and winds on the planet leave landforms, especially sand dunes, remarkably similar to those in some deserts on Earth.
A team of Harvard Medical School and Howard Hughes ivestigators has gotten to the heart of the problem of how an organ develops and acquires its characteristic shape. They have identified a gene called Irx-4 that opens doors to understanding how the heart chambers form. The findings appear in the February 19 Science.
Cornell University's pioneering use of a new distance learning technology that helps doctors at 20 different hospitals keep up with the latest developments in their field has been declared an overwhelming success, and a new contract has been announced that expands the service.
An automobile engine with 30 percent greater fuel efficiency than current models but that also meets U.S. emission standards is the goal of a Vanderbilt University engineer who is using advanced laser technology to help develop the next generation of automobile engines.
A school reform model based on the "Cultural Literacy" ideas of E.D. Hirsch fares well in its first comprehensive, nationwide evaluation.
Researchers at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore and the National Zoo in Washington, D.C., have discovered the cause of death of nearly a dozen young North American zoo elephants -- fatal hemorrhaging from a previously unknown form of herpesvirus that apparently jumped from African elephants to the Asian species.
Researchers at Stanford University and the University of California, Davis, have received funds to study whirling disease, a parasite-borne disease that is devastating native trout populations in the Northeast and Pacific Northwest.
Scientists from the largely National Science Foundation (NSF)-supported Ocean Drilling Program (ODP) have completed an expedition to one of the most remote places on Earth, the Kerguelen Plateau.
Valley fever is as common to the desert Southwest as cacti, yet it is a regional health problem that is gaining national importance according to an article by John N. Galgiani, M.D., director of The University of Arizona Valley Fever Center for Excellence in Tucson.
Social spiders hold the key to understanding some of the most important and controversial topics in modern-day evolutionary biology, according to a University of Arizona researcher.
For three decades social scientists have had little success in figuring out how a person's race affects the outcomes of crimnal cases. Now University of Washington researchers have found that court reports prepared prior to sentencing by probation officers consistenly portray black and white juvenile offenders differently, leading to harsher sentencing recommendations for blacks.
New photos from the Mars Global Surveyor show that horizontal layers extend deep into the canyons of Mars. The structure and composition of the layers suggest that volcanic activity played a far greater role in the early geology of the Red Planet than previously believed.
Hummingbirds' ability to learn from their environment saves them from suffering the costs of severe competition and may-just may-increase the number of species which potentially might coexist in a given habitat, an ecologist from The University of Arizona has discovered.
Doctors have long used injections of human growth hormone to treat children who are short because of abnormally low levels of this growth-stimulating substance. But now, a decade-long study led by a Stanford researcher shows that the same treatment also stimulates growth in short but healthy children.
1) Ecosystems on Hawaiian Islands Sustained by Distant Dust--From Asia, 6,000 Kilometers Away, 2) NSF-Supported Math Textbooks Are Ranked Highest by Aaas: Analysis Process Will Help Schools Select Texts, 3) Gene Study Shows Turtles Next of Kin to Crocs and Alligators
National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded researchers at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland, and at California's Stanford University have shed new light on the molecular switches that control the complex process by which a single fertilized egg develops into a mature organism.
Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas have isolated the gene they believe is responsible for the most common genetic cause of heart and facial birth defects.
Neurogeneticists at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles have localized SCA10, a gene involved with a rare form of inherited ataxia, a disease whose onset usually comes in early adulthood and that causes incoordination of gait and movement.
1. Diminished airway function in infants up to three months predicts wheezing before first birthday; 2. Inhaling micropollutants is associated with death risk for long-term residents in major California air basins; 3. Four consecutive four-hour exposures to nitrogen dioxide cuts harmful effects to lung of a single exposure.
A collaborative effort between Howard Hughes Medical Institute researchers at the University of California, San Diego and scientists at the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR), National Institutes of Health (NIH), have identified the genes likely responsible for the mammalian sense of taste.
University of Arkansas anthropologist Peter Ungar has found a way to use computer mapping techniques to chart the landscape of teeth and learn how the human diet might have evolved. His insights into "dental landscapes" may help solve today's diet-related health problems.
According to University of Michigan researchers, the Protestant ethic also makes overweight women feel bad about themselves.
The medical community is slowly accepting that nutrition and gender play a role in disease process. As part of this, a researcher at Texas Tech Health Sciences Center has co-authored a book which examines the roles gender and nutrition play in women's cancer.
New research, with "Mama" and "Dada," determines that children begin to comprehend the meaning of language as early as 6 months of age.
A team of researchers has shown that a certain type of chemoprevention used to experimentally deter liver cancer from developing is effective. The researchers gave the drug oltipraz, originally developed to treat schistosomiasis, to a group of people at high risk for developing liver cancer. The oltipraz changed the way in which the study group metabolized aflatoxin, a liver carcinogen produced by a fungus that contaminates foods like corn and peanuts.
Older adults who fall and seriously injure their head may develop rapid mental decline, according to a study in the February issue of Neurology, the scientific journal of the American Academy of Neurology.
Brain tumor patients use alternative therapies such as herbal and vitamin supplements as a way to take an active role in their treatment and to be sure that "everything possible is being done," according to a study published in the current issue of Neurology, the scientific journal of the American Academy of Neurology.
To help people with chronic pain, a psychologist at Texas Tech Health Sciences Center has developed a program combining both yoga and meditation with remarkable results. Over 80% of the participants reported more effective stress and pain management.
A strict low-protein diet for chronic kidney failure patients can delay dialysis treatment for about a year, according to results of a Johns Hopkins study.
Approximately one out of 10 Minnesota high school wrestlers, basketball and soccer players suffer sport-related dental injuries that require care by a physician or dentist, according to a University of Minnesota study.
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