Heart disease patients may someday receive a dose of gene therapy that would protect injured coronary arteries from further damage and possibly even treat the underlying heart disease. (Nature Biotechnology, 11-00)
More powerful than an ordinary locomotive and expected to climb steep mountains without losing traction, Seraphim -- a simpler, less expensive US alternative to the magnetically levitated (maglev) trains of Europe and Japan -- is now funded for development at Sandia.
This holiday season, be prepared to shop early. According to Anthony L. Liuzzo, professor of business and economics at Wilkes University in Wilkes-Barre, PA, who annually examines the holiday shopping season, consumers this year are not likely to find any last minute bargains.
Students at Daemen College, together with Atlantic Corridor USA, Inc. (a new, all-Ireland collaboration of business, government, and educational interests) are working to forge new business partnerships between firms in western New York and Ireland, and other European Union countries.
Joseph Cofrancesco Jr., M.D., M.P.H., assistant professor in the Department of Medicine at Johns Hopkins, was one of 47 physicians nationwide nominated for the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) Humanism in Medicine Award for 2000.
Playwright Shelley Russell's latest effort is Holdin' Our Own: The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. The play opens at Northern Michigan University Nov. 8 -- two days before the 25th anniversary of the tragedy
Firms around the globe can now gain access to leading-edge thinking and research on e-business at Penn State. The University is marking its role in shaping the new economy and e-commerce with an "e-Business Dedication Day" on Wednesday, December 13, 2000 at the University Park campus.
A University of Arkansas professor has created a monitor that can detect potentially dangerous impurities in pharmaceutical products during production and send the impure material back through the production line.
Fifty-seven percent of the women who participated in a recent study at the University at Buffalo's Research Institute on Addictions (RIA) reported experiencing at least one incident of verbal or physical aggression while drinking in a bar.
Three studies provide new insight into the role of infections and inflammation in heart attacks. (Circulation 11-7-00)
Survival rates have been steadily improving for children who undergo surgery as infants for a life-threatening congenital condition called hypoplastic left heart syndrome. Researchers reported on 15 years of experience with the reconstructive, multistage surgery. (Circulation, 11-00)
The unusually high rates of star births seen in some galaxies may be linked to voracious black holes at the center of those galaxies, according to a new analysis of astronomical data.
Scientists at Johns Hopkins have demonstrated that a specific enzyme in the brain is essential for nerve cells to form a hallmark of Alzheimer's disease (AD) -- the so-called amyloid plaques that collect and surround brain cells.
A team of North Carolina State University physicists has discovered a new method for measuring the molecular properties of materials, which could assist in the development of a wide variety of cutting-edge nanostructure technologies. (Physical Review Letters, 11-6-00)
The strong association between exposure to violence and the use of violence by young adolescents illustrates that violence is a learned behavior, according to a new study, published by researchers at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center. (Journal of Pediatrics, 11-00)
Scientists at Johns Hopkins report they've restored movement to newly paralyzed rodents by injecting stem cells into the animals' spinal fluid. Results of their study were presented at the annual meeting of The Society for Neuroscience in New Orleans.
Rationing and recycling will be an essential part of life on the newly-populated International Space Station.
With 95 percent of votes counted, CNN and CNNfyi.com report that millions of K-12 students across the country have "elected" George W. Bush president of the United States in the National Student/Parent Mock Election held Nov. 2.
1) Why certain exercises can help fight the winter blahs; 2) Ralph Nader could tip the scales at election time; 3) Bush ups the optimism; 4) Conference helps bridge gap between young and old.
Five high-profile Smith College graduates will assess the status of women -- their achievements, influence and satisfaction -- at the new millennium.
Individualized medical treatments for people diagnosed with heart disease may not be too far in the future with the expansion of genomic research at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas. The expansion is being made possible by a $13.9 million federal grant.
A UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas doctor is performing a new procedure that can detect pre-malignant and malignant breast cells long before they become visible tumors.
Campaigning season is coming to a close and many candidates are feeling the effects of incessant hand shaking with the American public. A Clinical Associate Professor of Occupational Therapy at BU's Sargent College offers the following tips as we near the end of the campaign trail.
As Election Day nears, voters are being inundated by pollsters purporting to assess the outcome of races -- from the battle for the White House, to the struggle to wrest control of Congress, to state contests, and even regional races. Have you been called? Probably not.
The American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, which will build a safe, wheelchair-accessible playground in San Mateo, Calif., is holding Playground Design Day in advance to get children's input on what playground features are most important to them.
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center today launched a lay language database of high priority trials for its web site.
Partners in a new research collaboration are developing software that automatically "tunes" computer operating systems to fully exploit available network bandwidth.
A national online digital library, considered a key step toward addressing the digital divide, moved closer to reality recently with 29 awards totaling some $13.5M from NSF. The awards aim to create, organize and install high-quality education resources onto the Internet.
Professor of sociology at Williams College, chronicles the rise of advertising and public relations in his new book "Image Makers: Advertising, Public Relations, and the Ethos of Advocacy." The book was co-written with his wife, an independent anthropologist.
Hotel School professor and co-author found that hotels where employees report their managers' words align well with their deeds reap much higher profits, as much as $250,000 more a year, than hotels where that doesn't happen. The finding may be applicable to all businesses and organizations.
A Cornell University research team has uncovered the mechanics of a critical reaction in the combustion of hydrogen that one day could have profound implications for the future of energy production. (Science, 11-3-00)
Centre College students hosted this year's vice presidential debate. Now one dozen of them face a tough assignment: a 15-page academic paper predicting and analyzing the outcome of the Presidential race, including vote percentages.
African Americans who undergo the most frequently performed blood vessel operation, carotid endarterectomy, have worse outcomes than whites, according to a new study by Johns Hopkins researchers. (Annals of Surgery, 11-00)
While surveys show that people are quite concerned about privacy in an increasingly wired world, a Purdue University professor says perceptions of privacy vary greatly.
Adelaide University scientists have developed a novel technique of Partial Rootzone Drying which fools agricultural crops into maintaining food production on half the irrigation. The technique has profound implications for countries where water scarcity and salinity are agricultural problems.
For the first time in its history, the International Chamber of Commerce will enlist the assistance of law students to make recommendations on its work.
FDA has awarded a six-month $100,000 SBIR grant to MetaPhore Pharmaceuticals to study the dramatic and perplexing blood pressure drop that occurs during septic shock and leads to death in up to 50 percent of cases.
A list of 5 Purdue University experts who can discuss various aspects of energy economics, utility deregulation, gas and oil prices, as well as ethanol and subsidies.
Initial awards have been announced to fund 12 research projects under the new Ecology of Infectious Diseases initiative. The joint NIH-NSF initiative supports efforts to understand the underlying ecological and biological mechanisms that govern relationships between human-induced environmental changes and the emergence and transmission of infectious diseases.
Purdue University engineers will present findings this month about a "sensing chair" that can determine a person's sitting posture, research that could lead to numerous applications, from computer-security systems to the design of more comfortable furniture.
At University of Iowa Health Care pediatric specialty-based asthma care program, researchers see cause for revising asthma guidelines published and disseminated by the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute within the National Institutes of Health.
The life you save may be your own - if you can react quickly to stroke warning signs. (Stroke: Journal of the American Heart Association, 11-00)
Both houseflies and filth flies can transmit cryptosporidiosis. Better fly control is one key to decreasing the risk of this disease, as reported at the annual meeting of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.
A book by cultural historian Michael Steinberg showing the link between Austrian nationalism, Nazi ideals and the Salzburg Music Festival, just reissued in paperback, has garnered Austria's Victor Adler Staatspreis.
Ballast water discharges by ocean-going ships "create a long-distance dispersal mechanism for human pathogens, and may be important in the worldwide distribution of microorganisms as well as the epidemiology of waterborne diseases affecting plants and animals." (Nature, 11-2-00)
Two scholar/authors in religious studies at Rhodes College in Memphis take a look at Election 2000 and show that what may be remarkable about the religion factor in this race is that it is a rather unremarkable factor...so far.
The University of Minnesota has received a $2.97M grant from the National Science Foundation to study ecosystems that have experienced massive perturbations, primarily on account of humans.
Researchers from California and London have identified a previously unknown mechanism that controls the storage capacity of the bladder and the frequency of urination. (Nature, 10-26-00)
"In Japan, there is a sense that their business community is more comfortable with Republican presidents than Democrats," said UAB historian, commenting on the U.S. presidential race.
Just a little more than a year after the U.S. government made history by donating the decommissioned Coast Guard cutter, the White Holly, to a nonprofit medical organization, the vessel will set sail November 8, 2000 to provide much-needed medical services to residents of the Marshall Islands.
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